Rachel Roy Quotes

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

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

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.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting 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.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

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.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

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.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need 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!

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

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

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.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

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

Even though beauty is very much my heritage, my real passion is accessories and home.

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.