TLC and the Discovery Channel used to only show their home and garden shows during the daytime on weekdays, then they would show their programs for intelligent people in the evening and on the weekends, this was tolerable. But Trading Spaces started a chain reaction that has basically destroyed the "Learning" factor in TLC.I don't even understand why this show is so popular, all this show really is, is a few hippie abstract artists wasting a lot of money and materials to turn people's rooms into a bunch of hideous wasted space. Their remodeling jobs are a joke, they are so ugly, and such an inefficient use of the space. I don't understand why anyone would even want them to come near their house, let alone, invite them to remodel it.To make things worse, in the end, what happens if the people whose homes they modified don't like what they did? They just wasted a lot of time, money, and materials, so a bunch of brain dead people can sit on their couch and watch a worthless TV show. They could do the same thing on a stupid TV set, and their viewers would never know the difference!They might as well change the channel's name from "The Learning Channel" to something like HGTV, because TLC currently has nothing to do with learning. Maybe some day soon the owners of the Discovery networks will come to their senses and bring back their superior programming, because their viewers, or should I say "former viewers", really miss it. Thanks to this, all TLC stands for anymore is "Totally Lame Crap"

This show is pretty mediocre. Actually, what makes it worth watching are its poorer points, because they make the show funny. First of all, I can't think of a more annoying host than Page Davis. She is just so totally phoney and slappable. Then we have a team of about 8 designers who apparently come on the show in some sort of rotation (or they keep getting fired) and just about all of them are incredibly uptight and socially inept. It is truly funny watching guests react to the obnoxious enthusiasm of the "cast" from this show.I particularly enjoy it when one of the designers intentionally go way over the top with a room as a form of revenge at whomever's p**sed them off at the time (I recall one episode where one of the gay,leather-wearing designers has a tiff with the guests and they end up decorating pistacio green, orange, and brown).Then of course, my favorite is watching people open their eyes to their newwly redecorated room and pretending to be flattered at what is obviously an utterly horrible job. The wide eyes and repeated useage of the word "cool", all the while repeatedly glancing over at their teammate to see if they're equally horrified is just a riot. Page does a great job of playing up the tension by over acting and dramatizing just how wonderful and tra la la la fun it has all been!What makes this show annoying is how they once in a while have a cool new idea, but fail to adequately explain how to reproduce the idea for yourself. Summary: Pretty much a waste of time if you have the time to waste.

This is one of my family's 'guilty pleasures'. Featuring no known stars, you basically get to watch other people re-design rooms, and although it soundsbanal, trust me, it's AMAZING. I've watched this from the very beginning, through several different 'hosts', and it never fails to amuse.I can't really comment on the acting or anything else, as it's a documentary of sorts, but I will say that some of the families put on some very brave faces for the camera. The rooms do NOT always come out great, in fact I'd have to say that a lot of them stretch the boundaries of good taste, but that happens to be what I love in a reality television show!I'd give this a 7 out of 10, and look forward to the distant future when they show 'nostalgic' shows of how we lived at the begining of the century!

This show is great. I love it. You can learn alot about redecorating and best of all they show you how to do it with a limited budget. All the rooms look like a million bucks when they are finished. Everyday people working with the designers and the carpenters. Best friends or family members getting together to redecorate a room in each others house in only 2 days bringing out their creative skills and finding ones they did not even know they had. I think that this is real reality T.V.