Actress at ease taking shots at homemaking

As a 7-year-old in North Carolina, Amy Sedaris yearned to host a hospitality show.

She was inspired by local women such as Peggy Mann and Betty Elliot who, on sets resembling their homes, discussed the finer points of bat sleeves and collar construction.

But it took decades in the test kitchen of Sedaris’ mind to turn her dream into a reality.

“And then I just decided it was time,” she said. “I look at it like a super-stew that’s been in the making for 20 years.”

In “At Home With Amy Sedaris,” which started last Tuesday on truTV, Sedaris offers deliriously twisted takes on the homemaking skills she skewered in her books “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence” and “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People.”

The show features lots of glue as well as guests such as Paul Giamatti, Michael Shannon, Jane Krakowski (Sedaris’ co-star on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) and Stephen Colbert.

In a call from her Manhattan apartment, whose John Derian furniture and fake-hair lampshade were recreated for the show set, Sedaris, 56, discussed a host of topics.

Did the concept of your show change while it was simmering?

I always thought it was going to be more of a PBS show with interesting people in front of a live audience. But it was hard to fill 24 minutes and not go in for laughs, and we were boring ourselves. So now I’m a bored housewife on a funny show.

Do you have a current lifestyle inspiration?

No. Once “I Like You” came out (in 2006), I didn’t entertain anymore because I was tired of it. If I have a few friends over, I’ll order in. But I don’t rent tables and chairs and cook for 18 people. I look back on those years and can’t even believe I was that person — I was so obsessive. And the same with crafting. I mean, I make a few things if I’m going somewhere (where) there’s an audience and I can sell stuff. But I got sick of having crafting supplies around me.

You once had a cupcake-and-cheeseball business.

I was making cupcakes, and then they became really popular. But I always wanted to sell them for a dollar, and everyone else was charging $3 or $4. Then butter went up, and then I got a cockroach problem. So I moved on to cheese balls. And then I got a huge mouse problem, and I was like, “I’m done with making food inside my apartment.”

The cupcakes are gone?

I’ll do it for a special request. Like if there’s a school charity, I’ll say: “You get two dozen cupcakes, but my rules are only vanilla; I’ll leave it with my doorman; you pick it up; you don’t call me; maybe I’ll put pokes on it, maybe not; maybe jimmies on it, maybe not.” And they’re like, “Lady, we don’t even want your stupid cupcakes.” I’m so awful.

And the cheese balls? They’re such a rarity in New York.

That’s why I brought them back! I mean, it’s a ball of cheese that you can use over a period of four or five days. You just have to reshape it and roll it in more nuts, and nobody will ever know.