I love Trading Spaces. I'm curious to see what you all think of the various designers. Also, who would you like to redesign which rooms in your house?
For me:
#1 Genevieve. She is sooooo cool, she actually cares about what the homeowners' style and needs are. I would (if I had $$$) pay lots for her to decorate DD's room.
#2 Frank. I love his wacky ideas (though the woven tin wall was too much), and I love the artsy drawing touches he adds. I'd like him to decorate my kitchen (I want that mexican kitchen minus the metal wall).
#3 Laurie. She usually comes up with neat ideas, and I'd love to have her design my living room in one of her Zen-ish ways, with earth tones and subtlety.
#4 Vern. I don't mind his designs, usually, but I get kind of wierded out by his use of bright and dark colors sometimes. I would like him to do my (nonexistent so far) reading room/library/den/office.
#5 Doug. I think he's an egotistical tyrant. I have very rarely liked a design of his. He is totally uninterested in the homeowners' wants or needs or the style of the rest of the house. I wouldn't want him to do anything in my house.
#6 Hilda. Can't stand her. Hello -- straw on the walls? In a house with two young kids??? When the homeowner said "But the girls will be constantly picking it off and eating it and leaving it all over the house!", Hilda's response was "well, theyll just have to be told not to." Like that's gonna work! I think 99% of her designs are ugly in at least one major way. I couldn't be paid enough to have her in my house.
One of the major factors, for me, as far as liking a designer, is whether they do something appropriate for the home. Gen and Frank and Laurie obviously either have kids, or have spent much time around kids, because they make stuff appropriate for a family, if the homeowners have kids. I love the little "kid's nook" type areas that Frank tends to include in living room and family room spaces.
What do you all think?
For me:
#1 Genevieve. She is sooooo cool, she actually cares about what the homeowners' style and needs are. I would (if I had $$$) pay lots for her to decorate DD's room.
#2 Frank. I love his wacky ideas (though the woven tin wall was too much), and I love the artsy drawing touches he adds. I'd like him to decorate my kitchen (I want that mexican kitchen minus the metal wall).
#3 Laurie. She usually comes up with neat ideas, and I'd love to have her design my living room in one of her Zen-ish ways, with earth tones and subtlety.
#4 Vern. I don't mind his designs, usually, but I get kind of wierded out by his use of bright and dark colors sometimes. I would like him to do my (nonexistent so far) reading room/library/den/office.
#5 Doug. I think he's an egotistical tyrant. I have very rarely liked a design of his. He is totally uninterested in the homeowners' wants or needs or the style of the rest of the house. I wouldn't want him to do anything in my house.
#6 Hilda. Can't stand her. Hello -- straw on the walls? In a house with two young kids??? When the homeowner said "But the girls will be constantly picking it off and eating it and leaving it all over the house!", Hilda's response was "well, theyll just have to be told not to." Like that's gonna work! I think 99% of her designs are ugly in at least one major way. I couldn't be paid enough to have her in my house.
One of the major factors, for me, as far as liking a designer, is whether they do something appropriate for the home. Gen and Frank and Laurie obviously either have kids, or have spent much time around kids, because they make stuff appropriate for a family, if the homeowners have kids. I love the little "kid's nook" type areas that Frank tends to include in living room and family room spaces.
What do you all think?
He's cute AND he cracks me up! Amy Wynne is cool too!
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