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The more I watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the more I think Paige is really an Interior Designer Barbie brought to life, although it's less because she's blonde and always dresses in pink and more because she's nearly always doing a little girl's room and they all look EXACTLY the same in the end. "Well, I'm going to paint it pink, and I'm going to slap fairies/unicorns/princesses/butterflies on the walls!"

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*snerk* I was just thinking the same thing! LOL

That, and the fact that Ty speaks weird. He has some weird lisp-like thing that makes it hard to understand him, especially since he's yelling all the time.

Sort of like Mike Lewis from WNEP-TV. The guy talks like he's had a stroke or something...if he has had one, then he's doing great. If he hasn't...then he talks funny.

And look, now she's building one of her stupid elaborate beds. Although admittedly, Ty's done that before for little girls, too, which they should really stop doing because the annoying thing about little girls is that eventually, they grow up. *sigh*

I give Ty a lot more leeway than I should because I think he's cute. :)

Also ... *snerk* I never thought about it, but yeah, Mike Lewis definitely has some sort of thing with his voice.

That's why I can't stand her rooms. Grrr.

PS: Please, one day, give the parents a cracked-out theme room. All of these plain ones, while nice, are BOR-ING. :D

I had another thought (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jahura/2005/08/23/) about that show recently - WHY would anyone in their right minds live in a house that was put up in seven days?

It's always primarily woodframe construction. Put enough people and gear on it (more than economically viable, in fact) and that's more than doable. Nothing needs to dry before you do other stuff, and such, unlike when building brick walls (you can only do about 3-4 feet of brick courses a day). As long as you start with seasoned wood for the beams (ie, you don't cut the trees down in those 7 days) it should be okay, at least in as much as wood frame construction is ever okay. But I'm prejudiced agaunst wood frame -- it barely exists over here (here here is not the US). I *have* noticed that people who live in predominantly wood-frame areas of the US say things with a straight face like "lifetime of a house is on average about 50 years".

But, technically speaking, even woodframe, when properly maintained (and that means keeping the roof, walls, and windows watertight), should last centuries. Before brick/stone construction became economically viable, whole cities were built on wooden frames (which of course is why the Great Fire Of London frex burnt down three quarters of the city, and why many locales have building codes that spec not-burnable construction).

Funny, when I watch that show, all I think about is how fuckin' ANNOYING that male presenter is (and I generally switch off once the rough construction is done -- decoratin' is available in much better shows in copious quantity).

I recently saw the guy building a racing-car style bed for a little boy. Funnily enough, the old front door of a perfectly good 1950s antique oven looked like the hood of a car (WTF moment alert), apparently.

I think that Paige is *extremely* out of her mind. But then I also think that Ed is hawt, and Preston is a hoot. *G* Possibly that Paul and Preston have a little side thing going too.

I have yet to see them do a kids room that will be functional for more than four years. Then again, they have the habit of getting people to pay off mortgages, so maybe the parents redecorate?

Oh, Ed is hawt, I agree on that one. (Although that time he hurt his foot and decided to disinfect it with cologne or whatever it was? Yeah ... dumbass.)

But they take those theme rooms to embarrassing extremes sometimes. MAD TV had this skit mocking the show where they misinterpreted what the mom in the family said and made the house a gigantic pink teapot, which ... yeah.

Although I will admit that the movie-themed room last night was one of my favorites they've ever done, if only because I want all of that filmmaking equipment.

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