Candice Olson Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

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!

My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining room. It's not huge, because I don't like huge kitchens.

I like kitchens. I'm a kitchen and bathroom freak.

I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.

I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a bad house.

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.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea.

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

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.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.

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

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.

If I ever buy a house and redo the bathroom, I'm putting urinals in there.