Popularity: 3
Vote:   | Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | But this is not a how-to show, it's a conceptual show. It's about ideas. It's about fun. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I am the young, edgy New Yorker. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I don't think about how I wear my hair. I get out of the shower, put on some gel and it dries. I got blessed with good hair from my parents. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I enjoy talking to fans. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I have bare bulbs hanging from my ceiling. I got this gig when I was renovating my apartment and didn't get to finish. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I incorporate conflict and resolution into the show - hey, that's Drama 101. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I know people don't think I work. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I try to instill in people the idea that they've all got individual personalities, and they should do what they want to their homes. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Inexpensive is good. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It started as just a little cable show. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It's hard not to go over. You don't know the perameters of what you're working with. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It's hard to design a space when people just say they need help with a sun room. You can do anything with any room. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Sun rooms don't have to look like a sun room. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | There was a recent episode that I took down two fans, painted them, and rehung them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | They don't have to listen to anybody - except a professional designer, of course. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | They don't know they're living in a glass house. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | This isn't like real design because it's just about changing the room, they can finish it up the rest of the way. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Use plants to bring life. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. |