100 Inspiring Home Improvement Quotes From Interior Designers

Today I have 100 home improvement quotes for you. Whether you’re sprucing up your living room, revamping your kitchen, or tackling a full home renovation, sometimes all you need is a little push from the experts to get those creative juices flowing.

That’s why I’ve gathered 100 inspiring quotes from renowned interior designers, style icons, and thought leaders to help you see your home in a new light.

From practical advice to profound insights, these quotes are sure to motivate you to create a space that truly reflects your personality and style.

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So, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and let these words of wisdom inspire you to make your home the best it can be.

100 Inspiring Home Improvement Quotes From Interior Designers and Thought Leaders

Home Improvement

1. “Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love.” – Nate Berkus
2. “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – Jane Austen
3. “A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of hopes and dreams.” – Unknown
4. “Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris
6. The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.” – David Hicks
7. “Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends always belong, and laughter never ends.” – Unknown
8. “A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy.” – Juan Montoya
9. “Home is where one starts from.” – T.S. Eliot
10. “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” – Wendy Wunder
11. “Home is not a place… it’s a feeling.” – Unknown
12. “Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable.” – Catherine Pulsifer
13. “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou
14. The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” – Harold B. Lee
15. “Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
16. “There’s nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – Jane Austen
17. “A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.” – H.L. Mencken
18. “Home is where your story begins.” – Annie Danielson
19. “A home is a place where memories are made, feelings are shared, and love is felt.” – Unknown
20. “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” – Le Corbusier
21. “A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.” – Sydney Smith
22. “Home is the starting place of love, hope, and dreams.” – Unknown
23. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable.” – Catherine Pulsifer
25. “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost

Home Decor

26. “Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.” – Martha Stewart
27. “The details are not the details. They make the design.” – Charles Eames
28. “Good design is forever.” – Van Day Truex
29. “Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.” – Albert Hadley
30. “To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.” – Albert Hadley
31. “Understatement is the rule of a fine interior.” – Barbara Barry
32. “Serenity is the key.” – Victoria Hagan
33. “Decorating is not about making stage sets. It’s not about making pretty pictures for the magazines; it’s really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.” – Albert Hadley
34. The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.” – Albert Hadley
35. “Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.” – Giorgio Armani
36. “Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.” – Suzanne Kasler
37. “One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house.” – Patsy Stone
38. “Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.” – Billy Sunday
39. “An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.” – Charlotte Moss
40. “There is no place like home.” – Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz
41. Your home is living space, not storage space.” – Francine Jay
42. “We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.” – Winston Churchill
43. “Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.” – Billy Baldwin
44. “I am going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.” – Elsie de Wolfe
45. The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.” – David Hicks
46. “A home should feel collected, not decorated.” – Nate Berkus
47. “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” – Le Corbusier
48. “We must bring our own light to the darkness.” – Stanley Kubrick
49. “The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
50. Living through a home renovation is like living in the wild…you do whatever it takes to survive.” – Unknown

Furniture

51. “Furniture must have personality as well as be beautiful.” – Rose Tarlow
52. “The function of design is letting design function.” – Micha Commeren
53. “Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.” – Natalie Morales
54. “Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.” – Gianni Versace
55. “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” – Le Corbusier
56. “Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.” – Le Corbusier
57. “Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.” – Tamara Taylor
58. “One man’s magic is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.” – Robert A. Heinlein
59. “I still believe that design is about creating things that make our lives better.” – Tim Kobe
60. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris
61. “Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.” – Milo Baughman
62. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
63. “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano
64. “Design is intelligence made visible.” – Alina Wheeler
65. “Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” – Paul Rand
66. “The details are not the details. They make the design.” – Charles Eames
67. “Design is where science and art break even.” – Robin Mathew
68. “Design adds value faster than it adds costs.” – Joel Spolsky
69. “Designing a product is designing a relationship.” – Steve Rogers
70. The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.” – Charles Eames
71. A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
72. “Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
73. “Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.” – Paul Rand
74. “Less is more.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
75. “The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.” – Douglas Horton
76. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
77. “Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.” – Edward Tufte
78. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” – John Maeda
79. “A good design is driven by needs and defined by constraints.” – Astik Pant
80. “Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.” – Erik Adigard
81. “Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.” – Hans Hoffmann
82. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
83. “Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.” – John Maeda
84. “People ignore design that ignores people.” – Frank Chimero
85. “Make it simple but significant.” – Don Draper
86. “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” – Robert L. Peters
87. “Design is thinking made visual.” – Saul Bass
88. “Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.” – Freeman Thomas
89. “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” – Paul Rand
90. “Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.” – Matt Beale
91. “Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.” – Frank Chimero
92. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
93. “Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.” – Valerie Pettis
94. “The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” – Paul Rand
95. “Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.” – Raymond Loewy
96. “Design is a formal response to a strategic question.” – Mariona Lopez
97. “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames
98. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
99. “Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex.” – Natasha Jen
100. “A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.” – Brenda Laurel

100 Inspiring Home Improvement Quotes – Conclusion

I hope these 100 inspiring quotes have sparked new ideas and given you the motivation to start or continue your home improvement journey.

Remember, your home is a reflection of you, and making it a place where you feel comfortable, happy, and inspired is a worthwhile endeavor.

As the legendary interior designer Dorothy Draper once said, “I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.” Don’t be afraid to take risks and make bold choices that make your space uniquely yours.

Whether you’re making small changes or planning a major renovation, let these quotes guide you toward creating a home that’s not only beautiful but also a true reflection of your style and personality.