Trading Spaces 9/27: Am I doing the TS threads now?

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So, two new episodes tonight. Damn if I can remember which rooms were on which ep so this may end up sort of stream-of-consciousness.

Laurie’s room. Another yellow and orange. Was her mother frightened by a custard while Laurie was in the womb or something? Budget crisis was the order of the day, what with being two drapes short of a window treatment and having to return her lemons. I was quite pleased that she had to return her lemons because one, I found it interesting that Paige sat with her after the room was done and made her take something out and two, I think decorating with fruit is stupid. Does anyone think these people are going to keep jars of lemons in their living rooms? Frank’s room in that ep was the “island” room, right? I liked it fairly well, except it was an awful lot of blue. I think Paige was right that it would have looked better with the angled part of the ceiling left white. The pyramid-looking bench thing was interesting but I would have liked to see it in a different contrast color. I didn’t care at all for the red paint on the dresser but that was mostly because I had something similar growing up and I always thought it was fugly. The cheap styrofoam things were pretty bad. I have a feeling they’re going to fall off the wall and crack at some point. Those were both from show 2 right?

I can’t remember the name of the woman designer from the first show…Christie? I liked her room a lot. I like a muted red room for a library/den/study-type area and I thought the wall treatment came together nicely. She I guess has a bit of a mini-Kia reputation from TS Family which I don’t watch but her rooms on TS have been consistently good IMHO. I honestly can’t remember a thing about Frank’s room from the first show. Can’t remember a thing about colors, fabrics, carpentry, the HOs, nothing.

If I see the commercial for “They Hated It!” one more time I may put a shoe through the TV screen. Enough already, we’re all goign to watch it, so stop with the heavy rotation ads.

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I only saw the second episode.

I just can’t stand Laurie…she doesn’t do squat…but she takes all the credit. “While you’all finish, I’m going to go arrange things to bring into the room…” Now, don’t break a finger nail Laurie. Be careful!

Plus, how dumb to you have to be to not notice that only one curtain panel is enclosed in a pack? Read, bimbo, read!

Plus, her bravado about having gone to EUROPE and taking the picture of the poppy…ooo…gee…I am SO impressed. Lordknows there are no flowers in America to photograph. We get it Laurie…you are so international and cosmopolitan.

Frank’s room looked like a college dorm in the 60’s…cheap and crappy.

What ever happened to Vern? He is the only designer who had any style whatsoever.

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Oh, while I am still tired of the “they hated it” commercial, the one with Doug singing and dancing was cool. Doug is a little hottie when he’s unshaved.

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I really liked the way Laurie had a soffit (sp?) and screens built to integrate the bar into the room. In the before shots, it just looked plunked down in the corner. I didn’t like the colors she chose, but using an accent color was nice and I liked pretty much everything else about it.

Frank’s island room…sigh. I liked the greeny blues fine, but the red accents were horrible.

His room in the other ep was the Native American-themed “conversation” room. I don’t like NA arts for Caucasian folks much–I always think something like “Stole your land and killed your people, but love your art, baby.” But I suppose that’s just me. I liked the wall color and the funky wall treatment with the stones, but the rest was too theme-y for my taste. The HO was a better artist than most, though, and certainly better than I would be. She painted a pretty good feather painting.

I loved the wall treatment in Christi’s room. Loved it. The texture, color, and glaze worked really well in there, especially with the cream-colored woodwork. It was a room I would love to have.

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Best sig line I’ve seen in a while :slight_smile:

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:smiley: So that’s what’s wrong with Laurie!

I liked that room, especially with the panels around the bar. The cut-out pieces were a little 70s-ish, but overall I could live with it. I hated that tiny mantle from before, and that new one was much better. When the old one was falling off, why didn’t they just take it down, rather than put it back up?
I did like how she broke up the big sectional couch.
I liked the colors, and I liked the poppy photo.
I also hate when they decorate with fruit. Come on, who really does that? I have a basket of fruit on my kitchen counter, but that’s for eating, not decorating.

One thing… I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I hate when they move an entertainment center clear across a room. Where’s the cable outlet? I can move my entertainment center around a little bit in one general corner, but not clear across the room, not without buying 15 more feet of cable, and having it draped across the carpet.

Frank’s blue room was a little reminiscent of Rick’s turquiose room from last week. It was a softer blue, but it was just **too much ** blue. He should have left the furniture alone. I did like the thing built around the dresser, the shelving unit, just not the blue and red together. I always like shelving units, though.
I didn’t care for the pyramid bench thing.
Frank did a room very much like that last year… even the furniture was the same. It started out the same; stark white, tray ceiling, and I could swear the furniture was exactly the same. He painted it a sort of pea green and dark purple and painted silver stars on the tray ceiling. He didn’t touch the furniture, though.

Frank’s Native American room I liked. It was a little theme-y, but not overly so. I liked the distressed shelves.

I really liked Christy’s room. I loved the shelves, and I liked the walls. I would have liked to have seen them IRL to see how the glaze looked. It’s hard to tell on the TV exactly how some things really look. She has sort of gotten a bad rap as the “New Kia” but I don’t think she’s anywhere nearly as bad as Kia.

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I liked Laurie’s room, but someone needs to take away her yellow paint for a couple of episodes. The bar thing was pretty nice, but what was it supposed to accomplish? To hide the bar? They needed some bar stools, too.
Did she even have a play area for the kids? I thought the kids played down there during the day. It looked like she made it more like a “nice” family room, and in the “before” shots it looked like they had little kids.
And it looked like there was no art other than the poppy print. And $60 for an enlargement? That seems rather steep.

Christy’s room was great. I loved the dark red walls and the distressed woodwork. I was afraid the HOs would hate that, since in the interview they said something about “respecting the house.” The big shelving thing was so cool.

I wasn’t wild about either of Frank’s rooms. He’s too themey for me. The blue room was just too bright for me. I don’t like when they paint nice furniture.
I didn’t quite get the silver squares and glass beads on the walls in the other room. I didn’t think that fit in with the NA theme. Maybe that’s just me, but I didn’t like how it went with the rest of the room.

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BiblioCat, I remember that room and you are right–it was very similar. I liked the other one with the stars a lot better than this one.

Kinsey, I agree that the beady thing didn’t go with the rest of the room, but my solution would be to change the rest of the room. :slight_smile: I do wonder how secure the beads would be, though.

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**I wasn’t wild about the shade of green that he used. IIRC, it was sort of a moldy pea-soup green color. I didn’t like it with the purple.
Frank’s rooms are usually too theme-y for me, also. One of the afternoon repeats this past week was the one with the fake stuffed lips and copper wire eyes on the wall over the bed. It was really hideous.
Having said that, one of my favorite rooms of his was the Mexican kitchen with the serape painted on the ceiling and the fake broken brick painted on the walls.

It looked like he used some sort of contact cement, I think. Which means they’ll never come off without pulling off a hunk of drywall with them. :rolleyes:
If he used a hot glue gun, they’ll fall off within a week.

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Then I suppose it all depends on what the HO thinks of them and whether she wants them to stay or not. I didn’t see a glue gun, so I would guess contact cement. She seemed to like the room, so maybe she likes them.

I am with you on the green he chose for the other room. I would have liked a different shade better, but I still liked that room better than this week’s. Even the banana leaf idea from this week would have been better with a white background or the leaves in white.

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I was pretty apathetic about all four rooms this week, probably because I’m sick as a dog. Some observations:

  • Really liked the treatment on the library walls. It would have gone faster if she’s used a thinner layer of mud (they were really slapping it on at one point), although Christie seems to go for the time-consuming projects (recent TS: Family episode had her building a 3d tree that took forever). I think she does a lot better in adult-themed rooms- get her anywhere near a child’s room, or children in general, and she goes all Kia.
  • There wasn’t enough distinction between the blues and greens in Frank’s room to make it worthwhile.
  • I was a bit disturbed by the conversation between Christie and the HO about power tools. ::shudder::
  • Laurie could have made the window treatment work if she’d either ripped them down the middle to make two narrower curtains or taken a piece of rebar , sewn it into a pocket at the bottom, and gathered it into an hourglass shape in the middle with a piece of accent fabric. And was it me, or did she actually have one window and one french door? Who the hell puts a window treatment on a french door?
  • My headcold made for some really interesting hearing problems. I could have sworn Laurie said she’d just come back from Europe, and it was puppy season. I was like, they have seasons for puppies? Weirdos.
  • Props to TS producers for having more interracial couples. I’ve seen more this season so far than I can remember in all the others combined. But when are they going to start acknowledging the same-sex couples? (the women last night were a couple, weren’t they?)
  • I’m not sure which I like better, making the designers pony up the money at the end, or making them return something. In a typical Laurie or Frank or Gwen room, where there’s lots of little things and fabrics and stuff, it’s probably easy to pick something to return (didn’t Laurie have three options to choose from?). I’ve never seen Vern or Edward go over budget. But what about a Hildi room, where all the money goes to One Big Thing?
  • We need Amy Winn back. And I’m not just saying that for the eye candy. I’m tired of Ty and his tantrums (looks like we’re treated to more of the same next week).
  • We got a little more info on the upcoming $100,000 episode. Looks like they don’t get any extra time. Yikes. Considering the corner-cutting they already do, I’m a bit scared.

Questions:

  • In the first episode, what did the female HOs have on their outside railings? It looked like thick barbed wire at first glance, but I never got a good enough look at it.
  • What were Laurie and Paige talking about when the male HO was standing in the background? I couldn’t hear a word of it.

Puppy season. ::snort::

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Hope you feel better, bobkitty.

They’ve had a few gay couples on the show, including one couple where one guy was Asian and liked to think of himself as Vern Lite. They were actually very cute together.

I’m going to have to hand off OP responsibilities, at least until football season is over. If Ivylad isn’t hogging the remote, he’s on the computer playing Icewind Dale II, and I don’t want to bump him off his game when he was willing to give up his football.

No train wrecks this episode, but I wished Christie had done something with the floor. Even a nice stain or something. And I completely did not get the beads in the silver squares on Frank’s wall.

Where’s Vern? Please don’t tell me he’s off on the Family show only.

Next Sunday is the $100K episode. I can’t even begin to imagine how you spend $100 for one room. And it should be interested to see Laurie and Doug work together…although I would pay to see Hildi and Vern work together. Any bets that she would be found drowned in a bucket of paint?

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I think the HOs had a tube of Christmas lights–small lights inside a protective tubing–though whether this episode was filmed anytime near Christmas, or if they’re the type to leave the lights up all year, I couldn’t tell you.

And, although I heard “puppy season” as well, I’m forced to concede that she actually said “poppy” season.

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it could have been puppy, laurie has been know to have interesting versions of floral names. (zinnia)

$60 to enlarge, mount, and frame the poppy seems normal.

i think i will use “one panel short of a window treatment” as my new daft statement.

i liked frank’s room. green and blue, it is hard to go way wrong.

i didn’t see the frank-christie episode. tlc only reruns one epi. on sunday.

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I don’t think last night’s couple was a “couple” since they kept refering to the room as “her” room (and “her” house), rather than “their” room.
In addition to the gay couple ivylass mentioned, they also had a gay (male) couple very recently where Hildi put down rubber foam on the floor and painted the room a neon bright shocking magenta color, and the HOs from the infamous Hay Wall episode were a lesbian couple with kids.

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I don’t recall where I read this, but a rumor I’ve come across is that Laurie spends $30,000 on drapes. I wonder if the got the right number of drapes.

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Is it $100,000 per room, or $100,000 total (which would be $50,000 per room)? And that show is on this Sunday, right?

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Disliked the 8 PM rooms, Liked the 9 PM rooms.

But, like the Superbowl- all the action seemed to be in the ads.

“They hated it” again? This has been done to death already. Besides it rewards some of the worst HO’s with more airtime. Crying Pam again? The only way I want to see her on TV is if they are feeding her into a wood chipper feet first.

But more details came out of the $100,000 episode. It appears it is two normal families with normal houses. They looked quite surprised. Dropping $50,000 on a room. Easy. Furniture and Fixtures. Throw in some “real” art. How about real Oriental carpets. Hell a Plasma TV would look great in place of a bulky TV. I really can’t wait to see what Doug does with the money. Sure its a gimmick- but it worked for me!

:smiley:

ps. I loves Ty’s expression in the Ad, it cracks me up each time.

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Just popping in to say I didn’t like the banana leaf thing on the ceiling, and where does Frank get off taking their Indian art from the other room? I hate it when they do that! It’s not, $1000 dollars, two days, and whatever else you can steal.

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Do you think the Vegas sports book takes bets on Trading Spaces episodes?

At the Mirage sports book this month:

WILL LAURIE PAINT A ROOM COLOURS THAT MATCH HER BLOUSE OR HAIR?

YES: 1-1,000,000
NO: 1,000,000-1
One colour will match her hideous lipstick instead: Pick 'em

WILL FRANK INFEST A ROOM WITH LITTLE CRAFTY PROJECTS THAT WON’T LAST TWO WEEKS?

YES: 1-1,000,000
NO: 1,000,000-1
Armpit Sweat Stains:: Even odds

WILL HILDI USE HAY, EGGS, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT WILL STINK?

YES: 20-1
NO: 1-20
No, she’ll put up a giant picture of herself. Well, I guess that stinks, too: Pick 'em

WHAT CARPENTER IS IT GONNA BE:

Ty: 2-1
Amy Wynn: 3-1
The other guy, what the hell is his name again?: 6-1

WILL KIA USE SOME RIDICULOUS OBJECT LIKE A PARACHUTE OR ASTROTURF TO RUIN A ROOM?

Yes: 1-1,000
No: 1,000-1
She’ll get demoted to the minors (“While You Were Out”) first: 5-1

WILL PAIGE’S SHIRT KEEP GETTING TIGHTER?

YES: Oh yeahhhh
NO: Mmmm, that’s the stuff
Shirt Logo Matches Episode Location: Baby, shake yo THANG