Tray ceilings are meant to make a room seem larger. Whether they serve that purpose or not is anyone’s guess.
Can we talk about Paige (aka Mippy) for just a moment? The woman is obsessive about imposing her personal standards of cleanliness on everyone she meets. Remember Doug’s stupid posterboard drop ceiling when she admitted that she “routinely” removes her drop ceilings to dust inside of them and she couldn’t get behind Doug’s ceiling if it meant that the homeowners couldn’t clean up there? Now she’s getting all pissy with a homeowner during the key swap about his perceived lack of underwear to change into the next day, saying that if he didn’t have any (which we know he did, somewhere, they didn’t go to the other house with nothing but a cooler) she wasn’t going to go anywhere near him the next day. Uh, okay, Mippy, what-the-hell-ever. Like you’d know if someone wore underwear two days in a row unless they told you. (And why didn’t you pick on the other homeowners when they didn’t have any luggage either?) The mincing manifestations of Mippy’s mental meanderings are starting to grate on my nerves, they really are.
Now, as for the rooms…
Barry must be colorblind. Those blues clashed. The red was too orange to go with blues. There was nothing relaxing, romantic, exciting or enjoyable about that color combination. It was just ugly. The couple liked it. I still don’t know why. That room was bizarre and unpleasant. Just far too jarring and not fitting for a bedroom.
As for the other, flat out, Hildeous needs to be fired. She’s introduced offensive elements into a room (the wine labels for the kitchen of the anti-alcohol minister and his wife) and she’s introduced unsafe elements into a room (the hay wall, the broken glass-rod fireplace screen), she’s ruined drywall (with her flower-power disaster bathroom) and now she’s brought in a well known and not insignificant allergen. Woe unto anyone who enters that room/house who has allergies or asthma. (Also an issue in the hay room.) Does this idiot think about these issues before she implements them? Does she take five minutes to think that the reason why people don’t put things like feathers on their wall is because there are about a dozen good reasons why it shouldn’t be done and only one marginal reason why it should?
The saddest thing is that rest of the room was okay. Not amazing, still a little too much “concept room” and too little “real room that people will live in and use daily” but it was okay. Why couldn’t the walls have been painted that very pale sage that was used on the ceiling? Why must Hildeous constantly try to one-up herself? The homeowners were kind of hysterical, I don’t think that they were capable of comprehending what had happened to their home. All that laughter seemed to be a desperate reaction, as far as I could tell.
We haven’t seen Vern or Gen at all this season, we’ve barely seen Frank or Laurie. Interesting that the four designers who have the best track records (in terms of rooms liked and kept vs. rooms disliked and modified) are being back-burnered so that we can have Hildeous, Kia and Barry episodes instead. Blah and more Blah.
I know that the producers are on record as wanting more “controversy” to heighten the “game show” aspect of the show. I don’t believe that the homeowners want that. As much as I once wanted to be on the show, I don’t now, because of the risk of a Kia, Hilde or Barry travesty in my home.
And I don’t think that the viewers really want to see crap like this. As much as we can talk forever about Doug’s “Prison of Love” and Crying Pam and Crazy Jessy and “Did Gen really think that moss belonged on that wall?” I think that we’re just as able and happy to talk about Frank’s Mexican Serape kitchen or Vern’s Fleur de Lis kitchen or Gen’s Cuban cigar box bedroom, all of which were stylish, fun, had elements that the working couple changed or modified or nixed to the better of the overall result, and all of which were loved by the homeowners.
Now we get more Hildeous next week, and a room covered with cardboard, held on with contact adhesive. (Meaning that it’d be a massive PITA for the homeowners to get rid of. Nice. Couldn’t just use hot glue there, couldya, psychowench?)
It’s no longer exciting to watch. It’s painful and sad. One of the fun things about shows like TS is that viewers could watch and get ideas of things to do in their own homes. Hildeous doesn’t offer ideas that people are replicating in their houses. (If they have any taste and/or common sense, that is.) And personally, I don’t want to waste an hour of my life watching something stupid, ugly and sad coming together with a “payoff” of homeowners freaking out at the end, after they’ve put in two days of honest hard work, hoping for and expecting something good in their homes.