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*

Comments

[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.