Genevieve Gorder and Vern Yip were my favorite designers. My mom and I watched every episode. I remember Genevieve having more of a boho vibe but wonder if we would consider it boho now. 🤔
OMG I LOVED Genevieve! Not only were her rooms my favorite but she was just a gem! I also watched the show with my mom and some times my sister bc we would watch it after school. I also remember Heidi. She had some bold designs and…interesting choices lol
Okay but imagine: a TSG From the Workshop Floor episode of Trading Spaces where each of you designs a space in each other's homes. 👀 Even just drawn, with hypothetical budgets and all the amazing DIY flair.
That would be cool! No costs... I think since these ladies all work together do closely, it would be easier to design for each other, since they are familiar with each other's styles.
I will always remember that episode. I cringed the whole way through it and it made me question the qualifications required to be an interior designer.
I watched Trading Spaces religiously. Frank, Genevieve & Vern were the best. Doug & Hildi were sh*t disturbers. Sadly Frank Bilec passed in 2020 at 72 🙁
I could have written your comment other than your exact description of Doug and Hildi. They were both snobs on the show. I don't know if that was set up, or their real personalities. I was so sad when hear about Frank. He was such a sweetheart.
@@bridgettebollig2649 Changing Rooms has an episode like that, too, I think. Probably Laura was the designer, as her designs were always crazy. Maybe that's where TS got the idea. Or perhaps I just got the two shows mixed up for that episode. LOL
Hilda was over the top, now Doug was just used to a different economic bracket more geared to those who could afford to do upscale designs and his attitudes and results always were very interesting...just remember this was the beginning of Designer's on HGTV and middle classes realizing anyone with a little effort, and some money and a great style sense could achieve a great look even when income was on a lower budget..and these shows encouraged creativity 👍 ❤❤miss these shows.. Sorry, girls but all of you, would fit right into that era easily as many of your skills are extremely creatively achieved and also interesting to watch
Ah, this was based on the BBC's Changing Rooms...I remember some of the designs being quite hideous and a LOT of MDF being used. There were also some great successes, but I never really understood rooms being 'themed'.
Doug was rude but Hildi was the true villian. The hay walls room. The Hildi pop art of her own face room. The room with real bananas hanging from the ceiling....
Gosh. I used to watch trading space. Design On a Dime AND the Christopher Lowell show. Christopher Lowell is where I learned "three of something is a collection". Man. Where is a version of Nick at Night for all the old decorating shows?
@@dianegriffen2756 You're right. He was hilarious! And always got his comeuppance. I remember one show where he got pushed into a backyard pool and another where he sewed the project he was working on to his outrageous cuffs!!! LOL
Was it changing rooms that hung the entire teapot (pottery??) collection from the ceiling and it came crashing down immediately? I was likely 8-10 years old and still remember my heart stopping.
So this show was famous for this. I'm sure they got compensated for this. I was 20 when this show aired. I loved seeing how people reacted. They had a few villian designers. It was fun. Ty comes into his own quickly on the show. My favorite designers were Genevieve and Vern. All of these designers moved on to other design shows that were way better.
Super fun to revisit TS with TSG! I'm old enough to have watched every episode back in the day and this one was definitely notorious! Would be fun to see you watch an episode with Genevieve Gorder and Vern Yip as the designers, since they generally had a more sophisticated sense of design that might have stood the test of time better. This show truly was groundbreaking, though. HGTV and TSG should give Trading Spaces its laurels because the popularity of that show spawned the whole renovation-as-entertainment genre.
Yes! I loved Genevieve and Vern! Hopefully they do another episode. Oh who was the one with the dark hair. She was kind of like Doug. I remember she did a kitchen with wine labels lol
@@cathylavorante6871Hildy!!!!! She’s the one who covered a living room wall with hay (for a family who had kids with allergies) and a bathroom wall with silk flowers. 😮
@@lorijacobs7078 oh my ! I forgot all about those episodes! Me and my mom would watch it together. I miss that. Hildy , yes she’s the one . I also liked Laura( I think) she had curly red hair, maybe it was Lori lol. It’s been awhile since I’ve watched. I agree. It was ground breaking. I mean they did not have a lot of time or money to rehash a design. It had to be stressful, especially when the people don’t like the design concept. I would love to see Doug and Hildy rewatch some of their episodes and see what they think now. It was super fun to watch and I miss it.
The British versions like Changing Rooms were amazing too and I think were the inspiration for the American versions. Whole other vibe and the designer tries to make the homeowner happy. I watched them all when they were popular. As a young stay at home wife and mom I watched them all. With no budget I needed all of the inspiration I could get. Love what you girls do and look forward to Saturdays and hanging out with you ladies.
I think we have a lot of shows that were copies of British shows. A lot of my favorite shows are on Britbox and Acorn. I especially love British crime shows because they don’t feed you the info, you get to follow along and try to figure out who did it. I’m always shocked at the end of the show.
@@jemma50 maybe they did and I am not sure which side the court sided with, although I think it was the homeowners. Certainly legal fees added an extra expense to their overhead, (edit for brevity)
@@bevmacdonald9008 Wow! You must be a lawyer, Bev. 😊 I didn't know all that, but one thing I do know - I would never, ever go on a show like this! I know my own style and wouldn't trust any designer to understand it and incorporate it. The shows are fun to watch, though. Except for the ones that are totally cringe-worthy. lol
@@jemma50 If everyone participating in the show knew the true risk and had no violation of or no real limitation to their consent regarding their property, I would be able to enjoy it more. Once I noticed how easily the people making the show disrespected the homeowners and disregarded their personal property and emotional boundaries, I could no longer enjoy watching.(PS -no, but thanks)"
When the show first came out it was so good and then became a disaster! Hildi was likable but a terrible designer. And Frank was beloved! This is the show how Ty Pennington became a thing.
Frank did comfortable and more didn't push anyone too far from where it already was. You are right Doug was a villain. This show was more entertainment than design. And $1000 in 2004 is $1666 in 2024
We had a version of this in the UK called Changing Rooms, and my family (mum, dad, brother, and sister & i) would watch this religiously every week. It was all the rage back then, but it makes me laugh watching back and seeing how tacky & outdated the designs and diy hacks are. God, the designs in the 90s/2000s are so cringe worthy. At least most designs from the 80s and before are still retro and cool Love this series 🤍
I was 10ish when they show came out. I remember that mocha brown color was so popular. And darker reds. DIY paint textures became an epidemic because of this show. 😂
I remember one episode vividly! Hildi Santo-Tomas was one of the designers... she painted the room all black. It was a disaster! I felt so bad for the couple!
My heart goes out to Pam, I think that brown room is hideous too... Thank goodness they didn't paint the fireplace, and it can all be reversed. We had a show like this here in the UK in the 90s, called Changing Rooms. As I recall not all the designs were enjoyed by 'our' home owners either. One of our couples had a very expensive teapot collection, and the designer created a hanging mantle/shelf unit to show them off. It broke and every teapot was destroyed. Oops. We also had a show similar called 60 Minute Makeover, and yes any painting/wallpapering was done within that time too. It was to surprise someone who was due home, and had no idea a makeover was even happening. The 60 minute makeover team was massive - lots of people in multiple rooms to get it done, and the 60 minutes took place in two segments of 30 minutes each, with a 'tea break' in between. All painting/wallpapering was done in the first half to give it at least a chance to dry for the second half.
❤ love this idea of this, please 🙏🏻 do another one as soon as possible! Much better than the other OG of um… I can’t remember the name of the show. The one with those crazy, HIGH energy looking bedrooms that you won’t be able to sleep in them! Also, GOOD MORNING!
Doug’s job was to destroy friendships…his rooms were always ones that the neighbours hated (and Hildy…she always made a crazy room too). This is giving me so much anxiety🤢. We used to watch this every weekend and Paige did her best to keep the peace😆
Omg I’d love if you had Lorie and Amy Winn as guest. This was fun. BTW I actually had those 2 brown colors as a foe finish in my living room. It was truly awful, especially to paint over it.
Trading Spaces is a fever dream for me. Literally. I remember watching this whenever I had a sick day in elementary school. Consumed by fever, I never noticed how atrocious some of the makeovers were.
This needs to be a regular type of episode! I loved TS! You need to pull in some Hildi designs! She was all about things like feathers and straw and ick! 😝 😊
There were that problem they did not respect the owners if the owner specifically said that he or she hate purple. The designer decide that everything will be purple that was something that I really really didn’t like of that show. I am a fanatic of that kind of show that you love remodeling. I love DIA. I love it. Shows like yours.
34:35 Need Trading Spaces episodes with the other designers…there were others who had more successful less DIY designs. If you think Doug was chaos…you need to see Hildi Santo Tomas!!
Changing rooms (uk version) had a couple of villian designers too, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen did gothic, bright colours (purple) and animal print (zebra) in the same room! They also had some disastrous episodes one i remember, they built a shelving unit to show off the owners tea pot collection (20+ expensive teapots). The shelves were floating and supported via wires from the ceiling through the shelves. When they were doing the end decoration bit the whole shelving unit collapsed breaking all of the teapots...😮 The majority of the designers made comfy home designs but you knew if you got Lawrence or this one woman your were in for it. We had handy andy instead of ty, average looking British bloke that was working class with a regional accent vs the majority of the designers and presenters who spoke more southern English/posh.
They did do a few episodes here and there of changing things that Doug had done and other people. I think they would like check in a year later or something.
This was SO FUN to rewatch with you guys. Oh Doug was such a troll, and Frank is adorably unhinged. All of these cheesy shows are absolutely what got me into design & diy at a young age. Thanks for bringing back these memories! More of these vids please!
This show used to break my heart as so often the designers did really bad design. There were a few that improved the rooms, but most were just terrible.😂
But sure that’s the whole point of these shows. Doing the outrage thing before it started on online. Bad designs = drama. I do love Franks bits of art. Like redo the room, but keep those little elements. I’d love a “what they did to fix it” at the end of the season or something though.
I would LOVE to see your reactions to the episode where they literally glued straw to the walls... that's the episode that broke my mother and me xD couldn't keep watching after that
This show was often a trainwreck. A couple of the designers liked to do stupid, awful stuff to people's rooms just for shock value and ratings. I remember this one. I felt so bad for them. Another episode that stuck out for me was the lady who got a brown room, after she vehemently said NO BROWN in the previews. She looked around the room afterward and despairingly cried, "I hate brown!" Everything was brown. I think Hildy did that one. She was always horrible. That lady was so upset, just like this lady. Unless it's a rich chocolate brown, me, too, lady, me, too. I see baby poop and depression on a wall. (Sorry, Kelsey) So, I still hear her voice as I look at a brown something and say in my head, I hate brown! I always hoped the show helped people fix their rooms later, off camera, but I doubt it.
I loved it when shows started appearing that had some type of transformative element - whether it be decor or beauty related. I remember watching Trading Spaces & thinking the premise was how well do you know your neighbors, so the makeover would represent that. And I always enjoyed it the most when they did something that made the other happy! But the more uncomfortable episodes created more drama naturally & since audiences tend to like drama - that's probably what the producers hoped for.
I would LOVE for this to be a series! Reviewing TS episodes and then suggestions and renderings of how you would fix the final looks. Also, it is a fantastic idea to choose a craft/art project from the episode and make a Sorry Girls version using the techniques.
Great episode! Great idea! I watched trading Spaces religiously. I remember this episode and the woman’s tears and felt terrible for her. I hope she got the living room of her dreams eventually. Doug and Hildy always did rooms that had not quite this severe but similar reactions. Paige was a pro.
I used to watch the show religiously. There was the one designer, I forget her name, but every time she would do an episode I would cringe. I think the one time she put like or something on the wall oh my gosh. but I used to love the show. I don’t think that it was on HGTV, but I wish they would bring it back. Thanks for bringing me back the happy memories.❤
Loving spending Saturday mornings watching this show! So fun! I remember this Trading Spaces episode...felt so bad for the lady. Wish they had a follow up! :)
This was such a funny video, I was literally giggling to myself drinking my coffee and my partner had to come see what was so funny to me. I love this Saturday series!
We painted a sofa bed with wall paint, using loads of water, and it ended up looking leatherette. We did it 6 years ago, sit in it, sleep on it occasionally, still looks great. I'm so surprised!
I'm so glad you watched Trading Spaces! My family watched this show together, and it's how my mom shared her love of design. Would love to see your redos.
I SO miss this show!! I would binge watch it while nursing my baby who now has a baby of their own. I remember this episode as well. It was rare there was a room Doug did that was liked at the end.
The disappointed reactions and over the top designs were a normal part of the show's process IMO and some of the designers didn't seem to care at all. 😆
do a review of the show with Ty please either the Extreme Home edition episode or Trading Spaces or may be both. These shows were my extreme fav childhood memory
Watching TS with TSG made me realize, I've been watching home decor shows for YEARS! I just bought my first home that I can make all the choices without a parent, partner, or landlord makes this hit different. The episode where Hildi (always lol) put SAND on the walls and floors... 🤦🏼The look on Kelsey's face at 7:03 🤣
Here in my country , in the 2000s, there was a TV program with the theme of interior design and decoration. In one episode, the architect designed a wall ornament with the name of the owner's deceased husband written on it, and a blood-dripping effect of paint was flowing from that decoration. The woman cried her eyes out. Daytime broadcast is wild.
I painted 2 chairs from IKEA, everybody think they are LETHER and I did it probably 5 or 6 years ago and still intact and let me tell you I have four grandkids all boys 😂😂
@@llamasugar5478 it is very easy. I did not put a primer. I painted white first to avoid the possibility of the fabric take a lot of paint. I did two hands of white and then two hands of the final color and now they are like her new and very pretty because how I said, they look like leather
Genevieve Gorder and Vern Yip were my favorite designers. My mom and I watched every episode. I remember Genevieve having more of a boho vibe but wonder if we would consider it boho now. 🤔
OMG I LOVED Genevieve! Not only were her rooms my favorite but she was just a gem! I also watched the show with my mom and some times my sister bc we would watch it after school. I also remember Heidi. She had some bold designs and…interesting choices lol
Genevieve was awesome, I agree! :)
Genevieve was my favorite too!
Mine too. Vern was the all time fav of mine.
Those 2 were the only ones I would’ve wanted on my own house.
I used to watch a show called Design On A Dime. You might enjoy seeing a few episodes of that one.
YES!
Yes I loved that show
Yes, that was a good one!
That show was THE BEST!!!! Loved the host
I loved Design on a Dime
Okay but imagine: a TSG From the Workshop Floor episode of Trading Spaces where each of you designs a space in each other's homes. 👀 Even just drawn, with hypothetical budgets and all the amazing DIY flair.
That would be cool! No costs... I think since these ladies all work together do closely, it would be easier to design for each other, since they are familiar with each other's styles.
Do the straw/hay room next
Hahaha iconic
That's honestly the one I thought this would be with "the ICONIC" episode. Pleaaaaase do that one next hahaha
😂😂😂
I will always remember that episode. I cringed the whole way through it and it made me question the qualifications required to be an interior designer.
Or how about the one with plastic flowers on every inch of that bathroom? Or the seed packets?!!! Or THE SAND!
I watched Trading Spaces religiously. Frank, Genevieve & Vern were the best. Doug & Hildi were sh*t disturbers. Sadly Frank Bilec passed in 2020 at 72 🙁
I could have written your comment other than your exact description of Doug and Hildi. They were both snobs on the show. I don't know if that was set up, or their real personalities.
I was so sad when hear about Frank. He was such a sweetheart.
Vern and Genevieve usually did great jobs! And their rooms looked less DIY.
Doug and Hildi just watched the world burn 🔥
One of the designers from extreme make over home edition has died. Eduardo Xol was the one who died.
@@sabbby100 Yes, I read about that. He was stabbed. So tragic.
rochelle gently saying "it was 20 years ago guys"
just brilliant
I loved this show back in the day. Many homeowners hoped they didn’t get Doug or Hildy because they were always terrible or over the top.
😂🙈
Do you remember the episode where (I think it was Doug) installed toilets as decor?!
@@jennifergraham3752 oh my gosh no! I’ll have to search for that. I remember when Hildy glued faux flowers all over the walls, it was so bad!
@@bridgettebollig2649 Changing Rooms has an episode like that, too, I think. Probably Laura was the designer, as her designs were always crazy. Maybe that's where TS got the idea. Or perhaps I just got the two shows mixed up for that episode. LOL
Hilda was over the top, now Doug was just used to a different economic bracket more geared to those who could afford to do upscale designs and his attitudes and results always were very interesting...just remember this was the beginning of Designer's on HGTV and middle classes realizing anyone with a little effort, and some money and a great style sense could achieve a great look even when income was on a lower budget..and these shows encouraged creativity 👍
❤❤miss these shows..
Sorry, girls but all of you, would fit right into that era easily as many of your skills are extremely creatively achieved and also interesting to watch
Ah, this was based on the BBC's Changing Rooms...I remember some of the designs being quite hideous and a LOT of MDF being used. There were also some great successes, but I never really understood rooms being 'themed'.
@@olbird7647 everything was MDF.
I remember that episode!! Both rooms were bad to start with, and ten times worse after!😂
I cannot hear Trading Spaces without immediately thinking of the time they filled someone’s living room with sand because they liked the beach 😂
YES! I was a child and thought it was amazing….I now think I would be horrified!
😂😂😂😂 horrible
Doug was rude but Hildi was the true villian. The hay walls room. The Hildi pop art of her own face room. The room with real bananas hanging from the ceiling....
that was horrible!! I
would of found a
lawyer really fast!!
Hanging bananas is absolutely unhinged 😂😂 I have to find that one
Do you remember the Doug and Hildi black and white episode! Commit and color drench!
@@johnny1966ish Or the Doug episode with the toilets and prison theme?
Hilda was a lunatic but Doug was evil. He didn’t care about anything but his ego.
Gosh. I used to watch trading space. Design On a Dime AND the Christopher Lowell show. Christopher Lowell is where I learned "three of something is a collection". Man. Where is a version of Nick at Night for all the old decorating shows?
That would be amazing! It would be fun to see what was so cool at the time and see how much our personal styles have changed or not! 😂😂😂
You need to check out Changing Rooms….the British show Trading Spaces is based on
Many more HORRENDOUS makeovers!!!
Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen was always so over the top, but at least he wasn't a villian
@@dianegriffen2756 You're right. He was hilarious! And always got his comeuppance. I remember one show where he got pushed into a backyard pool and another where he sewed the project he was working on to his outrageous cuffs!!! LOL
@@chriskollar2731 yes! That was the one that Trading Spaces was based on. I thought they’d be watching that one given they’re Canadian.
@@dianegriffen2756 omg I’d totally forgotten about him! The host was really sweet I remember. Paige was just annoying.
Was it changing rooms that hung the entire teapot (pottery??) collection from the ceiling and it came crashing down immediately? I was likely 8-10 years old and still remember my heart stopping.
So this show was famous for this. I'm sure they got compensated for this. I was 20 when this show aired. I loved seeing how people reacted. They had a few villian designers. It was fun. Ty comes into his own quickly on the show. My favorite designers were Genevieve and Vern. All of these designers moved on to other design shows that were way better.
Super fun to revisit TS with TSG! I'm old enough to have watched every episode back in the day and this one was definitely notorious! Would be fun to see you watch an episode with Genevieve Gorder and Vern Yip as the designers, since they generally had a more sophisticated sense of design that might have stood the test of time better. This show truly was groundbreaking, though. HGTV and TSG should give Trading Spaces its laurels because the popularity of that show spawned the whole renovation-as-entertainment genre.
Yes! I loved Genevieve and Vern! Hopefully they do another episode. Oh who was the one with the dark hair. She was kind of like Doug. I remember she did a kitchen with wine labels lol
Agreed! They were my favorites too!
@@cathylavorante6871Hildy!!!!! She’s the one who covered a living room wall with hay (for a family who had kids with allergies) and a bathroom wall with silk flowers. 😮
@@lorijacobs7078omg
@@lorijacobs7078 oh my ! I forgot all about those episodes! Me and my mom would watch it together. I miss that. Hildy , yes she’s the one . I also liked Laura( I think) she had curly red hair, maybe it was Lori lol. It’s been awhile since I’ve watched.
I agree. It was ground breaking. I mean they did not have a lot of time or money to rehash a design. It had to be stressful, especially when the people don’t like the design concept. I would love to see Doug and Hildy rewatch some of their episodes and see what they think now. It was super fun to watch and I miss it.
0:59 I used to think the people should have pretended the live in the others house in preproduction … so the could work on their own house.
The British versions like Changing Rooms were amazing too and I think were the inspiration for the American versions. Whole other vibe and the designer tries to make the homeowner happy. I watched them all when they were popular. As a young stay at home wife and mom I watched them all. With no budget I needed all of the inspiration I could get. Love what you girls do and look forward to Saturdays and hanging out with you ladies.
I think we have a lot of shows that were copies of British shows. A lot of my favorite shows are on Britbox and Acorn. I especially love British crime shows because they don’t feed you the info, you get to follow along and try to figure out who did it. I’m always shocked at the end of the show.
Yes! I loved Changing Rooms and it was much better than Trading Spaces. It's true that many American shows were based on the British versions.
I found watching this weirdly stressful. Not y’all, but the decisions and personalities and made me so uncomfortable.
The lawsuits against them made future episodes of the show unaffordable and potential liabilities
Really? Lawsuits? I would have thought the home owners would have had to sign a contract agreeing to letting the designers do their thing.
@@jemma50 maybe they did and I am not sure which side the court sided with, although I think it was the homeowners. Certainly legal fees added an extra expense to their overhead, (edit for brevity)
@@bevmacdonald9008 Wow! You must be a lawyer, Bev. 😊 I didn't know all that, but one thing I do know - I would never, ever go on a show like this! I know my own style and wouldn't trust any designer to understand it and incorporate it. The shows are fun to watch, though. Except for the ones that are totally cringe-worthy. lol
@@jemma50 If everyone participating in the show knew the true risk and had no violation of or no real limitation to their consent regarding their property, I would be able to enjoy it more. Once I noticed how easily the people making the show disrespected the homeowners and disregarded their personal property and emotional boundaries, I could no longer enjoy watching.(PS -no, but thanks)"
@@bevmacdonald9008 I totally get that.
Have Paige on an episode! This episode may be my favorite! More TS! 💙
You guys need to watch the one where Heidi puts grass, (hay)all over the wall.
Or the one where she painted cross sections of pink and purple even on the ceiling 😮
When the show first came out it was so good and then became a disaster! Hildi was likable but a terrible designer. And Frank was beloved! This is the show how Ty Pennington became a thing.
Frank did comfortable and more didn't push anyone too far from where it already was. You are right Doug was a villain. This show was more entertainment than design. And $1000 in 2004 is $1666 in 2024
I’ve revisiting old shows like this. I would love to see this continue with Property Brothers!
We had a version of this in the UK called Changing Rooms, and my family (mum, dad, brother, and sister & i) would watch this religiously every week. It was all the rage back then, but it makes me laugh watching back and seeing how tacky & outdated the designs and diy hacks are. God, the designs in the 90s/2000s are so cringe worthy. At least most designs from the 80s and before are still retro and cool
Love this series 🤍
I was 10ish when they show came out. I remember that mocha brown color was so popular. And darker reds.
DIY paint textures became an epidemic because of this show. 😂
I remember Monster House! My brother and I still sing the theme song sometimes.
Sorry girls. I never liked this show as most of their designs where tacky. I would say 99 percent tacky.
I remember one episode vividly! Hildi Santo-Tomas was one of the designers... she painted the room all black. It was a disaster! I felt so bad for the couple!
Nooooo
lol I keep remembering the one with the black wine labels she used as wallpaper. I do think they loved it tho
@@cathylavorante6871 I think they were non drinkers. I’m thinking they didn’t like it.
My heart goes out to Pam, I think that brown room is hideous too... Thank goodness they didn't paint the fireplace, and it can all be reversed.
We had a show like this here in the UK in the 90s, called Changing Rooms. As I recall not all the designs were enjoyed by 'our' home owners either. One of our couples had a very expensive teapot collection, and the designer created a hanging mantle/shelf unit to show them off. It broke and every teapot was destroyed. Oops.
We also had a show similar called 60 Minute Makeover, and yes any painting/wallpapering was done within that time too. It was to surprise someone who was due home, and had no idea a makeover was even happening. The 60 minute makeover team was massive - lots of people in multiple rooms to get it done, and the 60 minutes took place in two segments of 30 minutes each, with a 'tea break' in between. All painting/wallpapering was done in the first half to give it at least a chance to dry for the second half.
❤ love this idea of this, please 🙏🏻 do another one as soon as possible!
Much better than the other OG of um… I can’t remember the name of the show.
The one with those crazy, HIGH energy looking bedrooms that you won’t be able to sleep in them!
Also, GOOD MORNING!
Doug’s job was to destroy friendships…his rooms were always ones that the neighbours hated (and Hildy…she always made a crazy room too). This is giving me so much anxiety🤢. We used to watch this every weekend and Paige did her best to keep the peace😆
Omg I’d love if you had Lorie and Amy Winn as guest. This was fun. BTW I actually had those 2 brown colors as a foe finish in my living room. It was truly awful, especially to paint over it.
Trading Spaces is a fever dream for me. Literally. I remember watching this whenever I had a sick day in elementary school. Consumed by fever, I never noticed how atrocious some of the makeovers were.
11:18 100% the designers had “character roles”…some were nice and others were pure chaos!
Doug was chaos…and so was Hildi Santo Tomas!
This needs to be a regular type of episode! I loved TS! You need to pull in some Hildi designs! She was all about things like feathers and straw and ick! 😝 😊
Pick the straw room!!! Also Vern's designs were pretty good, if I recall correctly.
This is so fun. I can't believe I never saw this episode because I watched this all the time.
Omg I loved Trading Spaces!! I can’t wait to see which episode it is!!!
35:41 The silence 😭
also, i think we need a team TSG re-designing these spaces
Who remembers Hildy’s hay room?
What about Candace Olsen's show? Curious if her designs stand the test of time. And she had silly moments mixed in.
Another Canadian queen!!!
I love Candice Olsen
There were that problem they did not respect the owners if the owner specifically said that he or she hate purple. The designer decide that everything will be purple that was something that I really really didn’t like of that show. I am a fanatic of that kind of show that you love remodeling. I love DIA. I love it. Shows like yours.
I love this Nostalgia series! More please!
34:35 Need Trading Spaces episodes with the other designers…there were others who had more successful less DIY designs. If you think Doug was chaos…you need to see Hildi Santo Tomas!!
Changing rooms (uk version) had a couple of villian designers too, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen did gothic, bright colours (purple) and animal print (zebra) in the same room!
They also had some disastrous episodes one i remember, they built a shelving unit to show off the owners tea pot collection (20+ expensive teapots). The shelves were floating and supported via wires from the ceiling through the shelves. When they were doing the end decoration bit the whole shelving unit collapsed breaking all of the teapots...😮
The majority of the designers made comfy home designs but you knew if you got Lawrence or this one woman your were in for it.
We had handy andy instead of ty, average looking British bloke that was working class with a regional accent vs the majority of the designers and presenters who spoke more southern English/posh.
I remember the teapot collection. They were devastated.
They did do a few episodes here and there of changing things that Doug had done and other people. I think they would like check in a year later or something.
I love Monster House. Design On A Dime and While You Were Out were similar to Trading Spaces.
Let’s watch more of these 😂 i cannot believe i used to like these makeovers as a kid, and hoping to be on these shows 😂😂😂
Please do more of these!!! I desperately need to watch yall react to the hay wall!!!
You’ve got to review the episode with Hildi doing the room in flowers!
This was SO FUN to rewatch with you guys. Oh Doug was such a troll, and Frank is adorably unhinged. All of these cheesy shows are absolutely what got me into design & diy at a young age. Thanks for bringing back these memories! More of these vids please!
I want that Frank portrait. What a piece to have. RIP Frank you legend
This show used to break my heart as so often the designers did really bad design. There were a few that improved the rooms, but most were just terrible.😂
But sure that’s the whole point of these shows. Doing the outrage thing before it started on online. Bad designs = drama.
I do love Franks bits of art. Like redo the room, but keep those little elements. I’d love a “what they did to fix it” at the end of the season or something though.
Good morning TSG!
Yay!!!!
Morning ✨❤️
Best from the workshop floor yet!!! Hope you do more trading spaces episodes!!!
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I would LOVE to see your reactions to the episode where they literally glued straw to the walls... that's the episode that broke my mother and me xD couldn't keep watching after that
More trading spaces!!!!
This show was often a trainwreck. A couple of the designers liked to do stupid, awful stuff to people's rooms just for shock value and ratings. I remember this one. I felt so bad for them. Another episode that stuck out for me was the lady who got a brown room, after she vehemently said NO BROWN in the previews. She looked around the room afterward and despairingly cried, "I hate brown!" Everything was brown. I think Hildy did that one. She was always horrible. That lady was so upset, just like this lady. Unless it's a rich chocolate brown, me, too, lady, me, too. I see baby poop and depression on a wall. (Sorry, Kelsey) So, I still hear her voice as I look at a brown something and say in my head, I hate brown! I always hoped the show helped people fix their rooms later, off camera, but I doubt it.
I loved it when shows started appearing that had some type of transformative element - whether it be decor or beauty related. I remember watching Trading Spaces & thinking the premise was how well do you know your neighbors, so the makeover would represent that. And I always enjoyed it the most when they did something that made the other happy! But the more uncomfortable episodes created more drama naturally & since audiences tend to like drama - that's probably what the producers hoped for.
I would LOVE for this to be a series! Reviewing TS episodes and then suggestions and renderings of how you would fix the final looks. Also, it is a fantastic idea to choose a craft/art project from the episode and make a Sorry Girls version using the techniques.
Great episode! Great idea! I watched trading Spaces religiously. I remember this episode and the woman’s tears and felt terrible for her. I hope she got the living room of her dreams eventually. Doug and Hildy always did rooms that had not quite this severe but similar reactions. Paige was a pro.
PLEASE DO ANOTHER EPISODE LIKE THIS!!!! The memories of this show!! Remover the lady who HATED THE BROWN AND ORANGE!!
I used to watch the show religiously. There was the one designer, I forget her name, but every time she would do an episode I would cringe. I think the one time she put like or something on the wall oh my gosh. but I used to love the show. I don’t think that it was on HGTV, but I wish they would bring it back. Thanks for bringing me back the happy memories.❤
Loving spending Saturday mornings watching this show! So fun! I remember this Trading Spaces episode...felt so bad for the lady. Wish they had a follow up! :)
This was such a funny video, I was literally giggling to myself drinking my coffee and my partner had to come see what was so funny to me. I love this Saturday series!
We painted a sofa bed with wall paint, using loads of water, and it ended up looking leatherette. We did it 6 years ago, sit in it, sleep on it occasionally, still looks great. I'm so surprised!
I'm so glad you watched Trading Spaces! My family watched this show together, and it's how my mom shared her love of design. Would love to see your redos.
I remember Trading Spaces. I loved watching it growing up. I feel like I recall an episode where they had cardboard furniture 🤔
I love how - as Doug is describing the wall colour as mocha and ivory - Rachel is TOTALLY wearing that palette 😅
I SO miss this show!! I would binge watch it while nursing my baby who now has a baby of their own. I remember this episode as well. It was rare there was a room Doug did that was liked at the end.
Find and Design. Thrift, rummage sales, DIY with what you find, then design a room. Jennifer Convey was the host..
The disappointed reactions and over the top designs were a normal part of the show's process IMO and some of the designers didn't seem to care at all. 😆
OMG this was my favorite episode, especially in the end when she starts to cry. I guess I’m old enough to have a watched all those episodes.
do a review of the show with Ty please either the Extreme Home edition episode or Trading Spaces or may be both. These shows were my extreme fav childhood memory
If you think about it , they watched the show before. They knew who the designers were , they were taking a chance and they were excited about it.
14:32 i just had major nostalgia 😅 i always thought black sweater guy was hot
Watching TS with TSG made me realize, I've been watching home decor shows for YEARS! I just bought my first home that I can make all the choices without a parent, partner, or landlord makes this hit different. The episode where Hildi (always lol) put SAND on the walls and floors... 🤦🏼The look on Kelsey's face at 7:03 🤣
Sand…straw…feathers….She was cuckoo! 😂
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Here in my country , in the 2000s, there was a TV program with the theme of interior design and decoration. In one episode, the architect designed a wall ornament with the name of the owner's deceased husband written on it, and a blood-dripping effect of paint was flowing from that decoration. The woman cried her eyes out. Daytime broadcast is wild.
What. The. Eff?!? lol Thats horrible!
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It happens so long ago, a $1.000 dollars a that time where ok. They build many things and the artwork too
I painted 2 chairs from IKEA, everybody think they are LETHER and I did it probably 5 or 6 years ago and still intact and let me tell you I have four grandkids all boys 😂😂
I saw that on DIY Danie, and wondered how it holds up.
@@llamasugar5478 it is very easy. I did not put a primer. I painted white first to avoid the possibility of the fabric take a lot of paint. I did two hands of white and then two hands of the final color and now they are like her new and very pretty because how I said, they look like leather
Yes, you can see in the colors of the tape and they way to wear that it is a very very old show some thing like 25 years ago
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I would hunt Doug down if he did THAT to my house!!
They did do a follow up on some of the homeowners and I think they were on it. This show was wild.
Y’all need to review the episode where Hilde put REAL Hay all over the walls 😂
Rachel's facial expressions are EVERYTHING!! 😂
You guys should do your own version of trading spaces!!!!!
OMG watching Traded Spaces totally gave a anxiety 😂
Yall should check out the one where they put plants to cover the walls
When I read the title, I assumed this would be the straw room 😂
Crazy how the mugs fit their owner’s personality
I hated that red and peach comb, but now aaaaaagggggg😖
I haven't laughed so hard in a looooooong time 🤣
I laughed so hard on this episode, 😂😂😂😂
So much nostalgia! So much cringe haha
this episode was so funny 😂
Rach’s top matches the brown room 😢
You guys need to do Flea Market Flip
H YES trading spaces
Oh man, I hated that stupid hair style on Paige. The little flips in the front. And EVERYBODY had it.
Very 2002