Oops - my bad. Show’s how often I’ve caught the show recently.
Yeah, Doug and Hildy were much better at making homeowner’s cry (and not for joy) at the reveal, when they saw some treasured item butchered. I remember one with two guys who had their fiddly little window frames painted (if I recall correctly), after they had spent months stripping and re-finishing them. Nothing like stripping and re-finishing fiddly little window frames TWICE!
yancey, I don’t know if I’ll catch the show (I kind of drifted away after Paige left), but I must say I think this is incredibly cool. Also, you’ve got guts!
Did they work you to death, or did you just have to do a token amount?
I met Leslie once when she was still doing the other show. Very nice, down to earth, and extremely babelicious. I’d kill to have her work on my place.
OTOH, I’d probably kill Hildi if I knew she was working on my place…
Several times, I’ve wanted the opprotunity to tell her I saw an identical material at Joanne Fabrics for $4.99 a yard.
Wow, I don’t think I’d have the energy to do this show.
I kind of got away from watching it too, but do watch it occasionally. As already has been mentioned, Vern was MY favorite designer as well. His designs were always somehow…elegant. I think there were maybe two rooms of his I didn’t particularly care for. I liked his rooms because they weren’t “foo-foo” or “folksy-craft-art shit”. I enjoyed the fact that he used various shades of reds and that really seemed to care about the quality of the woodwork.
Hildi’s designs scare the crap out of me. I would never want her in my house. Doug really did seem to go through some huge diva thing for awhile, but I thought he had calmed down a lot. Maybe they just don’t show as much of that on camera anymore.
I live very near a house he came and did a few years ago for Trading Spaces. The homeowners literally cried when they saw what he did to their living room. Everything was blocks of dark, dark brown. Not exactly a color you want if you live in the Pacific Northwest where our winters are gray and dreary.
Anyway, I’ll try to catch the show.
Ah yes, he destroyed the entire place, painting EVERYTHING stark white. Even the floor. The neighbors kept telling him that the guys had just finished stripping and restoring all the woodwork, but Mr. MeMeMe made them wreck it all. And this place had miles of woodwork.
It took them several months to re-do the restoration.
I rarely watch this anymore (and the husband REFUSES) but for yancey, I will - I even put it on my calendar!
I’ve always kind of liked Doug’s designs, but Edward and Laurie were my favorite. Vern - eh.
I always liked Vern’s designs, too. His designs looked like what I would do for my house if I had a clue how to decorate a house.
(Yeah, that was the one, Passwords! I think at least one of the guys was crying at that reveal.)
What are your tax ramifications?
She’s definitely a fox. It’s too bad While You were Out got cancelled.
Just thought I’d give this a little bump … yanceylebeef’s episode airs in 2 days. 
yancey, do you realize you’ve just invited the entire Straight Dope into your house? We get to see it when it’s a mess?
Some Dopers won’t tell others what country they live in and you invite us in.
You must be a very secure person.
Crap! I’m going to be away on Dec 30 and have no way to record!
Paint over wood?
There ain’t enough :eek:!
Only time I like that is when it’s folksy stuff (lovely carved and painted furniture, all over Mexico and Central America, but they’d look at you like you got horns if you tried to paint hardwood floors, too). Never understood people who put carpeting over hardwood either, mind you.
I recently caught one of those shows and there was a table similar to one Navamom inherited from Navadad’s Mom, with a top that was flat when it was made (the one in the show didn’t seem to have suffered from termites) and carved legs. The wood is a very dark color and goes black if you don’t insist in cleaning it constantly. The owners had bleached it. The decorators painted it silver.
If I want a silver table I’ll hop over to IKEA, not paint over a XIX century table. The one in the show probably wasn’t XIX century, since the show was American, but… it could have been!
Hey, we’ve been around since the XVIII century! 
I set the DVR yesterday, since we’ll be out and can’t watch live.
Watching it right now. I used to live just the other side of Federal from the LeBeef’s
Coconut monkeys…
Mrs. theOptimist wants to come see!
What channel? I’m on Pacific time so it should air 10:00 our time as well (2 hrs from now), yes?
TLC. I have Dish, don’t think they do timezones but they’ll probably replay at least once tonight