Boards Quote by William Wordsworth

“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched…

— Bill Bryson

“Long wooden farm tables with turned legs that looked like they'd been collected over a hundred years were placed end to end and ran…

— Mary Hollis Huddleston

I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern design.

— Drew Scott

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

— Nicholas Haslam

See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead… It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Her small bedroom was decorated with cheerfully embroidered samplers, which she had stitched herself, and a shelf containing an intricate shellwork tableau. In her…

— Janet Gleeson

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all…

— Kenneth Grahame

“If we were to make the table the most sacred object of furniture in every home, in every church, in every community, our faith…

— Leonard Sweet

Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.

— David Linley

Simple, like uncarved wood.

— Laozi

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.

— David Linley