Tell you what…that Doug is a jerk and I’m so close to hating him, but he is a model of male physical beauty. I can’t keep from admiring that nasty, nasty man!
I didn’t like the TV placement, either. That was stupid. The kitchen really kicked ass, but the family room was too formal.
The kitchen-family really got a lot. New appliances and cabinets? I’d love new appliances and cabinets.
Laurie’s room was way too cluttered. I actually kinda liked the drapes, but $129 a freaking YARD for fabric? And that $2,900 chair? She’s insane. That room was just too formal and stuffy for me. I hated the starburst thing. It looks like something you see for $2 at every yard sale around here.
As others have mentioned, what was the point of putting down that gorgeous hardwood floor if you’re just going to cover it up with a dumb seagrass mat? And she dropped that curtain rod on it when she came in… I’d be all over her for making a dent in it already.
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You can have your tank-topped Amy Wynn. I just wants me some Vern in shorts. Where is my Vern?
Anyone know who helped sponsor this show? Who were all those people who came and helped?
I wonder if they shopped at any local hardware stores…
This post was made possible with consideration from the folks at The Home Depot. 
I finally just saw it, and have to say Doug’s rooms are the winners, hands down. Doug tried to actually change the rooms and make them better; Laurie just tried to buy as much bizarre, overpriced crap and cram it in. Her room looked like the entryway of a mortuary! ::shudder:: The super-contemporary entertainment center built by Ty, while well-made and somewhat interesting, didn’t fit at ALL with the froofy “classical” antiques in the rest of the room. The cocktail table was ugly, especially for the amount of work that went into it. The mantle was “amaaaaaazing” but she covered it with so much crap you couldn’t even enjoy it! The vases were too huge; that picture was way too big and I personally thought it looked cheapo. But then so did the supposedly 17th century sunburst mirror that looked like it was from Pier 1.
My one complaint about Doug’s room was the wall color – it was just too overbearing. I like dark colors and all but that was too much like an absence of color almost. I also don’t like “wall treatments” as a rule (especially Doug’s Venetian plaster standby) but because the color was so oppressive you didn’t actually notice it, heh. The Rothko-inspired bit seemed not very well thought out, or last minute or something. I also don’t care for wood-floors much, but that tile they were so in love with was NASTY. “Check out our really expensive inset design that looks like crap!” lol…sorry, but it was super cheesy to start with.
I liked getting to see the shopping bits, and the designers watching from the other rooms, but PAIGE was on my last nerve. She was estatic and inexplicibly shreiking over every little thing. Pull yourself together, woman! And why was she dressed like a cheap hooker for the $100,000 show? They couldn’t afford to get her a nice pair of slacks and a blouse? Blech.
I thought Paige looked much cuter in that 2:00 am shot when she had on jeans and the sweatershirt and a t-shirt underneath. That gold and black striped halter was rather hooker-ish looking.
And it was neat to see the designers watching from the other room.
The “Shopping With Paige” thing was neat, but I hope the HOs who got all the DVDs also got the receipts or at least still had the shrink-wrap on the DVDs. I’d hate to get a $1,000 collection of movies that I hated or already had.
I have always hated Laurie, and this show sealed it.
She flitzed through the showroom like a spoiled princess, picking crap that was way over-priced (is she too stupid to deal with dealers in places like this?!?!), not at all in the HO’s taste or style and basically just too foo foo. When someone has to point to a speck of color to justify another pattern and says that brings out the other color, I know we are in trouble. The one good thing - the hardwood floor - she then proceeds to cover with a burlap sack.
Am I the only one who noticed that the homeowners seemed to be thinking “WTF…THIS is $50,000 worth of stuff?”
I want to see the invoices…I think Laurie scammed $48,000 and found the rest of it in a Beverly Hills Goodwill store. I was pleased to see Laurie having to cover her disappointment when the homeowners didn’t exactly gush…
Doug’s kitchen, however, was nice…and the rest of the room was OK. I agree the TV is in a stupid place…above a fireplace? What kind of whacko would put a TV above a fireplace?
I also think the idea of going out and spending $1000 on DVD’s and video tapes, while well meaning, was not smart. They didn’t seem to put a lot of thought in the selection…my guess is the homeowners now probably have the only paid copies of Battlefield Earth and Glitter in their collection.
I usually don’t like very many of Doug’s rooms, (the train car room comes to mind, shudders), but I loved his kitchen. I wasn’t too impressed with the living room part though.
I liked Laurie’s room, but I was hoping for a different colour, she does do yellow quite a bit. I am sick of yellow rooms lately, although I don’t mind the colour. I didn’t like her curtains. If the stripes were vertical and not horizontal I think I would have liked them better. As they were the only thing that came to mind when I saw them was table cloths. I absolutely LOVED the hardwood floors she put in, but WHY OH WHY would she cover it 90% of it up with that RUG !?!
I don’t mind Paige all that much but it would have been fun if both rooms got 100,000 instead of 50,000, lol. The “Paige Gift” shouldn’t have been called that… not like it was her money, and it wasn’t HER picking the gifts out, it was the homeowner’s for their friend’s room. Anyway, overall I still loved watching the show, it was something different. And besides, Ty was on, and he’s adorable.
Oh, the female HO mentioned on the live webcast that as soon as the dog was let back in the house after the shoot…it peed on the seagrass rug! Laurie said some club soda would get it out and the HO said it didn’t work. Laurie, it’s not tomato sauce on a pair of Dockers, 'kay? It’s freaking dog piss!