Authority Quote by Albert Hadley

I always look at magazines and wind up standing there like, "Whose house looks like this? Who lives this way?" I never can understand…

— Jim Walrod

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage.…

— Nicholas Haslam

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix…

— Nate Berkus

A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on…

— Albert Hadley

Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and…

— Nancy Lancaster

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

— Charlotte Moss

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how…

— Nate Berkus

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

— Albert Hadley

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler

I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.

— Jeremiah Brent

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

— Genevieve Gorder

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

— Deborah Needleman