You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.
Sister ParishIt is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but that comes very naturally to me. From the beginning, I never followed trends. If I was aware of them, I didn't care, for I believed as I do now, that rooms should be timeless and very personal. I don't set out to achieve a particular style. And I certainly don't have a 'look' - just a mishmash of everything that somehow, by instinct, usually turns out to be a warm imaginative, 'living room'.
Sister ParishEven my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
Sister Parish