"Changing Rooms"

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I think that’s the right name, anyway.

Has anyone seen this show? It’s British, so it airs on BBC. The basic premise is “people redecorating each other’s houses”.

It’s absolutely hilarious. Somebody will say that they hate peach and chartreuse, and they’ll wind up with an entire room full of peach and chartreuse. Or someone will say they love their wood floors, and come back to find them covered in carpet. Some of them get really upset. :slight_smile:
– Sylence

If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings.

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu
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I would be so sincerely pissed if someone came through and moved my stuff around my house. I have everything in its place, as ever messy or screwed up it may be, and it has to be there. I hate it when someone comes through when I’m not home and moves stuff around. Then I come home, and cant find anything…someone is lookin for an ass whoopin then.

knuckle-dragging hose mongerer.
SDMB Self-Righteous Clique

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There was a fantastic episode a year or two ago when one of the participants broke down in tears when she saw what the neighbours had done to her house. She was clearly very upset, and Carol Smillie (?sp) was unable to console her.

The amazing thing about it, though, is how flimsy everything looks (held together with staples and glue). I always get the impression that their primary objective is to do something which will look good for the afternoon it takes them to film the reactions, even if it falls to pieces within days after that.

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You’re lucky you only get to see “Changing Rooms”. I saw that episode with the room that looked like a red and black chessboard. The woman was so upset!!! Very understandable, the room looked like blind chimps were let go wild with a paint gun.

Now we have about 6 shows, all doing the room makeover thing. They are all terrible, and if I ever get my hands on “Handy Andy” I will do something extremely evil with the nailgun and pliers.

J

“Cast a cold Eye, On Life, On Death, Horseman, ride by”
W.B. Yeats

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Oh, I love that show! It is absolutely hilarious! I think it would be so much fun to have a neighbor that I was friends with, and we both knew each other’s styles and tastes, and each redo a room in the other’s home.

I love the bold colors that people are afraid to use in their own house, but since it’s someone else’s, why the hell not? My very favorite was the dark blue bedroom for the teenage girl with the loft bed over a closet space, where the blue got gradually darker up the walls - it was fabulous, and best of all she really loved it.

Anyone see the episode some time ago about the couple where the lady had a ton of shoes, and they did the bedroom in blue and yellow and put shoes everywhere? The design looked like something out of a medieval fair. As the designer and neighbors were working on it, I kept thinking ‘what a disaster this is going to be’, but when it was done, it was really smashing.

I agree about the red and black bedroom, though; that really was awful from the get-go, and Llewellyn should have been run through the wringer for that. Especially when the couple had told their neighbors what colors they liked, and what they didn’t. Llewellyn was really a bully about getting his own way with the design, rather than thinking about the people that were going to (potentially) have to live with it.

The worst part, though, is when people get these gorgeous makeovers and hate them. Hating something garish and tacky is one thing, but to prefer the former tacky and clutter to the latter stylish and tasteful is just wrong! One episode, a couple had a living room with pink carpet, white walls, a creme stone fireplace, and just sort of hodge-podge furnishings and decorations. The neighbors tore out the carpeting, painted the floor, tore out the tacky fireplace and replaced it with a beautiful mantle, painted the walls a soothing color, put down natural colored rugs, and slipcovered the furniture. It was the most soothing, attractive living space once they were done, and the owners just hated it! They said something like, “It’s so different! (sob)” Well, what did they expect?

So I guess it’s risky, but it seems the chances are pretty good that the results would be smashing, at least on tv. How long it would last is anyone’s guess.

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Although this show gets good viewing figures, surveys have shown that the majority of respondents would not let Carole or Handy Andy anywhere near their own houses (sadly citeless). It is considered a good idea generator, but the workmanship is often a little suspect.
Russell

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Okay, 6 shows like that would be a little much, but this one is pretty funny, I think. :slight_smile:
– Sylence

If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings.

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu