voguevixen, thank you for clearing that up. Now I remember which room that was, that was a nice one.
lola, all I have to say is OH SNAP! And a hearty applause. Well put.
The “I HATE BROWN!” room I totally loved. But it did bug me that Laurie seemed to have advance knowledge of the anti-brown campaign but went ahead with it anyway.
Know what other room I hated? It was one Frank did, and he did the room in like 4 or 5 colors that clashed, and put a big face on the wall. Red lips headboard, bent wire eyes. That was freakin weird as hell.
I think the straw wall was pretty terrible, but how about the episode where Hildi decorated a bedroom in white faux fur and painted the trim construction orange. And wanted to use the homeowners vaccuum cleaner to dye the beige carpet construction orange. Luckily, one of the people working on that room stopped her from going that far.
That was a Plano episode. That’s actually one of the few Hildi rooms that I actually liked. I wouldn’t have let her dye my carpet orange either, but it actually turned out pretty nice. You definitely have to like orange to have that kind of room. And to be fair, she didn’t do the whole thing in faux fur. IIRC, I think she made a couple of pillows and a rug in it.
If someone took out MY ceiling fan, I’d be pissed. Ceiling fans are NOT just for decoration. Some of us actually USE them, you know.
(I do, and I don’t even live in a warm area-Pittsburgh PA).
Oh, and it wasn’t construction orange, it was more of a rust color. But yeah, I wouldn’t have let her dye the rug, either. I would have suggested an area rug.
beadalin, they turned the deck into a “caribean hideaway.” the wife brings the husband back to the deck and he hit the sky. he kept shouting “what the bleep is this?” “what the bleep is going on?” he just kept shouting, no one could get a word in. finally when he took a breath theresa jumped in and said “hi, i’m paige davis, just in case anyone asks.” she then tries to explain the show and concept, told him how hard his wife worked to do this for him.
he just wouldn’t calm down. theresa tried to point out the features of the deck, he did say “that’s cool” once or twice. then he started on the shouting again, then he starts to stomp off to look for the friend that was with him. theresa went after him and they decided a commercial was in order.
they finally get him calmed down enough to answer the final question, he answers properly and wins the grill.
his poor wife was really freaked out by his storming around. i thought theresa did a great job just trying to hold everything together. i would have tried to hide behind andrew. andrew, you tell him, perhaps the accent will calm him down.
this guy was tons worse than the infamous “pig man.”
My vote is for the kitchen plastered with wine bottle lables. They were a horrible orange and black, but the worst part was that the family were teetotalers, and were a bit offended, methinks.
Oh, I’d be pissed, too, (taking down ceiling fans is a huge pet peeve of mine) but the guy could have kept his language in check and not been such a snot about it. They didn’t throw it away…it was there to be put back up. And it was just a plain old white “builder’s special” type of fan. He could have gotten a much nicer looking fan for about $100 at Home Depot or Lowe’s.
Regarding the WYWO fiasco… the guy was bordering on being verbally abusive to his wife. WHen he walked out, he said, “This has got to be illegal, what did you do to my house?!?” (as if it’s not his wife’s house, too). He also asked if his wife signed a waiver, and when she said yes, he gave her a really dirty look and said, “Figures” and rolled his eyes at her, like she was some kind of second-class citizen who isn’t allowed to sign contracts. He was a major asswipe. :rolleyes:
The wine label kitchen… I’d forgetten that one. Not only were they teetotalers, they were Baptist ministers, IIRC. And Hildi knew it, so she started plastering the labels up before the other HOs got in there. They walked in for that little “Hi, here we are!” bit and there she was, with a bunch of the labels already up. She also wanted to put a wine rack over the stove (dumb idea… wine over a heat source!) and they got her to change it to a pot rack. The HOs were quite gracious about it, though, and thanked everyone, while explaining that the wine labels just didn’t fit their lifestyle.
Just to clear things up. The designer on trading places who put the grass on the wall
Was none other than Genevieve Goider (sp). I remember this episode specifically, it was without
A doubt shocking! Genevieve’s style was thrift store tacky back then. She is now very elegant and
is a judge on Design Star, a job which she is perfect for since she had taken many design risks and
can now help others through her experience.
A zombie thread with a not-so-veiled slam at one of the judges of Design Star by someone named Miss Kim…hmm, did Kim Myles show get canceled recently?
If there was ever a show that had run its course and needed to be canceled and hidden from view forever, it was Trading Spaces. The only show that was worse was the UK version that was truly sad…most of those homes were ghetto housing projects to begin with, and after the makeover, looked like rooms designed by drunk church ladies with things they found in dumpsters.
Plus, Miss Kim waited 9 years to be wrong. Like there aren’t links in this very old thread to stories and videos of Hildibeast making the hideous wall of hay.
I’ve seen some weird things on real estate porn shows since this thread, but the Hay Wall is still probably the worst offence against interior decorating that I’ve seen.
Gen did the moss wall, which wasn’t nearly as bad as Hildi’s insane hay-covered wall. In a house with small children. I’m surprised Hildi never used jagged bits of broken glass as a wall treatment.
She probably had one lined up (to go along with the sofa made of punji sticks) for the next family with small children, but TLC put the show — and an untold number of homeowners — out of its/their misery.
No–IMHO the worst offence against interior decorating was the wine label wallpaper that one of the Trading Spaces designers put into the house of a Christian family that didn’t drink.
I still shudder at the episode where Hildi and Doug decided to do Black and White rooms. I can’t recall which one had black. But you can imagine how bad it was. The White room was cold and sterile.
There were many, many good rooms too. I recall an episode where Doug visited his family’s farm and did a room for his brother. Gen had a lot of good room designs and a few flops. Laurie Smith was my favorite designer and nearly all her designs were good. Edward was usually really good too, but his designs got a little repetitive.