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Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!
Alexandra Stoddard
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You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.
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A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.
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I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.
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Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.
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We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.
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I want my readers to find their own way.
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Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.
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I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their surroundings and how they interact with each other.
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My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
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I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.
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Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.
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