Life to the Extreme by Ty Pennington

Author:Ty Pennington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2019-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

“PEOPLE ARE STRANGE”

It’s funny. When I first hear the title for Trading Spaces, of course I think of one of the funniest movies ever made—Trading Places. It’s a hilarious story about a homeless man with nothing who meets a wealthy man with everything, and their lives get completely switched in the process. Which is, interestingly enough, exactly what happens to my life since I’m literally almost homeless before I get on Trading Spaces. I’m in such debt and owe so many people money.

It’s funny if you ask anybody who knew me back then to comment on what happens to me in the next five or ten years. They will all be like, “That lucky plucker! How the pluck did that happen? He was squatting in a warehouse the last time I saw him, peeing into Gatorade bottles and moving his duffle bag from one place to another!” Nobody, including me, can ever imagine I’d get a break quite like this.

So the title Trading Spaces is ironic, since I literally end up trading the space I’m living in for another. But it’s still not an easy journey once I get on the show.

Trading Spaces is truly groundbreaking because for the first time ever in a do-it-yourself show, we put tools in the hands of homeowners and make them believe they can do it. In doing so, we’re making the world believe, “Hey, if they can do it, so can I!” This is truly what a DIY show stands for—to create that belief inside that, yes, you can and will do this.

There are a few other shows on television, like This Old House, that present the house beforehand and then reveal what it looks like after, but you rarely get to see the process. The format of TS is new to America, where homeowners are not only doing the work, but they’re also forced to work with a designer they didn’t choose. Add to that the fact that you’re switching houses with neighbors and spending the night in their house, and you suddenly have riveting television.

Here are some behind-the-scenes facts you may not know about TS. The idea comes from a popular show in the UK called Changing Rooms. Now British shows are always pretty unique, simply because of their personalities and sense of humor. In the UK, you have houses that are like a hundred thousand years old. So the idea of changing rooms in them takes on a whole new meaning. Plus, even though the homeowners’ reactions are always negative, the Brits almost never show any emotion. And their definition of getting angry will be something like, “Oh no, I don’t believe we can have tea this weekend a’tall.”

The company behind Changing Rooms isn’t using that format in America, so the Discovery Channel purchases the format and gets the rights to produce their own version. Of course, nobody expects the show to be as popular as it becomes. The mind-blowing thing is that it becomes incredibly popular, even though it’s coming on at four o’clock in the afternoon.

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