# Trading Spaces 12/6: They're losing it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488 "2003-12-07T03:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/21 "2003-12-09T12:50:13Z")
Oops…nearly forgot. Damn you, Hildi, for covering that lovely wooden furniture with silver spray paint! OK, please continue with your discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/22 "2003-12-09T15:03:52Z")
Hildi is helping to keep the show on the map. Y’aint gotta like it, ya just gotta watch it. You have to believe that when they saw Hildi was there designer, they were happy to be on TV, but weren’t looking forward to their room. Hilidi said she would never do the stuff she does for others to her own all white/nuetral house. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/23 "2003-12-09T16:26:07Z")
Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s [url=http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/120903tradingKillers.htm]this from the Southern Hemisphere. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/24 "2003-12-09T16:27:29Z")
Crap. [Let’s try this again](http://www.365gay.com/newscontent/120903tradingKillers.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/25 "2003-12-09T17:54:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Hilidi said she would never do the stuff she does for others to her own all white/nuetral house. \*\* That makes it even worse! That means that she _knows_ that her rooms look like crap! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/26 "2003-12-09T18:04:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Hilidi said she would never do the stuff she does for others to her own all white/nuetral house. \*\* Yeah, that just killed me. She inflicts such awful ideas (records/feathers/flowers/hay on the wall, the bright pink room with the foam mats floor, the broken glass fireplace) and color schemes on people (the black and yellow Dining Room of Horror, the Pink and Tan Circus Tent Fiasco), and yet her house is all white. They should send Barry, Rick, Christy, Frank and Kia to her house and let them just run wild. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/27 "2003-12-09T19:53:29Z")
I liked the records on the wall. I thought that was an interesting way to bring some color and some black into the room. Still have never seen the hay episode… ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/28 "2003-12-09T21:42:22Z")
She also destroyed a beautiful Craftsman fireplace mantle in the Hay Wall episode… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/29 "2003-12-09T22:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*They should send Barry, Rick, Christy, Frank and Kia to [Hildi’s] house and let them just run wild. \*\* Now THAT I’d pay to see! Can you imagine? Kia turning the bathroom into a cemetary… Frank making a serape ceilinged kitchen… And Barry, Rick and Christy just running around using colors that don’t match!! \ It’s just beautiful. \ ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/30 "2003-12-09T23:00:03Z")
As much as I hate his over-the-top themey crap, I liked Frank’s serapé-on-the-ceiling kitchen… ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/31 "2003-12-09T23:16:40Z")
That’s Frank’s favorite room. We saw him a few weeks ago at a mall appearance and I asked him. I wasn’t surprised to hear he picked that one. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/32 "2003-12-09T23:33:53Z")
The HO’s loved Barry’s design. He gave them what they wanted, though most people probably wouldn’t like it. If the HO’s are happy… de gustibus non disputandi. I would have liked the feathers if they were bleached white. Natural down looks… dirty. At least we haven’t seen Rick in a while. Oh, Barry and Carter were together on this week’s TS:Family. The sexual tension is high. Barry dropped a pearl when Carter’s air gun fluffed his shirt and Barry commented something to the effect of ‘you’re blowing air up my skirt.’ It’s only a matter of time before they kiss. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/33 "2003-12-10T00:34:02Z")
Oh, and I finally saw the previews for next week. **CARDBOARD?** Is she nuts? Oh, wait, :smack: [Emily Litella] Never mind. [/Emily Litella] ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488/34 "2003-12-10T16:30:15Z")
Hildi also painted the carpet brown in that divorced dad’s apartment, yes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trading-spaces-12-6-theyre-losing-it/217488.md?page=1)