The 20-foot ceilings in the front are now 12 and we have new tables and chairs. It's got a whole new look to it, but it also looks the same.

At the restaurant, there is nothing there. The tables and chairs have gone, there is nothing left. Everybody is panicking, a lot of people are crying. We will be affected by this for a long, long time.

The idea behind these boxes is that they are useful as tables, bedside stands, or even as chairs, and they brighten up a room in a delicate way because of the subtlety of the color.

At first I wasn't going to reopen, but I couldn't walk away from it.

The insurance company determined it was a tornado. We've replaced everything. It took most of the front porch. We've rebuilt or replaced some walls, replaced flooring, the roof and the ceilings.

I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.