Why it can be dangerous to impose your aesthetic upon others, no matter how-well-meaning you are or how stylish and superior your sense of taste is.
Which is why, while Margie and I are more than willing to pass on our (sometimes conflicting) fashion sense, you won’t catch us sneaking into our friends’ houses and doing it for them.
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Now, I do enjoy this show and I have seen a couple of cool ideas come to fruition that I thought were never going to work. That said, I’ve also seen stuff I didn’t like (but the owners did). The most important thing to understand is this – though the owners and the other couple who do the work give input into the new room, it is the DESIGNERS who make the decisions, buy the supplies and impose their vision on the room. I think a couple of the desingers are real talented, others less so. I don’t think this makes the show less fun, it’s just not quite what the advertisements make it out to be.
I admit to being a bit of a Trading Space junkie. Some of the rooms are dog ugly, but in my opinion – you get what you get. You take the chance when you sign up. Sort of like the whole Who Wants to Marry a Millionare thing.
Hey, I’d sign up and say I wanted my basement redone, just so someone else would clean it out. Who cares what it looks like.
I enjoy watching TS, too, though I agree that the designers are often a bit — oddball in their choices. My regular comment is that it looks like something that might be nice to take a picture of, but I’d like to see it in another six months.
I prefer the “garden redesign” shows, myself. Usually a lot less “showing off” of a make-over, and something that’s more liveable.