Doug and Frank in Florida, Frank doing a huge bedroom, Doug doing a cookie cutter kitchen.
I don’t normally care for Doug, but I thought he did a phenomenal job turning that boring kitchen into something with a personality. It turned out beautifully. My only quibble was the plants…did Doug and Paige not know you’re supposed to break up root balls before you transplant? What was up with Ty not finishing the cabinets on Day 1? Was the trim not painted correctly?
Frank did a good job with a huge room. I really think with rooms that are that big (Hilde had a huge room before, remember, with the circles on the wall?) they should get a slightly bigger budget. I know there’s a minimum room size, (14 x 14?) I think there should be a maximum room size too. They’re asked to do more room with the same money, and I don’t know that that is fair to the homeowners. The art/headboard, was cute, although it looked like the yellow square was crooked. I did not like the bedspread…I didn’t think it matched.
Now, about the false fire alarm, don’t HO’s have to pay for false alarms? Will TS be picking up that tab since Paige admitted it was their fault? And how sweet to let the firefighters come look…and the water gun fight, how fun!
Overall, I think the HO’s enjoyed themselves, and it looked like everyone was a good sport, especially with the huge amount of painting each pair had to do.
I loved the kitchen. I wasn’t crazy about that green color on the wall, but it wasn’t too noticable. It was nice of Doug to use the HO’s idea, THAT doesn’t happen very often.
I thought the kitchen turned out well.
I loved it to begin with though, and personally, I love black and white kitchens, and for myself would have liked to have seen that played up more, with only a little splash of colour. But hey, it wasn’t me on the show!
I loved the way the bedroom turned out. I didn’t think the green on the “headboard” worked though. It looked totally out of place. The headboard itself was pretty silly, anyway.
Was it just me, or did Frank look offended when Ty made the comment about Frank going from Folk to Funk?
I love those pants that Paige wore in the 8pm episode. “Harvest Sunset” my ass, “Tequila Sunrise!” Not exactly a clever trick that Doug played on the homeowners.
I did think his kitchen in the 9 pm episode was very nice. I really enjoyed the cabinets. All the colors played into an elegant whole, IMO, so that they really didn’t seem overwhelming, but rather created a comforting and enjoyable pattern.
I don’t much like that folk art stuff that Frank does. This time it was updated to “funk”, but it still isn’t very interesting. I did really enjoy the walls in that bedroom, however, and the shelving unit was very nice. A bit clunky, but very nice. I think they should do a show where two designers are paired up and have to cooperate. I think Frank and Laurie would make a good mix. His flair for color & fun to balance Laurie’s stale palette; her sense of style to balance his terminal addiction to folk art. Or we might get a monster: her palatte & his folk art… Kind of like when Homer Simpson tries to breed the cat and the dog together to get an überpet with “the loyalty of a cat and the cleanliness of a dog.”
I thought Doug’s kitchen was pretty nice, though I’d like to know what he’d originally planned. I mean, did we catch Doug being nice? ; )
Frank’s room bugged me. The bedspread didn’t work, as was mentioned. The rest of it seemed sort of clunky, like too little was spread over too much space, so there was never any flow. Maybe that was just the camera work, though.
js_africanus, that pairing of designers would make for an interesting episode!
I thought Doug was teasing about suddenly changing his plan to suit the HO’s candlesticks. IIRC, the designers have to have the plans and materials in place before they start the room. It’s not like they have the time to chuck it all and start over. I think he saw the candlesticks during the planning phase and decided to work in that theme.
Case in point, the Crying Pam episode. I think Doug knew ahead of time the HO’s didn’t want the fireplace painted, which is why he was all “prepared” to cover it up with a wood facade. Of course, he was an absolute prick about the whole thing. There was no “Oh no I have to redesign everything from scratch due to a last minute quirk of the homeowner.” You get what you get.
js, I want a Halloween episode where the designers redo each other’s rooms. Let’s have Vern and Hilde exchange rooms (although that may be a bit harsh for Darling Vern) and Doug and Kia, and Frank and Laurie.
Then, maybe, the designers can bitch to Banyan and we can get rid of Hilde and Kia.
I guess I’m in the minority here because I thought Doug’s room was just okay, (but it was good that the HO seemed to really like it), and Frank’s room seemed to be a repeat of the Scary Monkey Desk room.
The big-ass Airplane Hanger bedroom was just a bunch of different elements thrown together, and nothing cohesive held it together. The red was too bright (IMHO), the bedspread didn’t match anything, the curtains didn’t match anything, the chairs for the TV area didn’t match anything. He hung a painted 2x4 from the wall and called it a Room Divider. WTF? How did that divide the room?
I didn’t like those messy pillows that he had on the bed and that crap on the wall over the bed. That was retro? I don’t think so.
Plus, he took out a dresser (I hate when they do that!) and their nightstands that had drawers. I really hate when they give them itsy-bitsy teeny-tiny little “designer” nightstands that are only capable of holding a “designer” lamp. I want a nightstand with a drawer, and that’s big enough to hold a clock, a book, my glasses, the TV remote, a box of tissues and a lamp.
Okay, enough ranting.
I hated the big red bedroom. As they say, it was all Franked up.
I was very skeptical about Doug’s kitchen. The colors seemed hideous, but (wonder of wonders!) it really worked. I loved the finished effect. I wish he would come to my house and fix my poor dilapidated kitchen.
As for the Red Room. . . I kept thinking “Redrum. Redrum.” Waaaayyyy too red and black. Waaaaayyyyyy too big. Waaaayyyy too ugly.
I just feel so sorry for people who work their tushes off on their neighbor’s rooms only to have to come home to a hideous mess. It’s just so unfair!
The whole episode, I thought Frank’s room was going to be okay, and Doug’s was going to be hideous. And than at the end, it turned out the other way around.
Frank’s room was a mash of loud crap that didn’t work together. The TV area of it ended up looking quite nice as an independent piece, but the bedroom area was just weird.
Doug’s kitchen, I kept watching them put those cabinets together and thought it looked horrifyingly bad. But when the room came together, it turned out really well. The black countertops really balanced out the bright, bright colours and made the room look good.
The kitchen was stunning. Doug’s ability to design a room as a complete package really shown through with this one.
Frank’s room, on the other hand, just didn’t work. The built in unit and the tables were nice, but the red and the silly wall art things didn’t work. Oh well. Frank’s nasty sweat rings from the very beginning of the show were frightening- I thought he was going to have heat stroke by the end. . . .
I really liked Doug’s kitchen. He seems to be revamping his prima donna image this season, becoming nicer, friendlier, hardworking and much more approachable. I think it’s a good choice, whoever’s decision it was. He can be an excellent designer when he gets down to earth.
Frank, on the other hand… Frank, Frank, Frank. Why do you do it? You had a pretty good concept; red, geometrical shapes. Simple, kinda blah, but it would have worked fine. And then out comes the teeny little brush and the cheapo craft paints, and there’s little dots and lines on the walls and on the accessories, and instead of clean, we’ve got messy.
Where the heck does his money go? My boyfriend and I have a theory that he never spends more than a couple of hundred bucks on a room, and then he makes up receipts for the rest. Every show I’ve seen featuring Frank, I’ve looked at his room and asked “Okay, so what did he spend the money on?” Vern can redo a floor in tile, he can panel a room, and have enough left over to have wonderful fabrics and new furniture pieces and paint and light fixtures. Frank can barely afford a handful of beads and a bedspread.
I didn’t pay close attention to this ep, but I for one will never forgive Doug for saying that refrigerator magnets are something less than the height of design style.
27 copies of the same shirt, as he sweats through each one in roughly 15 minutes flat. Jeese Frank, they have made big strides in anti-persperants- you may want to look into them. . .
I usually like Doug’s rooms (well, about 75% of the time maybe) but I didn’t care for this at all. The colors and style were just screaming “70s” to me. All they needed was an avacado green fridge. Or one of those light fixtures that looks like it’s made of wicker caneing.
Frank’s room. Meh. It wasn’t as horribly Franked up as usual. (His fussy little freehand painting was confined to the “artworks” I think.) I have to agree with the assessment that the TV area looked ok. (Just “ok” though…the butterfly chairs looked cheap-o.) I liked the fabric for the bedspread, but it didn’t go with anything, and the yellow curtains were TOO BRIGHT! I don’t see the money either – I know he had to use a lot of paint, and that good Lowes paint is like $25 a gallon or something, but what else? His vintage fabric was probably pricey, and I’m not sure how much his wood cost (maybe $300?) The rest of his fabric looked pretty cheap, and the curtains were stretched all the way out insead of ruffled so he really cut corners there. (Probably fairly inexpensive curtains too, but I think most of the other designers use cheap fabric deals to make their curtains, so Frank actually probably spends MORE on them than they do! I’m guessing there’s close to $100 of hideous curtains in that room.)
