Barbara Corcoran 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 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.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

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.

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

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 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.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I get a sparkle in my eye when we talk about redoing a property soup-to-nuts.

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

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

I own a private yacht, private jet and a private lion.