http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/trading-spaces-reveals-room-made-of-straw.html
Here’s the clip on the straw room.
Does anyone have the clip for the room made to look like a grave?
I used to watch Trading Spaces and enjoyed it but, I would NEVER let those people into my house. Years ago we went on the NBC tour in NYC and on the tour they showed us the set of Dateline. The rails on the set are wrapped in duct tape because duct tape looks like stainless steel on TV! That’s great for Dateline and a cool trick, but I’m certain that 99% of the remodels on TV are shit. It is just too easy to cover mistakes in a way that TV won’t show them. Or, simply edit them out.
Though, now with HDTV, I don’t know if the bar is set higher.
And don’t let “artists” mess with your stuff. That’s just asking for trouble.
That’s it! So hokey. I too would not fail to watch if it came on. And then promise myself I’d never, ever use checked gingham ragdolls as the center of my interior decorating.
Man, I loved Trading Spaces, but those above are right, it would be a serious mistake to let those people in your house. Remember the cutesy middle-aged lady who wanted a “country” kitchen? And the hosebeast designer went with “other country”? That poor lady was sobbing thru the whole reveal.
When we were on the show, we worked with Doug something or other that turned our friends house into a coke den from the 70s, fully equipped with mirror stools and shag carpet.
Leslie Segrete worked on our house with our friends, and we kept most of the stuff until a few years ago. She seemed to really take to heart what our friends said, Doug, the prima donna wouldn’t even tell us what he had planned. I’m pretty sure he was just phoning it in and making it up as he went along.
I didn’t find a clip of Kia’s grave bedroom but I did find these before and after shots.
If I remember correctly the bed cover was made out of actual flowers. And I think, but I’m not sure, that the bed was on a raised area which Kia covered in astro turf.
Not Candice, but yes the man was Christopher Lowell. I just do not think absolutely cramming a room full of crap is good decorating. TBH, it reminds me of the victorian era houses where there is literally crap layered on crap hung with crap so there is no empty space left. Busy is unrestful. I remember a kids song about polka dots plaids and stripes that pretty much sums up that decorating style … chinze wall coverings, a different pattern on each piece of furniture, something else on each damned throw pillow and then add tchatchkes and paintings, drapes, swags and frondy plants terrorizing the environment.
Nope, Not Joan. The show is wrong. This lady was calm, cool, collected and pretty in a non horsefaced upper class sort of way.
Huh? Joan may not have been who you were talking about but she definitely is who I was talking about.