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Interesteg What makes it different from others?

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

bregund I really liked this show when it started. Where else could you see grown men using a sewing machine and talking about "window treatments", when they'd rather be watching football on TV. It was hilarious. Then they dumped the beautiful and sexy Alex and hired that airhead bimbo Paige. Then they changed the theme music from bouncy and fun to what I call Starbucks Sleepytime. During its heyday, the TS forum at tlc.com was extremely busy, a single day's posts would stretch over four pages. I think the show nosedived because the novelty wore off. Yes it was fun watching peoples' houses being ruined by overtly feminine male decorators, but then viewers started thinking "hey, they could be doing the same thing to my house...yuck" and they started tuning out. I hear this is the last season, well good riddance, it outlasted its welcome.

shawnamabrey This show is pretty mediocre. Actually, what makes it worth watching are its poorer points, because they make the show funny. First of all, I can't think of a more annoying host than Page Davis. She is just so totally phoney and slappable. Then we have a team of about 8 designers who apparently come on the show in some sort of rotation (or they keep getting fired) and just about all of them are incredibly uptight and socially inept. It is truly funny watching guests react to the obnoxious enthusiasm of the "cast" from this show.I particularly enjoy it when one of the designers intentionally go way over the top with a room as a form of revenge at whomever's p**sed them off at the time (I recall one episode where one of the gay,leather-wearing designers has a tiff with the guests and they end up decorating pistacio green, orange, and brown).Then of course, my favorite is watching people open their eyes to their newwly redecorated room and pretending to be flattered at what is obviously an utterly horrible job. The wide eyes and repeated useage of the word "cool", all the while repeatedly glancing over at their teammate to see if they're equally horrified is just a riot. Page does a great job of playing up the tension by over acting and dramatizing just how wonderful and tra la la la fun it has all been!What makes this show annoying is how they once in a while have a cool new idea, but fail to adequately explain how to reproduce the idea for yourself. Summary: Pretty much a waste of time if you have the time to waste.

geja2001 Trading Spaces is an ideal television program to watch while ironing: see the beginning and the ending while getting and hanging your clothes during the middle. I cannot tell the names of the designers one from the other, but they are all bad, especially the seldom-on woman who wears the silly hats. The finished rooms are candle-lighted; this is impractical and dangerous. Who today has flaming candles on wall sconces and chandeliers? And those home-made couches and narrow benches for sitting -- what are those? What's with the painted floors, the balsa wood boxes they call armoires, the scribbles that are deemed Matisse, the foam and fabric deemed upholstery, the material STAPLED to wooden slats for drapes (How are they to be laundered?), the walls painted black, purple or chocolate, and everything else spray-painted? Then they surprise the viewer and the homeowner by glueing moss or straw or other stuff onto the walls! Recall the rusted wall? Ooh, aah, orchids!! Wow! They'll never last. Why do I watch? Ironing is no fun.

jennp7 This show is great. I love it. You can learn alot about redecorating and best of all they show you how to do it with a limited budget. All the rooms look like a million bucks when they are finished. Everyday people working with the designers and the carpenters. Best friends or family members getting together to redecorate a room in each others house in only 2 days bringing out their creative skills and finding ones they did not even know they had. I think that this is real reality T.V.