Libby Langdon is an interior designer and expert commentator on HGTV's hit show 'Small Space, Big Style." She offers insights, techniques and tips to help viewers make the most of their own small space. Previously, Libby hosted and was the lead designer on the FOX makeover TV show, "Design Invasion."

What inspires your designs and creativity?

My mom is an interior designer. She really helped me craft my own style. She's my biggest inspiration in that way because she creates really warm, inviting, liveable spaces and that for me is really where I start.

What motivated you to design your own furniture pieces?

Once I started seeing how people really live, it made me want to create pieces that are going to allow them to live more beautifully and function more efficiently in a small space. Sometimes living with less can be the ultimate luxury. You've got to have furniture that is going to do double duty. It's got to serve more than one purpose—no lazy furniture is my motto.

Libby's Decorati Favorites
	Kyle Bunting Rugs: These transend rugs and morph over into the "works of art" department...they are stunning and I hung one on a wall in a home I designed in Austin, Texas. They are such special pieces!
	Valtekz: I love using their embossed Vinyl Embossed Croc and Rattlesnake patterns and putting them on the wall as wallpaper, great textures, fabulous colorways and a real showstopper for my clients!
	Innovations: Their wall coverings add a subtle depth and elegance to any room and their Innvironments line is eco-friendly as well as beautiful!

How do you see the Internet changing Interior Design?

By opening up materials, goods, items to people that in some areas wouldn't necessarily have access to some of those items. Going on[line], [you can] look for things that are inspirational, for that one little thing that you want. It's opened up a whole world to people.

As a designer, have you used the internet?

Absolutely! I just did this Green exhibit. Prior to working on that, I knew about green design, but I wasn't really familiar with the materials that are out there. That kind of sourcing would've taken me and an assistant weeks to do.

The other thing that's great about the internet in relation to design jobs: it allows you to bring things faster to your customer. I think it's created some more competition in the marketplace and that's a good thing for designers.

As a designer and an accomplished chef, what similarities do you see between cooking and design?

One of the biggest similarities is wanting to make people feel good. In design, I want people to walk into a room that I've designed, and I want them to let out a big sigh of relief and feel comfortable, taken care of and nurtured. And when I'm cooking for people I find the same thing. I want them to have that cupcake at the end of the meal and go, "Oh this is so good." It's about creating a reaction, and a good reaction. In food and design you really can shift the way a person feels.

What would be your dream project? Is there a celebrity whose home you would love to decorate?

It's so funny but I would love to do a hotel in the Caribbean. That is a dream project for me. And what I would love is if it was a hotel owned by Jimmy Buffett. I'd like for Jimmy Buffett to buy a hotel in the Carribean and then hire me to design it.