Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

In every interior my firm and I design, we are always reaching for vintage pieces, and materials that feel classic and timeless. It's how I feel about fashion as well, and definitely one of the intentions I had when designing the layette collection. I'm not a fan of trends.

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

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.