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Some can't help falling in love. In the Las Vegas home of Jack and Elizabeth Carter, Michael Payne, the L.A.-based designer and host of Home & Garden TV's Designing for the Sexes, was inspired by a single picture of Elvis--a distant relative of Jack's--tacked to the wall of the laundry room. In a departure from the couple's usual staid taste, Payne painted the room purple and crammed it with memorabilia like a guitar-shaped clock and Elvis magnets on the appliances. "It is, if I may say, really quite fabulous," says Payne. A chime playing Love Me Tender on the door to the room was the Carters' own touch. "It makes me happy every time I go in there," sighs Elizabeth. A laundry room that makes you happy? Now that's a fresh wrinkle. --With reporting by Leslie Everton Brice/Atlanta, Elizabeth Coady and Noah Isackson/Chicago, Kathie Klarreich/Miami, Adam Pitluk/Shreveport and Sean Scully/Los Angeles