Trading Spaces: Summary
SUMMARY
- Airs Next:TLC at Saturday 8:00 PM (60 min.)
- Status:Returning Series
- Premiered:September 1, 2000
- Show Categories:Reality, News/Documentary
Host Paige Davis, 2 talented professional designers and 2 skilled carpenters have just 2 days and a thousand dollars each to help 2 people each week improve a room belonging to another person while that same other person has a go at improving their room.
The journey is much of the fun as both the viewer and the homeowners learn new ways to remake their rooms in innovative ways, while wondering if the homeowners will love or hate their new rooms!
Ever sit in a friend or relative's home and wish you could strip or paint the walls, take up the floor, sew and replace fabric on the couch or chairs? Well this show is for you... Trading Spaces is a design show based on the British series Changing Rooms. For the first 4 seasons, the show took two sets of neighbors, and they switched one room in each other's home. They are given a $1,000 budget and they only have two days to completely redesign their neighbor's room. They are assigned a designer. Starting with season 5, the neighbors and the designer get to choose the room and if they get the right room Paige picked, they get extra money (usually twice the normal $1000) for the room. But they still only have two days to completely redesign their neighbor's room after the prep day. They still are not allowed back in to their own rooms until the two days are up. At the end of each episode, the host sits down to talk with the designers about the room they just finished. Then, the host takes the owners into their rooms, with their eyes closed, and reveals the room to them. Will they like the design? Will they hate them? Will they get rid of the design... Or their neighbors?
During season 5 and continuing throuogh season7, Paige davis was dropped from the show and a hostless format took over, with the designers and carpenters serving most of the functions Paige had done so well.
The show continued, but seemed to loose focus, as the producers tried a number of changes to the format. They added a 2nd carpenter to each show in several seasons, added several of the designers and carpenters from the sister show
While You Were Out the the roster but ratings continued to stay low.
So in season 8 the producers replaced everyone except Laura Day and Frank Bialec and one carpenter with a handful of new designers and 2 new male carpenters.
The ratings must have nosedived because after less than half a season was shown, the new network bosses at TLC fired the production company and convinced Paige Davis and a 1/2 dozen of the most popular designers to return to the show and see if going back to basics could restore the popularity the show had lost when Ms. Davis was let go. With the best talent on the show again, it could well happen!
Trading Spaces Product
sVHS/DVD Releases:
The Best of Trading Spaces Trading Spaces - They Hated It! Trading Spaces: Season 1 Viewer's Choice Trading Spaces: Season 2 Viewer's Choice Book Releases: Behind the Scenes Book Make It Yours! Color! Paige by Paige: A Year of Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces Ultimate Episode Guide Trading Spaces Trivia: Seasons 1-3
Ty's Tricks
$100 to $1000 Makeovers
48-Hour Makeovers
Rooms for Living
Instant Impact
Game Releases:
Trading Spaces Design Companion (computer game)
Trading Spaces Game (board game)
Most of these can be purchased through TLC.com. Just go to the Trading Spaces site at TLC.com and click on 'Buy TS Stuff' -- some items can be found at other sites such as Amazon.com.
Awards & Nominations
2002 - Daytime Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Special Class Series
2002 - Daytime Emmy - Nominated - Single Camera Editing
2002 - Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Special Class Program
2003 - Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Nonfiction Program 2005 - People's Choice - Nominated- Favorite Reality Makeover Show
Spinoffs!
Trading Spaces: Family
Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
Cast
Hosts Paige Davis (seasons 2-5)
Alex Mcleod (season 1)
Designers
Frank Bielec Laura Day Genevieve Gorder Christi Proctor Rick Rifle (season 4)
Dez Ryan (season 1)
Laurie Smith Kia Steve-Dickerson Hildi Santo-Tomas Edward Walker Cat Wei (Trading Spaces: Family season 1)
Douglas Wilson Barry Wood Vern Yip (seasons 2-4)
Jon Laymon Carpenters
Faber Dewar Carter Oosterhouse Amy Wynn Pastor Ty Pennington (seasons 1-4) Host Paige Davis, 2 talented professional designers and 2 skilled carpenters have just 2 days and a thousand dollars each to help 2 people each week improve a room belonging to another person while that same other person has a go at improving their room.
The journey is much of the fun as both the viewer and the homeowners learn new ways to remake their rooms in innovative...
The journey is much of the fun as both the viewer and the homeowners learn new ways to remake their rooms in innovative ways, while wondering if the homeowners will love or hate their new rooms!
Ever sit in a friend or relative's home and wish you could strip or paint the walls, take up the floor, sew and replace fabric on the couch or chairs? Well this show is for you... Trading Spaces is a design show based on the British series Changing Rooms. For the first 4 seasons, the show took two sets of neighbors, and they switched one room in each other's home. They are given a $1,000 budget and they only have two days to completely redesign their neighbor's room. They are assigned a designer. Starting with season 5, the neighbors and the designer get to choose the room and if they get the right room Paige picked, they get extra money (usually twice the normal $1000) for the room. But they still only have two days to completely redesign their neighbor's room after the prep day. They still are not allowed back in to their own rooms until the two days are up. At the end of each episode, the host sits down to talk with the designers about the room they just finished. Then, the host takes the owners into their rooms, with their eyes closed, and reveals the room to them. Will they like the design? Will they hate them? Will they get rid of the design... Or their neighbors?
During season 5 and continuing throuogh season7, Paige davis was dropped from the show and a hostless format took over, with the designers and carpenters serving most of the functions Paige had done so well.
The show continued, but seemed to loose focus, as the producers tried a number of changes to the format. They added a 2nd carpenter to each show in several seasons, added several of the designers and carpenters from the sister show
While You Were Out the the roster but ratings continued to stay low.
So in season 8 the producers replaced everyone except Laura Day and Frank Bialec and one carpenter with a handful of new designers and 2 new male carpenters.
The ratings must have nosedived because after less than half a season was shown, the new network bosses at TLC fired the production company and convinced Paige Davis and a 1/2 dozen of the most popular designers to return to the show and see if going back to basics could restore the popularity the show had lost when Ms. Davis was let go. With the best talent on the show again, it could well happen!
Trading Spaces Product
sVHS/DVD Releases:
The Best of Trading Spaces Trading Spaces - They Hated It! Trading Spaces: Season 1 Viewer's Choice Trading Spaces: Season 2 Viewer's Choice Book Releases: Behind the Scenes Book Make It Yours! Color! Paige by Paige: A Year of Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces Ultimate Episode Guide Trading Spaces Trivia: Seasons 1-3
Ty's Tricks
$100 to $1000 Makeovers
48-Hour Makeovers
Rooms for Living
Instant Impact
Game Releases:
Trading Spaces Design Companion (computer game)
Trading Spaces Game (board game)
Most of these can be purchased through TLC.com. Just go to the Trading Spaces site at TLC.com and click on 'Buy TS Stuff' -- some items can be found at other sites such as Amazon.com.
Awards & Nominations
2002 - Daytime Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Special Class Series
2002 - Daytime Emmy - Nominated - Single Camera Editing
2002 - Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Special Class Program
2003 - Emmy - Nominated - Outstanding Nonfiction Program 2005 - People's Choice - Nominated- Favorite Reality Makeover Show
Spinoffs!
Trading Spaces: Family
Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
Cast
Hosts Paige Davis (seasons 2-5)
Alex Mcleod (season 1)
Designers
Frank Bielec Laura Day Genevieve Gorder Christi Proctor Rick Rifle (season 4)
Dez Ryan (season 1)
Laurie Smith Kia Steve-Dickerson Hildi Santo-Tomas Edward Walker Cat Wei (Trading Spaces: Family season 1)
Douglas Wilson Barry Wood Vern Yip (seasons 2-4)
Jon Laymon Carpenters
Faber Dewar Carter Oosterhouse Amy Wynn Pastor Ty Pennington (seasons 1-4) Host Paige Davis, 2 talented professional designers and 2 skilled carpenters have just 2 days and a thousand dollars each to help 2 people each week improve a room belonging to another person while that same other person has a go at improving their room.
The journey is much of the fun as both the viewer and the homeowners learn new ways to remake their rooms in innovative...
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Off to College
Airs: Saturday November 22, 2008
With their oldest child heading off to school, Mom and Dad are TRADING SPACES college style!
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- Alex McLeodHost (Season 1: 2000-2001) (photos)
- Kia Steave-DickersonDesigner (2002- 2007 recurring)
- Carter OosterhouseCarpenter (2003-2007, recurring) (photos)
- Christi ProctorDesigner (2003-2007, recurring)
- Faber DewarCarpenter (2004- present, recurring)
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USER REVIEWS
- The Bottom Line: "My new best friend"07/12/08 07:19am | report abuse
Wonderful show to watch with its designers.What has happened to this show. Since the green shows are coming on in the middle of the night, i never see trading spaces anymore. even if they were repeats they were enjoyable. Why have they postponed showing . ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "Off the wall"02/17/08 09:44pm | report abuse
Love Paige, but enhance the designers ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "Better every season"11/07/07 05:07pm | report abuse
Trading Spaces is casting a new season! Apply at tradingspacescasting.com ...Continue »
- The Bottom Line: "Absolutely fabulous"10/30/07 09:10pm | report abuse
Refreshing makeover, of an old favorite "makeover show." Two young, energetic designers think outside of the box to bring 2 sets of homeowners into the 21st century by trading and modernizing each others rooms. ...Continue »
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