Syd Quotes

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

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 find home renovations almost traumatic. But people can create something great.

I grew up remodeling houses with my parents, and I've started to do it again with some of my friends. So, I like to watch HGTV - 'Love It or List It,' 'Property Brothers,' 'Flip or Flop.'

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

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

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 a house project.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

A fixer-upper is good for your business if you are the guy who fixes it up.

I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

Sendai is the place that helped me build my basement.

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.

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

And personally, one of the secrets I guess you can say with success on HGTV, for not only myself and a lot of other individuals who have shows, is that we truly do love what we do. We're passionate about real estate. We love design. We love seeing transformations. We love working with our hands.

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

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.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.