The birth of any show is always a rough one.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

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.

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.