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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.
