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

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.

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

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.