You Can Never Achieve Anything

Rooms Should Be Timeless.

You Can Never Achieve Anything In A House Unless You Have Things That Have Been Passed Down And You Find A Place For Them For Yourself.

It Is Only My Eye That Has Helped Me. I Am Still Hopeless With That Thing Called A Scale Ruler. I Love Color, But That Comes Very Naturally To Me. From The Beginning, I Never Followed Trends. If I Was Aware Of Them, I Didn't Care, For I Believed As I Do Now, That Rooms Should Be Timeless And Very Personal. I Don't Set Out To Achieve A Particular Style. And I Certainly Don't Have A 'look' - Just A Mishmash Of Everything That Somehow, By Instinct, Usually Turns Out To Be A Warm Imaginative, 'living Room'.

Home, The Idea Of Home, Is My Principal Purpose. If People Have Bought A House As An Investment Or Chosen The Furniture Because They'll Be Able To Sell It For More, You Can Tell In Two Minutes. You Know, Our Parents Didn't Buy A House As An Investment. They Bought It As A Place To Bring You Up, To Give You Roots.

Even My Aunt Joan, Hopelessly Sentimental About Every Member Of Our Family, Admitted That I Was Hideous.