Trading Spaces
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Trading Spaces is an hour-long television reality program on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Home. The format of the show is based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms.
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[edit] Premise
In each episode, two sets of neighbors redecorate one room in each other's home. Each two-person team has two days (not including a "day zero" of planning and shopping for materials and furnishings, which in earlier seasons was not shown on camera), a budget of USD$1,000, (or, in later seasons, $2,000 if they choose the 'bonus room' pre-selected by the show's producers) and the services of a designer. Under the original format, the teams would share the services of a carpenter.
Beginning in March 2005, Trading Spaces moved to a "no host" format, eliminating the position of host in favor of allowing each team its own carpenter. The change allows the two homes to be farther apart. The most extreme use of this flexibility to date was with homes in New York and Oklahoma, but it is rarely exercised.
The teams have no say over what happens in their own homes, but can give input into what happens in the home they are redecorating. The teams must not enter their own home for the duration of the show, and the transformed rooms are revealed only at the end of the second day.
[edit] Cast
The show features different participants each episode. The host, designers and carpenters (the cast) are recurring (though there are only two designers, one host and two carpenters — originally one — each time).
[edit] Hosts
- Paige Davis (season 2 halfway through season 5)
- Alex McLeod (season 1)
[edit] Designers
- Frank Bielec
- Douglas Wilson
- Laurie Hickson-Smith
- Hildi Santo-Tomas
- Christi Proctor (started in fourth season)
- Genevieve Gorder
- Edward Walker (started in third season)
- Leslie Segrete (Previously Carpenter on Trading Spaces and While You Were Out)
- Laura Day (started in fourth season)
- Kia Steave-Dickerson (started in third season)
- Barry Wood (started in fourth season)
- Vern Yip (first through fourth seasons)
- Jon Laymon (winner of 'Pick the Next Designer' competition)
- Rick Rifle (fourth season only)
- Dez Ryan (first season only)
- Roderick Shade (one episode in first season)
[edit] Carpenters
- Faber Dewar
- Jimmy Little (several episodes in a row after Town Haul ended)
- Carter Oosterhouse
- Amy Wynn Pastor
- Andrew Dan-Jumbo
- Ty Pennington (left for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition)
Leslie Segrete and Andrew Dan-Jumbo are from the former TLC show While You Were Out have also been featured in at least one episode each as carpenter (and Leslie, now Designer). Jason Cameron, From the same show has appeared also. Handy Andy of Changing Rooms also worked a "special" episode that was based in London and another that was based in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
[edit] Trading Spaces: Family
A second series, entitled Trading Spaces: Family, also aired on TLC (2003-2005). It allowed larger teams of three or four, including children considered too young to participate in the original Trading Spaces program. The same designers and carpenters (one per episode, shared by the two teams) worked with host Joe Farrell.
[edit] Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
Another spinoff, Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls airs as a part of Discovery Kids. Unlike the original, this version uses the same two designers and two carpenters for each episode. In addition, there is no budget limit, and the rooms are rebuilt into theme room, making the show look more like Monster House.
