JONATHAN SCOTT

With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.

When people suggest we like to 'dream big'... they're absolutely right.

When buyers see the pride of ownership - when they come in, and they're impressed by how clean the place is - they can picture their kids playing on the floor. They can picture the family sitting around the table. When they can picture their own family in that space, instantly you grab them, and they'll pay more money, too.

I've been asked twice to go on 'The Bachelor' - and once in Canada as well -and I was like, 'It would literally be my nightmare to be put on display and dated out.' It's the opposite of anything I have ever wanted.

When you have a quality mattress, great sheets, and a good duvet with the perfect fill, it all works together to give you the perfect sleep.

We're the house that's playing Christmas music by November 1.

A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.

One of the biggest mistakes I see in the bedroom is that they plan to be doing things other than sleeping in the bedroom. They will have a desk in there for working, or they'll have a big shelf in there for storing things. It should be all about relaxing.

I love to laugh. A sense of humor is really important.

The main thing for me is that anything I design, I try to design it with just a little bit of pizzazz, something that's going to allow the family to stay home and enjoy the space as opposed to necessarily having to always go to a park or something.

I'm usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients' furniture. Most times, I'll just clean it up, make it look like new, and that's the best way to save money.

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that's it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.

I think that's one of the biggest things people don't understand: a clean house will sell faster.

I love kids, and I get along great with kids.

Sometimes life takes you on unexpected paths, and those paths aren't always in the same direction.

If I go to Lowe's, people will follow me up and down the aisle with kitchen plans and samples.

We started out as actors. When we were coming out of high school, we didn't want to be struggling actors, and - I remember the conversation - we were like, 'Let's invest in real estate!'

We were always thinking big, dreaming big - no project was too big for us to tackle, and that comes from how we were raised. Our parents actually said to us, 'If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.'

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

I'm not a gambler or a nightclub guy.

The big message I give to all of our clients, and anyone we lecture to, is you have to be smart with your money.

Hiking, scuba diving - I just love getting out and doing things.

We really find that most houses we look at - that are really rough around the edges - most of those are actually diamonds in the rough. They could be beautiful, and it just takes a little creativity and having the right people on board.

Open concept bathrooms are not the greatest.

I remember, this one time, one of my best friends was living with us for a little while, this place we were renovating. We got back, we'd been cleared out. The place had been robbed. They must have backed up trucks to get the appliances. And our buddy was still sleeping.