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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Exactly. If these people are looking for real-life clients after some of the "visions" they've done on that show, ignoring the client's wishes and forgetting that people actually have to live in that garish room after you're done with it goes over big with the paying clients.
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Actually, Doug has apparently won awards & stuff. But I've read a few interviews with him, and it's all an act. For all of them. Hildi & Doug are the designated "mean-avant-guard wreck-your-kitchen" types, just as Frank is the designated "painted-pig country-kitchen" guy, which apparently isn't his style at all. They are all supposed to play up different designer "types" to keep things interesting. That redheaded chick did the "condescending as hell but does pretty well" schtick.
Regardless, I don't think I've seen more than one or two rooms that aren't clearly and unambiguously improvements on the original. Of course, given what most of the people start with ANYTHING would be an improvement. Even the "hay-wall" room looked better. The problems seem usually to be that the room just doesn't serve the utilitarian needs assigned to it by the homeowners (i.e.: Doug's turning a home office into a home theater). That and the occasional pathological loathing of orange.
Anyhow, my nightmare would be Frank, too. And after him, the border-woman.
