Want To Trade Spaces With Your Mother-In-Law?
Have you seen the commercial advertising that Paige Davis is returning to host Trading Spaces on TLC? I loved that show from the beginning, but when she suddenly left I lost interest. For some reason her almost annoying perkiness and antics made that show fun to watch. Without her you were left with two arrogant designers and a few nervous homeowners.
With Paige back, TLC is switching things up. In the advertisement they ask if you could trade spaces with your ex or your mother-in-law. Can you imagine? I can’t, which makes me all the more excited for the upcoming show on Saturday’s (January 27th is the premiere).
I don’t have an ex, unless you count that guy I refer to as Rat-Boy that I dated back in high school, but I do have 2 mother-in-law’s. (No, we don’t live in Utah. My husband’s parents are divorced and his father is remarried.) I get along very well with my husband’s mother and we have similar tastes in decorating, but his step-mother and I differ in this area quite a bit.
I shop at places like Big Lots and outlets, so I can proudly tell you the price of most of the items I display in our house. My step-mother shops at very pricey stores and insists that your pillow cases match your lamp shade. I’m lucky if our pillow cases match the sheets!
Now if they cast me on this show and I was trading spaces with Rat-Boy, I would honestly staple rubber rats all over his walls. Maybe I’d add a few snakes in there too just for fun.
Honestly, I can’t say that I have any particular style. I like to be surrounded with warm colors and things that remind me of family. I couldn’t tell you the difference between French Country and Contemporary. A designer would probably take one look at my style and classify it as, “What Was On Sale!”
ah. if i was to do this show it would be a trainwreck. both the MIL, and I.
Agh, me too! I can’t imagine trading spaces with anyone, but especially an ex or an in-law.
You crack me up! My pillow cases don’t match anything either!!
I first fell in love with the BBC show Changing Rooms…LOVED it. Got excited about an American one, but had a hard time bonding with it (LOL) then finally did. Then they fired the first host Alex and I was distraught. Paige was so annoyingly perky. But then I bonded with her too, and boom, change again.
But trading with an ex or IL?
Nope, I wouldn’t even do ti with a friend! LOL
Good news. I had not heard she was coming back!
Glad to see she is coming back. Where did she go anyway? Well, I definitely understand Emily. Although, I do like my pillow cases to match; occasionally, they rarely do. Currently I have green sheets with green pillow cases (a set) and then our other two pillows have black and cream toile…LOL. How is that for matching?
Rats stapled on the wall would probably be better than when Hildi glued hay to the wall.
i do find the show to be so stupid, but oddly entertaining.
WHY do they always have to have some “theme?” it always gets way too out of control. one time i saw it and it was for two gay men and the design idea was to place two small urinals on the wall for the guys to put their keys and odds and ends when they walked in–and they actually did it. it looked terrible and disgusting. another time they made someone’s main room into a “tropical paradise” complete with fake palm trees and blow-up pool!
and i’d actually trust my mother-in-law to decorate for me because we have similar taste in regards to main room decoration and style. an “ex”–well, you’re just asking for it then!