Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

The truth is that wreaths have never really been part of my creative life. I like them and want them and know how to do them.

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it's something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It's a good feeling, and it makes me happy.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

I collect craft. It inspires me.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

When I was a kid I painted the walls in my room like 30 times!

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting - things you can do yourself - that alone can transform the space.

I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.