Andrea McLean Quotes

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!

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.

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

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.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.

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

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

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 like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

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

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

I love to watch 'Property Brothers.'

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction, I always tell them to start off with paint. A fresh coat can really change the whole look of a home.

I love 'Extreme Makeover Home Edition.' It feeds my Fantasy Dream Home monster that lives inside of me.

I never considered interior design as a career option. I had designed a couple of our homes, and people liked my work. Friends came forward and asked me to help them do up their homes, and that's how it started.

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