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..

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods..

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

The birth of any show is always a rough one..

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

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 ….

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 ….

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible f….

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 ….

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 comp….

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 sa….

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

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually do….

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 powerfu….

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

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they con….

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 creat….

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 boo….

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

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

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