Robert Fillmore is somewhat of a design legend in Oklahoma City. He may never own up to that, and though he's almost single-handedly brought about a mini-country French design movement within Oklahoma, he will probably hesitate with humility before admitting that there are more homes around the country based on his designs than there are here in the state.

To prove that, two of his plans were deemed by Builder Magazine as among the top 10 best-selling consumer house plans in the country.

I've heard the story about his first trip to the IBS, in the days when he designed out of his garage in Quail Creek. He rented a booth to distribute a few of his famed plan books, and half way through the show as word spread of his designs, he was out of books and scrambling to get as many copies as he could get made to keep up with demand.

That was a long time, and thousands of homes ago.