Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes

There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting - things you can do yourself - that alone can transform the space.

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.

Ladies, I urge you never to buy a black bathroom suite. 'CBB' decided this would be glamorous. 'CBB' was wrong.

I've always loved interior design.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

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.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

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.

I love to cook. And I love food. I'd probably work with animals. Interior design, I'm very into that.

The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

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 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 don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

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