The iconic show is getting a reboot The Learning Channel?better known as TLC?just announced that one of its most successful shows will get a reboot. Trading Spaces aired from 2000 to 2008 and introduced the world to a cast and crew that remains ingrained in the psyches of all design-obsessed, reality-show addicts of the early aughts.
In each hour-long episode, two sets of neighbors were paired with a professional designer, given a meager budget, and asked to redecorate one room in each other?s homes. Chipper host Paige Davis held court over it all, overseeing 13 carpenters (including one Ty Pennington, who later went on to host Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) and 21 designers?farm boy turned big city designer Doug Wilson, crafty Frank Bielec, the ever-so-chic Vern Yip, the polarizing Hildi Santo-Tomas, and others. Some of the designs were over-the-top, some were thoughtful remodels of previously boring living rooms or bedrooms. As Brock Keeling, editor of Curbed SF, recalls, ?With the exception of a few (like the beach room and hay room), most all of the design reveals were better than what the couples began with.? And nearly every admittedly formulaic episode of Trading Spaces was damn entertaining TV.
Beyond the big announcement of the show?s return, there?s much that we don?t know. TLC has not released who from the original show might be returning, whether homeowners will have a larger budget than before, and whether the contestants will still need to wear bright...