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Re: Trading Spaces, Season 3
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'Trading Spaces' Gives Fans More
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 00:08 AM PDT
by Kate O'Hare
Zap2it, TV News
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - As if episodes every single day -- and premieres in primetime on Saturday -- weren't enough, fans of TLC's "Trading Spaces" can now relive favorite moments and personalities from the redecorating show both on screen and on the page.
On Tuesday, March 18, Artisan Home Entertainment releases "The Best of TLC's Trading Spaces," a DVD that features outtakes, extended project footage and favorite moments with cast and crew of the show that gives two sets of neighbors two days, $1,000, a designer and a carpenter to entirely redo a room in each other's home.
The host of the DVD is series host Paige Davis, who functions as a combination of referee, den mother, drill sergeant and extra set of helping hands.
"My role has remained relatively consistent," Davis says of her two seasons in the job. "I continue to be the conduit between what is happening in the homes and the viewing audience. I just try to be the voice of any question that's floating out there. Sometimes I'm the voice of the designer, sometimes the homeowner or neighbor on the team, and sometimes I'm the voice of the people at home, screaming, 'What the heck is going on?'"
"And, by all means, I'm the voice of authority and the barometer of time and budget."
Also included on the DVD is a collection of "reveals," that moment at the end of each show when the weary neighbors get to see what was done to their own room while they were hard at work at their neighbors' home. One segment offers happy reveals (lots of squealing and the occasional swear word) and not so happy (from stunned silence to tears).
Along with a history of the show, the DVD offers information on how fans can apply to take part of a future episode. And those applications still come in droves, despite the risks -- which in the past have included moss and straw being glued to walls, spray-painted furniture and the demise of many an innocent ceiling fan.
"In a way, we should push limits," says Ty Pennington, resident pinup boy and one of the show's carpenters. "It's not like we're 'This Old House.'"
At the same time, Meredith Books is releasing "Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes," a large-format book loaded with color photos, cast biographies and interviews, poster-size portraits and decorating tips and tricks.
"I thought it was exciting," says Davis of the book. "I thought it was late in coming, actually. It's about time, and I knew that fans would really be dying for that sort of thing."
"There are very few people who are just a little bit of a fan of 'Trading Spaces.' Most people are really obsessed and really love the people who are part of it. They want to know more. That's exactly what the behind-the-scenes book is. It's more of an introspective look into the cast."
For example, people might not know that Pennington designs and builds custom furniture (not made of plywood or MDF, unlike most of his work for the show).
"The show's been running for three years," he says, "and not everybody knows how much experience we all have. The truth of it is, I've got quite a lot of experience. It might not show on the show, because we do many things that are just flat-out wrong."
"There are some shows that I'm not on, that I've watched, especially in the first season, and I've seen designers put down ceramic tiles with Liquid Nails, and I'm like, 'What are ya'll thinking?' That just doesn't work. Especially in the first years, a lot of the guys, say, had alternative backgrounds, definitely creative backgrounds, but I'm not sure they were interior backgrounds."
"So it was funny watching some of these designers learn the ropes."
Along those lines, the DVD also has a section on designers ideas that got completely out of hand, including a fireplace project from designer Hilda Santo-Tomas that wound up a nightmare of half-dried mortar, falling stones and endless sponging.
For Davis, though, the pain is worth the payoff. "When 'Trading Spaces' rolls into town," she says, "we shake up a lot of things. We shake up the neighborhood; we shake up the room; we shake up how people look at their own home."
"That's why it reaches so many people, hits people so powerfully. Not to be deep or cliché, but it's definitely part of the appeal. That's why people are hooked, because it's so much more than just a decorating show. In an ironic way, it has less to do with decorating than almost any other element on the show."
"I'll be honest with you," says Pennington. "Sometimes we do run for shock value. Let's not kid ourselves."
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