Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.