Category Archives: Quotes

Hey guys!  Happy Friday!  I’m off to an appointment and hopefully will hear the baby’s heartbeat again.  So excited!  Have a great weekend!

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

—Mark Victor Hansen

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“There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”
-Dorothy Draper

Design can be art.  Design can be aesthetics.  Design is so simple, that’s why it’s so complicated.
-Paul Rand

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer.  It’s interior decorating.  It’s the fabric of the curtains, of the sofa.  But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.  Design is the fundamental [...]

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

-Dorothy Draper
Image Credit: Lonny

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

Have a wonderful weekend!

Today’s quote of the week comes on a Thursday instead of Friday because tomorrow is giveaway day!  Make sure to check back tomorrow and enter to win a $50 gift certificate that you can use for almost anything!
restored room originally by Dorothy Draper.

“I’ll always put in one controversial item, it makes people talk”.

Dorothy Draper