Interior Design Quotes

“Of all the books I own, this is the only one I've read twice. It's also the only one I've read once. All my other books are used as decoration, like props to impress visitors.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Frasier stepped in and reached for a wall switch. A crystal light fixture popped on, raining down variegated light. The building revealed itself to be like a geode---rocky on the outside but sparkling with unexpected decadence inside.
It was small, just one room. The furniture was covered with white sheets, but everything else she could see was lovely---the golden parquet floor, the whitewashed rafters, and the long kitchen counter on the far wall, which sported kitschy, pale pink appliances.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds: A Novel

“Wooden scrabble letters offer a whole forest of literature, tiled down for easy shower installment. If you limit your use to only the letters q, u, a, c, and k, your ducks will love what you've done with your bathroom.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“I paused at the top of the spiral staircase, and soaked in the view.
In the daylight, the bookstore took on a new life.
Motes of dust danced in the sunlight that streamed through the windows. It looked a lot cozier, as the colored glass window ornaments threw rainbows across the bookshelves and pirouetted across the hardwood floors like flecks of dappled sunlight on sand.
Bookcases, filled to the brim, reached up to the ceiling, cluttered with so many colors and kinds of books, short and fat, long and wide, that it almost felt like an assault on the senses. The center of the bookstore was open to the second floor, where tall bookshelves towered so high you had to reach them with ladders. Heavy oak beams supported the roof. Planetariums and glass chimes and other ornaments hung from the rafters, catching the morning's golden light and throwing it across the store. The shelves were made from the same deep oak as the ceiling beams and the banisters on the second floor, signs hanging from the eye-level shelves detailing the different sections of the store: MEMOIR, FANTASY, SCI-FI, ROMANCE, SELF-HELP, NATURE, HOW-TO...
This place was beautiful.
I wondered, briefly, what it would be like to own a place like this. It was magical. A shop that sold the impossible inked onto soft white paper.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Thus all good architecture and good decoration (which, it must never be forgotten, is only interior architecture) must be based on rhythm and logic.”
― Edith Wharton

“There is also color temperature to consider, measured in Kelvin or K. This measures the color of light across the color spectrum, which will have an impact on your body's physiological response to it.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“In our multifunctional homes, we will need different types of light at different times of day for different moods or tasks. All spaces in the house should have different lighting options so that they can be adapted to fit your needs. This should include:
- Good general (or ambient) lighting to aid circulation around the house. This could be dimmable spotlighting so it can be bright for activities and dimmed later in the day.
- Task lighting, such as side lamps, standing lamps, and spotlights above or next to specific task areas.
- Mood or accent lighting for hosting or simply relaxing.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“We have seen that humans have an inherent attraction to timber, and we find its presence comforting and calming. It seems that investing in a wooden bed frame may well contribute to getting a good night's sleep.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Noises that can reduce the difference between the background ambient hum and sudden loud sounds include:
~ White noise- this is a continuous mechanical-type noise, like the gentle hum of a motor, that covers the whole hearing range of frequencies...
~ Pink noise- this noise boosts lower frequencies for those who find white noise too sharp, and is more akin to natural noises such as steady rainfall or wind rustling through the leaves in a tree...
~ Brown noise- this is even lower frequency noise, like thunder or a crashing waterfall.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Whole-home heat recovery systems... extract stale, moist air from any room with water use, such as bathrooms and kitchens, then extract the warmth from it to preheat the fresh air being brought back in. The fresh air is run through filters before being pumped into all living spaces in the home. It can also be used to help cool a home during warmer months. This type of system is expensive and requires good duct runs, but is very effective.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Most of us have an incredibly refined sense of smell. Scents are highly personal, so when scenting our homes it's really important to consider everyone living there, as preferences and tolerance levels can vary hugely.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“How much light do plants need?
As a loose guideline, low-light plants need 500-2,500 lux, medium-light plants 2,500-10,000 lux, bright light plants 10,000-20,000 lux, and very bright-light plants need about 20,000-50,000 lux.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Introduce hanging plants...
Bringing high planting into your home recreates what we would experience in a jungle or forest habitat.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Introduce tabletop plants...
Using potted plants is a great idea as they don't need to be replaced in the same way that flowers do.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Circadian lighting, in essence, follows a "sunrise to sunset" cycle, according to which lights should be brighter and bluer in the morning (blue makes us feel alert), and warmer orange light that mimics dusk to facilitate sleep should be used in the evening.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Circadian lighting might seem complicated if you've never heard of it before, but it can be done in a number of easy ways.
At its simplest, try using a string of very warm white, or orange, LEDS in the evening when you are relaxing before bedtime.
In overhead or side lights, use circadian light bulbs, which can be set to different colors of light, controlled by a dimmer switch.
Use color-changing LED light strips or bulbs with their own color remote controller.
Consider buying color-changing lighting products, such as stand-alone table or floor lamps.
Use a wake-up light alarm clock to wake you gently with color-changing lights in the morning, and relax you with soft lighting in warm tones at bedtime.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“The annual power use per person for tumble dryers is three times greater than for washing machines... opt for a smart way to air-dry your clothes.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Luxury is when it seems flawless, when you reach the right balance between all elements. Understated theatricality – that is what my luxury is all about.”
― Jean-Louis Deniot

“Tiana peered down in stunned delight at the sparkling white silk draping her body. The rhinestone- and pearl- studded gown she now wore was unlike anything she'd ever owned.
When she lifted her head, she gasped at her surroundings. Tiana twirled around in a slow circle, mesmerized by the glitz and glamour of a place she had only seen in her nightly dreams.
The old sugar mill she'd had her heart set on buying for years was no longer decrepit and falling apart. The floors gleamed underneath her feet, shining so bright they nearly blinded her. Brilliant crystal chandeliers hung high above her head, illuminating a massive dining room that was crowded with patrons. Men in suit jackets and women wearing their Sunday best sat at cloth-covered tables adorned with extravagant centerpieces and sparkling china. Everyone seemed to be having a grand time, enjoying rich, fragrant dishes that smelled like the food Tiana used to cook with her daddy.”
― Farrah Rochon, Almost There

“His eyes darted around the hallway, across the woven blue rug and up to the framed photos of baguettes and cheese wedges that covered the walls. His skin warmed from the heat coming out of the nearby kitchen. The smell of butter and cream mingled together like the tastiest candle you could ever light. He'd never had the food at Lyon, but he already knew what he was missing.”
― Erin La Rosa, For Butter or Worse

“All departures from the mere accommodation of function are laden with messages, often very eloquent ones, and it is a critical part of the interior designer’s education to become adept at reading those messages and then choosing which ones to send.”
― Stanley Abercrombie, A Philosophy Of Interior Design

“The home I grew up in was something you might expect to find in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Domed ceilings with ornate moldings, inlaid marble floors, and more powder rooms than people. It was a small palace. Mom loved French architecture and décor and would take trips overseas to find unique antiques. There were two exterior swimming pools, a tennis court, a pavilion, plus a rose garden, Italian stepped stone fountains, and grounds galore. A branch of the Trinity River flowed near stone-covered walking paths, swaths of carefully tended grass in green spaces waving nearby.”
― Mary Hollis Huddleston, Piece of Cake: A Novel

“Dozens of shiny brass wall sconces created the sort of dim and atmospheric lighting I'd only ever seen in old movies and haunted houses. And the room wasn't just darkly lit. It was also just... dark. The walls were painted a dark chocolate brown that I vaguely remembered from art history classes had been fashionable in the Victorian era. A pair of tall, dark wooden bookshelves that must have weighed a thousand pounds each stood like silent sentinels on either end of the room. Atop each of them sat an ornate brass, malachite candelabra that would have seemed right at home in a sixteenth-century European cathedral. They clashed in style and in every other imaginable way with the two very modern-looking black leather sofas facing each other in the center of the room and the austere, glass-topped coffee table in the living room's center. The latter had a stack of what looked like Regency romance novels piled high at one end, further adding to the incongruity of the scene.
Besides the pale green of the candelabras, the only other color to be found in the living room was in the large, garish, floral Oriental rug covering most of the floor; the bright red, glowing eyes of a deeply creepy stuffed wolf's head hanging over the mantel; and the deep-red velvet drapes hanging on either side of the floor-to-ceiling windows.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Madison always said Aunt Jo's house was as colorful as a box of crayons. She wasn't kidding; every room was a different color. The living room was a bright, warm shade of peach, the hall yellow, and the dining room green. Added in was a colorful assortment of chairs, pillows, and rugs. It really was like a box of crayons.”
― Karen Hawkins, The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove

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“And then we came to a stop in front of a large yellow Victorian house that sat, so stately, between two brick buildings, like a misplaced Lego piece, overgrown with ivy and bluebells and honeysuckle.
The Daffodil Inn looked exactly how I'd imagined.
The bed-and-breakfast was fresh and bright, the dentils all painted across the edging on the roof, the corbels replaced, the sawn spandrils and turned spandrils all given proper attention. The bay window was set with a stained-glass daffodil, the same one that encrusted the window in the front door. Around the inn, encasing it like a lovely cage, was a wrought-iron fence overgrown with ivy and honeysuckle that bled into the rose garden that surrounded the house.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“As he sanded the old boards for his bookcases, and saw the surface roughnesses disappear, the gray weathering flake away to the essential wood and finally to a rich purity of grain and texture— as he repaired his furniture and arranged it in the room, it was himself that he was slowly shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible.”
― Williams

“As he sanded the old boards for his bookcases, and saw the surface roughnesses disappear, the gray weathering flake away to the essential wood and finally to a rich purity of grain and texture— as he repaired his furniture and arranged it in the room, it was himself that he was slowly shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible.”
― John Williams (Stoner)

“The Philosophy of Space: How Intentional Design Shapes Our Inner Lives

We spend our lives navigating spaces—offices, homes, cafes, and walkways. These environments, often seen merely as backdrops to our existence, are in fact active participants in our narrative. The truth is, the architecture, arrangement, light, and color of our surroundings are not passive; they are constantly communicating with us, subtly dictating our moods, fueling our productivity, and framing our most intimate thoughts. Understanding this profound relationship between our physical environment and our inner life is the foundation of intentional design.

The philosophy of space recognizes that a poorly designed room isn't just an aesthetic failing; it can be an emotional drain and a barrier to achieving our goals. Conversely, a space crafted with mindfulness becomes a powerful tool—a silent partner that supports and inspires.

The Subtle Psychology of the Built World

The field of environmental psychology has long explored how our surroundings impact cognitive function and well-being. Clutter, for instance, is not just a visual nuisance; studies show it can directly increase stress hormone (cortisol) levels, distract the working memory, and reduce our ability to focus. Conversely, a minimalist, organized space promotes calm and clarity, providing an external representation of the mental order we seek.

Consider the role of light and color:

Light: Natural light is critical, regulating our circadian rhythms and boosting vitamin D production. Spaces lacking adequate daylight often contribute to lethargy and mood disorders. Even artificial light sources—from warm, amber tones that promote relaxation to crisp, cool lights that enhance concentration—can be intentionally deployed to support specific activities.

Color: The emotional resonance of color is undeniable. Blues and greens are often used in bedrooms and offices to inspire tranquility and focus, while vibrant reds and yellows can stimulate appetite and energy, making them staples in kitchens or social areas. Intentional design leverages this psychological palette to engineer desired emotional states.

Bridging the Gap: From Concept to Concrete Reality

The process of intentional design begins with a vision—the ideal workspace for innovation, or the perfect sanctuary for rest. However, this is where the philosophical challenge meets the logistical reality. Translating a conceptual dream into a concrete, functional structure is a monumental task fraught with complexity.

A beautifully rendered 3D model is just the blueprint. The actual execution—the fit-out—involves dozens of critical, intertwined stages: managing multi-disciplinary teams (plumbers, electricians, carpenters), ensuring materials procurement aligns with specifications, adhering to tight timelines, and navigating the inevitable challenges and variations that arise during construction. This execution phase requires a synthesis of design sensibility and rigorous, boots-on-the-ground project management.

For businesses and individuals seeking to bridge this complex gap and manage the entire interior lifecycle with confidence, connecting with a full ecosystem of vetted professionals is essential. Platforms exist that are dedicated to streamlining the entire fit-out process, from securing reliable quotes to managing project turnover. For example, systems like Super Fitout are specifically designed to bring structure and transparency to this critical phase, ensuring that the integrity of the original design vision is maintained through expert execution.

The Power of Deliberate Creation

Intentional design is the act of being an author, not just an occupant, of our surrounding”
― Superfitout

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