The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.