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Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Albert Hadley

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Albert Hadley
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 8
Died: 2012
Died: March 29
Interior Designer
Comfortable
Possible
Living
Home
Make
Life
Decorating
Interiors
Attractive

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Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.
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Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
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A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
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Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
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Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
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Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
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Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
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Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.
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Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
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So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.
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When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.
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The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.
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I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.
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Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
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We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
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A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things that surround them with respect.
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Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. Its well, it's magic.
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After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
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An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
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Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.
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