Small Talk: Trading Stories

[Meredith Quill]

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[HyeChaps]

Does anyone remember when we discussed this program on TWoP and had competitions for clever thread titles?

Edited April 8, 2018 by HyeChaps
Typing error

[Tosia]

Yep, Trainwreck Spaces. 

[SVNBob]

18 hours ago, HyeChaps said:

Does anyone remember when we discussed this program on TWoP and had competitions for clever thread titles?

And the banner ads.  I remember one audio banner ad that was "Crying Pam" listing prime numbers.

[GenXhausted]

I was extremely sick during TOS and didn't pay close attention, but am a lot more interested now. Does anyone have any old episodes they recorded and can share? I don't think the current DVRs and PVRs allow you to store the shows on an external drive.

[FormerMod-a1]

With Trading Spaces and While You Were Out being on the air again, I find myself missing Surprise By Design.  Anyone else remember that show?  

[walnutqueen]

On 3/31/2019 at 9:23 AM, aquarian1 said:

With Trading Spaces and While You Were Out being on the air again, I find myself missing Surprise By Design.  Anyone else remember that show?  

Yesss!

Which probably means I'm old AND nostalgic.

[friendperidot]

I was thinking about that one the other day, but I couldn't remember the name of the show. I think they only had a few hours, so they couldn't do a lot of damage.

[friendperidot]

Talking to myself, no big deal, do it in real life too. Had a thought about the original Trading Spaces versus the new version. When the show first aired, I had an old tv that was not HDTV. I didn't notice a lot of the uneven paint jobs, or weird looking walls.  It's much more noticeable now that my old tv is gone, replaced with HDTV.

[caitmcg]

Amazon Prime has one season of Australian Changing Rooms, which is like Trading Spaces/UK Changing Rooms gone big, with budget to match. Instead of two days, one room and $1-2K, it’s five days, three rooms, and AU$20K (~US$15K), so they can really do quality makeovers with things like new kitchen counters, bathroom tiling (done by pros) and fixtures, appliances, buying furniture, and using less MDF for construction. It still has the homemade crafts/art, sewing projects, send the participants off to buy something at a second-hand store stuff, but the designers are more serious and less gimmicky with real money to spend.