Syd Quotes

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.

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.

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!

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

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.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

As a kid I used to love going to open houses and doing DIY projects with my parents and sister around our home.

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.

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

I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

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

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

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

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.

If I ever buy a house and redo the bathroom, I'm putting urinals in there.

My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It's so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you've really accomplished something.

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

I love to watch 'Property Brothers.'

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.

I'm a serial renovator of apartments and old houses, so I'm in daily need of doorknobs, subway tiles, and 14-foot-tall pier mirrors.