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[apocalypsos]

I just finished dying my hair medium golden brown.

*examines myself in mirror*

Holy crap! Turning my hair this color makes my eyes look green!

Oooooooooooo. Cool. :)

EDIT: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is my new crack. See, this is why I love home improvement shows, and why I hate what they've done to Trading Spaces. *g*

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[ex-riverblue937.livejournal.com]

I love that show, too. It's totally uplifting.

[akacat]

What've they done to Trading Spaces? I haven't watched it in months.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Remember how it started out, where they were actually trying to make the houses look good in the end? Well, the last time I saw it, it seemed like every episode was an attempt to either make someone cry (in a bad way) or piss someone off. They weren't even trying for "Pretty but not my taste" at the very least, at least one of the designers was always going for "What the hell did you do to my house?!" Ick.

At least with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, not only are they trying to do something nice to someone's home, but they're trying to do it for someone who really deserves that special treatment. Last week was a woman with two sons who had gotten cheated by a sleazy contractor who left her house a disaster area, and this week it's a deaf couple with a blind autistic son. It's nice and sweet, but not in a cloyingly PAX-Channel kind of way.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Ty's on that show, right? See, taking him off Trading Spaces was the kiss of death, methinks.

And Hilde? Walking practical joke. I'm up for crazy crap, but that woman would never be allowed within half a mile of my house.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Hilde's done two or three rooms that weren't totally awful. But it's what's-his-face, Doug, who's the total ass. He went off to sulk for a whole episode, when the neighbors wouldn't let him destroy the homeowners' stuff.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ooo, YES. Doug is awful. He started out sort of okay and quickly regressed until I think every room he did had those stupid little white stool with the colored fabric tops. If I'm remembering correctly, Frank did the same thing to a few of his rooms as well. (Frank should only ever have been allowed to do kids' rooms and the occasional kitchen. In fact, one of my favorite rooms ever was that Mexican-themed one with the metal wall.)

Of course, then there was Dex or Del or whatever the hell her name was from the first season, who was clearly schizophrenic.

And meanwhile, there was Vern, making nearly everything he designed pretty and having to deal with the rest of these yahoos.

Also, someone needs to throw a brick at Paige.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I loved most of Vern's designes, and the blonde... Genevieve, maybe? (I haven't watched in ages because my cable company sucks rocks.) Some of hers were kind of strange, but most were pretty pleasing after a minute. She did this Asian room with a sort of faux-rust wall, and the homeowner loathed it but I thought it was awesome.

I loved the basement Frank did, full of books upon books upon books, and the Mexican kitchen with the striped ceiling.

And I think the moment I knew Doug was beyond redemption was when he drew and quartered the room in fuschia and grey. I mean... YUCK.

[dorothywwom.livejournal.com]

Extreme Makeover Home Edition always makes me cry. Or at least sniffle.

I kinda like having the homeowners get tohelp the designers in picking out the room and deciding on how to decorate. Although Hildy was a bitch as usual.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yes, Hildy. Grr. I swear, that woman does mean things to people's homes on purpose. And Kia! Who the hell thought Kia was ever a good designer? Ack.

I just saw Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for the first time last week, and it only took one episode to totally hook me. And I sniffled, too. :)

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Didn't see the Hildy comments before I replied above.

Kia can't seem to do a room without a border. Ew. And the grass/park/whatever attic she did? With the bed that looked like a grave? I'da kicked her in the balls.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

What about the one where Hildy put hay on the wall?

Just...ew.

And I don't remember which designer it was. I think Doug, just because he does everything that the person DOESN'T want. The lady didn't care what they did as long as it wasn't brown, as she HATED brown. The entire room ended up being done in shades of brown. She looked SO pissed.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, the hay. *is disgusted* The things she did to those poor women and their house. I heard they ended up having to spend three thousand bucks to fix the one thousand bucks worth of damage she did.

And I didn't realize how much I'd pick up on from my dad the contractor until Hildy stapled those awful flowers to that bathroom wall. I just remember yelling, "They'll have to remove the drywall if they don't like that, you stupid bint!"

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

Three thousand? Ewww. Just why I could never be on this show....never mind the fact that I am 17 and don't own somewhere they COULD redecorate...

I don't think I saw that one, with the flowers.

But my least favorite designer is Doug. Like the kitchen table he made that hung from the ceiling. I always wanted a table I could use as a swing set.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ah, Doug. I'm pretty sure he was the one who designed the frat game room on the one episode, that the frat boys seemed to really like a lot considering it looked like an extremely gay Parisian brothel.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Urgh, I meant "extremely ugly gay Parisian brothel". 'Cause ohmiGod, was it ever.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

God, Kia's Ucking Fugly Borders, which is probably what I would have called them if I'd been writing for TWoP. ACK. My mother constantly decorates her house with wallpaper borders, and every episode I watched with Kia made me want to go to my mom's house and rip down all the borders in protest.

My home improvement show animosity that Trading Spaces cultivated towards the end of my watching it is quickly dissipating because of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Much, much love for that show.

[harpie84.livejournal.com]

EM:HE is my crack, too. TWO HOURS tonight.
Did you see the special they did last week: How'd They Do That? It was awesome. I'm torn tonight between a brand new Treehouse of Horror and missing even 30 minutes of EM:HE.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The only reason I switched away from EM:HE last week was because Drew Fuller was on "Charmed" for all of ninety seconds *grumble grumble* and Drew Fuller is the only thing I would turn away from pretty much anything for, even disaster movies and Lost episodes.

Two freakin' hours. *happy sigh* I love this show. And thank god they saved Ty from Trading Spaces. Now all they have to do is boost that hottie Drew-Fuller-lookalike host from While You Were Out and it will be the best home improvement show EVER.

[kassandra05.livejournal.com]

Now all they have to do is boost that hottie Drew-Fuller-lookalike host from While You Were Out and it will be the best home improvement show EVER.

Oh my god, yes!

And I'm soooo glad you are having this conversation because I just checked the TV schedule and EM:HE is starting an hour earlier instead of running an hour longer. I would have been very disappointed if I'd missed the first half.

[fmith.livejournal.com]

Oooh, new hair color! Will there be pictures?

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

I second this