John Burnside Quotes

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

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'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

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

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

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 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!

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 don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

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

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

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.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

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

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

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.