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My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close. For as long as I can remember, we made Nana's waffles in my house. It was a weekend tradition.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend. It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff.

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful.

Weekends in our house were always about football. My dad would usually take me to Arsenal - I joined when I was about seven - and my mum would take my brother to Watford.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

When I'm deciding what to do with a house, I look at the family who live there and ask myself a few questions. Some of them are: 'How long are people going to live there? Are they going to stay forever? Do they plan to sell in the near future?'

Typically, you want 40-45 per cent humidity in your home, to keep moisture in the air so that your house doesn't shrink as much.

A lot of people don't think about how important their sump pumps are. But if it does fail and the water table is high around your house, obviously that sump pit is going to overflow and run into your basement.

No house exists in a vacuum. External factors affect them, whether it's the climate or time.

When people build a house, they typically dig a hole for the foundation, and then put the down footings, weeping tile and a stone layer around the outside for drainage. Then they'll backfill around the house.

Make sure you have a dehumidifier if your house is too humid in the summer, or a humidifier if it's too dry in the winter.

You need to understand what's padding your walls, especially if you live in an older home and renovating the attic is on your spring to-do list. Not only is it key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, it'll prevent mould from growing and can drastically reduce your energy bills.

Avoiding cold floors above a garage is relatively simple when the house is built, insulated and heated properly. It's a little more complicated and costly after the fact.