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" There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different. "
Genevieve Gorder
Difference
Big
Training
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" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Relationship
Live
Design
" The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea. "
Genevieve Gorder
History
Work
Good
" I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. "
Genevieve Gorder
Comparison
New
New Yorkers
" I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work. "
Genevieve Gorder
I Love
Work
Designer
" 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 for not doing something correctly. "
Genevieve Gorder
Right
Want
Will
" 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 contribute to make this country a country. "
Genevieve Gorder
Beautiful
Negative
Think
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Saying
Say
Goodbye
" I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested. "
Genevieve Gorder
You
Just
Sound
" Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer. "
Genevieve Gorder
Curiosity
Intense
Oprah
" The birth of any show is always a rough one. "
Genevieve Gorder
Birth
Show
Any
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
You
Small
Relationships
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Stress
Now
Beast
" Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself. "
Genevieve Gorder
Enough
TLC
Said
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Power
Money
Stupid
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Doing
Color
Living
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Year
Trying
Create
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
You
Back
Need
" You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers. "
Genevieve Gorder
Want
People
Hair
" I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about. "
Genevieve Gorder
Been
Know
Live
" So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. "
Genevieve Gorder
Joy
Great
Feel
" Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. "
Genevieve Gorder
Impact
Live
People
" So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there. "
Genevieve Gorder
House
Now
Said
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Book
End
I Am
" 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. "
Genevieve Gorder
Think
People
Powerful