That was pretty bad.
I don’t mean to hijack but this doesn’t seem worthy of a whole thread. Did anyone watch “While You Were Out” this weekend? A woman changed the backyard of her house into a Carribbean . . . thing. They chopped up the wooden deck to add a couple of inches of sand to look like a beach. It was a bad idea, they should know better than to be so destructive. The husband was totally pissed off and he looked like he wanted to go upside her head. It was awful, I was actually worried about her, he seemed like a real jerk.
It was the worst idea and worst reaction I’ve seen on one of these types of shows.
Actually, Kia’s rooms THIS season haven’t been so bad. (And FWIW, my parents are border addicts too…). Did you see the room she did last time? The stained glass cabinet doors over the NEW TV SHE BOUGHT???
But that was that stupid family version.
Yeah, I saw that. “This has got to be illegal!” he yelled. His wife started crying. The show people had to calm him down and tell him to go comfort his wife because he scared her so much.
PoorYorick, that was Dez, who other’s have mentioned above.
Graveyard room can’t be worst. It’s a spare bedroom, so who cares if it sucks? Living rooms are much worse.
Doug’s boy bedroom with real cars was not a good thing. Good show, but just a bad idea. Anything they are willing to do on Monster House should not be done on Trading Spaces.
The one where Frank ripped up the carpet and painted the plywood subfloor was very misguided. Also the one where he scored the kitchen countertops with a dremel, to give it “a textured look”.
And pretty much everything Hildi does. Either she gets a crappy theme, and sticks stuff all over the wall, or she puts nothing in the room and the result is a stark wasteland.
Of the episodes I’ve seen, this one is the worst, hands down. I missed the moss walls ep.
I wonder how fast it was changed after the weekend? I’d bet on less than 12 hours.
12 hours? That long? Really? How long do you think it took the HO to pick up the grave covering, oops, I mean bedspread and chuck it in the trash? If it was MY room, it’d have been 10 minutes after the cameras left? 
The rest of the room wasn’t too bad. I think. The bedspread/grave cover was just awful. Take that away and there was that cute swing that Amy Wynn built. Get a decent bedspread and it would be an okay room.
Yea, chuck the grave cover, the white picket fence, the brick border around the bed and all that gravel-- then you got a not so hideous room.
I still have nightmares about the Monkey Desk!
That poor little girl…imagine trying to fall asleep at night with that horrid thing staring at you, waiting to suck you into that grinning maw…ugh.
I’m sorry I missed While You Were Out this week. Have to catch it in the second run, I guess.
As far as the Monkey Desk, the main problem I had with it was that it was so narrow. It could barely hold anything. There was no room for the kids legs under it and I could imagine it just falling apart when she put anything heavy on it.
How about Hildi’s self portrait ala Roy Lichtenstein? I don’t hate all her designs but that one was just sad.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Hildi’s “Tiffany themed” room. I think she painted the walls blue and then graffitied white squiggles all over it. It was horrible.
Oh and I saw “While You Were Out” this weekend and I felt horribly embarassed for the homeowner’s wife. She looked completely embarassed by his reaction and I’d been her I would’ve kicked the hubby in the nuts. What a prick! Even after they talked about how much work she did for him, he still bitched.
The “Tiffany” room was an affront to the very concept of Tiffany & Co., who should have been on the phone with their lawyers stat when that airbrush came out. A wide, white chair rail would have been 700% more appropriate to the Tiffany aesthetic, but no. Hildi always has to do something totally…fricking…stupid!
Okay, I feel better now. For other rooms, I nominate anything Gen ever did involving a “rust” finish. Hint: no one wants rusy stuff in their house where they can feel it’s unpleasant texture and have it ruin their clothing. Ditz.
Also, Kia must be stopped. That is all.
My vote goes for either Hildi’s circus-tent room or Kia’s graveyard room. It was really the “bedspread” in the graveyard room that did it for me though.
The end of WYWO was just awkward. The husband didn’t seem to understand the concept of the show at all, at least at first. In the beginning I kind of sympathized with me–HOW MANY times did he say “what’s going on?” before anybody even tried to explain? Otherwise, though, his reaction was really horrible.
Oh, and why did the host claim to be Paige Davis?!
Because she saw that he didn’t like it and was being a total prat.
I don’t know where I found this (or why) but it’s a must read for fans of TS. Total riot, not about a bad room though.
The list of upcoming episodes can be found here if anyone is interested.
I’ve only seen a few episodes so I can’t comment on which room I think is the worst. Just a random comment… in every episode I’ve seen both homeowners acted like they liked the rooms. However, around half the time I’ve felt like the owners really disliked it, but were just too polite to say anything on the air. Don’t know how frequent an occurance this is. I need to keep watching to see one of those episodes where the HO comes right out and says that they hate the design…
She’d focused on a woman’s blue bottle collection and painted the walls blue, the cabinets yellow and made an island in the middle with white, blue and yellow tiles on it. The island was two-leveled so the parents could work at it while the kid colored or whatever on his level. She removed the doors of the upper cabinets (they were those really weird kind that are like only 8 inches high or something) and put the bottles up there with backlighting. The fabric she used was a pretty crappy-looking bedspread that just clashed with the paint enough to notice, but other than that the room looked great.
For the record I actually liked: Tent room, Monkey desk (not the rest of the room though), Pullman car, and I think I liked ALL Dez’s rooms. I’m sorta “Dez-like” though, LOL.
Obviously, you’ve never seen the episode with Jackass Jessie and her “I HATE BROWN!” living room. 
She hated her room and made no bones about it. She was an absolute whiney spoiled bitch the entire time, and made an ass of herself at the reveal. It must be seen to be believed. (And the room was actually, IMHO, kind of nice.)
The HO who got Kia’s Camoflauge room tried to be nice, but ended up breaking down in tears when she saw her room. I don’t blame her a bit.
There was one where Doug covered a HO’s fireplace with a wood surround, and the wife cried (She’s nicknamed “Crying Pam” because she left the room and just sobbed, with her mic still on), and the husband said all he saw was a bunch of firewood. They had asked that the fireplace not be painted (it was that ugly pink brick) and Doug hated it, and covered it with a nice wood surround. In reality, it turned out to be shoddily made and have sawdust behind it, which would have been dangerous.
There’s another (Ceiling Fan Dominic) where the HO asked that his precious ceiling fan not be removed, and at the reveal, he cussed up a storm that it had been taken down.
“Aww, beep, they beeping took down the beeping ceiling fan!”
No, I’m not a TS addict. Don’t look at me like that.
Dez’s diamond’s were godawful. I loved the male HO, who was saying things like; “I didn’t expect something that looks like I’m living in a spaceship!” and turning apoplectic-red.
oh yeah, BiblioCat reminded me of something; Somehow, when I’m watching and the HO obviously doesn’t like it, I just think about how ungrateful they are. It makes them look like little brats.
Extreme cases like Hay Wall and Art Deco Mezzanine are special cases, of course.
But otherwise, I just want to say to them; “You got a professional designer and almost $1,000 worth of stuff for FREE. Plus, you KNEW from day one you’d have no input and your lame-ass, avocado-appliance, backwater Precious Moments Figurine and velvet painting tastes would be ignored (as they should be)! Suck it the fuck up and be gracious, whiner!”