That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.