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.

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

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

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

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

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.