Daryl Hall Quotes

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

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've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

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!

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

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.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

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.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.

Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.

He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

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

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

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.

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.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

A good home must be made, not bought.

I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

New ideas must use old buildings

We . . . can become more diligent and concerned at home by bearing testimony to those whom we love about the things we know to be true by the witness of the Holy Ghost. . . . Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.