You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room. – Alexandra Stoddard
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life’s journey. – Alexandra Stoddard
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me. – Alexandra Stoddard
My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world. – Alexandra Stoddard
I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It’s what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I’m ironing. – Alexandra Stoddard
We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature’s comforts. – Alexandra Stoddard
I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people. – Alexandra Stoddard
When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother’s collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment. – Alexandra Stoddard
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth. – Alexandra Stoddard
Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority. – Alexandra Stoddard
You’re not going to be dreary on the inside if you’re not dreary on the outside. – Alexandra Stoddard
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice… We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment. – Alexandra Stoddard
I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy. – Alexandra Stoddard
A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I’m so keen on expressing is that, if you don’t do it for yourself, if you’re always seeking affirmation from outside, you’ll never have a home. It’ll just be a house. – Alexandra Stoddard
I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible. – Alexandra Stoddard
I don’t want to go anywhere; I don’t want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am. – Alexandra Stoddard
If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we’ll be more authentic, honest and natural. – Alexandra Stoddard
Don’t feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme! – Alexandra Stoddard
