Amanda Holden Quotes

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

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I love to watch 'Property Brothers.'

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

We really find that most houses we look at - that are really rough around the edges - most of those are actually diamonds in the rough. They could be beautiful, and it just takes a little creativity and having the right people on board.

On 'Queer Eye,' I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don't know when or how, so our producers make sure they don't clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.

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've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

We did a whole fraternity house. We made them over.

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

I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

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!

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

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

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

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 love a house project.

I've noticed that wherever I've lived, I've either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.

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