The Horror

...yep I got to agree…

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

i agree to. thats like the story Sam Maloof tells of how on his first commission against his will the designer had him stain his walnut chairs. the people didn’t like it though. i wonder who comes and tells these people that this stuff looks good!

When they tack together some plywood or No. 3 pine with a nail gun and create a piece of “furniture” which they paint, who cares? Paint is probably the only way to make it look acceptable. But when they take great wood in a great piece of furniture and desecrate it in the name of pop “design” – it just makes me sick.

-- Paul, Texas

Paint? Scary!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Shameful!

-- Maplewood, MN

we as woodworkers spend years and thousands of dollars on a perfect on piece board like that and they just take it and paint it! if woodworkers ruled the world that would be illegal :)

Shame. I wonder what Ms Debbie thinks of it? :-)

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I love those shows…. LOVE….

Ever seen firsthand what a couple with no construction experience who ‘religiously’ watch DIY shows and own a few power tools can do to a house?? They have kept me in business for 2 years; since I started my remodeling/furniture/cabinet company.

I once saw a sign in Alabama for a plumbing company; their motto was “We repair what your husband fixed…”

That’s what I’ve been doing as a result of the abundance of DIYers out here. So, I love those shows.

-- Jarrod, Eagle Nest, NM

My wife and I actually tivo the series and watched that episode last night during dinner. Having an interior design degree and being a woodworker I jumped out of my skin not once but twice.

-- Brian, Folsom, CA

I only watch those home “improvement” shows when I fly JetBlue, we don’t have television in our house, but every time I do I weep for the prospects of my society. I’m not at all surprised to hear that yet again some beautiful wood piece got slathered in paint because the colors of the moment dictated such.

But then I may have learned early, back in the ‘70s my mom painted a nice set of oak bookshelves, and in the ‘80s we spent quite a while stripping and refinishing them.

Interior designers and the suggestions they make are useful only in that they give you a really strong indication of things to not do.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

how dare?

-- making sawdust....

Paint is meant for plywood and MDF. Every time my wife wants me to make something so she can paint it, we have the same discussion. I only lost once, and I proved my point. Now if she wants something painted a color, we meet half way and I use colored stains. She get color and I don’t have to destroy a beautiful piece of wood with paint.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Dan,

as part of the design community I must take offense to your generalized statement about interior designers.
”Interior designers and the suggestions they make are useful only in that they give you a really strong indication of things to not do” especially since you posted it directly below my post that states that I have a interior design background. Some people don’t realize that there is a huge difference between an interior designer and an interior decorator. The former requires 4 years of schooling from a FIDER accredited school and then one must pass the NCIDQ exam in order to truly call themselves an “interior designer”. A decorator doesn’t have the same background or schooling as a designer. Interior designers deal with more then just color and fabric (a common misconception), they deal with the total interaction people have with interiors spaces. Having actually watched the show in question I was horrified of what she did to that table so I am in agreement with you on that but lets leave generalization like you have made out of LJ.

-- Brian, Folsom, CA

I saw that episode and was also sickened by that. I could not belive they took that beautiful table and ruined it and the tried to take a pained pice in the room and give it a very bad fake wood grain. who knows what they were thinking.

-- Pyromedic602, free wood is always good wood

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Paint? Was Ms.DebbieP involved?

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

wood can be like people and some folk look better painted up then just plain ordinary, kinda like when I put a tie on and pleated pants or even iron my shirt.

somekinds of wood look way better painted

-- http://www.furnituremann.ca/

Any one can call themselves a designer. The TV54quirements is looks first and call a person who has done several home projects a designer.

Mostly those shows are cruel and unusual punishment.

-- Kip Northern Illinois ( If you don't know where your goin any road will take you there) George Harrison

Trifern, go look at Ms. Deb’s walnut snowman.

LOML tried suggested painting something and she could tell by the look on my face that was not a good idea, and I won.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

Yep.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!