Dick Van Patten Quotes

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 watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

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

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

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!

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

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.

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.

With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.

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.

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

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.

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.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

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.

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 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.

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

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

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.

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.