I never saw any of season one, so I missed the Dez episodes. What are her notorious rooms?
I think Kia got burned on time in earlier episodes, so she’s scaled back her projects. I think she could have primed and painted the furniture and gotten an area rug to finish off the room.
I hated both shows Saturday; hated all four rooms. I don’t think I’m going to watch any more. What a joke!
I never saw any Dez episodes, either. What was so bad about her? Was she worse that Kia? Did she do stuff worse than Frank’s Scary-Ass Monkey desk?
I think there is a new one Saturday.
From the ads, it looks like the 8:00 Sunday one is a repeat of the Natalie Maines (the Dixie Chick) one, but I could be wrong. One is an Andy Dick/Sara Rue episode and the other one (10:00) is another Hollywood pair, Jessica Beil and people I don’t know.
Dez wore interesting hats. And she made scary lamps.
Oh, and she would do things like paint circus tent stripes on the walls and have about seven different patterns going at once (stripes, diamonds, polka dots, zig zags, checks and it didn’t stop there) in the same room. Pretty much she designed like she was on acid.
Personally, I didn’t mind Dez’s rooms. Mind you I would never live in one of Dez’s rooms or have one in my house but I liked seeing them on TV. I really did like her lamps, though, and my understanding is that lamps is primarily what she does. But at least she didn’t pretend (like Kia does) that her rooms were coherent. Don’t get me wrong, I like a couple of Kia’s rooms (the purple vinyl and velvet benches were very nice but then I love purple anything) but lordy for the most part she’s a total mess.
Hildy’s room - absolutely wonderful waiting room for a dentist.
The poor HO’s didn’t even have anything to point to and say, “Wow”. It was like - “oh.”
And as far as Kia’s room? I’ve seen dorm rooms designed by Goodwill that looked better. And the stupid seashell headboard? They go to all this trouble to build the ugly thing, and then they wind up hiding the lower half so you can’t even tell what it is supposed to be - looked like a big 'ol dart board.
Are we all absolutely sure Kia isn’t the original winner of the show “faking it” and in real life is a checker at KMart?
rocking chair Ack. I clearly wasn’t thinking clearly. I take it back. Good God. Hildi could do damn near anything with those cushions. It could be quite scary.
DMark Bahahaha. I’d watch that episode of Faking It. Especially when they appointed Vern and Frank to mentor the faker, and Vern tried to teach her to draw all plans with multiple perspectives, while Frank was showing her vague squares sketched on the placemats of the nearest buffet.
If Kia really was a contestant on faking it, her mentors should be absolutely ashamed of themselves and her for what a horrible job they’ve all done.
My sister and I had considered applying for the show (we live 4 houses away) until Kia came on board. Because with Doug and Hildi you can at least see some sort of method to the madness, and argue with them over a few things and get fairly reasonable results. But with Kia? No way.
The only thing I really remember about Dez is that she would royally piss off the carpenters. Did they really fire her? I wouldn’t be surprised.
Here’s one of Dez’s rooms. Note the different patterns painted on different walls, the bizarre assortment of pillows strewn on the couches and those weird hand sculpture thingies on the mantle.
Kia’s room in this week’s episode was frightening. That thing in the corner with the flowers shoved into the wicker chair was unbelieveably hideous. I cannot believe a professional designer could put out such utter crap.
And the HOs loved it! There’s simply no accounting for taste.
Hildi’s room was nice, even though it was bare. I just hope she left enough fabric to cover the back cushions (or info on where to buy it) for the couch. (Of course, if it were me, I’d give the whole thing to charity and re-cover my old couch or buy a new one. No way would I want some nasty old couch from a thrift store that hasn’t – at the very least – been steam cleaned and sanitized before simply covering it up. I know what’s been spilled on my cushions. I sure wouldn’t want what might be living in someone else’s!) But, either way, they can just move their old furniture back in and they still have a nice room with at least a nice floor and some new artwork.
Shayna
Thanks for the link on that room of Dez’s. That is the one that everyone thinks of.
Having said that, except for the horrible hodgepodge of pillows, I actually liked that room. The homeowners certainly didn’t.
Kia’s room this week was a nightmare before and after. If she wasn’t going to remove the carpet, she needed to do something that went with it. The whole “bed emerging from the ocean into a tropical bamboo forest with a toucan border and tv cabinet with branches” theme didn’t seem to be a coherent thought.
I hope that wasn’t a rip on Vern. Knocking him for using proper drawings is like knocking a doctor for using medical terms. It’s not his fault if a carpenter is incompetent.
it seems both homeowners liked their rooms. they say they haven’t changed much.
here is a link to an article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/home/search/sfl-hg04tradingapr04.story
Good heavens, no. I worship at the alter of Vern, the perfect being. I was just thinking how screwed up someone would become if they tried to learn anything from any two of the designers on Trading Spaces. Vern would come along and teach you how to do everything right, and then someone else would come along and mess with your mind.
Vern is my personal god. If mirrors wound up broken in one of his rooms, you’d better believe he would have borrowed some lip gloss from Paige and sold his ass on the street for the funds to replace them. He’s a dedicated designer is what I’m saying.
As for that Kia room…who wants to live in the Neptune room at FanataSuites? Ugh. She must be stopped.
My mistake. I wouldn’t say he perfect, but he does seem to be the most professional of the designers (& carpenters, no offense). And it would be amusing to see the two styles of design play on the mind of some hapless (sp?) innocent–if it weren’t so cruel.
I just wanted to give props to Ty in this episode. He really did a hell of a job with the garbage he was handed. He really put a lot of work in to Hildi’s bench and the freakish shell thing. And to be perfectly honest, by dropping the “tv cabinet” he did the homeowners a huge favor, heh.
Did anyone else think the new floor in Hildi’s room was horrible? It made it look like a mudroom or patio. Who wants that in their house?
Kia’s room? Bleah! If they put that bed in Hildi’s “Tiffany” room they’d have the set for the live action “Spongebob Squarepants” movie.
For the record, Dez had some nice rooms but she quit (was not fired) because Trading Spaces was cutting into her lucrative lamp career. http://www.mkates.com/dezryanstudl.html
I hated it! It would be fine on a patio or maybe even in a kitchen where you don’t mind standing around on hard surfaces while you work, but I totally thought it was inappropriate as a living room floor. Especially a “gallery” living room. What was she thinking? (What does she EVER think?)
I taped that episode today and just watched it. Even though this may have been Kia’s least offensive work to date, I still must say this: Kia, get your cheesy borders, your Captain Kirk sideburns, and your terminal addiction to kitsch and get the fudge out!
I liked Hildi’s room. I liked the floor–at least the idea, anyway. I preferred the one Genevieve put down in the moss room. It was slate, IIRC correctly. I think that for a small sitting room it would be neat to have a slate floor, an outdoorish table and chair, and a 360° mural of an outdoor setting. Just a nice place to sit and read. Or maybe a photo collage like in that commercial where the woman takes all those photos off the top of the Eiffle Tower (sp?).
Anywho, Hildi’s room was spartan and graceful and not very kid friendly. If I had children, I’d probably need a room like that. It would be nice if she had included a few other things like the radio that was already there.
While I’m not a fan of the idea that art is “expressing yourself” and “feeling the flow of the breezes”, the painting she did looked okay. If I were the HO, I’d replace those with some real art and fill the walls up a little bit more. It would be a nice place to sit and relax.
I didn’t find Kia’s shell bed as offensive as I expected from the impression I was given in previous posts. I thought it would be wood with shells glued on. The one she was did was pretty cheesy nevertheless.
Kudos to Paige for sticking up for the furniture! It’s nice to see her standing in the way of something getting fucked up. And kudos to Ty smashing that television cabinet. Although, they never really showed it comepleted, so I shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
It was interesting to read the discussion then see the episode, as opposed to the other way around.
Excellent bonus this week.
I laughed my ass off when she put her foot down about the furniture. Highlight of the entire episode.
I got the new Trading Space: Behind the Scenes book for my birthday, and upon reading the part about Kia, I have come to the conclusion that she really has no clue that she has no design sense, or regular sense, for that matter.
From the book: “In Kia’s 3,600-square-foot house, each of the 13 rooms is decorated in a different theme.” (Speical note: the kitchen “is about to get redone in an ode to denim.”) Oy.
Sometimes I think the producers just have to know how much she is loathed. Take this gem (also from the book): “Kia makes a beeline to the crafts store for supplies. She’s trying to explain to the sales gal what she wants. Kia: ‘You knose those things that are wood and cylindrical and hollow; they have a hole in them so you can string things through them?’ Sales gal: ‘You mean beads?’”
:smack:
Oh, but it doesn’t end there, dear dopers. From page 134: “Somebody’s going to have a Willy Wonka room, " says Kia, "and I’m going to dress like an Oompa Loompa.”
She. Must. Be. Stopped.