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HOST: Julia Sugarbaker couldn't have dreamed of a more lovely home for "designing woman" Dixie Carter. Located in LA's historic Hancock Park, it's loaded with charm and Hollywood history.
DIXIE: Rudolph Valentino said he wouldn't attend a party where there wasn't a ballroom. So, the Montgomerys who owned this house built this room onto it -- a little tiny ballroom; and, apparently, he did come to their parties.
HOST: Dixie's daughters wil always call this house home. The same goes for her husband Hal Holbrook and her father from Tennessee.
HALBERT CARTER: And so Dixie told me, "Daddy, i want you to come and live with me. I need you." And that's when I came to live with her.
HOST: Dixie and her daughter, Ginna, turned on the Southern hospitality during this royal tour.
DIXIE: The little breakfast room, here, is why I bought the house. Because you see it from the front door -- the curved angle of the windows from the breakfast room. I love the dining room also because that's where we eat every night ... I don't believe in TV dinners. That's the chandeleir my husband gave me for Christmas about five years ago.
HOST: Holbrook didn't trust Dixie's design instinct when she wanted red silk library walls.
GINNA CARTER: I think he said he thought it might look like -- and I'm quoting -- might look like a "bordello."
HOST: The library is also home to five Emmy Awards.
DIXIE: I said, that's as close as I'm probably ever gonna get to an Emmy Award is my husband's, so I'm putting them out -- I'm gonna get some vicarious pleasure out of these things! So he let me put them up.
HOST: Hal also puts up portraits of Dixie by Italian artist, Antonio Ciccone.
DIXIE: He kept painting me over the years. So, I've had the audacity to hang them up, and I'm married to a man who let'sme!
HOST: The art of decorating is second nature to this one time "designing woman" who has woven a corner of Sugarbakers into a corner of her own home.
DIXIE: I've come to believe over the years that if you have things you like, they'll all go together -- if you really like them. So that's my decorating tip!
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