It 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'.
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to se… - Sister Parish
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to se…
- Sister Parish
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 Parish
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.
It 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. Fr… - Sister Parish
It 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. Fr…
Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason. - Sister Parish
Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married … - Sister Parish
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married …
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting. - Sister Parish
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. - Sister Parish
I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.
...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wan… - Sister Parish
...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wan…
Rooms should be timeless. - Sister Parish
Rooms should be timeless.
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