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

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

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.

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

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.