We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.
Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.
I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a bad house.
Nothing is worse than a home that is too perfect and done. You have to live in it.
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.
It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.
Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it.
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.