Bleargh! Redecorating horror!

[icarus]

I'm looking at a before/after redecorating job.

Oh. My. God.

Rebecca's Garden.

The took this rustic family room with wood paneling and natural brick walls with a view of the lake, and they painted a tomato red stripe all the way around the room. They painted a nice wood cabinet bright red.

They showed the Before pictures and my eyes went: "Ordinary, but pleasant."

The After pictures: "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!"

If Rebecca ever shows up at your door, meet her with a flamethrower.

This message was brought to you by the daughter of an art director, interior designer and step-daughter of professional stylist. I may not be rich, but my pedigree says Taste!

I can't stop watching this show. What else is she going to do? It's like a trainwreck.

Comments

[wickedelf.livejournal.com]

Have you ever watched Trading Spaces? Man... do they have some trainwreck rooms! I like watching (although haven't in awhile), but I would never, ever, ever let them anywhere near my home!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Trading Spaces I've heard about from my mom, but I've only seen one episode. That was enough. O.O

Icarus

[redblaze.livejournal.com]

I watched an episode of Trading Spaces where they took a lovely, spacious bathroom, and stapled plastic flowers to every inch of that room. Thousand and thousand of flowers stapled everywhere. It was the most horrific thing I'd ever seen!!!

I'd never felt so bad. . . Man, those poor homeowners.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Stapled -? The flowers are bad enough, but... stapled? My god, the amount of work it's going to take to clean that up.

Icarus

[dphearson.livejournal.com]

The before sounds wonderful...and the after, just a visual ouch!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Before wasn't that good. It was really, oh, beat-up den furniture the kids can jump on (with a nice view). But the after was so much worse. It reminded me of some of my teenage 'decorating.' Hmm. Make that pre-teen.

Icarus

[thywillbedone.livejournal.com]

How about the Trading Spaces that Hildy did, which she glued feathers all over the walls?

O_o

I love that show and I dread to have HER in my house.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You know, I've only seen one episode of Trading Spaces. This was something stranger. I think what it was is some kind of infomercial experiment by Home Depot where they pretended the infomercial was a real show. But they went a little cheap on the decorator and just got someone's neice who sort of looked like Martha Stewart. The results were hilarious. You should have seen her attempt a Martha Stewart floral arrangement.

LOLOLOLOLOL!

Icarus

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Obviously a lot of Trading Spaces watchers on your FL.

Hildi, it's all Hildi's fault, people. (And Kia's)

Vern is the man; HE can decorate a room. And he's from Atlanta. *silly grin*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Looks like. And I've only seen the show once. Er. I'm not sure if I saw Hildi or Vern redecorate. But I suspect it was Hildi.

Icarus

P.S. Are you from Atlanta?

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Did it look like shite? Then it was probably Hildi. *g*

Yes, I am a proud Atlantan (Atlantean?) even though I'm in Tennessee right now for grad school.

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

argh! i watch those shows, and no matter how hidieous the job is, people love it! i know there are the ones who hate it, and i wanna see those! but everytimei watch it, they love it..
one time, they stapled sheet metal to the wall..ew..
and on the british version, the gay decorator man, had the same awful flower print as his suit that was the bedspread...it was pink and white and florally and..ew...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I am going to get caught up on comments, I am...

The recipients lie. You can tell by the stiff way they say it. "Er, yeah, I really like flowers all right..." *cringe* "Gosh, and uh... um... red is my favourite colour after all." The woman who's place had been painted red praised the new TV cabinet, "Oh that's good, to hide the TV away like that." Not a word about the rest of the decorating.

I suspect that red paint was going bye-bye faster than you can say 'Home Depot.' :)

Icarus