She's got her name on everything from pillows to wine glasses.

She could coordinate your living room and bedroom and then decorate your kitchen without missing a beat.

Martha Stewart?

Not quite.

Jane Seymour, the former Bond girl of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" fame, visited Naperville Wednesday evening for a preview party promoting the 2004 Midwest Living Idea home downtown. The 4,000-square-foot, three-story house at 323 Douglas Ave. is furnished with Seymour's home accessories line.

But the actress is quick to draw a distinction from the beleaguered home-furnishings mogul.

"Before Martha got into (legal) trouble, people used to kind of compare (us), but I'm quite different from Martha," Seymour said. "Martha isn't an actress. As far as I know Martha doesn't have six children.

"And she's a very good cook."

What the two do have in common, Seymour said, is a desire to make people's homes more beautiful places to live.

"What she's doing I totally respect and what I'm doing is putting it together for people," she said. "When people get up in the morning (I want them to be) excited because that's important. Martha makes that possible and hopefully I make that possible, too."

The home, which was designed and built by Naperville developers John and Stacey Schillerstrom in conjunction with Midwest Living magazine, features Seymour's bed and bath accessories, glassware, lamps, candlesticks and several of her original artworks.

Pointing out a set of tinted-blue martini and wine glasses, Seymour said she likes them just for their style - no alcohol required.

"If someone wants to look like they're getting very merry but they're actually drinking water, it's a great way to go," she joked in her British lilt.

"Blue and white will always be popular because it's fresh, it's young and old, it's masculine and feminine," she added. "It's classic."

The blue-and-white theme also appears in her Sommerset Gardens bedding set, part of the St. Catherine's Court collection based on her 14th-century country manor in Bath, England.

"The point of the collection is this is a basis where you can't go wrong," she said. "It's all been put together for you."

In the home's master bedroom, party guests Claudia Stenger and Debbie Cole-Zolads of Naperville admired a painting of winter lilies by Seymour. The room is decorated with bedding from the Coral Canyon line inspired by Seymour's Malibu, Calif., home in blue-green colors Seymour calls the "new neutral."

"It's lovely. It's beautiful," Stenger said. "Very nicely done."

Cole-Zolads said she was excited to see Seymour herself.

"'Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman' alive and well in Naperville," she said.

Naperville resident Lynda Reilly said she and her husband, Mike, liked the colors.

"We thought it was beautiful," she said. "(We liked) the way the colors in each of the rooms were very light and they all blended together. It was kind of cool to see."

And did she talk to Seymour?

"Just 'hi,'" Reilly said. "We tried not to bother her."

Seymour, who also has a line of children's books, clothing and toys as well as several books for adults to her credit, said she's happy to help promote the Naper Settlement history museum, which will receive proceeds from tours of the home offered today through May 23.

"It's so exciting to be able to put my collection into this house because it's for the modern woman and man - the modern family - but it's vintage," she said. "I love the idea of being involved in an area in America where before it's too late they're rescuing it."

She said the house, built to blend into Naperville's historic district, was a perfect setting for her designs.

"I have a home in England that's (several hundred) years old, so I know what it's like to preserve a home, to preserve a neighborhood," Seymour said.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:45 a.m. today will mark the official opening of the Idea Home.

Seymour will attend along with Mayor George Pradel and representatives from the magazine and Naper Settlement.