Green & orange. :o
Oh, where to begin…
Hildi’s room was awful. Those caution-tape yellow chairs and table were just Hildi-ous. And nine chairs? Why not 8 or 10? Nine is an odd number for a set of chairs, and I don’t mean that literally. They should have had an even number of chairs.
One black wall, as an accent, with that chrome screen thing, would have been good, but all four walls (was the ceiling black, too?) was way too much. And the curtains looked crappy. They weren’t hung correctly. At the reveal, they looked sloppy and uneven. And that’s besides the fact that they looked like wrinkled bedsheets.
The light was fugly, too. It looked like something a disco threw out in 1979. Wouldn’t all those lights get hot?
And Hildi was just unbelieveable, trying to blame Amy Wynne for making her overbudget for installing the dimmer. What a bitch. That thing needed a dimmer.
I think the bit with all the eggs was just Hildi’s way of snarking back at the HOs for their comment that the table looked like a fried egg.
Laurie’s room… In the previews, I thought it was going to be ugly, but when I realized it was for a little girl’s room, it was better. I thought it was pretty cute, though it sorta screamed ‘Preppy Lily Pulitzer 1974’. Laurie needs to get her head out of the 70s.
I liked the one little girl dissing Paige and the other one pointing out the spilled paint.
I also hate when they screw headboards right into the wall, and they do it all the freaking time! That seems lazy to me. All they have to do is install some 2x2’s to mount the bedframe to. Amy Wynne and Ty (or the Behind-The-Scenes Carpenter Fairies) should be able to do that. Screwing the headboards to the wall really limits the way the room can be set up.
I meant to address this in my post. The green Laurie used looked a little to acid-greeny on my TV. If it had been lighter, more of an appley-green shade it would have been really pretty. The headboards and toy boxes were wonderful, other than the fact that they mounted the HBs to the wall.
And another peeve about Hildi’s room. She removed the china cabinet from the dining room and replaced it with that small side table. Just where are the HOs supposed to put all their china now? She’s not the first one to do that…they all hate china cabinets, but real people use them. :rolleyes:
If there’s one problem with “Trading Spaces” it’s that the homeowners are too damned polite. Hildi’s “dining” room was an absolute travesty - ugly, stark, and completely unusable. Major repairs will be needed to fix it. Had Mrs. RickJay and I been the homeowners…
PAIGE DAVIS (wincing)
Okay, open your eyes and see your new dining room!
RICKJAY
Holy shit.
MRS. RICKJAY
You must be kidding me.
PAIGE DAVIS
You don’t seem to like it.
RICKJAY
This sucks. It’s hideous. And you’re fixing it.
PAIGE DAVIS
Well, I…
MRS. RICKJAY
Deos Hildi have some sort of visual impairment?
RICKJAY
You’ve got a lot of nerve leading us into this room. It’s fugly and you know it’s fugly. Why didn’t you stop her?
MRS. RICKJAY
Oh, my God, those are EGGS. They’re going to rot! What are you people, stupid? I want this room redone tomorrow, and you’re paying for it. You’ll hear from our lawyer.
RICKJAY
Black and yellow. Thanks, Mindy. My dining room looks like a Yield sign. Boy, that’s appetizing. Are you a sadist or just stupid? Hey… yeah you. Turn that goddamned camera off, the sight of this room will blind your viewers! Off! OFF!
PAIGE DAVIS
(runs crying from room)
The only problem with your scenario, RickJay, is that the HOs sign waivers absolving Trading Spaces of any liability in case of damage, and IIRC, they promise not to sue for repairs needed to re-redecorate the room after TS leaves.
In the infamous flower-power bathroom (another Hildi travesty), I heard that the HOs did try to sue, since the bathroom walls were basically ruined (6,000 flowers stapled to bathroom walls, so that makes 12,000 tiny holes in a room that gets damp and steamy) and were pretty much told to get lost. And they were good friends of Laurie’s.
Reason number 295 not to sign up for this show.
(Reason number 1 is You Might Get Kia. Reason number 2 is You Might Get Hildi.) 
The dining room could have been nice. If she had done just one wall black, and used that fabric that she used on the chairs for the curtains, too, and maybe painted the other three walls off-white or gray, maybe, and used a crystal or pewter chandelier…God knows Lowe’s and Home Depot have a huge selection of lighting. She could have found something to fit in her budget.
The day after the show, my husband and I were driving along and he said,“Look, that table’s behind us!” In the rearview mirror was a bright yellow sports car. 
PAIGE
Yeah, we’ve never heard that before. rolls eyes What about the chrome flowers? That was a screen that they mounted on the wall
RICKJAY
trying to look down Paige’s shirt Um…yeah. Screen’s okay I guess…
PAIGE
And the eggs look cool, don’t they? I mean cut flowers get nasty over time and nobody seems to hate them.
RICKJAY
trying to peek at Paige’s rear Um…yeah. The eggs do look okay. And I guess flowers go bad, too.
PAIGE
Ya’ know–you just have to “think outside the box”. It’s different and unusual, yes. But by itself that doesn’t mean it’s ugly, does it?
RICKJAY
Um…yeah, I guess it’s okay. The yellow is a little strong…
TWO YEARS LATER
RICKJAY’S SISTER-IN-LAW
I’m so glad you decided to keep the room the way Hildi did it. I can’t imagine it any other way.
RICKJAY
Oh, I know! I can’t even recall what we had before that. I love the way it emphasises the dining aspect of the room! The table & food & guests just become the focus of the whole room. I swear, nobody is boring after a few glasses of wine in this room.
MRS. RICKJAY
I couldn’t agree more. I love you Rickjay.
RICKJAY
And I you, Mrs. Rickjay. My love for you compounds continuously, well above the market rate. My affection for you, when quantified, needs to be expressed in scientific notation for brevity’s sake.
MRS. RICKJAY
Oh, Rickjay! Oh, Rickjay! My love invested in you has the shine of a hard asset such as precious metals or gems, but the reliability and growth potential of a productive asset! Take me upstairs, Rickjay, and give me a “balloon payment”!
RICKJAY’S SISTER-IN-LAW ROLLS HER EYES AS RICKJAY SWEEPS MRS. RICKJAY OFF HER FEET AND CARRIES HER UPSTAIRS
The other thing you have to keep in mind is the viewers. We seem to have scant sympathy with HO’s who throw fits (note Crying Pam and Jackass Jackie) but when the HO stands there, with bravely quivering lip, casting about frantically trying to find something to like…“The votive candles! I like the votive candles!” then we’re more sympathetic.
Didn’t she say she liked the fabric on the chairs? That was about it, though.
I, for one found her frank honesty refreshing, and I was glad she was able to laugh about it. I mean, at least she wasn’t a Crying Pam or Jackass Jessie about it, but I loved that she said flat-out, “The painters will be called on Monday” and that she said she didn’t like anything. She wasn’t even going to pretend to like it just because there was a camera in her face.
Oh, Biblio, I sent you an e-mail. Check your in-box when you have a sec.
Yes, I got it. I emailed you back. I’ll do July if you want.
Posted too quickly…
I read on the TWoP site that next week we get the new carpenter, Carter Oosterhouse. The site seems to be down right now, but I’ll check back later for more info.
From the TLC website: (which takes foreeeeeever to load)
South Carolina: Innisbrook Lane:
*South Carolina rolls out the welcome mat for the Trading Spaces crew in the episode! Our designers welcome new carpenter Carter Oosterhouse as they dare to redecorate. Frank tries to make a very kid infused family room a little more adult. Laurie adds a dash of southern comfort into her outdated living room. Let’s hope that her homeowner’s reaction to their new space doesn’t make them turn “green.” We’ll just have to wait and see! *
New carpenter? We’re not losing Ty or Amy Wynn, are we? :eek:
Nope. They’re adding on a new TS Family show to be aired on Sundays. It will have a new host. They’re adding two new designers and one new carpenter (I’ve heard he’s a babe, though I’m not a good judge of that) to help with the extra tapings. The new host will allegedly only do the TS Family episodes, leaving Paige (sigh) to to do the Sat. night episodes. The TS Family episodes, to be shown on Sundays, are supposed to feature a parent couple plus one teen or ‘tween’ for each team (or something like that).
Right, as js_africanus said, they’re just adding a third carpenter. Ty and Amy Wynne are both still there.
I heard they’re adding at least one more designer in the fall, and that they’re doing 85 new shows next year. That’s a lot of new shows/rooms to destroy.
Ack! The Jackass Jessie show is on right now!
I forgot how much of a Class-A Bitch she was.
So there’s TS adults, TS for Kids on Saturday morning (which is deathly dull by the way) and now TS for Tweens?
Is the new hottie carpenter just doing one of the spin-offs or are they now going to rotate all three through the different shows? I dan’t remember for the life of me who the carpenter was for the one ep of TS for Kids I was unfortunate enough to see part of.
Trading Spaces is filming in Minneapolis right now, and the paper had a fun article about it. Apparently crushes on Vern are multiplying exponentially.
What was up with the yellow that Hildi chose? Holy smoke, that was ugly. It had green undertones to it that really did make it unappetizing. The only part of the room I liked were the screens, and I did like them chrome.
I can’t imagine letting my (wholly imaginary, at this point) children sleep in my room. No. Way. Unless you’re an infant, get the hell out.
Well, crap. I swear you didn’t need to be a member to view that article before. Here are some highlights:
Good stuff.
I see now why Paige kept her maiden name.