Trading Spaces - Definition and Overview

Trading Spaces is an hour-long television reality program on the cable channel The Learning Channel. The format of the show is based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms.

In each episode, two sets of neighbors redecorate one room in each others' homes. Each two-person team has two days, a $1,000 budget, and the services of a designer. The teams share the services of a carpenter.

The teams have no say in what happens in their own homes, but can give input into what happens in the home they are redecorating. The teams must not enter their own home for the duration of the show, and the transformed rooms are revealed only at the end of the second day.

Cast

The show features different participants each episode. The host, designers and carptenters (the cast) are recurring (though there are only two designers, one host and one carpenter each time).

Hosts

• Paige Davis (from second season; full name: Mindy Paige Davis)
• Alex McLeod (first season only)

Designers

• Frank Beilec
• Laura Day
• Genevieve Gorder
• Laurie Hickson-Smith
• Christi Proctor
• Rick Rifle
• Dez Ryan (first season only)
• Hildi Santo-Tomas
• Kia Steave-Dickerson (from third season)
• Edward Walker (from third season)
• Douglas Wilson
• Barry Wood
• Vern Yip

Carpenters

• Amy Wynn Pastor
• Ty Pennington
• Carter Oosterhouse
• Febar Dewar

See also: While You Were Out

External link

• TLC's official Trading Spaces site (http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tradingspaces/tradingspaces.html)