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Good Quotes: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

There's the buzz you get the first few times you walk into a room after you've just rearranged some furniture. Oh, yeah, the couch is over there now, next to the plant . . . and the chairs are here. T...

Good Quotes: Miguel Angel Poot

We paint so that the souls may sing. -Miguel Angel Poot, Pomuch Campeche, Mexico (from an exhibit by Jeffrey Becom several years ago)...

Good Quotes: Natalia Ilyin

In a real home theres a place for talking to yourself alone. Theres a place for your visiting friend and for her children who climb all over your sofa while eating pudding. Theres a place for stu...

Good Quotes: Frances Mayes

Ever since my first trip to Europe. . .my profound desire for home, for the profoundly beautiful nest, the kitchen garden, the friends gathered at my table, for the candlelit baths, and the objects ar...

Good Quotes: Worldchanging

When we become conscious about what we buy, we end up with more space for appreciating the objects that surround us, and what we have actually can make us happier. -Worldchanging: A User's Guide for ...

Good Quotes: Katherine Mansfield

"Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction." -Katherine Mansfield ...

Good Quotes: DesignLink on the Antiques Market

"Deep-pocketed collectors born post-1960 are abandoning "formality and fussiness" for clean and straightforward. Antiques and their buyers grow younger with each passing day." - Herman Miller Design ...

Good Quotes: Ilse Crawford

Art is not just for weekends. -Ilse Crawford, Sensual Home ...

Good Quotes: Josef Frank

"The home does not have to be planned out in detail, just put together by pieces its inhabitants love." -Josef Frank ...

Good Quotes: Russel and Mary Wright

"Good, informal living substitutes a little headwork for a lot of legwork. It doesn't need wealth, but it does take thought, some ingenuity and resourcefulness, and more than a little loving care to...

Good Quotes: Dr. Seuss on Color

"Green Days. Deep deep in the sea. Cool and quiet fish. That's me. On Purple Days I'm sad. I groan. I drag my tail. I walk alone. But when my days are Happy Pink it's great to jump and not just t...

Good Quotes: Tom Waits

The Sonoma resident (and father of three) weighs in on rooming with kids: Yeah, well, living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time...

Good Quotes: MFK Fisher

If there is something that pleases and satisfies, it will fall into place in any welcoming life. A person lives in a room or sometimes a house, almost always with a cookstove and objects of respect a...

Good Quotes: Jean Cocteau

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. -Jean Cocteau (Jean Cocteau did in fact have a soulful-looking cat. Here's a pic.) Cocteau illustration f...

Good Quotes: Esther Meynell

"A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing." -Esther Meynell ...

Good Quotes: Good Housekeeping, 1910

"A home is nothing more but a factory for the production of happiness." - Good Housekeeping, 1910 (via Here No.1, 2005, The Cooper Carry Magazine) Pic from Holstein Flowers ...

Good Quotes: Lope de Vega

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy." -Lope de Vega Image: Meish.org ...

Good Quotes: Pamela J. Harper

North Beach Garden "Getting a garden together requires a measure of ruthlessness." -Pamela J. Harper ...

Good Quotes: HobbyPrincess on Design as Play

"Easy and affordable tools are essential for the increasing popularity of creative adult play. Tools for making, editing and publishing text, photo and video have developed dramatically in the past ...

Good Quotes: Sheldon Harnick on Housework

Good Quotes: Peace Pilgrim

"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are ...

Good Quotes: Wikipedia on Bathroom Design

"The design of a bathroom must account for the use of both hot and cold water, in significant quantities, for cleaning the human body. The water is also used for solid and liquid human waste to a sew...

Good Quotes: David Chipperfield

"I relish the enjoyment of daily rituals, whether this is taking a bath in a beautiful bathroom, eating breakfast from a simple oak table or reading by a perfect lamp. In my designs, I try to make si...

Good Quotes: Terence Conran

"If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress." -Terence Conran Image: The...