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Trading Spaces
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Lights, Camera, 'Trading Spaces'
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 04:05 PM PDT
by Kate O'Hare
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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - March is going out like a lion in Los Angeles, as desert winds push temperatures into the 90s -- just right for redoing rooms without the benefit of air conditioning.
"7th Heaven's" Geoff Stults has stripped down to a tank top, putting aside his "Trading Spaces" smock for the moment, as he uses a ruler and a Sharpie to touch up a paint job.
Asked why he agreed to be on the hit TLC series -- in which two sets of neighbors have two days, $1,000, and the help of a designer each and a carpenter to redo a room in each other's home -- Stults laughs. "Are you kidding me? Have you seen my place? It was bad."
On April 13, "Trading Spaces" premieres two new celebrity episodes, airing as part of a three-hour block, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET. First up is a repeat of the show's original celebrity outing, starring Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. Following that is a new Los Angeles episode featuring Andy Dick and Sara Rue of ABC's "Less Than Perfect," with designers Vern Yip and Genevieve Gorder, and carpenter Ty Pennington.
Closing out the night is a foursome from The WB's "7th Heaven," as Beverly Mitchell and Jessica Biel, who play sisters Lucy and Mary Camden, respectively, work with designer Hilda Santo-Tomas on the Hollywood apartment shared by brothers and co-stars Geoff and George Stults (who play the Kinkirk brothers on the show), who are paired with designer Edward Walker to revamp the garage/gameroom at Mitchell's home in the coastal neighborhood of Westchester.
The only major concession made to celebrity is the relaxation of the "Trading Spaces" rule that participants should be neighbors, so carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor and crew members spend a lot of time shuttling back and forth.
For the Stults brothers, it was a chance for a fresh start in a two-bedroom apartment that really needed it. "It was like a frathouse," says Geoff, who plays firefighter Ben. "It's two working actors who are basically just lazy. I describe it as a fixer-upper."
"They can throw away anything they want, they just can't mess with the TV. I think they were excited they had a lot of leeway and could do anything they wanted to my 's**tbox,' as we refer to it."
"As we refer to it also," chimes in producer Denise Cramsey.
However, it apparently wasn't as bad as an actual frathouse the show redid in Northern California. "We didn't pull out the biohazard suits for this episode," Cramsey says.
Asked about the experience of working with freshman designer Walker, Stults says, "I may just come on as a permanent member of the crew. It took a little while, there was some sexual tension there for a while, but now we're together and we feel strong about each other's abilities. I'm very excited to be part of the team."
A few minutes later, George Stults -- whose character, police officer Kevin, marries Lucy in an April 21 episode -- wanders by.
"I've learned quite a few things," George says, "how to paint, how to set up -- what are those called? -- drapes, that we got to paint with the color chartreuse. I didn't know what that was. I thought it was lime green."
"That's the first thing you learn on 'Trading Spaces,'" Cramsey says, "that you call lime green 'chartreuse.' We have lots of names for basic colors."
Walker comes by and offers an opinion on the brothers. "It's been absolute blast."
"He's a slave driver," says George.
"Yeah," Walker says, "they wrote 'Edward, rest in peace' yesterday on my little tombstone."
"He was freaking out," adds George.
"I said, 'Now I know what they think of me,'" Walker says. "They have been such troupers."
As to whether he'd rather be in Hollywood, Walker says. "Let me tell ya, I think I got the better deal."
Up at the apartment -- where the living room is nearly finished and much cleaner -- an exhausted Mitchell says. "I didn't think it was that bad, but when we got down to the nitty-gritty, it was just plain nasty."
A huge fan of the show, Mitchell is pleased with the choice of designers. "I really wanted to work with Hildi. She's got great ideas and is awesome, but I'm glad we got to work with her, because we really got to know her in the last two days."
"We got fashion tips, all different kind of tips."
Mitchell claims that the dust and dirt in the apartment caused stuffy noses and sore throats for some in the crew, which she says would never happen at her house.
"My mom would kick my butt," she says. "Actually, their parents are going to be very angry with them. I don't think they've visited, and I'll don't think they'll want to. It's really funny, because they're going to have this kick-ass room, and everything else sucks."
Apparently, though, the brother's parents have visited. Asked what his mother thought, George confesses, "She cried."
It's 11 p.m. by the time both teams have seen their new rooms (with the designers hovering just outside, ears to the wall for the reactions). But despite the heat, Geoff's hair still sticks straight up in front.
"It's all about the wall," he says, patting it, "all about the wall."
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