You got me. I feel the same way. You put it in my house, it’s MINE. If I want to sell it, tough shit.
When Frank did that little girl’s room last year and let Ty design the Scary Ass Monkey Desk™, a lot of posters at TWoP mentioned that they would just sell it on Ebay, and old-timers brought up the fact that the HOs aren’t allowed to do that anymore, after the Circus Tent fiasco.
Maybe it’s to prevent people from going on the show with the express purpose of selling Trading Spaces memorabilia?
The cardboard furniture does have supports (made out of cardboard, naturally - they were triangle-shaped things on the sides of the chairs), so it will hold an adult, but it’s still made out of freaking cardboard! It’s kind of the same principle of that trick of accordian-folding a dollar bill and using it to hold a book.
I can’t imagine that they will actually last very long. You can’t set a drink on the table, and they’d absorb odors like crazy, not to mention the bug factor.
Gen’s Moss-on-the-Walls room is one I’ve never seen, and I’m dying to catch it on a repeat.
I read (I think it was on the TWOP message boards), that one set of homeowners tried to stand up to Hildi and not do whatever ridiculous, ugly thing she wanted to do to their friend’s room. However, they got told by the production company that if they didn’t participate, they’d be sued for breach of contract! I think they must have put that in after the one woman sucessfully told Hildi that she was NOT dying her friends carpet orange with Rit in a carpet cleaner. I would never go on Trading Spaces unless I could be assured Hildi would NOT be working on my house. I’ve also read they don’t tell the homeowners who the decorators are before they start shooting, because people who have found out they are getting Hildi have tried to back out!
I don’t know, but if Doug started in with his shitty “venetian plaster” with me I’d put my foot down and not do it. I’d give them plenty of footage to put in the show over it too, starting from when he would argue that he’d usually charge $20,000 for the same thing for his regular customers. “Hello! People will spend an extra $20,000 for an Acura when it’s just a Honda with a different emblem on it – just because someone is stupid enough to pay through the nose for something means it’s worth the money or LOOKS GOOD!*”
*(This goes back to my ranting in prior threads that the “venetian plaster” technique looks like you cheaped out and hired drunk-ass bums from the street to plaster a room for you. Different strokes, etc.)