Damn, Vern looks good in a t-shirt! Did anyone else notice he painted the room the same color?
Vern redoing a master bedroom, Laurie redoing a living room in California, two condo units on top of one another.
Vern had a lot to work with, as all the HO had in his room was a bed and a couple of chairs. Where was the dresser? Where does he keep his underwear? Although maybe being a bachelor he doesn’t wear any :p.
I thought the soft blue and the silver leaf were beautiful, although I wasn’t sure about the orchids. Aren’t they high maintenance plants? I would have thought Vern would have provided more storage, such as a dresser or an armoire, but maybe the HO keeps everything in the closet. No major crises, and everything just came together gorgeously. Another classy room by Vern.
Laurie…I have never heard of Gottleib, but I know now I don’t like him. I don’t care if she called it amoeba shaped, those damn things looked like cowhides. The rest of the room looked nice and warm (although she called the color cork and I call it corn) and I liked how the fabrics worked with the sofas, and how she covered up most of that nasty carpet with an area rug. And what was up with having Ty construct a mantel without drawings? Compared to Vern, who draws every little tile he’s going to put on a countertop, it seemed risky. She couldn’t really have expected Ty to read her mind, and I thought that was careless on her part. The spat at the end when they were hanging the cowhides, and Laurie said, “There is no fabric,” I about choked. This coming from the Fabric Queen? She did at least position the TV in a logical place.
Maybe they should give HO’s a crash course in using power tools before taping the show…one of them was deathly afraid of the staple gun. You would have thought it was a big hairy spider or something. And the other HO shooting in nails that didn’t come anywhere near the wood they were trying to join…I wonder how Ty fixed that?
Vernettes? That was too corny for words. Try to be a little bit more subtle in your fan appreciation, ladies.
vern, as always, did a lovely job. laurie, as always, painted the room some shade of yellow and talked to everyone involved as if they were stupid children
second episode:
edward has taste and style, but i sometimes do not like his color choices.
kia, on the other hand… i absolutely shudder to think what this woman’s own home looks like.
There were some funny moments. I got a chuckle out of the faces Ty was making while Vern was outlining his plans, and the girl who was afraid of the nail gun was CRACKING ME UP! I loved when Vern pretended the gun shot him and she freaked out. That was deliciously mean. The room itself I thought was sort of “blah” but only because that’s not exactly my taste. I was sort of chuckling that he had such ornate plans for Ty to build that shelving unit at the end of the bed, and it ended up looking exactly like the IKEA Lack shelving units they sometimes use. Why didn’t he just buy one of those or design it somewhat more interestingly? ::shrug::
Laurie’s room. Meh, more of the same. “It starts with a “C”!” Um, c-yellow? When she was talking about Gottlieb I immediately thought of pinball machines, lol. That would’ve been way more interesting art!
I love Vern to death, but I was questioning the wisdom of making a box type shelf to put those pillar candles in. Call me crazy, but isn’t it a bad idea to put candles in a box where there’s going to be an open flame shooting up towards a wooden overhang??
I didn’t think those pictures looked like cows, but I did think they were ugly. OTOH, of all the things to be “wrong” in a redecorating fit, the wall paintings are the easiest to replace, so I don’t understand what all the fuss was about. I can see someone walking into that room, saying, “OH, I love it all, but I’ll replace those ugly paintings with something more attractive.”
Yeah, I wondered about that, too. I always wonder when they put candles right next to a wall. Not that the wall will catch on fire, but wouldn’t it leave a smokey soot mark?
I like the look of candles, but sometimes they really do Candle Overkill. Who really lights 8 dozen candles every time they’re in a room?
I liked Vern’s room overall. I like blue, though. It was a little sparse, but I still liked it. Those two HOs were helpless with the power tools, though. Especially the one who nailed that one thing completely wrong. Or was that the other HO?
Laurie’s room was very typical for Laurie. Yellow, Laurie…gee, what a shocker. Calling it “cork” doesn’t make it any less yellow. And anyway, “cork” is tan, not yellow.
And what did she say, yellow was opposite blue on the color wheel? No, Laurie, purple and yellow are opposite each other. Blue and orange are opposites on the color wheel.
And I hate when she tries to edumacate us ignorant slobs about art.
That “art” looked like cowhide to me. Or at least a Gateway box.
Where does she get off calling that art? It ain’t poetry just because it’s in verse, and it ain’t art just because it’s paint. Those things were hideous. When Paige fell down laughing, she should have started to rethink the “art” project design. That woman is stubborn to the point of arrogance. The only redeeming thing about those cow prints what that she signed them so that the home owner can sell them for something good to replace them with.
I wish I could have heard what Paige was saying when she was laughing at Laurie’s “art”. I should have had the volume up louder.
Yes, Ivylass, I think that orchids are pretty difficult to keep. I’m not going to bank on that, but I worked in a greenhouse last year and that’s what I recall being told about them.** That is one thing about Vern that really pisses me off: he leaves around stuff that people can kill.
For me the biggest issue was that the producers decided they had to torture me. As if having Paige on the show isn’t enough, they got the three best looking women to round out the episode. I feel sorry for that guy. There’s no way that guy wants to be “just good friends” with decorating partner, but that’s what he’s stuck with. The poor luckless bastard.
**Don’t get venus fly traps. The green house owner told me that about 90% of those things will die. I guess they’re really difficult to keep.
orchids do have the “i’m difficult” reputation. it depends on the orchid. some are very easy, others you have to be nero wolfe.
i know a guy who is very into orchids. he has climate control, misters, and spends unbelievable time with them. from what i saw in the blue room all the homeowner would have to do is lightly mist them, and take them out of the box and let them soak up h2o in the tub (you run about 1/2" to an 1" of h2o in the tub.) and let the bottom dry a bit and put them back.
since we don’t see other rooms of the house, it could be that this man has orchids elsewhere and knows how to take care of them.
the homeowners vern has left fish with, have had aquariums in other rooms. i would be very suprized if he would leave something with someone who wouldn’t care for it.
I taped the episode and had a question similar to the one Jadis posed about the candles. I once tried to have candles in a bookcase and while nothing caught on fire, the heat blistered the paint within minutes. My candles were low, too, whereas the ones Vern had were taller and therefore closer to the top of the box. I trust Vern knows what he is doing, but from my experience, I don’t see how this would work.
The inside of the candle box was silver leafed so some of the heat is going to be reflected. Whether that’s enough to prevent blistering, peeling, combustion or what-not I’ll leave to the physicists.