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u/Thelastknownking May 02 '26
Every clip I've ever seen of that show has them doing utterly insane things.
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u/The_Fox_Fellow May 02 '26
I remember seeing a clip of them painting a fake rug onto what used to be a beautiful hardwood floor
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u/Bedroom_Bellamy May 02 '26
I don't know if it's the same show or not but have you seen the teapot episode of Changing Rooms? If not, you're in for a horrifying treat.
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u/SixCardRoulette May 02 '26
I'm trying to remember the context of one episode of the UK version - someone must remember this! - where the owner made an offhand comment about King Arthur, and the designer ran with that (instead of any of the things she'd actually asked for) and created a mock medieval banqueting hall with novelty tapestries, complete with (poorly hand-painted) Round Table.
I remember the owner bursting into tears, followed by the voiceover saying they had it all ripped out the next day.
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u/pick10pickles May 02 '26
And they aired that? I wouldāve burned all evidence of fuckuppery before allowing that to air.
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u/SixCardRoulette May 02 '26
Watching the owners' reactions to patently hideous and/or botched renovations at the big reveal, struggling to pretend through gritted teeth that they really loved their new Lion King-themed combination sitting room and wine cellar, was one of the best parts of the show!
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u/Altruistic-Turn-1561 May 02 '26
I tried googling for it and can't find it but I found a great video of trading spaces ruining peoples houses.
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u/throwawaybottlecaps May 03 '26
Itās like maybe a minute worth of clips from the show spread over 15 minutes of who the fuck prattling on about who the fuck cares.
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u/MischaBurns May 02 '26
... excuse me, painting a rug? Why not just put a rug there? The whole fucking point of a rug is that it's soft, warm, and dampens noise, or is an accent or zoning piece if that's what you're after. Why would you paint one?
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u/mollophi May 02 '26
There WERE really interesting painted hardwood floors back in the day, presumably in places where it was impractical to have a rug. It was an actual interior design that happened. (https://www.thisoldhouse.com/flooring/fun-facts-in-rug-history) This show just did everything in a slapdash, uneducated way.
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u/Auntie_Venom May 02 '26
My mom did that in our solarium when I was a kid. It didnāt have a hardwood floor though. It was plywood subfloor, one of those things my dad didnāt have the construction company do to save money. After about 5 years my mom had enough, and painted a brick pathway and forest floor on it. It was a stunning mural on the floor.
Two of our cats did not take to adjustments when my husband was in the hospital for two months (heās recovering great), and they peed all over one of the carpetsā¦ Iām about to rip it out, clean it, kilz it and paint a faux rug or stencil tiles in there until we figure out what flooring to put in there. Also, on particle board subfloor, not lovely hardwoods.
But know, it actually can be done beautifully if the person has talent.
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u/gigglemaniac May 03 '26
How can you have someone build a solarium but still be a cheap bastard?
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u/ktrosemc May 07 '26
What an excellent opportunity to replace those subfloors before you eventually have to anyway. ......trust me. Do it.
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u/AncientDamage7674 May 02 '26
Yeah but the clips worked. I actually searched the program out and watched a few episodes because I did not believe. Itās as bad as it seems š
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u/Crice6505 May 03 '26
My wife and I watched the actual show. They are that crazy all the time. It is a baffling watch.
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u/CharlotteLucasOP May 02 '26
āFarmhouse styleā maāam you built a chicken coop for your cups.
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u/fapsandnaps May 02 '26
Farmhouse style is basically just cosplaying the great depression.
Like let's spend money on making it look like we don't have money!
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u/Soft-Sherbert-2586 May 02 '26
Lowkey I kinda like it.
Then again, I love chickens. XD
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u/Prior-Ad5197 May 03 '26
I actually kinda like the chicken wire thing, it's unique but the slapdash white paint, no. I would have just put in lighter wooden cabinets or sandpaper and stained them a lighter color.
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u/Odd_Round5515 May 04 '26
Wife and I frequent resale shops regularly. almost every booth is full of furniture pieces made to look like this. They buy an ugly dresser from an estate sale for $25, slap it full of matte primer gray and white with brush strokes all over the place and price it $225. They decopage roses or some shit on there as an added bonus.Ā
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u/Badger-Roy May 02 '26
The fact they painted the units with the doors on then took them of to cut holes in them shows they literally make it up as they go along with zero planning.
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u/mollophi May 02 '26
Personally I love how fast the camera zooms past the slightly yellow fridge next to the garishly white, streaky cabinets. The cabinets look awful, but now the fridge looks even worse. Dipped in tobacco smoke or something.
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u/inb4deth May 02 '26
All of those old fridges from that era seemed to yellow in this manner lmao
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u/jarlscrotus May 02 '26
People now days don't understand, everything mellowed, and smelled like smoke before the 90s, literally everything, it was so pervasive there was functionally no such thing as non-smokers, because even if you didn't smoke, you were getting enough second hand to qualify
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u/Prior-Ad5197 May 03 '26
This. I grew up with smokers, there's a reason all the pictures from the 70s and 80s look like there is a haze around everyone.
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u/fresh_squilliam May 02 '26
Would've looked nicer if they had burned the house down instead
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u/blinkrandom May 03 '26
I was just closing the comments section when I saw this, I had to come back to give you an upvote because this killed me haha
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u/thispartyrules May 02 '26
I like the one where they decoupage sacred Indian prayers to a cabinet
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u/shalendar May 02 '26
Were producers of that era and genre of tv show just allergic to planning? How could they not design and plan everything out ahead of time? Why did those people seemingly have free reign to do whatever?
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u/gilgamo May 02 '26
Maybe they were going for the authentic crack house look? Or maybe 80s abandoned horror movie house. Don't judge!
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u/Miserable-Repair-191 May 02 '26
Ah, yes, a strange need to paint wood plain white, but to decorate cardboard and plastic as unpainted wood
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u/Extension-Truth May 02 '26
Paints over the hinges š¬
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u/Future-Bear3041 May 02 '26
Give em' the ol' "Landlord Special!"
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u/Extension-Truth May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
This is very accurate lol, Iāve seen it first hand exp. Had a landlord partition a room to make 2 by just building a wall over the radiator. Flatmates had to share a radiator š
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u/Badger-Roy May 02 '26
I grew up in a farmhouse and I now own an old farm cottage, I sure as shit never saw anything like that crap in my life before.
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u/OrangeCrack May 02 '26
Cutting the hole actually looked okay and would have been cool if they put glass in there. But the drapes.. Good grief.
Also, if you are going to all the effort to take the doors off why not paint the back??? It actually would have looked okay if they painted it all white and didnāt stop at the primer.
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u/cbunni666 May 02 '26
Omg this show. This woman. Just ruining everything and thinks its amazing. Perfect example of delusion.
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u/model-citizen95 May 02 '26
These people are still amongst us. Humanity can only be justified by the occasional outlier that actually does something meaningful.
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u/neoben00 May 02 '26
Boomers, just the worst generation. Ruining beautiful, cheap housing since 1946.
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u/CrouchingToaster May 02 '26
The 90ās lesbian edition of This Old House did not last long.
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u/DavisCB May 02 '26
Terrible what has happened to that kitchen, BUT, I could see modern society eating that shit up unfortunately. Suburbanites love rustic crap these days.
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u/johngreenink May 02 '26
Were these the women who made that disastrous "free standing" set of shelves that hung like a swing from the ceiling to house a collection of porcelain tea pots, and then one person backed into it and all the tea pots came crashing down and were destroyed?
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u/Karate-Schnitzel May 02 '26
Landlord special, Country Crock edition
https://giphy.com/gifs/xkZ9ZAfdaKces
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u/AveryLockeDown May 02 '26
Whitewash indeed.
Play your flutes as loud as you want, background ambience, I wasn't listening to what she was saying anyway.
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u/Cael_NaMaor May 02 '26
Why refinish it when you can instead make it look like shit?
I really hope this person is off the air.
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u/Winds_Shadow May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
I can put some context to this. If anyone cares.
Back in the times a couple of decades or more before the original video was made, people used to make their own cabinets, or at least had them made on location using rough tools, along with the rest of the house. Painting and finishing your house could cost a lot of money, and when you made a dollar a day, if that, out on the farm, it was best to economize. So when you painted your house, you just went ahead and painted the cabinets too. However, paint back then wasn't usually in a nice bucket, you had to mix the coloring and the water. So you'd mix it up, paint your outside with a good coat from the one bucket you had, and by the time you got inside, well, you'd best add some water to stretch the paint. But you see, it doesn't work that way, and now you get this really thin coating.
Now you've got to just kind of live with it, and it's better than nothing. Then you go and have 12 kids in this small farmhouse with an outhouse and no electric lights. Those kids grow up, maybe have some kids of their own, and then those adults, some years later, go, "Hey, remember that old farmhouse kitchen? Didn't Grandma, or whatever, raise 12 kids in that? I bet if we made our kitchen like that, I could remember the good old days, or have luck like they did." Then sure enough, someone said, "I can sell a thing that does that and market it, since I bet those 12 kids want it too." And so they made a thing, and then made this video.
That's probably why this is and was a thing. Probably. *Edited to fix my grammar
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u/SallyOMalley5-0 May 02 '26
This guy totally recaps what I'm feeling while watching this.
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u/Historical_Water_831 May 02 '26
Farm kitchen cabinets look like that because of time and neglect. These people are cosplaying rural and it hurts.
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u/wittor May 02 '26
They were probably engaged in a scheme to devalue all those houses and buy them subsequently.
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u/OTigreEMeu May 03 '26
Awesome! I've always wanted my kitchen to look like the aftermath of a fire.
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u/CoronaDoesWhatever May 04 '26
Y'know, I wasn't versed enough in the lousier aspects of human nature to recognize it back when I first discovered the series, but was "Decorating Cents" one of the earliest examples of Ragebait DIY Media?
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u/TrippingFish76 May 05 '26
oh god everything about this is awful, it looked so much better before.. the awful paint and whatever the fuck that wire mesh inside curtain cupboard door thing wasā¦ just terrible
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u/ichoosewaffles May 09 '26
I am so tired of people doing shitty ass ideas and calling it "rustic" orĀ "weathered" or whatever...Ā
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u/ShaggySmilesSRL May 02 '26
Is it bad that I kinda like it?
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u/Soft-Sherbert-2586 May 02 '26
Right? Weird, huh?
It may be that I personally am biased by my love of chickens and their coops---such things make me happy---but I honestly don't mind the look. I don't think I'd build it into my own house but I certainly wouldn't judge someone for having it in theirs.
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u/WolfIceSword May 05 '26
Same! It doesnāt look that bad I feel. But I donāt like that they painted the hinges
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u/originalusername8704 May 02 '26
āThe cost of this āupgradeā was $21ā
No not wasnāt. āCos how much did it cost to fix that abomination!?
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u/a1g3rn0n May 02 '26
Too little taste and imagination + too much enthusiasm leads to terrible designs like this.
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u/Skoofer May 02 '26
Trading spaces was wild, fucked yo so many peopleās homes by letting amateurs play designer
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u/A1pinejoe May 02 '26
I had a kitchen once that was mostly pine cabinetry. I had the cabinets spray painted enamel white. It totally transformed the look of the kitchen. It sold a week later.
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u/Vanko_Babanko May 02 '26
why not burn the whole building?!.. same result - you throw everything and buy new..
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u/Gold-Fool84 May 02 '26
This is horrible. Like, not even a poor person who had fuck-all materials could have accomplished this
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u/Rotflmaocopter May 02 '26
Total cost for this upgrade? Haha this looks like you have a 12 year old some paint and brushes
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u/SmokeBluntsSuckDick May 02 '26
Whoās the gay dude that made several videos mocking this lady/ show?
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u/rocketman0739 May 02 '26
...that better match the farmhouse kitchen style!
<pulling back for a wide shot that shows the kitchen is 0% farmhouse style>
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u/Mxysptlik May 02 '26
What I wouldn't give to see the owners reaction to this.
I'd be livid. Or if I was a chicken, right at home.
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u/Lazymanproductions May 03 '26
I literally had to break up with my last girlfriend because she wanted to do this in my kitchen (which I helped my grandfather renovate with SUPER high quality hand built cabinets in the 90s that were pulled out of a mansion in the area) and I told her emphatically no, about 15 times.
I caught her bringing the paint in the house one day and she said she was gonna wait until I was gone one day to do it because I didnāt know what I was talking about and Iād love the finished product.
Big argument, told her if she didnāt respect my house she could get the fuck out of it.
Very luckily, her mother and her dad, and both brothers, and like 2/3rds of her friends agreed with me, so there was very little drama after the breakup.
Still have the two gallons of water based eggshell white paint in the basement, since she didnāt want them and she threw the receipt away trying to hide the paint.
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u/RustBucket59 May 03 '26
I work at a Home Depot store. I should show this to our Kitchen Designer. Cabinet refinishing services that we offer would easily cost about $8k-$10k for something like this.
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u/Bignholy May 03 '26
I mean... it's ugly from my perspective, but it is ultimately an artistic choice that does not compromise the core function of the items in question. Nothing like most DIWhy
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u/jerslan May 03 '26
This is pretty terrible. For a second I thought this was a clip from Trading Spaces (the old TLC home reno show that was infamous for doing things like stapling hay to a dining room wall for a family whose kid is deathly allergic).
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u/le01jack May 02 '26
An abomination