Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it…

- Nancy Lancaster

I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like…

- Nancy Lancaster

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

- Nancy Lancaster

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination withou…

- Nancy Lancaster

How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends …

- Nancy Lancaster

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

- Nancy Lancaster

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

- Nancy Lancaster

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a s…

- Nancy Lancaster

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

- Nancy Lancaster