Willa Ford Quotes

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

I've noticed that wherever I've lived, I've either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.

When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction, I always tell them to start off with paint. A fresh coat can really change the whole look of a home.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

Decorating has always been my hobby.

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

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.

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

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

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.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.