Another non-TV show. Actually, it's another commercial posing as a television show, but this one is a huge ad for Home Depot. Except, how are you supposed to go to Home Depot and seek out finds for home improvement ideas when this show tells you nothing about home improvement. This is another pointless form of nauseatingly cheap entertainment in which dumb twenty and thirty somethings scrap together some ugly (on occasion, something will look nice) furniture or wall coverings or something and destroy a perfectly nice room or house all for the sake of a contest. They ought to call it, how to turn your house into that generic coffeehouse style in less than a day.
Unfortunately, shows like these have replaced once-legitimate home improvement shows like the ones Christopher Lowell or Lenette Jennings once had (I think they were on the Discovery Channel), two television craft show hosts with somewhat different styles who at least took the time to show you how to build something nice once in a while. But, as modern television prefers the generic twenty and thirty year olds and obliterate the obsolescence of careful redecorating instruction by forty and fifty year old hosts, I can see why Jennings and Lowell are pretty much no longer around.
What's more is we have lost appreciation for a lot of other things. Even Lowell and Jennings were once in awhile architecture enthusiasts who would host a show from historic homes or something. Trading Spaces cheapens all of that and makes it one hundred percent impersonal. They don't show you how to make anything and why not, they're supposed to throw together a bag of popsicle sticks, glue, and some god awful gawdy colored paint, and call it an 'improvement' because that's all you can do when you have ten hours or whatever the arbitrary time limit is to work. Efficiency is emphasized over being practical, creative, and most of all, producing good craftsmanship.
Unfortunately, shows like these have replaced once-legitimate home improvement shows like the ones Christopher Lowell or Lenette Jennings once had (I think they were on the Discovery Channel), two television craft show hosts with somewhat different styles who at least took the time to show you how to build something nice once in a while. But, as modern television prefers the generic twenty and thirty year olds and obliterate the obsolescence of careful redecorating instruction by forty and fifty year old hosts, I can see why Jennings and Lowell are pretty much no longer around.
What's more is we have lost appreciation for a lot of other things. Even Lowell and Jennings were once in awhile architecture enthusiasts who would host a show from historic homes or something. Trading Spaces cheapens all of that and makes it one hundred percent impersonal. They don't show you how to make anything and why not, they're supposed to throw together a bag of popsicle sticks, glue, and some god awful gawdy colored paint, and call it an 'improvement' because that's all you can do when you have ten hours or whatever the arbitrary time limit is to work. Efficiency is emphasized over being practical, creative, and most of all, producing good craftsmanship.