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Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
LOL...Costacat, I have all those rooms but my snactuary is my "greenroom" on the second floor (small room 12x12) and it has my private PC, small 17 inch plasma with dvr, stereo, a small stash of wine and ahem....nevermind :-).

You'll usually find me in the greenroom and the husband in his music room. The rest is used very seldom.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Monday, February 05, 2007 - 3:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
I couldn't believe that no one included any kind of water feature. When I think 'sanctuary', I immediately think of a pool of water.

I have six cats, so I already have quite a few "sandboxes" in my house. Nothing Zen about them, however, LOL!

I liked the winning design, loved the chalkboard, would love to swing. Hated the green painted floor one - I thought the description of "high end dorm room" was right on the money. I didn't like the really horizontal one either.

The Chinese wedding bed room just had too much crap in it.

My sanctuary would have included a pool of water or tub or something and a hammock, many more plants and candles.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
just posting a link since this might be considered spoiling
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-02-06-top-design-gray_x.htm?csp=34

kind of surprised by this article, i thought his behavior seemed rather homophobic.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
You thought John's behavior was homophobic? Odd... I knew he was gay almost immediately.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
yes, the way he cut down all the guys being like girls and how he should have been in the girls' room

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 9:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
I did not think it was homophobic, per se. I took his comment to mean that he was going to encounter so much drama with the boys, that he'd be better off dealing with the type of drama the girls would create. I had a gay friend years ago, and some gays can and do create TONS of drama. My friend certainly knew how to do this ad nauseum.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
I can't believe last night when I was switching channels, I kept catching the END of this AGAIN and then the beginning of Housewives..which I can't stomach. So, I'd switch channels and get interested in something else and then check back and found that I was in the same situation AGAIN! I had missed the rerun AGAIN and they were starting to play the Housewives rerun again! I guess I'll just have to tape some other stuff and watch the rerun (hopefully) before the new one, so I can see the whole show.

The little of what I saw of this guy, I would have guessed he was gay and not homophobic, but I didn't see the whole show and hear his comments.

I have a friend who has actually gone to full-blown AIDS and was near death in '96 and then the new "cocktails" came out. They saved his life, but did cause a lot of havoc in his body, including emotional changes. It was discovered his blood sugars were rising and dropping like crazy and that was the cause of his emotional problems. It's amazing that right now, he's doing great, although granted, he's been through a lot of side effects and procedures, but he just keeps, keepin' on! He and his partner are actually performing a show they both wrote, off-Broadway. When I see him, I forget he has AIDS and knowing him has done a world of good to change peoples' minds about people with AIDS/HIV and the unnecessary fear many have.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
I'm missing this tonight, would love an update!

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 12:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
I'll try to give you a bit of an update, although it's late and I'm a bit foggy, but better something than nothing? :-)

They were given individual projects and each picked up a brief description of the person they would be designing for: female or male, some said things like they were a singer or an artist, or hobby/sport and some had little bits about being a perfectionist, etc. They were designing a bedroom for them. They had a budget of 8,000 and had to do the walls, floors and while a mattress and box spring would be provided, they would have to build the bed. They had an hour to go downstairs and pick out things from the showroom and found the things were very expensive and couldn't get many of the things they wanted. For example, a chair was $4,500, etc. They then went back upstairs and met the people they were designing for. It turned out they were all 9-10 yrs old and they all had assumed they were designing for an adult. They got to talk to the kids a bit and found some other things they liked in some cases and got some got ideas they could work with what they bought. They also found out it would be a twin bed and they were all assuming it was a large bed.

After they painted and did their floors, etc., they were able to go to a department/Target/Wal-mart store and pick up $200 more in items. The pair who won last week each had an extra $100 a piece to buy what they wanted. They got linens and other things to help their room to fit their client.

The major thing was John didn't end up with any floor since someone took the wood floor he wanted and he decided to go with linoleum. He gave his helper/carpenter the $ to get it and they came back w/o anything because it cost more than he had. He also had problems with things not fitting properly and basically, his room was unfinished.

I can't remember their names, but a guy who made a pirate themed room won and has immunity next week. The bottom 3 were guys, two being Michael and John. They thought Michael's looked like it was for a nursing home. They criticized the other guy for not having things worked out enough for the kid and including the kid's cat too much in the room. They ended up sending John home because his truly was the worst since it was really unfinished.

Oh yeah, at the beginning they showed John telling the rest of the group about his meds for HIV and he didn't want them to think he hated Michael.

Hope someone else can fill in what I left out or correct any errors I have!! :-)

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 12:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Watching2! I remember the previews where a judge says that the cat was too much included in a design...I'm still wondering how a cat could possibly be "too much" included!

Anyone know who did the pirate room?

Thanks, again!

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 6:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
I believe it was Eric who did the pirate room. I loved that room. If it was an adult room it would have been overdone, but for a 10 year old, it was great. The kid seemed to love it.

I thought it was interesting how the judges kept critizing the guy who did the glamour room for the little actress, for using the black, and then they would show the kid saying how much she loved the room and commenting about the nice black and white.

I wondered if the judges got to see the tapes of the children actually reacting to the rooms. It seemed a little too much of the judges preconcieved notions about children's wishes was revealed here.

And Michael's room was like a nursing home. It was a beautiful room, but it definitely did not look like a child's room I wish they would have shown the child's reaction to it.

I do think they got the best and worst right.

I was a little surprised at John because last week he seemed so in control and competant and last night he just seemed lost from the very beginning. The thing with the floor was just stupid. He decided not to go with the wood floor because the color he wanted was taken by someone else. So use a different color.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
BTW, John said that the HIV (or the meds) make him lose testosterone. So his doc gave him a huge shot of testosterone before he came (lots so it would last the duration of the taping). So that is in part why he was so aggressive towards Michael at the last challenge. He said he was not making excuses, he really was sorry, but wanted to explain a bit...

I didn't get why the judges were kind of ripping on the overthetopness of the pirate room (which I did not thing, I loved it!) and then he wins. Maybe it was just one judges' opinion?

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Yep that room looked old, very old.

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Watching2! I remember the previews where a judge says that the cat was too much included in a design...I'm still wondering how a cat could possibly be "too much" included!

Beth, it was too much 'cat' because there was shelf across at least two walls, I believe, and nothing was on top because the decorator said the cat would knock them over, so it looked bland and boring and unfinished. There was a huge cat pole with boxes towards the middle of the room, I think. Inotherwords, it was more for the cat than the girl.

Allietex, my take on that girl saying it was black and white was that she wasn't pleased. She wanted more pink and told him some black was okay. He called the walls pink, but they looked beige, so again..rather bland.

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
I did not take it that way, Cricket. Although you could take the comment about the nice black and white either way, later in the show they showed a clip of her saying, "I love this room!" and she sounded very sincere.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 3:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
The thing with the "cat" room - he really did not integrate the room very well, and I got their point about the shelf looking empty without an actual cat on it. There is a cat food commercial where people have a "cat shelf", but it is multileveled with steps, etc. and the whole thing is painted in an interesting way so that even if a cat is not on it it would look cool. He did not have time to do something that elaborate, but should have realized the limitation.

I think that I would have picked the greenery room as the competition winner. The pirate ship room looked kind of messy even before a kid was put in it. I guess I am getting old, but all I could think of was that it would be a hard room to clean! (Not that I do one bit of cleaning myself, I have a service.)

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
FWIW, there's a local couple who've completely designed their house around their cats. And they DO have catwalks in their house. Their SITE is currently closed for repairs, but they've done some awesome stuff. And yes, all the shelves that run along the top of the walls are bare so the cats can walk along 'em.

So I didn't think the catwalk was that odd. I think if they'd had more time, there could've been more done to that room.

I did not like the pirate room, but then, I'm not a 9 year old boy! :-)

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
I saw that on tv a while back! That house is soooo cat friendly. The man said on the show, "We put in $10k in improvements, but we depreciated the house $20k!"

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
Being a cat friendly person I loved the cat bedroom and my daughter would have loved to have a cat walk ledge...heck she'd still love it. It's all a matter of personal taste. I personally liked that room. But I liked the Chinese bedroom room too. I have a feeling I won't agree with a lot of the judging. It's so different from TC because we can't really taste the food. We might get a good idea of how it tatses and might get inspired but Top Design is a bit more black and white for me.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 6:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
One other thing we miss... we get to see only a few of the comments from the client. They didn't show the kids enjoying all of the rooms, and we don't know what they liked and didn't like about all of the rooms.

Trueheart
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09-12-2006

Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Trueheart a private message Print Post    
I liked the glamour room the best. I loved the lights in the wall. That guy is very creative. I too was surprised that the judges were so "uppity" about the black. So what if it is not a "usual" children's color?

THE CLIENT WANTED BLACK. So didn't he do the right thing by using it? Whatever!

I can't believe that they liked that green "jungle room" so much. I thought it was way too feminine for that little boy. Just about they only boy thing in there was the ropes dangling from the ceiling!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 4:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
A catwalk is interesting, but if you are really designing for the cat you would have a larger cat tree and lots of places for the cat to actually sit/perch/lie down. Not that cats won't find their own places. (She says as one cat is sitting on her desk on her laptop, another is on the windowsill and another is on the ottoman next to her.) It does make me laugh when some people describe cat trees as "cat furniture" because cats view ALL furniture as "cat furniture"!!

I just thought that cat/surfer room was odd because you don't really associate cats with the beach or water. If he had been the one with jungle theme or even a mountain climbing theme with the catwalk running along mountain "ledges" with a climbing wall for the girl it would have seemed more integrated. That is what I meant.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
Finally got to see the show. I would have penalized the designer of the cat/artist room not so much for the cat elements (which I didn't think were all that dominant....visa via the huge winning "litter box" last week!), but instead for the height of the bed (was that ever explained? they did say it was dangerous or some such), and for the lack of places for the artist's supplies.

I actually really liked John's design concept, even though unfinished. I think I would have let Michael go instead. Question: was there a price allotted the designers for those floors they initially chose, or if they chose one of the samples, was that "free"? If so, John did make a big mistake not to just grab something, but again, I liked his design.

I actually probably liked the "jungle" room the best--oh and the glamour room. Although I do agree the jungle room didn't read as much boy as girl.

I wish they didn't have to choose their furniture from that expensive place, I find it limiting.

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
I understood that the floor was sort of a bonus if they took the wood one offered. They did not have to take the cost into account. John blew it big time. And it was just because he did not like the colors left when he got to make his choice. He thought they were too dark for his room. It cost him the game. I really feel that if his floor had been complete, he would have beat out the other two guys. They liked his plan and his theme, it was just so unfinished.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I didn't notice that he had a theme because the floor wasn't the only thing wrong with his room.