Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces is an hour-long American television reality program that aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Home. The format of the show was based on the BBC TV series Changing Rooms. The show ran for eight seasons. In each episode, two sets of neighbors redecorated one room in each other's home. Each two-person team had two days, a budget of US$1,000, and the services of a designer. Although the producers generally allowed the teams to go over budget slightly, there was one instance when a designer went $150 over budget and the producers forced her to return a... rug she bought for the project she was working on. The teams have no say over what happens in their own homes, but are able to give input into what happened in the home they are redecorating. The teams are not allowed to enter their own home for the duration of the show, and the transformed rooms are revealed only at the end of the final day. The show was generally credited with sparking a nationwide interest in home decorating and improvement television shows in the United States.
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