Great Film overall

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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.

I saw Changing Rooms and I watched a little bit of it to know I didnt really care for it...I like Trading Spaces...I dont like Genevieve or Lauries designs cause genevieve looks like she is more interested in hookin up with the men and some of her thinking is way out...Laurie does the same old thing, brown and orange and yellow, too boring for me. I just like watching it to see if the people are going to hate it or what....One thing though the designers should be there at the end when someone doesnt like it. What if they dont like it who gives the money to fix it up!

I love this show! There is one comment that I didn't agree with. Having the designers stay and do the homework. The whole premise for the show is that the HOMEOWNERS do the work. Yes, the designers do help, but they are there for their artistic (or sometimes lack-there-of)abilities. It would cost well over $1000 if the homeowners were paying for the the time and work the designers put into the rooms. Most of the designers have their own companies, so getting a complete re-vamp of a room, for $1000 is a steal, when you think of what some designers charge per hour!

It might take awhile for you to remember people's names (host Paige, designers Doug, Laurie, Vern, etc., carpenters Ty and Amy Wynn), but once you do you'll be hooked! Everyone pretty much knows the premise: neighbors/relatives/friends swap houses and, with the help of a carpenter and guidance from a designer, spend up to $1,000 redecorating one room. Oh yeah, and they have 2 days to accomplish this.I don't know that I'd want these designers having free reign in my house, but there are lots of times I like bits 'n' pieces of their overall idea. I may not like that they're painting the kitchen orange, but I do like how they are growing bluegrass in little pots in the windowsill.Also, it's great when the couples argue with the designers about changing stuff. Makes you wonder why they volunteered to be on the show in the first place if they wanted to keep it the exact same? If you really end up liking the show, there's a website called Television Without Pity that re-tells each episode with their own snarky comments. It's hilarious and makes watching the episodes even more enjoyable.