Trading Spaces

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Trading Spaces
Image:Trading Spaces.jpg
Genre	Reality
Starring	See Cast below
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	TLC and Discovery Home
Original run	October 13, 2000 – Present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast 2.1 Hosts 2.2 Designers 2.3 Carpenters 3 Trading Spaces: Family 4 Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls 5 See also 6 External links

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 was rarely exercised. Eventually, the second carpenter was eliminated.

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.

Cast

The show features different participants each episode. The host (seasons 1-5), designers and carpenters (the cast) are recurring (though there are only two designers, one host (only through season 5) and one carpenter — originally one and then changed to two and now back to one — each time).

Hosts

• Paige Davis (season 2 to halfway through season 5)
• Alex McLeod (season 1)

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 (fourth season; Now stars on HGTV's Hidden Potential)
• 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)

Carpenters

• Faber Dewar
• Jimmy Little (several episodes in a row after Town Haul ended)
• Carter Oosterhouse
• Leslie Segrete (from While You Were Out)
• Amy Wynn Pastor
• Andrew Dan-Jumbo (from While You Were Out)
• 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.

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.

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.

See also

• The Gardening Gamble

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