Roger Banks-Pye

Whatever you do in your decorating philosophy, be brave....never wish you hadn't taken your vision right to the end. Make a bold statement.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

Always make a dark room darker. You can paint a dark room white, but it will still be dark...give it atmosphere with deep intense colour that works well in artificial light.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

Any room, whatever its size, looks better with many little pools of light rather than a general glare. I like intimate low light just where and when you need it.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

Always scale up, not down. Everyone is terrified of making things too big-if in doubt make it bigger, not smaller.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

Though there are moments when plain white walls might seem a relief, those moments are rare, and should be discouraged.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

One becomes bored supplying the same solutions to the same problems: I need to be constantly amused, and it intrigues me to discover and use different approaches.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

When I see draperies that I like I sketch them, in some detail. If I take a photograph I don't appreciate the subtlety in the same way. Looking at it and drawing it you absorb the detail and don't forget it.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

How often do we go into a room and find chairs placed so that only one person can sit and talk to himself in a corner, all the others distanced at the far side of the room? Nobody wants to feel left out.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

A good chair should look as if could spring at you or take you in its arms.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations

Choose beds for comfort and for looks. Like modern sofas, most modern beds are too low. You should have to climb into a bed not drop onto it. Antique beds are just the right height.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations