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Positive things happen to positive people.
All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.
I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.
Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.
If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.
Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.
In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet.
I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don't think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.
I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually forgotten that property prices can decrease. There's this feeling that they just won't fall, but, of course, that's not true.
I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.