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Originally posted by purse junkie
TS won't change rooms back for you either, but do allow you do say a couple of absolutely-don't-do-thises on the forms* . But I think the one time Doug or whoever put a pole in the bedroom to strip-twirl to, the couple blushed but looked pretty stoked about it.
You let some stranger in your house to remake your room, you take your chances, you got on TV like you wanted so shut the fuck up you babies!
*(leading to the famous crying episode, where they said "don't touch the fireplace" so Doug accommodatingly boarded over it and decorated that part hideously instead)
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I think something similar happened on CR. Very early episodes clearly had a "we can do whatever we want" atmosphere while some later ones seemed to permit the participants to designate "don't touches" and also sometimes had the designer trying to mold the design to what his investigations led him to believe would be at least somewhat acceptable to the homeowner. I would think that Americans would be more likely to explode over a bad room than Brits -- Brits seem so easygoing about a lot of stuff (generalization alert).
Have you ever watched House Invaders? I don't know if it came before or after CR started (I am guessing after). Here the homeowner helps do his own place )with supplies supposedly in the shed already (who the held keeps all that good wood and paint around?). At the end they leave to allow for "finishing touches." I can't recall seeing anything botched on this one. The two handy-guys are hotties.
