Our Top Design judges agreed to answer reader questions this week. Here, read the behind-the-scenes scoop about the show!

Donna asks: "You judges have a tough job and I commend you for that. The question is ... can you get the "Top Design" set designers to give you some functional, comfortable chairs?"

I think the White Room set (designed by last week's guest judge Joe Stewart) is glamorous, but I'll admit that the stools are not the most comfortable -- or easy to slide off of gracefully when we leave to review the projects. (I used to dread when Jonathan would say, "Let's go see what they've done, shall we?")

Peter asks: "How is your toe?"

My toe is fine, thank you, although it wasn't that first day. I shamelessly brought my four-inch stiletto to the hospital the morning it happened and begged the doctor who stitched me up to make the bandage as small as possible so I could squeeze into it. He thought I was insane. It took weeks to fully heal.