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Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

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Daily, Should, About, Enriching

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

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Precious, Deal, Honestly, Hating

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

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Beauty, Egg, Raw Materials, Lamp

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

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Other, Generations, Swept, Impact

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

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Glass, Like, 1930s, Sucker

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

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My Life, Think, I Think, Gutter

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

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Line, Production, Before, Scratch

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

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Small, Living, Like, Shadows

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

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Luxury, See, Terror, Champion

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

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Regret, Heels, Stack, Wimps

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

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Money, Forgiven, Even, Stolen

There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.

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Wait, Nothing, Again, Busted

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

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Flight, Living, Like, Flown

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

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Other, Like, Terribly, Chaotic

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

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Include, Favourite, Authors, Dickens

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

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Doing, Pretty, Thing, Sexiest

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

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Choose, Given, Learned, Wisely

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

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Road, Admire, Anyone, Travelled

People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't.

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Trust, Over, Very, Sphere

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

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Friend, I Think, About, Article

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'

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Dislike, Like, Terrified, Frightened

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

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Want, Which, Encourages, Formed

I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.

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Sometimes, Been, Bit, Train

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

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Shy, Engaging, Bit, Everyday

I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.

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About, Cause, Had, Fair Share

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool.

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Pool, Off, Equivalent, Adrenalin

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.

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I Think, Commodities, About, Exploit

I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost.

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Big, Drop, Cycle, Experienced

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

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Like, Absurd, Surreal, Coen

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.

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Musicians, Fair, Proportion, Premier

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