Watching "Trading Spaces"

[apocalypsos]

ACK! Hildi pureed Barney the dinosaur and hosed his remains all over her assigned room! I don't know whether to hug her or to hug her so hard her ribs snap inward and skewer several important organs.

And Kia's apparently hanging instruments from the ceiling. I only wish I were omitting "of torture" from that sentence to hide some sort of surprise ending where the homeowners see the room she gave them and hate it (not the surprise part), and strangle her with the chains she attached to the ceiling (now, there's a surprise I can get behind).

Also, it's nice to see Hildi save money by stealing a couch from Barbie's Dream House and nuking it until it mutates and grows. I hope the homeowners don't sit on it, as it probably eats unsuspecting humans who come anywhere near it. (Which is probably why Hildi could get a hold of it.)

Why anyone allows these two to design anything bigger than a dollhouse is reasoning I don't even want to begin to comprehend. *user shudders*

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[justbluemyself.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they ever let Kia on that show in the first place. For the love of God, that woman uses tacky K-Mart borders and calls herself a designer. Next to her, Hildi actually looks kind of talented. Of course, next to anyone else, Hildi looks like the hack she is. Give me Vern, any day!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, those borders! Has anyone actually explained to that woman that borders went out of style in about 1987? And her idea of what a "theme" is supposed to look like frightens the ever-lovin' crap out of me. I thought Frank's theme rooms were scary, but Kia makes me want to bang my head against the nearest wall and start a trust fund for the homeowners she's screwed over to repair her disasters.

And Hildi ... Christ, that room last night. It was like she walked into Home Depot and said, "Give me every shade of pink and purple that no one in their right mind would paint with." The only excuse that I can think of for both of those guys liking it was that they were colorblind. I think even a drag queen would have walked in and gone, "Nuh-uh, honey. Too over the top for my tastes."

Ick. Last night's episode should have been shown on Halloween. I was certainly terrified enough for it.

[justbluemyself.livejournal.com]

I missed last night's episode. Now I'm curious to see Hildi's room. It sounds quite disgusting. Was it worse than the room she did where she sectioned everything off by making half of it burgundy and half gray? That was the worst I've seen of her's so far. That, Kia's military parachute room, and "A Pretty Blue Room, By Doug" are probably the worst things I've seen on that show.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hildi's room ... well, it was definitely worse than the sectioned room. First off, "Pureed Barney" is exactly the color that was on the walls. I kid you not. It had this huge Barbie-pink couch in it, and this coffee table with a clear top that was covered with snow globes (it had better have been the owner's collection, because otherwise, that's exceedingly tacky). And the floors ... she carpeted the floors in goddamn foam. It started out an office and ended up Liza Minelli's dressing room.

Kia's room probably would have made me happy if she hadn't designed it, since she had a nice musical theme going and then frugged it all up by putting instruments everywhere, putting up the manditory fugly border, and decouppaging (sp?) music sheets to the countertop. Vern could have done the same theme and made it look classy. She managed to make it look very cheap.

I think a lot of the rooms I've seen of Hildi's are on my worst list. The sectioned one, definitely. The hay room is at the absolute top (here, see a room for children designed by a woman who's apparently never even met one) and the stapling-the-flowers-on-the-walls one was another bad one. Gen putting moss on the walls would have looked twice as bad if it weren't for the fact that all I could think was, "Well, at least it's not hay." Hildi doing that children's bedroom in Britain (complete with the "I stole this color combo from old Nickelodeon commercials" design and the giant bureau) was a nightmare.

Everything Kia does gives me pain. Everything. The military room, the Egyptian room, the coffin room ... somebody stop her before she designs again

[justbluemyself.livejournal.com]

Coffin room? Oh my heck! I need to start watching more often.

[neaf.livejournal.com]

I officially adore you now. Blame it on the need to change my pants after reading the Barney comment. And your astounding good taste ;)

You, missthang, are getting friended.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

At first I had to think about your Barney statement - then it hit me! Oh my God that was so true!