House Design Quotes

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

I like to build houses.

I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

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 like cosy, intimate houses.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

What a house - nothin' but rooms!

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.