If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’