Alexandra Stoddard Quotes

My home in Moga has turned into something really special.

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 good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

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

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

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.

We did a whole fraternity house. We made them over.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

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

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

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.

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

I love a house project.

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

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.

And personally, one of the secrets I guess you can say with success on HGTV, for not only myself and a lot of other individuals who have shows, is that we truly do love what we do. We're passionate about real estate. We love design. We love seeing transformations. We love working with our hands.

Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

I want to live in a space that I designed, that is for me.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

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

I love houses. I'm not sure why.