To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.

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.

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

Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

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

Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.