Profoundly inspirational interior design quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Interior Design Quotes
Don’t design your lifestyle for comfort, design it for passion. Don’t design it for functionality, design it for sensuality. Lebo Grand
The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what’s in or what’s out. Albert Hadley
Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.
Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style. Billy Baldwin
Every room needs a touch of black, just as it needs one antique piece
The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them. David Hicks
Be faithful to your taste, because nothing you really like is out of style.
Serious is a word that should be entirely avoided when it comes to decorations. Kathryn Ireland
The door handle is the handshake of the building
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what’s in or what’s out. Albert Hadley
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what’s in or what’s out. This is not an easy job. Albert Hadley
Pick what you like because living with a trend that is not you is never a good choice.
I like an interior that defies labeling. I don’t really want someone to walk into a room and know that I did it. Bunny Williams
Renovating not only restores the house but restores the story of the home and the neighborhood.
The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames
Every great design begins with an even better story
There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future. Charlotte Moss
A house is much more than a mere shelter, it should lift us emotionally and spiritually
The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them. David Hicks
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak
I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk. Dorothy Draper
For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another.
I am going to make everything around me beautiful that will be my life. Elsie de Wolfe
The best traditional houses are anchored by a low key sophistication.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry
An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author
Design should never say, Look at me!” It should always say, Look at this! David Craib
Art is not always about pretty things, it’s about who we are, what happened to us, and how our lives are affected.
It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress. Dorothy Draper
A color is a place where our brains and universe meet
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting. Dorothy May Kinnicutt
Work for money. Design for love
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context: a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. Eliel Saarinen
Harmonious moldings are the mark of a successful classical interior
There never has been a house so bad that it couldn’t be made over into something worthwhile. Elsie de Wolfe
Design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future that is essentially unknown
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is the harmony of function and form
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. Jeffrey Zeldman
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, design is how it works
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. Joe Sparano
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
Great design should be available on every budget
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. Louis Kahn
Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful
The life of a designer is one of fighting: fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. Massimo Vignelli
Great rooms need one curveball that breaks all the rules
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me. Maya Lin
The space you live in, and the things you surround yourself with directly influence your life.
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. Tate Linden
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design, it reinforces it.
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple. Tim Parsey
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood.
Form follows function that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright
Add elements that will calm your space and soothe your soul
A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy. Juan Montoya
Using a neutral color palette allows the shadows from the sunlight to create their own unique colors in rooms
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Norman Foster
If you buy the stuff you love, regardless of era and price, your home will be a true reflection of you.
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting. Sister Parish
If you think good design is expensive, You should look at the cost of bad design.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space. Zaha Hadid
Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes
Your Home should tell the story of who you are, and be a Collection of what you Love. Nate Berkus
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful
Understanding the person or people living in a home is a far greater need in design than focusing purely on the aesthetics. The home is designed around emotional needs. Amanda Talbot
Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.
Our interiors are an insight into our brains. It is a collaboration of design, art, humor, irony, functionality, and the street. Amanda Talbot
Trends never last but creating a successful home does
Every design choice we make has a sensual effect on us. Lebo Grand
Be original and your home will speak for itself
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it’s not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it’s really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul. Albert Hadley
Use bigger furniture to make a room appear larger
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Arthur Erickson
A chair is not just a seat it is the key to the whole interior
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz
The furniture you choose reflects your personality
