This episode is all about Carisa and Matt -- literally.  Bravo gave them $12,500 cash, a furniture/accessory memo budget of $150K at the Pacific Design Center, the assistance and wisdom of their favorite carpenter plus the opportunity to hire more help, and two full months with which to design a loft for the client they should know best: themselves.

Kelly, Jonathan, our superchic guest judge Trudie Styler, and I were totally awestruck by what they created.

The Santa Fe Lofts are located in downtown LA, a place I've visited only while shopping the nearby wholesale flower market for a photo shoot. It's an urban neighborhood in transition, and the Santa Fe apartments are a terrific opportunity to live in a residential building that has a gutsy, industrial feel and walls of amazing windows.

The producers took us to an empty loft on another floor before we walked through Carisa and Matt's spaces, so we had a clear idea of what they started with. Even in its nearly gutted condition, the loft was seductive; I wanted one for myself!