Laurie Trading Spaces

Elegant but eclectic is how laurie smith described her designs when she arrived on set for trading spaces.

Laurie trading spaces. At the merridianevent laurie dished with us about her years on trading spaces the show that was generally credited with sparking a nationwide interest in home decorating and improvement television shows in the united states. In 2018 a revival series began airing on discovery channel. Laurie uses color and vibrancy to create new spaces on a limited budget and always does so with style and grace and sometimes a bit of perspiration. What goes around comes around and color is back in interior design said trading spaces interior designer laurie smith during a special vip coffee saturday morning at the novi home show.

Trading spaces is an hour long american television reality program that originally aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels tlc and discovery home. Meeting laurie hickson smith feels like meeting an old friend. In 2018 a revival. Laurie smith was one of the first designers to hit the airwaves on tlc s breakout hit show trading spaces in 1999.

In 2018 trading spaces rebooted on tlc and was recently nominated for an e. I would let laurie frank and vern in my house. The format of the show was based on the bbc tv series changing rooms. Smith is more than just a trading spaces designer.

She is open honest funny totally disarming so it s easy to see why she was chosen to be on the original cast of tlc s trading spaces in 1999 and why they ve asked her back for the highly anticipated return of the beloved show. They have no control over their own home redecoration until the reveal. Laurie is proud of having been on the first and last episodes of trading spaces first installation but she can t wait for what s next. Teams have only two days and a 2000 budget to complete the redesign with a professional designer and carpenter.

Trading spaces originally aired on tlc from 2000 to 2008 and launched multiple spinoff series throughout its run. In trading spaces two sets of neighbors redecorate a room in each others home. The first iteration ran for eight seasons.