I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Parker frames architecture as an unexpectedly sticky “habit,” suggesting a creative compulsion that extends beyond film and television into designing lived spaces. The quote contrasts the rational, investment-minded logic of real estate (“build and sell”) with the emotional attachment that can form when an artist shapes something from the ground up. His inability to sell implies that the houses function less as commodities than as personal artworks or refuges—projects that absorb identity, taste, and memory. It also lightly satirizes the idea of treating creativity as purely transactional: even when the plan is profit, the maker’s bond to the finished object can override the market script.