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Saturday, June 23, 2012
12:39 am
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My first thought? Bitch is crazy! My second thought? Damn, Miera is good at one thing: biting the hand that feeds her. Miera seems to have no consideration whatsoever for the team of people who work with and for her. I pity any carpenter, painter, carpet installer, etc. that ever works with this woman. Danielle stops her project to assist the carpenter since she seems to have an awareness of the enormity of all that wood being cut to the wrong size, but Miera is busy focusing on Miera.
Based on this choice of image, I know which side the editor is on.
Cija (the carpenter) settles the spat with a plea to just get the new measurements so the wood can be recut to the new dimensions. Miera can’t understand the ‘bad attitudes’ of the people around her. Danielle has a whole lot of painting in her future.
Day 3 and Rachel is creating her little kids corner play area next to the recycling bins. Would you guess that set is #1 or #5? Dave comes around for the camera challenge of the week, “Show how to bring the outside in or inside out (in less than $100).” I’m not going to lie; it was a snoozer of a camera challenge this week.
Here’s a quick summary:
Mikel: Use books, rope and flame to create a pile of charred art. Awkward delivery.
Hilari: Buy a clear glass lamp, stuff a stem of plant in it. Charming camera presence, but I have nightmares about fruit flies or other insects from fresh plant and fake stuff is tacky.
Stanley: Using old wood to make a simple wall sconce. Good delivery but not instructive enough for me to do the project I think.
Britany: Hang old or cheap plates as art outside. Acceptable.
Danielle: Art project, framing a gold leaf. Easy and I’d do it, but man she looks beat down on camera!
Miera: Framing fabric for an art project. Falls over her words, not a winner on camera.
Kris: Takes a tumbleweed from the nursery and runs an umbrella lighting kit through to create an outside fixture. Kris still has that singsong cadence that can be very fake, but he’s getting better.
Rachel: Buy plastic kids’ stuff and put it outside? Huh? She bombs on camera and the ‘project’ isn’t a real design thing at all.
Now we’re down to the last hour and Danielle is still helping with Miera’s Cabinet of Chaos. Just like last week, she’s scrambling at the last minute. Unlike last week, this problem wasn’t of her own making. Miera’s rushing around too, but she’s composing verbal alibis for the mess as sponsored products are placed.
I gave them a built-in piece of furniture. Maybe it’s not done, but I’m just playing on nostalgia for the good old Trading Spaces days of crappy projects which lower home value.
Time is up and everyone looks close to tears, about to drop from exhaustion or both. Let’s judge with our guest this week, HGTV’s own Sabrina Soto, shall we?
Hilari and Mikel
The judges love this room, and I have to agree. The sectional is an easy place to go wrong, but this one was spot on. Of course I hope it is fabric treated because that color will have many spots on it after the first party. It’s my only real complaint, however, since I never expected to enjoy something inspired by ‘flea market’.
So many features are loved, actually: The sectional, the sideboard, the colors, the carpet, the mirror, the old Russian in the corner reading tarot, it’s all a winner for the judges.
Stanley and Britany
Before, it was a concrete jungle. After, it’s woody and inviting. Genevieve wants more color, Vern loves the fence detail and Sabrina loves that cabana. I would love this backyard. David doesn’t mention this on air, but he loves this one best with the exception of no lounge chair space. As an extremely fair skinned person I have to disagree. The reclaimed wood deck saves my feet and the cabana saves my face. What’s so bad about a natural brown and green color scheme for the outside, Genevieve? I also love the fence, as much as I thought I would hate it.
Danielle and Miera
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Great recap, and I totally agree that Miera had to go, but I guess I saw that fight about the wrongly measured cabinets differently. It seemed to me that Miera was trying to work something out with the carpenter when Danielle entered the scene and that Danielle just wanted everyone to say that Miera had screwed up. The measurements Miera had made were too big, which at least meant that the boards could be cut down instead of them needing new wood. I could see why Miera got flustered at that point and I was annoyed with Danielle for meddling in Miera’s situation. I also get annoyed when people dis their own projects to get involved in other peoples’ mistakes.
I agree that Stanley will be on the chopping block next week, but I think Danielle will be there too. This is two times in a row she’s gotten too overwhelmed by one aspect of a project to get the big picture right.
Oh Miera, Miera, Miera. I was on your team. I was rooting for you. I sympathized with you last week… and then you went all Queen of Hearts on me this week. You will not be missed… And which was the aberration: Kris’ hissy fit last week or his cooperative demeanor this week? My money’s on the cooperative Kris.
great cappy!! i was on miera’s side last week and remember reading a comment here warning that she was a crazy old bitch and always would be. then sure enough, SHE WAS!! if she can make that idiot kris look reasonable, she sucks at life. booooo. i’m kinda rooting for the bling girl, just to see how many leopard rugs and fake gold chanel chains she can stuff into one season.
Miera might be going through the Change.
Miera’s Changing alright — just not sure if it’s into a Vampire, Shifter or Troll.
Based on Miera’s attitude to Kris last week, I think she just transferred all her crazy to Danielle this week. I think that Miera realized she screwed the pooch when the furniture arrived but wouldn’t admit it on camera. The producers probably grabbed Danielle from her painting task to be in that scene with the carpenter as well, and it set Miera off more.
Thanks for the Kudos all!
hahah my favorite moment of this episode was when Danielle and Miera were called out for keeping the family’s original paint in the room–including the tasteless stripe “separating” the two rooms.
Wow, Miera really is crazy. Shoutout to @Andyourlittledogtoo for catching that early lol.
I hope Danielle gets it together for the next challenge. She was my favorite to win, so if she doesn’t, I’m gonna be mad.
And Rachel’s idea was dumber than dumb. The garbage was one thing, but I hate that she screwed the toys to the wall, because when it rains, the parents can’t bring the toys in or move them onto the deck. If you’ve ever had a backyard full of kids toys, you know how miserable it can be to go out there afterwards and have to empty the toys of rain so you don’t get mosquitoes and such. It’s always better to just run out and bring them in. And I know California isn’t Florida, but still…when it rains, it realllyyy rains, so that’s gonna suck.
Next to go…I think it might actually be Mikel. He’s a competent designer, but has been so middle of the road, that I’m just not sure about him. And he really isn’t much of a character, so if it does come down to it, the producers are not going to bat for him.
This is what I call ‘Being Locked In A Room With A Bear, Part Deux’. You see, last week, Kris was locked in a room with a bear, but he didn’t fully realize his danger and he accidentally poked it with a stick. And watched amazed as the bear woke up and became cranky and agitated. He backed up a step, tried to placate the bear, tried to get the bear to settle down and be calm again with promises he wouldn’t poke it any more but the bear would not calm down. So he finally moved to the other side of the room and kept his distance from the bear always keeping a wary eye out.
THIS week, Danielle was locked in a room with a bear, but she knew it. So she didn’t poke the bear, she went into it knowing that she had to move carefully and keep a wary eye out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a lot to get this particular bear all worked up and agitated so Danielle was pretty miserable the entire time she was in the room and was trying to survive until she could get out of there. That was hard to watch.
The thing that I thought was so interesting was that last week Danielle accidentally ruined something that made it difficult for Hillari to finish her part of the project and this week Miera did the same thing to Danielle. The difference was that Danielle admitted it immediately and Hillari was gracious and went into team problem solving mode and Miera was rigid and refused to admit she made a mistake and when Danielle tried to go into team problem solving mode Miera turned on her as though Danielle was the actual problem, not Miera. Miera created that whole cabinet building, mis-measured fiasco. But you’d never know it to watch Miera spin it and snap at Danielle. And the final snapping off the of the end of the top veneer to make it fit, that was priceless. Yes, the judges and homeowners will never notice that. Sigh.
When she told Danielle that she needed an ‘attitude adjustment’ I just wanted to die. How dare Danielle talk to her as an equal! Doesn’t she know I’m her elder/better/more experienced/in charge!!!???
And they all hugged her as she left, but I’ll bet you anything they were all breathing a sigh of relief that they would not be Locked in a Room With a Bear next challenge. The Bear is gone.
Good bye Miera. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.