Swatches and Snippets from Our Studio

Trading Spaces, a TLC series that was popular about 10 years ago. will return to television this April. The premise is that friends or neighbors decorate each others spaces with a budget of $2000.00 and the help of Celebrity Decorators. (Notice I don't use the term Interior Designer.)  I consider Trading Spaces the Comedy Central of home decorating shows. Why would  someone glue hundreds of artificial flowers  on a bathroom wall if not for comedy relief? But I love to watch these train wrecks and the reactions of their friends when they see their $2000 redecoration reveal. Some are quite well done, others not so much, but for me, it is  good entertainment and I look forward to its return! This will be fun. It is like the Comedy Central of Interior Design with huge personalities and "let the rules (and sometimes taste) go" decorating. I few years ago ( well ,about 10) I had the good fortune to be called upon to assist Frank Bielec on an episode filmed on a N

Our good friend and owner of Jenny Maids, Jennifer Larkin   http://www.hellojennymaids.com/468-2/our-services-2/  called this morning to ask if she could use our home to film a spot on KWCH about cleaning  for cold and flu season. Of course I said yes.  She said she would call me back with a date.  The date was today; in two hrs. Realizing I really needed to  get my Christmas down, we had a manic 2 hrs of cleaning before the cleaning. Look for her at 5 o'clock on channel 12