Renovation Quotes

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

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

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

I think Milan lack a bit of renovation and planning for the future. Too often, they focused only on the present, particularly after the 2007 Champions League triumph.

Demolition is a part of construction.

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

I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.

I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.

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.

I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.