Right! Luckily it was just a faux box they put over the real fireplace but omg if they had removed it, that would have been horrible. She was crying like that because her father had built that fireplace for her before he passed away. So it was sentimental for her. Poor thing, I just wanted to hug that sweet lady.
I was afraid i was gonna see a bunch of comments calling her a karen and I’m so relieved I’m seeing the opposite! That room was honestly the worst looking out of all of them, even though the straw was a worse idea it actually looked a tiny bit better that that brown horror room
@@kenziehansen2424 Yeah but still, their specific requests were basically: "We don't want brown and we want our fireplace left alone." The two things they got were brown walls and a new fireplace exterior.
I remember watching that episode live and thinking, they were gonna lose it when they saw the fireplace. It looked so modern in my memory but I still didn't like it 😅
@@kenziehansen2424 I watched the extension of that very episode. She was crying because her father built that fireplace before he died and she didn't realize that it was covered up, she thought they had taken it out.
She was trying to cheaply recreate a textured wallpaper. It was a horrible idea with kids. Remember they had a budget so TY did a lot of the woodwork. All you could do really was drapes, cushions and paint.
I remember one where the entire room was one half Grey and one half pink. Like right down the middle. And I think she used broken glass glued to the wall as well. Was that Hildi too?
I quit watching the show after Hildie’s disastrous hay on the wall episode. Aside from being ugly, messy and impossible to maintain, that hay wall was a hazard for the toddler in that house. I couldn’t watch Trading Spaces make people so upset.
Hildi had the absolute worst designs and seemed to be intentionally doing horrible designs for shock value. Doug wasn’t very good either, every other design was his favorite color chocolate brown.
@@GhostSal Doug’s designs were always the color of toilet water post use. His designs were my least favorite simply bc of his color choices (which were always the same: browns).
I never understood why Hilde was on this show. She was one of the worst designers. But, then again maybe that’s why they had her on, to create some drama for t.v.
There was also a bathroom where she STAPLED cloth/silk flowers all over the wall. They would be covered with dust, powder, hair, and airborne 💩particles in no time, and also eventually damaged/discolored from repeated shower steam
I felt so bad for the woman whose fireplace got covered and she had to walk out of the room. The designer had zero respect for the homeowner and their space.
@@lisanevins3605 Her father built that fireplace before he died. It had sentimental value to her. Not to mention it was her request NOT to touch the fireplace. Just because you like it better after means zip.
I remember when the show originally aired. The designer was disrespectful and tried to get the neighbors to paint it anyway. He should have left it alone.
Hildy caused DAMAGE to peoples homes, she should have never been allowed to continue on this show straw on the walls?? Why? In whos universe is that even normal
That was probably the most difficult thing to undue. Besides the episode where a designer paints a couch. And there was another one when a designer painted a fridge.
@@NoOneHere2Day Wow now I don't know what is worse sand on the floor or straw on the wall lol. Plus what if they had pets? If they eat it it could be toxic to them too. Hildi never seemed like she was approachable or easy to work with. I would have loved to work with Genevieve.
Because men are normal and don't get about petty things like the "wrong" shade of pink. Women are insane about their Home Decor. Things that can be easily fixed don't need tears...
"I hope you 're not disappointed....." turns living room into British public latrine from 1980s. This show demonstrates how polite Americans are. In a country with sp much gun ownership, it is to these peoples' credit that woman and her camera crew left the house alive
One of the things not mentioned here, is many of the designers wanted out of their contracts but weren’t able to do so; so a few started to sabotage their own work in hopes of being replaced or fired.
@@mel2000 it was said also the network owned completely and partly the creative rights to their work on and off the show and received percentage of each designer’s work while under contract. A similar thing happened to the designers on Project Runway as well, with clauses built end by Miramax saying X amount would taken from profits from future designs in exchange for being part of the show.
The designers were always so arrogant and insistent in their designs without getting to know the people who the renovations were for. I feel so bad for some of them.
BEIGE??? That was an improvement??? With a painted brown chest of drawers and sunburst accents??? This show was all about the drama of having your neighbors wreck your house and then filming the reveals.
There wasn't one nice room in the bunch. 🤢 Hildy was the worst. She was so self-absorbed that she would do the opposite of the homeowner's wishes. Paige used to drive me nuts, too. The way she would hold their hands and hang on them was cringy. I liked Vern and Laurie's designs the best. I'd be curious to see what I'd think now. I watched every single episode back then. That's because it was the only show of its kind at the time. Now there are so many design shows to choose from that are MUCH better.
So if you wondering what happened to the fire place room. Well yes the first thing they did was put it back to where it was. They also painted the walls red. And they had to take out the carpet because Doug and Ty left glue on the carpet when they were working on the fireplace. So they toke the carpet out and installed hardwood floors.
I'm always surprised people who sign up to do this show think they are going to get a basic remodel. I would NEVER let a designer in my house without showing me what they are going to do.
These fails remind me why I switched majors out of art. Weird for weirdness sake is ridiculous. Don’t inflict your imagination on others - phuck up your OWN space.
Yeah the basic premise is the designers amuse themselves by destroying someone’s house and then walking away because it’s not their problem. The hay and the flowers on the walls are especially horrific because she’s literally left food for vermin all over the walls. The houses will quickly become infested with insects and mice but that’s the homeowners’ problem! I mean I have limited sympathy for the homeowners because they set themselves up for this just so they can get on television…but I still think it’s horrific that these designers intentionally do awful things that they would never do to themselves or any paying client.
From what I read, there is A LOT of peer pressure and misinformation going on. For example, in one show I remember the unhappy couple saying that they didn't want to do the show but their neighbors REALLY wanted to be on it and assured them they'd keep the designer from doing anything awful. Then, they'd further get pressured by the neighbors and producers not to have too many "hard and fast' rules about what couldn't be touched or you wouldn't get picked. And, finally, the intake interviewer talks to them like they'll have a lot of say in the design of their home by asking questions like what they like and don't like, what is their vision, what are they most afraid of, etc. The home owners felt like they'd be protected by their neighbors and the producers. HA!
I feel bad for the husband in the first one. He absolutely loved it and it seems that made his wife hate it even more. Poor guy looked genuinely excited and she immediately dashed that for him.
They are missing, what I think was the worst episode of all. The homeowners had just put in new hardwood flooring. They were so proud of it and Doug decided to paint border all around the room in this new hardwood. The homeowners had been adamant about not touching the hardwood floors. I was so upset for them, at the reveal. Those floors cost thousands of dollars and Doug just *ruined* them for a flipping TV show! That wasn’t something that was easily dismantled or repaired after all the crew left. After that episode, I lost faith in both Doug and Hildy being good designers. I learned a lot watching the show over the years and tried to watch the remake of the show but when I found out Hildy was back for it, I just couldn’t do it. On a side note, I loved the older designer guy. He was funny, kind and tried his best to compassionate with everyone he worked with.
I personally like the fireplace better afterwards, but it’s not mine. It’s theirs. That’s the point. They should have used the fireplace as inspiration for the rest of the room and left it alone. I distinctly remember this episode and came to RU-vid to find it.
Hildy was the absolute worst designer on that show! She loves gluing stuff to walls. She once glued fake plastic flowers on every wall in a bathroom. It looked like the inside of a coffin when she was done 😂
.... I gotta say, the hay on the wall shit was idiotic. It looks like shit and it's not even gonna last, I wouldn't be happy about that either. The rusted wall (wtf?!) was wack, it's gonna change color over time and it's gonna leave brown scuffs on your clothing when you brush up against it. Who the fuck wants an entire wall made of real rust. The fireplace... yeah, it looks good, but they SPECIFICALLY said to not touch that 1 thing, and they did it anyway. "You guys are gonna be fixin' that in a little bit" indeed, if they don't, that sounds like a lawsuit to me. It's especially ridiculous since I think the old fireplace would have looked perfectly good enough before the modification.
Hildie was a maniac! Can’t believe she’s an actual designer. I always felt so sorry for the couple that needed up with her. Genevieve and Laurie were my favs, and Vern!
This show did some very nice things but mostly they totally screwed up peoples living spaces. Straw on the walls was criminal. TLC should have made things over
The wild thing is, at one point they had this special where they showed you a bit of each designer's home. Hildi's was all white and completely boring. I know they obviously hired her and Doug to be like the villains of the show, but I still think some of the stuff they did was pretty cruel. It's not featured here, but other f*cked up sh*t they did included: making a circus tent room with sand on the floor, a room where everything was on the ceiling, a room that Doug made look like a prison cell, and finally one he called "White Whoa" where he painted everything white. It was especially sad because the couple who owned that house had been painstakingly restoring all the wood finishes.
lmao the host of this show kills me sometimes with the way she eggs people on when they're clearly upset Narrator: the homeowners wanted anything but asian decor.. Host, in the goofiest way possible: the inspiration of the room came from that valance which is actually an obi from a kimono.... *_iSn'T tHaT cOoL!?_* 😆
