Recreated In An Upper Saucon Home Is The Look Of New Orleans

• Tony Caciolo and his wife, Penny, love New Orleans' French Quarter so much that they have recreated a piece of it in their Upper Saucon Township home.

  They have built a room that looks as though it is the quarter's famous Bourbon Street. "It's an indoor room but it looks like you're outdoors," Tony says. ...

  Caciolo, president of Monogram Custom Homes, learned of the show last year through the Lehigh Valley Builders Association, of which he is a member. He went back and forth with the producers, sending them photographs and providing access to a Web cam he has set up on the room.

  The segment was filmed in one long day in the beginning of June. ...

  One of the best parts, Caciolo says, is host Patrick Clark's reaction. He didn't see the room until they started filming, and he was amazed, Caciolo says. "They caught his initial reaction on camera."

  Caciolo, an upscale custom home builder, began the project in October 2003 and finished it a year later.

  He built the room onto his home because "Penny and I go to New Orleans every year and meet up with all my old friends from Lehigh ,University,," he says. ...

  "It's authentically Bourbon Street," Caciolo says. "It has old rusty roof panels and louvered doors just like you would see there."

  The room also has a balcony, a stage, a jester and a gift shop.

  Caciolo also recreated Pat O'Brien's, complete with a 20-foot long granite bar, and the Lipstick Lounge. ...

  When the TV crew finished filming, Caciolo brought in a band and held a party for everyone.

  The Bourbon Street room fits with the basement of the Caciolo's 10,000-plus square-foot home, where earlier in another part of the basement Caciolo had built a street from a village in Italy, complete with an Espresso bar and pizzeria.