Oh, Lawd!! I just watched my video tape of Hildy ruining

[morningglory]

those poor peoples' room on Trading Spaces!!! Made my husband watch it and he was appalled.

[Cush]

1. which room?

:evilgrin:

[morningglory]

2. She put brown cardboard box material on ceiling and walls and

put together cheap cardboard furniture. It looked dismal and was already wrinkling.

[BiggJawn]

5. So it DID suck?

I saw the previews, too. that furniture! I would be pissed if some decorator spent my money on that shit. "What am I supposed to DO with this chair? find a 3-year-old to sit in it?"

Now, have you ever seen what Becky Cole does with kraft paper bags and wallpaper paste? It actually looks cool.

Me, i'll take Christopher's "7 layers of (cluttered) design" and the Moraccan ho-house look any day...

[alfredo]

16. Where is Chritopher Lowell? He isn't on in our area anymore.

He was a favorite. Hated his designs, but he was entertaining. He also did a bit about a friend of ours. Remember the ugly lamp contest? Lynn is an old friend. Her restaurant is great too. http://www.lynnsparadisecafe.com/ Read the reviews, and explore her site.



Lynn made the coffeepot fountain in the picture.

[proud patriot]

3. The Cardboard walls one ?

I saw the preview for it , but missed the show .

That woman is Evil I tell you :evilgrin:

[morningglory]

4. If I heard she was coming to my house I would be on the front porch

with a blunderbuss, but then I am from the South.

[kayleybeth]

6. I would not want Hildy

anywhere NEAR my house. OMG that woman has done some horrible rooms.

[demigoddess]

7. The producers must have told people to spice things up

recently But then Frank designed a really beautiful room in that episode.

[nomaco-10]

8. I watched that last night....

I just sat, shaking my head. What's wrong with these neighbors? If Hilde approached my walls or my neighbor's walls with liquid nails, cardboard, staples, feathers, hay, wine bottle labels or 5,000 silk flowers, I'd tell her to get out. I don't know why these morons can't be a little assertive occasionally. I'd send her packing, tell Paige to give me the $1,000, go buy a couple of gallons of paint, a decent area rug and some nice lamps for my neighbors.
The "cardboard room" was in a very nice neighborhood (Atlanta) about $250,-$300,000 houses, I'd say. Now they'll have to remove thousands of staples, and they can forget it, they will never get the liquid nails off, they'll just have to re drywall, which will end up costing more than a $1,000. Doesn't make any sense, unless these people really want their mugs on TV that bad.

[proud patriot]

9. What are liquid nails ?

I'm not familiar with that term. :hi: I missed the show.

[nomaco-10]

10. It's a pliable bonding agent....

when it comes out of a tube, then dries as hard as nails, broom hilde really gooped it on there too.

[proud patriot]

12. ewwwwwwww ..got it... LOL Broom Hilde LOL

:D Thanks

[OldSoldier]

14. It's a brand of construction adhesive

Think very, very thick glue.

And another poster is correct--that stuff never comes off.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. She should be horsewhipped repeatedly. Give me Frank

to do my rooms.

OTOH, it might be fun to whip her.... hmmm.

[SheilaT]

13. Keep in mind that the people

who sign up to participate in the show are aware that they have no control over which designer they get, and they agree to let anything at all be done. The homeowners do occasionally put something or another off-limits, but there has been more than one room immediately redone by unhappy owners.

What I LOVE about that show is that very real risk of total disaster.

[Bridget Burke]

15. Let her decorate Saddam's prison cell.....

Life imprisonment alone might not be cruel enough.

("Changing Rooms", the British original, is far better that the US version.)

[ironflange]

17. I thought the room looked quite good

Compared to the feather room, the silk flower room, the straw room. . .