Refurbishment Quotes

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

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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

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

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

Go to the Savoy for a classic British tea and to see what a $350 million renovation can do for a hotel.

I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.

The place needs a complete overhaul.

I'm usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients' furniture. Most times, I'll just clean it up, make it look like new, and that's the best way to save money.

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 watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.