Attics Quote by Bette Davis

I call myself a geriatric starlet.

— Iris Apfel

I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?

— Alice Ripley

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a…

— Paris Hilton

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered…

— Richard Dean Anderson

I was brought up in a very Eighties house. It was a suburban, mock-Tudor semi-detached house, nothing special. But there was this wallpaper with…

— Fearne Cotton

For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

— Washington Irving

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years. From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.

— Miranda Lambert

I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of…

— Douglas Coupland

“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane hosted a…

— Sylvie Cathrall

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with…

— Tony Lema

Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese…

— Celeste Ng