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Summary: Both hot
Review: Alex was real hot, but then Paige came along and just gives off this persona that she wants to make love constantly. I watch this show for Paige only, athough I must say the competition has made Amy Wynn dress slutier so its a win win for everyone. That Hilde is pretty wild too. Oh man I gotta go.....
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Summary: A Fun Book For Fans!
Review: Ever want to know what happens behind the scenes of Trading Spaces? Paige Davis has written a journal of the last year as host of the show, and the result is a fun, honest look at what it's like to bring the show together. It sounds really exhausting, actually. There's also lots of fun pictures of the cast and crew and of homeowners, and all sorts of souvenirs from the road. The design is cool, too, it looks like a spiral notebook and some pages look torn out, some have post-it notes and pictures. My daughter loves the book and shows it to her fiends so I got my own! Its' fun!
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Summary: Paige by Paige
Review: I am a huge Trading Spaces fan, so I had to have the book even though I liked Alex better as the Trading Spaces hostess. Paige took some getting used, but now she is more a part of the show than Alex ever was. While the book is mainly Paige's thoughts, feelings, and reactions... I thought that this still gave quite a bit of insight into the show and how things really work. It also gave me a new appreciation for Paige, as her work schedule is crazier than anyone could imagine. If you're a big fan of the show, I recommend getting the book, especially since the price has now dropped at many retailers.
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Summary: About Paige, but Focuses on Trading Spaces
Review: I am a huge Trading Spaces fan, so I had to have the book even though I liked Alex better as the Trading Spaces hostess. Paige took some getting used, but now she is more a part of the show than Alex ever was. While the book is mainly Paige's thoughts, feelings, and reactions... I thought that this still gave quite a bit of insight into the show and how things really work. It also gave me a new appreciation for Paige, as her work schedule is crazier than anyone could imagine. If you're a big fan of the show, I recommend getting the book, especially since the price has now dropped at many retailers.
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Summary: If you love the show you have to buy this
Review: I am addicted to Trading Spaces and just wrote a review of the new Make It Yours book, which I love. I also bought this book. Actually, I'm not a big Paige Davis fan at all, but this book is worth it because it covers a lot of behind the scenes happenings that you won't find anywhere else. Whether or not you find Paige annoying, the book gives insights on what happens at the show when cameras aren't rolling.
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Summary: Rather Disappointing
Review: I asked for this book for Christmas because of its ratings here on Amazon. Had I actually been able to skim through it, I would have realized that there is very little about the true stars of the show - the homeowners.
Paige had a great idea when she decided to start this diary, which really does appear to have been written bit by bit, every day. (For all I know, she has kept it her whole life, and someone just suggested she turn this year of it into a book.) I like her writing style, and the design of the book is cute, too.
But somehow, when I started reading about Day 1 or Day 2 of an episode, with the homeowners listed by first names, from this layout I expected that she would at least then tell us (or remind us) of whether the homeowners liked their finished product or not. Some closure. And that she would tell us about many episodes, from start to finish.
Instead, she gives only snippets from any number of episodes, leaving off entirely at various points, so disjointedly that you get the idea that the homeowners, and even the process of redoing their rooms, really don't count much to the Trading Spaces staff.
Apparently, Paige and the designers and the rest of the staff don't realize that it is not the "Open" (the brief sketche with Paige and the designers that begins the show) I care about. She rattles on about those effusively and endlessly. I watch (or used to watch) the show for the homeowners, and to see their rooms designed and to get inexpensive design hints myself. My favorite part was seeing the homeowners elated with their rooms. I think we, the audience, identify with the homeowners, and watch because of them. But Paige and the others seem to think it's really all about them.
I liked her writing, and I liked many of the stories she told - it's just that the homeowners come off way too much as practically meaningless props in this book. I would have preferred if the stories of where the designers went to dinner, what they ate, what little this and that thing they did for each other, etc., had been the extras in the book. And that the show itself - the rooms and homeowners - had been the main course. Instead, it's the other way around. I mean, who cares about all her endless travel arrangements?
Other oddities, as well: She gives this big build-up for several pages about the show being nominated for the Emmys, and the book even includes what appears to be an official page from the Emmy people, listing and describing the shows that were up for their category. Then she says something like, "Well, we didn't go home with the Emmy last night." Ok, so who did? SHE DOESN'T TELL US! Apparently, since they didn't win, nothing else is important. I looked again, thinking I had just missed it, but I still couldn't find it, unless I'm still missing it somewhere. Talk about self-centered! That, in a nutshell, is kind of what the whole book is like.
Bottom line: The book is Paige's diary of Paige's days in Paige's career. The "Trading Spaces" aspect of it, especially the homeowners, gets short shrift. As for the show itself, I don't watch it much anymore because it long since became too sadistic to be pleasurable viewing. Instead, I recommend "Clean Sweep" if you want to see homeowners truly thrilled by wonderful, attractive, functional designs in their rooms done by people who actually seem to care about them. ("How Clean Is Your House" is good, too.)
Can Paige really, truly believe that there has never been a room done on Trading Spaces that isn't liked by someone, and that the problem is generally just cranky homeowners who "aren't open to change?" If so, I'd like to point out the moss-covered walls episode, the hay-glued-on-the-walls episode, the all (and I do mean all) white room and all black room episode, the prison room complete with toliets incorporated as furniture episode, the circus tent episode - I could go on and on and on. And this is not to mention some of the ways they make the homeowners labor unnecessarily, such as stapling hundreds of narrow black ribbons to a wall instead of just painting it that color; or hot-gluing thousands of tiny pieces of something to walls or floors or fireplaces instead of just painting or recovering them, or ripping out ceiling fans for no other purpose than to rip out ceiling fans.
As well-meaning and cute as Paige may be, I was as put off by her rather constant and casual dismissal of the homeowners in her book as vaguely unimportant and actually something of a bother as I am by their similar treatment on the show itself.
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Summary: Boooorrrrrring! Ugh...do NOT bother with this book
Review: I can't believe this book made it into print. Unlike the other Trading Spaces "behind the scenes" books, this one is drivel. It's basically a day-by-day diary of all things Paige: "Tomorrow I get go to Olive Garden with my friends, I think I'll wear my short black skirt. Ooh, my husband is so good, he called to just to say I love you. Thanks Patrick, you're the best! Oh, and we filmed the Live reveal in Vegas today, and I was perfect!! I nailed it!! The crew said there are people in this business for 20 years who couldn't have done what I just did. I ROCK!!"Ugh...if the above sample interests you, then by all means, get the book. If you're as nauseated as I am, skip it. Save your money!
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Summary: If you like Trading Spaces, it's a must-buy
Review: I couldn't have been more reluctant to pick up this book if I'd found it in an ant hill, but once I started reading it was hard to put down. I find Paige witty and engaging. Some reviewers seem to have been taken aback by the light, sunny tone, which is about like going to a rave expecting to see Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. If you like the show, you'll love the book, and if you don't like the show then I can't imagine why you're reading any of this.
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Summary: If you like Trading Spaces, it's a must-buy
Review: I couldn't have been more reluctant to pick up this book if I'd found it in an ant hill, but once I started reading it was hard to put down. I find Paige witty and engaging. Some reviewers seem to have been taken aback by the light, sunny tone, which is about like going to a rave expecting to see Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. If you like the show, you'll love the book, and if you don't like the show then I can't imagine why you're reading any of this.
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Summary: PAIGE IS HOT
Review: I DONT KNOW IF ITS A GOOD BOOK OR NOT....I DIDN'T EVEN BUY IT...ALL I KNOW IS PAIGE IS A PIECE OF ASS
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