It would be totally wrong and completely illegal to break into Hildi’s house and glue moss over her heating units and hay around her air conditioning vents, and you shouldn’t even think about painting over her fabric and leather furniture with maybe a pastel pink or royal blue. And putting odd bits of rusty yard debris on the walls and ceiling using liquid nails? Put that out of your mind right now, people!
Well, Cz., I did suggest we begin with orange paint.
Oh, but dear Czarcasm. We would never think of breaking in and putting used kitty litter on her walls with liquid nails. Even though she’d like it. She loves new wall treatments.
Kathy
Kitty litter on the walls? Oooh, I love that idea!
Usually when I see Hildi screwing up like this, I just roll my eyes in disbelief at her stupidity, but this one had me feeling intensely hostile - especially when I saw the cardboard FURNITURE.
You sign up for a $1000 renovation and get CARDBOARD FURNITURE?! I think I would have refused to be a part of that show. I’m sure there are rules about it, but if you were to sit in themiddle of the floor and refuse to lift a finger, what can they do? It was obvious the couple working on that room felt terribly after they saw how nice their bedroom looked.
Hildi is evil and must be destroyed.
Dopers, I’ve got the perfect solution for at least one of Hildi’s rooms. Given her past history, why not redo one in a classical style reminiscent of one of her designs – put feathers on the wall, all right, and afix them with tar?
On a more practical (and legal) level, I’d suggest that, next time TS comes to a city everone who signs up should do so with the caveat that they will not participate if Hildi is the designer – a good old fashioned boycott.
I’ll also point out that there were lit candles on that cardboard furniture in that cardboard room at the reveal. Methinks the local fire marshall may not be all that happy.
I like Trading Spaces. They’ve shown some wonderful ideas and, if I had a workshop, I’d be yielding to my temptation to try a few of the storage units they show. Hildi, however, seems to be trying to be the archetypical snooty designer who is arrogant enough to have no concern for the client’s tastes or for practical concerns, only her own vision, even if that is the client’s nightmare.
CJ
Hildi would be the archetypal snooty designer if she were a designer at all.
However.
As Mrs. Santo-Tomas has no formal training in design whatsoever, I don’t think that she deserves the title of designer. She’s a designaster.
I’m in favor of splattering a thousand different colors of paint all over her pristine white walls and furniture, since she’s shown her passion for spattering and for paint on upholstered furniture in the past. That’ll learn her.
So Vern is officially gone? What about Gen and Laurie? Have they done any shows this season at all? I can’t remember if the last Gen show was this season or last. (Philadelphia, she did the cool room for the little boy.) I know that we haven’t seen Mrs. “I’m stuck on one side of the color wheel” Hickson-Smith since, wow, I don’t think we’ve seen her since Crazy Jessie’s brown living room debacle. Yikes.
“Let a thousand flowers bloom.” – Mao
On her bathroom walls, of course!
Laurie’s still around. She did a living room recently.
She painted it deep purple (NOT yellow - gasp!), and had a bit of a debacle with a light fixture that didn’t work, and made fugly “art” out of placemats.
What I found especially hilarious was placing the tea lights in the cardboard room at the end. Yes, that’s a good idea, Hildi- put open flame in a room decorated entirely with quick-burning cardboard.
She is completely selfish and psychotic. And she’s still on the show, while Vern, who never produced a room that I didn’t love, is off. Gah.
The only thing Hildi decorates is the Nielsen rating sheets. Someone at TLC has those puppies as wallpaper, and that’s the only decorating she needs to be good at. All the other simple, clean and elegant redecorating shows don’t rank.
The whole ad push for TS was dropped jawed owners who wanted to kill the decorator/other HOs.
I’d let Vern touch one room and that’s it for my willingness to let them decorate for me.
Hildi should be forced to live in a house where every room was one she designed for someone else.
Plain white walls! God. Obviously she doesn’t like her designs that much. I just take solace in the fact that once Trading Spaces goes off the air, she’ll never have another job.
Isn’t Hildi the one who also covered a teetotaling family’s kitchen with 400 wine bottle labels? Covered over their wallpaper, that is. The neighbors bought the family a steamer as a “don’t kill us, it was her idea” gift.
She painted the same family’s kitchen cabinets black after the family said “we want something bright…”
Hideous!
Gotta give props to Frank. His style is toning down immensely.
The Scrivener mentioned breaking out orange paint on the previous page. I could only imagine he wanted it to paint the carpets after adding some texture styrofome or sand to it.
More wonderful ideas! My, the creativity on display is simply wonderful, innit?
If Hildeous didn’t have carpets, that paint should look very good on her upholstered furniture. Or her ceilings. Or both.
BTW, dorkus…, it’s “she”. 
Apologies for giving you the ftm operation. I didn’t see this one but I gnerally don’t watch it very often. Anyone have links to some pictures of the cardboard room?
She likes to spray paint fabric furniture, too.
She painted a white chair pink, left it outside and it rained during the night. Had to buy a new chair.
I think she also spray painted an heirloom chair black.
Just beyond stupid.
She also put flower stickers all over the heirloom chair.
It’s like watching a train wreck…you want to look away, but you can’t.
That chair was in the Records-On-The-Wall room, and it wasn’t rained on. The chair looked like crap, though.
The room with the rained-on furniture was the infamous Circus Tent Room, where she put heavy alternating hot pink pink and white curtains all over the wall from a central point on the ceiling, and it looked like a circus tent.
SHe sprayed painted the HOs original sofa and loveseat (or sofa and chair) hot pick and left them outside (under a tent) overnight. In the night while it rained, the tent got knocked over and the furniture got rained on and ruined.
On the TWoP boards, there was some speculation that either a crew member or the HOs working with her accidentally-on-purpose knocked the tent over because the furniture looked so crappy.
Wow. Just when I thought she couldn’t top the hay on the walls debacle…she brings out the cardboard furniture.
Why is there even a market for cardboard furniture? What possible use is there for such a thing?
I strongly suggest that no one breaks into Hilde’s home (her so-called “castle”) and decorate her walls with used hay imported directly from the floor of the nearest horse stall. Nope, that would just be wrong…