Estrella - I like my living room to be the first thing visible from the front door...mainly because it is the one room in the house that I can usually keep picked up and looking good. As far as I'm concerned, a dining room that is used daily should be within just a few steps of the kitchen. Maximum distance? 10 feet maybe? I've never understood a house where you have to carry food through the great room and then down a hallway practically to the front door before you finally reach the dining room? Who wants to carry food halfway across the house and dirty dishes back halfway across the house? Just more chances for drips, spills, and broken dishes. I suppose if you only plan to use your formal dining room on very special occasions and also have a pretty serving cart that you can load all the food and dishes onto and then wheel it into the dining room, then I guess 25 or 30 feet would not be too much of a problem. Personally though, I'd rather not have to trek that far when I realize - usually right in the middle of Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner - that I forgot to set the butter on the table. And of course, if one happens to have a cook plus a serving maid or butler, then who cares how far away the kitchen is from the dining room? It's the "help's" job to see that food gets to the table still warm and that nothing gets dropped/broken along the way. Don't I wish?!!! LOL!

Hi, my name is Brian Rowan and I am the producer of Southern Homes and LifeStyles TV show. Thank you all so much for your kind words about the show. I have to agree that the Chattanooga home was a little different. However, the drive up the home and the back view was truly amazing. I am sorry some of you can't see the show weekly, however you can all help me with this situation. We are currently trying to get the show pickup by a national network, HGTV and FineLiving, which are both owned by Scripps Network. You can help by calling and requesting they air Southern Homes and LifeStyles. Scripps Networks - 865-694-2700 - Chad Youngblood Mr. Youngblood is head of programming. It would mean more coming from a viewer than the producer of the show. You will most likely need to leave a message and just tell him this is a show that airs in some southern cities and you would love to be able to watch it on their network. Thanks again and we will put more great shows on our website. Brian Rowan MSMG Productions Southern Homes & LifeStyles 662-890-3359

same as Terilyn only I only made it through 1 whole one and the last 2-3 minutes of a couple others because it overlaps with something else I watch.

Two things that stand out for me wrt 'drama', and that set designer from Brooklyn is involved in both of them: 1) the choice of the Texas model home designer as the final competitor -- LOL I *knew* as soon as they showed the other possibilities that she would get voted in, because she's the least challenging...just hilarious...and when they announced that she was voted in the camera cut to the Brooklyn guy barely concealing a victorious smirk he was sharing with another competitor... And second, I do believe he just signed his own Cancellation with that comment about Genevieve at the end, about "does that girl have a ring on her finger" -- OY, man, you must know you've just Blown It Bigtime! There's no way he can win now, or it will look like he slept his way to the top. What a jerk. It was clear he was a jerk anyway, but WOW that remark was seriously inappropriate. Oh, and one last thing: to say to the team that ended up taping up their curtains and cutting king size comforters in half, "Can you imagine saying that to a homeowner?" LOL what homeowners would make designers do a room in three days top to bottom? That made me laugh...might as well admit that the time constraints are artificial and --well--constraining. I know that other teams could turn in something amazing in the time constraints, but I can't imagine that all the good designers in the world could work their magic within that slim, slim time frame...