Alexandra Stoddard

"Intimate, necessary details add up to one’s private life. Select them with care because they are your life."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Everything in our surroundings speak for us, and if we accept living with vulgar design we must pay for it. Carling about aesthetics increases your sensitivity. The more we care about the small details, the more in tune to beauty we become, and the more we realize how seemingly insignificant items affects us."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"You can tell a great deal about a person by visiting his or her kitchen."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Set up systems that help you keep the bedroom neat, so that even when you are tired or rushed, you can keep the special place calm and uncluttered. Have a place for everything so that when you undress you are relaxed."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Beauty, like love, makes us happy, but we have to be keenly receptive to the seduction."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"A clean space is like a blank canvas, ready for the beauty of life to be painted upon it."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"When something small is right you can then forget about it and think about more lofty ideas."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Slow Down, calm down, don’t worry, don’t hurry. Trust the process."

- 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