Tamara Taylor Quotes

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.

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

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'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

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!

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

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

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

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

The biggest thing about Pinterest is that people are there saving ideas for their personal lives. Not to rile up other people or make a big statement.

My kitchen is my baby. I don't have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s Wedgewood stove.

I've noticed that wherever I've lived, I've either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting - things you can do yourself - that alone can transform the space.

When someone wants to freshen up their home a bit, and they don't want to spend a ton of money on construction, I always tell them to start off with paint. A fresh coat can really change the whole look of a home.

If you leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

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

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

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