title: Doug's Rooms: Transforming Your Space One Room at a Time
author: Douglas A. Wilson
description: Douglas Wilson has created sophisticated and innovative paint and plaster treatments, furniture, and lighting concepts for some of the most noteworthy homes in America. He has collaborated with revered interior designers such as Albert Hadley and Alexa Hampton. Doug demonstrates his design skills on the hit TV series <i>Trading Spaces</i> and now shares his expertise as host of TLCs <i>Americas Ugliest and Moving Up</i>. He has been featured in national publications such as <i>House Beautiful</i>, <i>House &amp; Garden</i>, <i>Elle Dco</i>r, and the <i>New York Times</i>, is a frequent guest on NBCs <i>Today</i>, and writes a column for <i>InTouch Weekly</i>.
zlib_text: **Going Harvey in the Big House**
  
   **a novelette**
  
   **by Douglas Smith**
  
  Big G's first thought each wake time was how much he missed his drawer in his
  old sector of the House. His new cube was too big.
  
  Rubbing his eyes with a beefy hand, he sat up on his sleep shelf, ducking his
  head needlessly from habit born of years of waking in a drawer. Triggered by
  his movement, the ceiling tiles glowed to full brightness.
  
  Big G looked around his cube. Dull green walls. A floor covered with a gray
  coarse carpet. His private in-chute and dis-chute in the opposite wall, with a
  hidden compartment big enough to make his few personal items seem lonely lying
  inside. He shook his head.
  
  All of this luxury still made him uneasy.
  
  But what bothered him most was the size of the cube. Six and a half feet long,
  and five feet wide, with a ceiling so far overhead that he had to stand to
  touch it.
  
  He sighed. Too much space. It wasn't right.
  
  Sometimes now, he'd wake in sleep time, reach out, and feel noth