Jason Wu Quotes

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

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

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

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

I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

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.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

The place needs a complete overhaul.

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

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

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.

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.'

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

New ideas often need old buildings.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

New ideas must use old buildings

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

The house shows the owner.

When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."