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they scare the begeebers out of me when I watch them paint over the
natural brick fireplaces.  If someone did that in my house, they
would end up in a world of hurt, and then, when my better half
stepped aside, I would be able to take my turn inflicting pain.


IceBear, protective of our old world charms in this house
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John Nieminen
Tanda Technologies Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com 
> [mailto:owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com]On
> Behalf Of Kestrel
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: bardroom2{at}tantech.com
> Subject: Re: [BR-2] Home Improvement
> 
> 
> > > worst one is Hildi Santo Tamas.
> >
> > Heh.  Loren and I decided after seeing the 
> straw-glued-to-the-livingroom
> walls
> > episode that we'd shoot her if we ever saw her coming 
> toward *our* house.
> >
> > darkelf, not a Hildi fan, no
> 
> neither am I. I've seen her turn rooms that weren't that bad 
> to begin with
> into monstrosities. She doesn't care what sort of house she's 
> in, what the
> person wants, what can be lived with, what's reasonable for 
> the kind of room
> it is...
> 
> did you see what she did to the livingroom of two women 
> recently -- it was
> quite clearly a "country" style, and while they were in to
> something different -- she had this hideous scarf from Paris I
> think. 
> Awful colors.
> Decided that was her "influence" for the room... so to echo 
> the circles she
> put *records* on the walls! OF A LIVINGROOM! Nailed the 
> damned things to an
> entire huge wall... then covered the couches in slipcovers 
> that had such
> thin fabric the stripes of the couches were clearly visible 
> and the colors
> were bright pink and turquoise I think.... Then, she SPRAY PAINTED
> the woman's favorite chair -- everyone loved this chair. Don't do 
> anything to
> the chair. Woman hates black in her house... what color was the
> chair painted? Black. It was hideous... absolutely hideous. Now -- 
> the kitchen
> with the wine labels... other than the wine labels (do the 
> designers know
> *anything* about the customers? I mean jeez... wine labels/rack in
> a minister's house) I thought the room was kinda cool -- though 
> BLACK!? When
> they *plainly* and *clearly* stated they wanted something 
> lighter? What a
> wench.
> 
> Doug does a lot I don't like, the blonde can get a little out 
> there at times
> (she put moss all over one couple's bedroom walls) but she's 
> ok for the most
> part. There's a new woman -- can't remember her name, but 
> she's a black
> lady... I'm thinking she may actually be gone because I haven't
> seen anything from her in ages, but she didn't do a single room 
> that had *any*
> merit to it at all, and she always had some sort of theme...
> Egyptian, "Garden"... where she did a bed with an astroturf
> bedspread 
> that had fake
> flowers WIRED to it... the bed was a sort of platform inside a
> section marked off with brick... it looked exactly like a grave...
> everyone commented on it. Atrocious.
> 
> the only one's I'd let anywhere near my house are Vern, 
> Laurie and Frank.
> And even then -- what's done is only as good as your friends can
> do. Painting walls is ok, but furniture takes a bit more skill if 
> you don't want
> it looking like crap, and on many shows, if they lighting is 
> right and the
> camera angle right -- you can see how badly some of it is painted.
> 
> so while I like the show... I'm afraid there's no chance in 
> hell any of them
> are coming near my stuff. And Surprised By Design, or While 
> You were Out --
> are RIGHT OUT. Only thing worse than having someone mess with 
> my stuff,
> would be to have it done while I don't know about it! Ghastly.
> 
> 
> 

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