Review: "Decorating Cents"
Jan. 16th, 2008 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebWe watched two episodes of the other decorating show my mom copied for me. This one has three parts to it.
In the first part, decorators get a budget of $500 to fix up a room. I like this part more than "Trading Spaces" because they do try to do something the owner would like, but less than "Design on a Dime" because they can get quite carried away with their own visions of what this means. "You can toss anything you want, except those posters" probably doesn't mean "You can toss everything except the posters, which you may hide somewhere." That's just my bias. That guy definitely had some cool stuff, but none of it fit in with the designer's vision, although the vision was inspired by the posters. Also, in the two episodes I saw, the first $250 seemed to help, but then the last $250 is what lets them really go overboard.
In the second part, a designer comes in and just rearranges stuff a different owner already has to make the room work better. I think I quite like this segment. The changes don't appear as dramatic to the casual viewer (me) as in the first section, but I suspect they feel quite dramatic to the owners. I don't always like all the ideas, but I like being taught these principles. In the two episodes I've seen, they've had weirdly-shaped rooms (one long skinny one with several doors and one L-shaped one). If they do rooms that are freakishly small, that might be my favorite.
In the third part, they turn ugly and/or useless-seeming crap from junk stores into shinier more useful-seeming crap. So far this is my least favorite segment, although I did kind of like the way they turned an old shutter into a mail sorter. I can see how if you have something you love that seems useless, this segment might help you teach yourself to think of ways to make it more useful so you can be surrounded by more things you love and less sterile ordinary stuff. I'm also, for some reason, enjoying imagining this section causing fights between roommates or couples. "Why do you insist on keeping that hideous old, rotting shutter in the house?" "I love this thing. The remaining paint is the color of my mother's eyes. And look! It can be used as a mail sorter!" "No! That thing is not going in the entry! Go hide it in your office, if you must."
Deb-Bob says check it out!
In the first part, decorators get a budget of $500 to fix up a room. I like this part more than "Trading Spaces" because they do try to do something the owner would like, but less than "Design on a Dime" because they can get quite carried away with their own visions of what this means. "You can toss anything you want, except those posters" probably doesn't mean "You can toss everything except the posters, which you may hide somewhere." That's just my bias. That guy definitely had some cool stuff, but none of it fit in with the designer's vision, although the vision was inspired by the posters. Also, in the two episodes I saw, the first $250 seemed to help, but then the last $250 is what lets them really go overboard.
In the second part, a designer comes in and just rearranges stuff a different owner already has to make the room work better. I think I quite like this segment. The changes don't appear as dramatic to the casual viewer (me) as in the first section, but I suspect they feel quite dramatic to the owners. I don't always like all the ideas, but I like being taught these principles. In the two episodes I've seen, they've had weirdly-shaped rooms (one long skinny one with several doors and one L-shaped one). If they do rooms that are freakishly small, that might be my favorite.
In the third part, they turn ugly and/or useless-seeming crap from junk stores into shinier more useful-seeming crap. So far this is my least favorite segment, although I did kind of like the way they turned an old shutter into a mail sorter. I can see how if you have something you love that seems useless, this segment might help you teach yourself to think of ways to make it more useful so you can be surrounded by more things you love and less sterile ordinary stuff. I'm also, for some reason, enjoying imagining this section causing fights between roommates or couples. "Why do you insist on keeping that hideous old, rotting shutter in the house?" "I love this thing. The remaining paint is the color of my mother's eyes. And look! It can be used as a mail sorter!" "No! That thing is not going in the entry! Go hide it in your office, if you must."
Deb-Bob says check it out!