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Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.

Style really comes down to what makes you feel good.

Alexandra Stoddard

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

Alexandra Stoddard

I have my clothes made in Hong Kong, but I love Shangai Tang in New York.

Alexandra Stoddard

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Alexandra Stoddard

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

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

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

Alexandra Stoddard

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

Alexandra Stoddard

I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their surroundings and how they interact with each other.

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

I love people and care about them, and I felt I had a gift to cheer people up. If I could get into their homes and make their environment more attractive, they'll be happier, and it would be very rewarding for me.

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

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

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 have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural.

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

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

Alexandra Stoddard

Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.

Alexandra Stoddard

Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy.

Alexandra Stoddard

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Alexandra Stoddard

Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don't wait until the children get out of the house or when the sun comes out. Create something better.

Alexandra Stoddard

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

Alexandra Stoddard

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

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