Pennsylvania: Sterling Drive The Trading Spaces: Family crew rolls into tiny Perkasie, Pennsylvania for their premiere episode. Designers Hilda Santo-Tomas and Doug Wilson get some extra hands to help them, since these homeowners come in teams of four! As Hildi takes a countrified family room in another direction, 9-year-old Jena makes sure to give her some design tips. Doug and carpenter Carter Oosterhouse take a chance when they get rid of a fireplace mantle the homeowners want protected. Is their plan a success, or does this family affair turn into a nightmare?
Pennsylvania: Orchard Avenue Trading Spaces: Family has front row seats as designer Edward Walker is in a heated battle with four layers of wallpaper. While he and his family steam, scrape and sand, Genevieve Gorder and her team are on easy street as she puts together a living room inspired by the wood floors. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse is working hard, but will he get upset when one of his creations is given the boot? And while Edward does finally win out over the wallpaper, are the homeowners sad to see it gone or do they rejoice that someone else did all that hard work? We'll find out!
Pennsylvania: Stump Road New designer Christi Proctor gets some unexpected help in her first episode of Trading Spaces: Family. The dad on her team is a professional painter! So they rock and roll some paint on their neighbor's family room walls. And while Christi takes into account the homeowner's country style, does she put her Texas twist on it? Across the street, Vern Yip pulls up some old carpeting — but has no money in the budget to get the wood floors underneath into shape. Tune in to see if Vern finds an affordable solution and if Christi's debut performance gets a standing ovation.
North Carolina: Love Valley Drive Designers Frank Bielec and Kia Steave-Dickerson head south as Trading Spaces: Family hits the Raleigh, North Carolina suburb of Cary. Frank's inspiration for his living room centers around a painting by the 9-year-old girl who lives in the house. Kia takes a home office/family room and tries to create some real function, all while getting used to having a kid by her side to help out! Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse gets the work piled on by Frank, and still has to build a huge armoire for Kia. Will it all get done? And will the homeowners shed tears of joy or sadness?
North Carolina: Dogwood Trail On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, these families of practical jokers get into some fowl play, as designer Edward Walker talks turkey with his team ... literally. While he's creating a ""hot"" look for his living room with a faux fireplace, Vern Yip gets in on the jokes but tries to keeps his design under wraps. That might be hard to do, as host Joe Farrell uncovers a secret plan by the homeowners to cheat. With all the joking around, carpenter Carter Oosterhouse manages to stay neutral and build some great pieces for both rooms. Tune in to see if Vern and Edward's designs are a hit or if they ruffle feathers.
This episode of Trading Spaces: Family sends designer Christi Proctor back in time ... to a living room that hasn't been decorated for decades! As she battles some old, worn carpet, Edward Walker declares ""Ole!"" on the living room across the street. With some bright paint and the help of carpenter Carter Oosterhouse, Edward transforms his basic Kentucky room into something he calls ""Mexican Mod."" You'll have to see it to believe it!
A ttention sports fans, Trading Spaces: Family has a Kentucky Wildcats family going up against their Louisville Cardinal neighbors. While designers Hilda Santo-Tomas and Christi Proctor stay away from team colors, they don't shy away from major changes. Christi goes all out, adding some Texas spice to a classy, yet understated, family room. Hilda unclutters a furniture-filled living room and has carpenter Carter Oosterhouse turn a simple fireplace into a work of art. And a special guest stops by to visit one of our pint-sized homeowners!
Trading Spaces: Family pits sister against sister in this Kentucky episode. The next door siblings and their families get an added surprise, as the identities of their designers are kept from them until the end of Day 1. While one sister is thrilled to learn designer Frank Bielec is in her room, the other sister is uneasy wondering what Hilda Santo-Thomas might do to her ultra conservative living room. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse gets his own surprise from Hilda, who wears him down with her tall order.
This episode of Trading Spaces: Family spans the generations as a 9-year-old boy, his mom and grandmother trade spaces with a mom and her two teen daughters. With the help of carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor, designer Edward Walker transforms a boy's bedroom into something that's out of this world, while Christi Proctor spices up a bland kitchen.
Designer Edward Walker has his Virginia Beach homeowners swimming in a sea of beach mats he plans to put on the walls. At the other house, designer Christi Proctor and carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor build the ultimate indoor playground. Tune in to this episode of Trading Spaces: Family to see if these designs sink or swim.
In this episode, Joe leads the Trading Spaces team to his alma mater, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. Along with designers Hildi Santo-Thomas and Frank Bielec, Joe matches wits with two other Ivy League graduates and doctors as they trade in their pens and pencils for paint brushes and power tools. Frank and green team mom, Amy, use some surgical precision to hand paint a desk. Meanwhile, carpenter Carter Oosterhouse designs and constructs an entertainment center meant to reposition furniture for Hildi's design. Can Frank plan the perfect ""family but kid"" room? And, can Hildi get her not-quite-white walls painted in time and within budget? Tune in to find out!
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Christi Proctor branches out with a daring design: a 3-D family tree rooted to the wall. Down the street, designer Vern Yip tries to score a touchdown with a Baltimore Ravens theme room. Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor brings both rooms together, earning an MVP award for all her hard work.
Joe Farrell and carpenter Carter Oosterhouse head back to Connecticut and hook up with their trusty design mates, Doug Wilson and Laurie Smith, for the next Trading Spaces Family challenge. Its anchors away as Laurie's ""modern nautical"" room plan tests blue team dad's handyman ability. If he thinks that's difficult, let's see how hard it is to convince Laurie not to paint a cherry wood dining room set. Doug gives up total control as his red team picks their neighbors living room wall colors out of a hat! Will this team have enough time to finish Doug's ambitious paint job or will they get hung up on his ""Charlie's anger""? Watch and see!
Wickid awesome"" is the word as Rick Rifle brings wild colors and tie dye to an extended living room and Edward Walker gives a kitchen an earthy look for two ""hippy"" families in Smithfield, Rhode Island. As Rick lets the girls loose painting, Joe Farrell thinks of some ways to control his ""overspending"". All the while, Edward has Carter Oosterhouse working overtime on a few ambitious projects meant to spice up a hot and boring kitchen. Will the family get a kick out of Rick's colorful creation? Will Carter finish Edward's projects on time and to his perfection? All in two days works
In this episode, Rick Rifle had fun with faux fur while transforming a guest bedroom into a teenage girls room. Next door, our other family works tirelessly with Edward to add some muscle to their neighbor's rag-tag fitness room. For this, our always hard working host Joe Farrell and carpenter Carter Oosterhouse bust out the sledgehammer for a good old fashioned demolition. Back in Rick's room, the blue team continues designing Rick's early sixties mod bedroom while learning the finer points of ""squiggology"". Will Edward and his team create a knock-out fitness room? And will Rick's French art lesson be a success? Watch and see.
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Rick Rifle aims for a post-modern design, but everyone else is convinced it resembles a Halloween haunted house! Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor adds her touch to the room when she builds a monster-sized entertainment center to house a giant television. Across the street, designer Christi Proctor brings the outdoors indoors when she constructs a garden wall using foam stones. Tune in to see whether the homeowners are in for a trick or a treat when they see what the designers have done to their rooms!
Designers Kia Steave-Dickerson and Frank Bielec rock and roll their way into Cleveland on this episode of Trading Spaces: Family. Let's hope Kia's ""karaoke club"" will have her homeowners crooning, not cringing, even after they discover she's chopped up their sofa. Earning it a standing ovation might be the awesome stage built by carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor. Over in Frank's house, he hopes to jazz up a bland kitchen with some funky fabric, but the homeowners end up seeing double - Kia is using the same pattern in their house!
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Frank Bielec puts some bounce in a conservative rec room with a basketball theme, while Rick Rifle sheds some light on a family room paneled in dark wood.
Hildi's hot-off-the-press design has her team asking, ""What's black and white and red all over?"" Next door, Kia's antique inspired room has her family painting, stenciling, and glazing. All this to create her ""retro forward"" design.
To Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we go for this next adventure called Trading Spaces: Family. This time, we've teamed up Barry Wood and Christi Proctor for some much-needed room updating.
Frank Bielec gets graphic and Edward Walker sees black and white when each redecorates a family basement
In this episode, we're in Fair Haven, New Jersey bunkering down for the arrival of Hurricane Isabel. Joe Farrell and the gang, designers Barry Wood, Rick Rifle, and carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor, have come prepared for this stormy adventure in home redecoration. Thankfully for Rick's team, there is a real life fireman on hand to help make sure nothing gets out of control. Forget the hurricane, he may have his hands full with just Mr. Rifle. Braving the outdoors is Amy Wynn, who is busy constructing a massive pagoda entertainment center. At the neighbor's house, Barry and his team, including the other Isabel, are busy re-configuring a family room, complete with a feaux foyer and floor level entertainment center. Can they get everything built before the storm comes to town? Tune in and see!
To Red Bank, New Jersey we go for our next episode as Joe Farrell and designers Kia Steve-Dickerson and Barry Wood, as well as carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor, celebrate one family's anniversary and another design challenge
Joe Farrell and designer Edward Walker go ""copper crazy"" as they solder copper for three new pieces of furniture. Next door, designer Barry Wood has his family seeing stripes in his colorful room design.
Christi Proctor and Edward Walker are our designing stars in this episode of Trading Spaces Family. All the while, carpenter Carter Oosterhouse is tucked away in one corner of the house building a huge, flip top storage/sitting bench.
Two sisters, Holly and Robin, and their families, two houses back-to-back, two days, and a thousand dollars... the ultimate Trading Spaces Family challenge. Let's see if our designers Doug Wilson and Barry Wood are up for it! Doug's family goes on a work strike when he refuses to have carpenter Carter Oosterhouse make a much needed computer desk for the living room. Just behind them at the other sister's house, Barry has his team reaching new heights as they work on a living room with a huge cathedral ceiling. Will sister Holly like it, or will she hit the roof? And will Doug's yellow painted walls leave sister Robin and her kids feeling sunny and vibrant or just stuck with a lemon? Watch and see!
Equipped with electric blue paint, Astroturf, and Elvis memorabilia, designer Rick Rifle has what he needs to create a ""Blue Hawaii"" hangout for his Elvis admiring gang. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse goes all out, designing and building a radical sandbox and surfboard juice bar for Rick. But he also shakes up Christi Proctor's room by building a saloon-style entertainment center for her Wild West living room. Tune in to Trading Spaces: Family see if these Memphis dwellers say, ""Thank you, thank you very much.""
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, the heat is on in designer Hildi Santo-Tomas' kitchen! She goes head to head with a firefighter homeowner when he refuses to paint his neighbors kitchen turquoise and purple. Host Joe Farrell is there put out the fire, but Hildi is able to cool things down on her own. Next door, Kia Steave-Dickerson's police officer and his family don't blink an eye when she chooses a fluorescent green and red palette for their friends' family room. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse stays out of the fray and builds according to the plans. Will each families' design decisions fuel the flame of their friendship or leave each other fuming? Tune in and see!
Tensions are high on this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, as new designer Laura Day discovers that her decorative painting design will take too much time to complete. She keeps her cool, and manages to create a hot pink hangout out of a once bland bonus room. Next door, designer Edward Walker's family can't disguise their surprise when he reveals an army camouflage design that includes landing a helicopter in the center of the room! Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse takes on the elaborate helicopter construction, all while building a banquette and ballet bar for Laura's room. Tune and see if the ambitious trio can make it all happen within 48 hours!
Designer Rick Rifle turns a drab playroom into a zany, magic woodland, complete with fairies, forests and flying fish with feathers. Next door, Frank Bielec is full of bright ideas when he paints large lava lamps all over the walls of his family room, and designs a gigantic light switch made by carpenter Carter Oosterhouse!
Designer Edward Walker sets himself up for potential designer disaster on this episode of Trading Spaces: Family when he gives the homeowners everything they didn't want! Next door, Rick Rifle uses his set-designer skills to create a golden age of Hollywood design for the kitchen.
Christi Proctor enlists the aid of four feisty southern belles as they tackle a den and turn it into a football lair. With carpenter Carter Oosterhouse's help, Laurie Hickson-Smith's team converts a high traffic hallway into an elegant dining room.
Down south to Tallahassee, Florida we head for this episode of Trading Spaces Family. Sunny greetings to our designers, Laura Day and Edward Walker, as well as carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor. Stencils and a pie cut table have Laura Day and Amy Wynn working overtime. Let's see how Laura feels about changing her plans when her family suggests revising her painting ideas. Amy Wynn also has some design changes herself!! Hey, who's the designer here??? With the help of two young boys, a designer mom, and an unhandy dad, Edward and his family work tirelessly to bring some drama to a little girl's bedroom. Will Tori think her royal bedroom redo is fit for a queen? And will Laura's new dining room serve up tears or cheers? Tune in to see!
In one house, Barry Wood and his family work on designing a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired family room. Over in Hildi's kitchen, Joe's been busy spray painting appliances while the green team works on laying down some tile on the counter tops.
Tune in to another ""ultimate"" Trading Spaces Family episode as we bring you two, 3-generation families. Grandmom, mom, and kids are giving up a room in their house to the creative disposal of our designers, Doug Wilson and Barry Wood.
A hockey theme, a two-sided room, and two moms named Lisa highlight this chapter of Trading Spaces Family. Joe Farrell and Co., designers Kia Steve-Dickerson and Frank Bielec, along with carpenter Faber Dewar, are diligently working under the sun in Tampa, Florida.
Joe Farrell is hoping that no one goes overboard on his or her budget for this special ""House Boat"" episode of Trading Spaces Family. Designers Hildi Santo-Tomas and Edward Walker are asking for all hands on deck to help them redecorate these two sea dwellings.
Barry Wood and Christi Proctor, have no time for fun in the sun as they begin the Trading Spaces Family challenge. With a family, a thousand dollars and carpenter Faber Dewar, our room engineers have the daunting task of redecorating two almost teenage girls' rooms!
Edward Walker sets out to revamp a family room but makes host Joe Farrell nervous when he starts to chop chairs at the knees! Next door, designer Doug Wilson's ""cozy cavern"" theme defies his team's desire to lighten up their neighbors' dim family room.
While their father is sent to active duty in the Army, designer Laura Day sends the boys of the orange team through design boot camp. Next door, designer Christi Proctor's ambitious plan leaves Carter suspending two twin beds from the ceiling while she plasters the room with corkboard.
A straight-laced sister and free-spirited brother give each other design control over their living rooms. Designers Frank Bielec and Christi Proctor try to keep the playful sibling rivalry in check as they create designs that will hopefully call a truce, not fuel the war.
Designer Laura Day unknowingly creates controversy when she chooses the homeowners' yellow bull skull as the inspiration for her modern lime green living room design. Next door, designer Christi Proctor makes waves when she covers one of the living room walls with corrugated sheet metal.
Designer Edward Walker and carpenter Faber Dewar make it into the game room hall of fame when they build the first pool table ever on this history-making episode of Trading Spaces: Family! Edward has Joe Farrell seeing double when he saws a couch in two. Next door, the orange team has trouble getting on board with designer Barry Wood's mishmash room design that includes several colors, a giant spur on one wall and what Joe terms a blue ""barrymecium"" on the ceiling that is supposed to resemble the night sky. Tune in and see if both teams are game for these daring designs!
After a hot air balloon ride, Joe gets back just in time to help Laura Day solve a small paint dilemma in her desert sunset inspired room. Just across the cul-de-sac, Barry has Carter building some overhead shelves to add storage space to an office/guestroom.
Christi Proctor and Cat Wei are our designers in charge for this episode. Along with carpenter Carter Oosterhouse, our ladies of design are tackling two living rooms, one of which also functions as a game room. In Christi's house, she and her team are busy painting a desert sunset using the colors from a pre-existing painting. Carter and Joe are preoccupied with the science of a new game table, over which Christi graciously allowed Carter full creative control. Out back, green team boys, Riley and Cody, design cut-out Saguaro cactus for the bright, game/living room while Joe tries to figure out how old Saguaro cactus can actually get!!! Just next door, the crew works diligently on turning a living room into three functional spaces... a reading area, a lounging area, and a bar! Complete with sand walls and Saguaro cactus, Cat and her red team are bringing the desert into this space. The sandy design was inspired by the Arizona license plate. Will the green team like Cat's metropolitan v
It's baseball and gems as designer, Barry Wood, incorporates both into his living room. Laura Day tackles a boring fireplace in need of a new mantle, throwing in some modern color to boot.
The Phoenix desert sunset is the backdrop for this episode of Trading Spaces: Family. Complete with sheet metal, a cantilevered shelving unit, and stalactites, designer Barry Wood asks his team to find their inner rock as they transform a game room into a ""Diner in a Cave"". It's the clash between Pre-historic and metallic! Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse is given the task of creating a cantilevered unit around a huge television, while outside, Joe and red team brothers, Matt and Mark, are distressing some beams with propane tanks and fire. Next door, the sails are flying high as designer Cat Wei is creating a sophisticated nautical room to compliment a home full of lighthouses. Blue team Jeff, Lisa, and Blake each have their own ideas to add to this aquatic theme. As if Barry didn't have him busy enough, Cat has Carter building one of the longest desks he's ever made! Tune in to see if the red team forgets they're in the desert when they see Cat's nautical oasis and if the blue team likes
This Trading Spaces: Family chapter begins at Taliesin West. Located just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, it is the former winter home of the most famous designer in America, Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautiful place — which was built into the mountain using native boulders from the surrounding area — has served as an inspiration to many designers throughout history. Just a few miles away, our own designers on this episode, Christi Proctor and Edward Walker, have come up with their own unique ideas to revamp two living areas in our Arizona homes. In Christi's house, she and her team have brought the beach to the desert as she decides to create a tiki bar in the family's gameroom. Complete with bamboo (everywhere!) and deep ocean colors, this room is sure to make anyone forget they're in the desert. Christi asks carpenter Carter Oosterhouse to create the tiki bar and he adds a design trick of his own by making the roof slanted, for that old, shabby shack feel. With an added hammock and funk
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Hildi Santo-Tomas gets passionate about her deep red living room design when she douses everything from fabric to furniture with the rich color. Host Joe Farrell, however, tries to draw the line at painting the carpet red too! Across the street, designer Catherine Wei's family room plan combines grassy green with tangerine. While Cat and her team start chopping arms and legs off of furniture to achieve the desired look, carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor builds wooden panels that will become fabric walls. Tune in to see the homeowners' reaction to Catherine's version of southern California style!
Host Joe Farrell and red team dad, Gary, are outnumbered when designers Hildi Santo Tomas and Laura Day along with carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor lead an all-female team ready to make all sorts of girl power creations. Laura decides upon a 1950s California glam look for the family room. To create the effect, she paints the walls sunshine yellow, gives thrift store furniture a facelift and plasters seashells onto everything she can get her hands on. Joe and red team dad, Gary, are less than excited when they are left to the not-so-manly task of hot gluing the shells. Meanwhile, in Carpentry World, Amy Wynn takes on the tall task of building two of the largest wall units ever built for Trading Spaces: Family. Next door, Hildi is up to her usual daring design antics when she has her homeowners smear a controversial gold glitter glaze on top of the freshly painted mustard yellow walls and ceiling. Then goes even further when she replaces the King of Pop's face with her own on the homeowners' be
There are problems aplenty in this TSF episode — carpenter Amy Wynn deals with big bad wind, designer Laura Day can't seem to get her team on board, and designer Christi Proctor suffers some misfit mishaps.
Sunny blue skies and playful pink paint abound as two diligent families spotlight two girls' bedrooms in this southern California episode of Trading Spaces: Family. Designer Laura Day's concept for Carrie's room involves serious fabric upgrading, thanks to some last minute problem solving. Using furniture from local thrift stores, and an intricately designed karaoke bed tweaked by our own carpenter, Faber Dewar, Laura and her team have designed a room fit for a princess. Down the street, designer Christi Proctor has her own room challenge. She's enlisted Gary, Tracy, Carrie, and Kevin to help add function to Allison's bedroom. With privacy issues to address, the crew builds a wall to separate the sleeping area from the computer desk. Outside, Joe Farrell and Gary are seeing who has the most hot air as they construct some blow-up furniture! Will Allison go wild over her cheetah inspired bungalow and is Carrie ready to take center stage in her pop-star princess bedroom? Watch to find out
Life's a beach as designer Kia Steave-Dickerson goes for clouds, lighthouses and pirate ships. Meanwhile, designer Frank Bielec transforms a home theater room into something truly special.
Three generations join together to help Edward design a French Country dining room, while Barry tackles his dining area in a more ""proper"" fashion with silk and candles.
A living area and a kitchen set the stage for this episode of Trading Spaces: Family. Designers Christi Proctor and Cat Wei, as well as carpenter Faber Dewar, are up for the challenge. A bright, airy kitchen is being served up in Cat's design plan, even though her team's mom, Lorna, is having issues with the choice of color. Who says lime-green doesn't go in a kitchen? With Faber's help, new flooring, and an addition to the island, Cat and her team are hoping to improve this too woodsy and boring kitchen and dining area. Christi's challenge involves designing for a family whose creative demands are split. Mom, Lorna, wants an Asian look, but husband Dale and daughter Vanessa say no to more Asian. With Christi and their neighbors on the case, a nice, toned down approach may be more like it. Will Greg, Brenda, and the kids light up when they see their new kitchen? And will Lorna, Dale, and Vanessa find something they all like in Christi's simple, yet elegantly designed family room? Tune
How do you seat three brothers who don't like to sit by each other? If you're designer Edward Walker, you make three separate seating areas. With the help of his teammates, Kelly, Andrew, and daughter Riley, Edward creates a rugged, individualized, modern living area for a house full of boys. Carpenter Faber Dewar has his own challenges with this room as he helps design and create an A-frame entertainment center, as well as lots of chairs and ottomans. Down the way, designer Hildi Santo-Tomas is working on adding some pizzazz to a boring and seldom used living room. Joe Farrell helps with this task by putting up grasscloth wallpaper with the boys. Who would think that Hildi would put stuff on the walls?! In another unprecedented first for her (just kidding), Hildi uses flooring on the ceiling. Will the orange team think Hildi's organic mix of color warms things up? And will Ann Marie and her boys put up a fight, or agree over their new separate seating? Tune in to see!
Christie Proctor and Cat Wei are our Designers-In-Charge in this episode! Neither nasty carpeting nor bad wallpaper will stop our teams from designing two rooms in two days. Cat and her team of Judy, and daughters Joanna, Stephanie, and Amy have brought their A game to the show in hopes of creating a sophisticated and practical bedroom for neighbor, Elise. The task at hand is made more difficult with a few layers of wallpaper to tackle! Carpenter Faber Dewar builds a new glamorous bed, along with a fabulous storage filled window seat! For an extra added touch, Joe Farrell, Cat, and Judy make tye-die drapery for the canopy bed. Over at Christie's, the team has ""Old Rusty"" to contend with … the nasty carpet must GO! Christie has Faber busy building lots of new furniture, even though she's bartered for other pieces! Throw in some plaster on the walls and a hand made clock, and voila … a totally different and (finally) functioning living room.
In Pennsylvania, our designers Barry Wood and Edward Walker have two living rooms to redecorate, with the help of carpenter, Carter Oosterhouse. Luckily, they've recruited two hard working families who are up for the task! Barry has gone stamp crazy with his Greek Islands inspired room. Blue and white, a snazzy entertainment center, and a stamped graphic paint design highlight his room. Joe Farrell helps out with the stamping pattern! Down the street, Edward Walker is redecorating a bland living room in need of some major upgrading! Complete with a newly painted fireplace, a chunky mantelpiece, and new angled shelving units (built by Carter of course ) the whole team hopes they've made a room their neighbors will love.
A dad and three kids team up to form this Trading Spaces: Family first, as mom takes a few days off. With the help of designer Laura Day, this troupe takes on a 9 year-old girl's bedroom. Horseshoes, burlap and oats get a place in this room's design for the horse-obsessed Madison! To help with her studies, carpenter Carter Oosterhouse creates a desk/window seat unit. Next door, designer Kia Steave-Dickerson is busting out the paintball guns for a funky accent wall project in her ""Pit-Stop Lounge"". Paintball paint — does that stuff even dry?? She and her teammates have the task of making this basement more kid friendly and entertaining. They rev it up with drag tires, faux garage doors, and a trophy display — a room worthy of the biggest race car fan! Joe Farrell also jumps in as pit crew and helps put up a wall for the new 'concession stand'. Will Bob and the kids slam on the brakes over Kia's ""Pit-Stop Lounge"" or will they think it's a checkered-flag winner? Will Madison have equestri
South Philadelphia neighbors re-doing the same room in their homes are in for a surprise when designers Laura Day and Barry Wood have a secret plan to create the same design. Find out if carpenter Faber Dewar and host Joe Farrell are in on the gag.
The Trading Spaces: Family crew gets a taste of historic home design when they are given a pair of offices to redecorate in estates that are more than a century old. Designer Kia Steave-Dickerson gets creative when she starts chopping the spines off of old books as the centerpiece for her periwinkle and gold library theme for an old craft room. Carpenter Faber Dewar is in charge of making the cabinet that will hold the book remnants, but he and Kia have trouble reading each other's minds when it comes to how it should be designed. Next door, designer Christi Proctor revamps a banal office space into a cozy, functional blue-green and gold office that maintains the spirit of the rest of the house. Speaking of spirits, the crew resurrects the spirit of an old colonel when host Joe Farrell attempts to be their muse for some original artwork. You have to see it to believe it!
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, Laura Day laces up her white boots and organizes a psychedelic dance-party straight out of the 70's for the green team. A fog machine and disco ball complete the transformation from a plain basement to a swinging lounge. But will the tri-colored stripes on the wall dry before it's time to boogie? Over at the neighbors' house, designer Christi Proctor wants to help an all-purpose office blossom for the blue team. Christi brings some of the Cape Cod's beauty indoors as she arranges a vibrant garden room under a white trellis. Meanwhile, Carter Oosterhouse is swamped in carpentry world with not one but two very different banquettes. Does Laura Day's funky basement jive with the green team, and will the blue team stop and smell the flowers in Christi's botanical office? More importantly, will Joe ever learn what a banquette is?
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Edward Walker looks to the great outdoors to gain inspiration for a garden-themed family room. Meanwhile, designer Laura Day turns to galaxies far away for her ideas on how to transform a drab basement into a cool teen hangout. In carpentry world, carpenter Faber Dewar passes off the task of "distressing" Edward's rustic coffee table to host Joe Farrell and the kids so he can concentrate on Laura's double-sided entertainment center. He's ready to send Joe to another planet, though, when he finds out that they have destroyed the table! Will Edward's nature-inspired family room leave the homeowners out in the cold? Will Laura's homeowners want to send her to the moon upon seeing her outer space design in their basement?
This week Trading Spaces: Family is in Cape Cod. The red team is a host family for players in the Cape Cod Baseball League, one of the top training grounds for future pro players. The players' bedroom is in much need of an upgrade. Designer Frank Bielec has some ideas on how to spruce up the space with dorm-style functionality, while still leaving an arts and crafts area for the host mom, Lisa. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse pitches in with some new bed frames for the players. Over at the neighbors' house designer Barry Wood is inspired by the only pirate ship ever discovered in North America, found right in Cape Cod. Barry gives the blue team a pirate-themed room, complete with crow's nest and mast built by Carter. Will the family make Barry walk the plank when they see their new room? Yar, matey!
This week the Trading Spaces: Family crew is in Massachusetts and out on the cape. The green team's '80s kitchen needs updating, and designer Edward Walker is the man for the job. He brings a little bit of Cape Cod's maritime aesthetic indoors with a rustic, shingled wall and a table complete with ship-mast legs built by carpenter Carter Oosterhouse. The blue team is fed up with the wood paneling in their dark living room. Designer Kia Steave-Dickerson comes to the rescue by covering the paneling with a crackle finish and installing new carpet. Carter brightens the room with an illuminated banquette.
Join designers Edward Walker and Laura Day as Trading Spaces Family invades Pittsburgh. Edward is in charge of redecorating 9-year-old Sierra's bedroom. Will a soccer themed room score a goal with Sierra and her family the red team?
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designers Hildi Santo Tomas and Christi Proctor are in charge of two rooms with similar problems - ugly carpet! With the help of the Blue Team - Jim, Marilyn and Kelly - Hildi tries to turn a crowded TV room into a conversation-friendly family space by adding warm colors and burlap over the pesky paneling. Carpenter Faber Dewar pitches in by building a birch mantle over the fireplace, and host Joe Farrell helps install a new carpet that completes the transformation. Across the street, Christi and the Orange Team find a diamond in the rough when they discover oak floors under a carpet disaster. Faber brings the rustic room together with an armoire that showcases distressed doors Christi stumbled upon.
Trading Spaces: Family invades Chicago with designers Edward Walker and Christi Proctor. Edward is in charge of livening up a striped living room. The Orange team has a habit of picking up their furniture from the side of the road and hope that Edward can steer the room away from a garage sale look. Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor builds Edward a TV unit with sliding doors that gives the room storage and window seating. Over at the Green team's house, Christi Proctor is charged with the task of maximizing space in a cramped kitchen. Christi goes for a Tuscan theme and gives the family much-needed work space with an island built by Amy Wynn.
Trading Spaces: Family is in the Windy City this week. On the Orange team, mom Suzette and daughter Britni are fed up with dad Cliff and son Prashant hogging their living room. The boys use the room for their precious video gaming and are not willing to give it up. Christi Proctor hopes to include everyone in her design by adding some comfy seating for the gamers and a beautiful tiled fireplace for the ladies. Designer Frank Bielec has the same idea. He wants to make the Green team's living room livable for the whole family, with things that appeal to the adults and kids. Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor chips in with an entertainment center for Frank and a personalized family cornice board for Christi.
It's a family reunion this week on Trading Spaces: Family as host Joe Farrell visits his grandpa Jimmy, who works at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. After the designers are finished batting practice, they have a tough two days ahead. Barry Wood is given the job of designing a new bedroom for budding architect Paul from the Blue team. Barry gives the room a skyscraper theme, complete with a drafting table and steel I-beam system built by carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor. Laura Day wants to give the Red team's basement a 1950s Vegas lounge feel. Hopefully, Lady Luck will be on Laura's side as she applies some vintage wallpaper and modifies the coffee table into a craps table. Amy Wynn gets in on the action by building a massive entertainment unit.
Designers Christi Proctor and Hildi Santo-Tomas join Carpenter Faber Dewar as they head north to explore Bismarck, N.D., for design inspiration. Christi Proctor decides on a red and black travel theme for her globe-trotting homeowners' family room. Down the street, designer Hildi Santo-Tomas reveals her controversial design plan for a teen activity room page by page. Tune in to see what Hildi decides to cover the walls with this time!
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Edward Walker converts a young girl's bland bedroom into an orange and purple Indian getaway. Next door, designer Barry Wood creates controversy when he cuts away a corner of the homeowners' carpet and plants a concrete garden inside their living room! Out in carpentry world, Carpenter Faber Dewar builds Edward an Eastern-inspired entertainment center and a caterpillar coffee table for Barry.
Join Trading Spaces: Family as they invade Billings, Mont. Designer Laura Day gets some much needed help for her mid-century modern living room from handyman Jesse, the red team's dad. Jesse builds a distressed coffee table for Laura, while she is busy with the rest of the family gluing shredded magazines to a new drywalled fireplace built by carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor. At the neighbor's house, designer Barry Wood has gone with a subtle craftsman theme for the red team's living room. The orange team helps add a touch of funk by stringing up yarn on the wall as an art project. Amy Wynn pitches in by making new crown molding and shelving.
Designer Edward Walker performs magic by making an ugly green carpet "disappear" when he incorporates it into a clever modern design. Across the street, Laura Day hides tricks up her sleeve as she hacks away at sofa cushions and takes a sledgehammer to the room's wooden walls. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse finishes off the rooms with a faux fireplace wall for Edward and a wall-to-wall desk for Laura.
In this episode, Edward re-does a room for a 5 year old boy with cerebral palsy. The room's top priority is function, so Edward integrates a space theme into the room. Meanwhile, Laura re-does a boy's bedroom into an ultra-cool garage room.
Christi Proctor picks up ideas from the Pictograph State Park and creates cave drawings on the living room wall. At the neighbors' home, Kia Steave Dickerson uses a rainforest theme to make the basement a place for both kids and adults to monkey around.
This week Trading Spaces: Family is in Billings, Mont. Christi Proctor wants to give the blue team's drab basement a mountain-lodge feel by adding some earthy tones and rustic furniture. Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor installs a wooden truss system that brings some of the outdoors in. At the neighbors' house, designer Edward Walker is charged with making the orange team's nonfunctional dining room function. Edward spruces up the space by adding deep colors, faux stained glass and an antler chandelier. Amy Wynn completes the room with a new rustic dining room table.
Designer Christi Proctor gives the red team a home theater with something for the whole family. Over at the neighbors house, Barry Wood is in charge of making a new space for the blue team and their pet rat Rosie. Barry adds seating and a playground.
Trading Spaces: Family is in San Francisco, Calif. Edward Walker unifies a blank living/dining room combo by giving it a sophisticated, contemporary feel. But can he sell his homeowners on the blue, black, brown and zebra print motif? At the neighbors' house Christi Proctor gives a neutral living room some zip to match the owner's personality. Her tile fireplace, bold colors and 17 pillows are sure to get a reaction from the family. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse helps out but building an entertainment center and sofa table for Edward; as well as a new mantle and window bench for Christi.
Trading Spaces: Family is in Denver, Colo. Laura Day tries to recapture a living room that has lost its function, but pesky wallpaper and a less-than-perfect copper glaze stand in her way. At the neighbors' house, Edward Walker is revving his engine in anticipation of a race car themed room. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse welds a metal pipe entertainment center for Edward and builds Laura an oak-faced wall-unit.
The Rocky Mountains provide the backdrop as the Trading Spaces: Family crew hits Denver, Colo. Hildi Santo-Tomas is in charge of sprucing up a formal dining room with no formal function. She is inspired by a recent trip to Morocco, and transforms the space by creating a mosaic tile wall and covering the room in fabric. Edward Walker has double duty as he designs the living room and dining room of an art- and music-loving family. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse builds a pair of Moroccan shutter doors for Hildi and helps Edward cover a wall in a wooden diamond pattern.
Trading Spaces: Family is in Denver, Colo. The Red team wants designer Barry Wood to go nuts in their basement studio/office. Barry doesn't disappoint and gives them a new slate floor and an intergalactic mural. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse joins the fun and builds Barry a curved shelving unit and fold-up Murphy desks. Their neighbors want to give function to a useless dining room. Laura Day tries to please both genders with an elegant, yet masculine space, complete with a black tile floor and a formal dining room table that converts into a poker table. Carter pitches in with a cornice and art-covered dart board case.
Trading Spaces: Family is in West Chester County, N.Y. Designer Frank Bielec has a pigskin-themed family room for the football fanatics in the orange team. Fun colors, a gridiron coffee table and a TV/bar unit built by carpenter Faber Dewar make this space reach the end zone. Their neighbors have a passion for cooking, so Hildi Santo-Tomás is ready to spice up the blue team's kitchen. She updates the plain space and gives it an edge with a tile and bead backsplash and Chinese folk-art wall. Faber finishes it off with a new table and bench seating.
On this episode of Trading Spaces: Family, designer Hildi Santo-Tomas creates a design windstorm when she blows into town with a pile of leaves that she plans to plaster all over the dining room walls. Across the street, designer Edward Walker's posh chocolate-and-violet living room design is compromised when a lazy homeowner would rather sleep on the couch than re-upholster it. Carpenter Faber Dewar gets busy making colossal columns for Edward's room and a mod tabletop for Hildi.
Designer Kia Steave-Dickerson takes a jungle theme to the extreme when she uses a live monkey as the focal point of a young primate lover's bedroom on this episode of Trading Spaces: Family. Carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor goes bananas as she builds a suspended bed for the jungle room. Next door, designer Edward Walker transforms a cluttered bedroom into an ice palace for a pair of figure skating princesses.
Trading Spaces: Family is in Denver, Colorado. The Orange team wants their family room/office to be more inviting. Designer Christi Proctor gets some inspiration from Colorado's red rocks and attempts a wall treatment that could prove disastrous. Carpenter Carter Oosterhouse builds Christi a new table and TV cabinet. At the neighbor's house, Kia Steave-Dickerson wants to spice up the Green team's family office. She gives her team a choice between a new floor and a fabric-wrapped ottoman ... which one will they choose? Also, Kia tries out a spreadable stone product on a new fireplace unit built by Carter.
Designer Frank Bielec makes the red team's wish come true by incorporating chimpanzees, sumo wrestlers and fish into one room. Next door, designer Laura Day hopes to draw her family back into their dining room by devising a stately, yet cozy atmosphere.
Designer Edward Walker turns a family room into an elegant Tuscan villa with the help of carpenter Carter Oosterhouse. Meanwhile, Christi Proctor creates a rainbow-colored, racing-inspired room that is versatile enough for the whole family.
On this episode of Trading Spaces Family, Carter Oosterhouse has his hands full when designer Laura Day turns an unexciting basement into a fantasy tropical room featuring a tri-level race track. Across the street, Jon Laymon transforms an aged bonus room into a modern, kid-friendly masterpiece that includes vinyl and racing stripes.