Douglas Wilson
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
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.
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.
Use plants to bring life.
Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.
This isn't like real design because it's just about changing the room, they can finish it up the rest of the way.
They don't know they're living in a glass house.
They don't have to listen to anybody - except a professional designer, of course.
There was a recent episode that I took down two fans, painted them, and rehung them.
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
Sun rooms don't have to look like a sun room.
Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.
Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
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.
It's hard not to go over. You don't know the perameters of what you're working with.
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
It started as just a little cable show.
Inexpensive is good.
In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.