Black Designer on Trading Spaces
 

Yay!!! I am so excited that Trading Spaces has added a black designer to the crew. I am truly addicted to this show, so it's good to finally see some melanin representation. Her name is Kia Steave-Dickerson and here's her bio:

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Kia Steave-Dickerson
Philadelphia native Kia Steave-Dickerson has had an interest in design since she was a child. Working alongside her father at the local community theater, Kia learned the ins and outs of set design and went on to study textiles at the Philadelphia College of Textiles. Building on her successes with fabrics and window treatments, Kia has built her own business, K.I.A. Enterprises, Inc. With a design style that is consistent and simplistic, yet bold and creative, Kia has worked on numerous sets as a set designer and prop master for movies such as Signs, The Sixth Sense, Beloved and Men In Black, commercials for Betty Crocker and Chrysler and stage musicals such as CATS and Grease. A self-described chatter box and drama queen, Kia's favorite part of transforming rooms on Trading Spaces is coming up with a theme and then accessorizing the rooms.

Good! I hope this means that the red-head chick gets fired. She goes over budget EVERY time! I watched it this weekend, lemme tell yall... this heffa bought paint that ended up being the SAME EXACT color as the wall already was. If she hadn't done that, she coulda stayed under budget. Hopefully, this sista is taking her place! I'm excited about this, and look forward to seeing her designs. Do we know when she will debut on the show?

Are you talking about the pregnant one? I like her! I think she's a good designer. She uses a lot of fabric and they're always so pretty.

Anywho, I think the black women will be replaces her because she's taking off to have her baby.

It's about time.....
 

Re: It's about time.....
 

You need to see some Vern Yip creations. His rooms are always ALWAYS excellent...

I can't wait to see what kind of designer Kia Steave-Dickerson is. Hopefully she will be more like Vern and Genevive and not like Laurie, Frank, or Doug (did you see what he did to that fraternities room??? :eek: :eek: ).

Re: Re: It's about time.....
 

I thought I was the only one that was like WTF?:confused: :eek:

I love Vern's creations! Every one of them has been exquizit :p

Good we finally got a sista on the show. I haven't seen her work but I hope she's good. We'll have a new twist of ideas on the show.

I'm not always into Vern's Designs, sometimes his fire, glass, and water themes become too redundant. Every once in a while he surprises me with a nice design.

Genieve- sometimes she's ok but when she put that moss on the walls I was toooooooooo through.

Doug- I hate his designs almost everytime and he gets mad when people don't go along with his logic.

Laurie-I think she does good work most of the time.

Hildie- She's a hit and miss....she kills me with the black high heeled sandals and tight jeans standing on a ladder painting.....wear clothes appropriate for the job. I was too through with her when she glued straw on the walls of one house and stapled brown felt to the wall at another house.

Frank--he needs to stop making arts and crafts for adults. All adults do not want painted ducks and swings along the walls of their living room.

I love Trading Spaces!! I absolutely LOVE everything that Vern does. Laurie is okay, but she uses too many printed fabrics for me. They always look nice together, but I am a firm believer that Less is always More. I used to like Hildie, but when she put that straw on the walls, I couldn't hang with her anymore. Frank and Genevieve I do not like. Doug does what he wants to do without any regard for what people want in their rooms.

Trading Spaces actually had a black designer when the show first started. His name was Rodrick Shade. I only saw one of the rooms that he did and I was less than impressed. I hope this new lady does nice work though.

Someone new.
 

I'm very interested to see what type of designer Kia is. If anyone needs to be replaced it's Frank. I can count two rooms out of the many that he's done that I really liked. Everything else is just horrible-case and point the Delta Gamma room. Who puts red and peach together? He was just throwing any color in that room. Lastly, I'm so tired of him creating wood people to put in rooms. Gunieve is second behind Frank. She's always trying to make something out of something else. In the end it just looks cheap and I'm not even going to elaborate on the moss on the walls. I was also too through.

Now, Vern is the man. He can design my place any day. I LOVE VERN. I also like Laurie. I think her style is very crisp and clean. With the exception of the Delta Gamma chapter room. I'll cut her some slack on that one, because I too have left my brain in bed and tried to be productive at work without it. Hildie and Doug I think have to be caught on a good day. If not, all hell almost breaks loose. Out of all the designers, these two are the main ones always fighting the couples on what to do or not do.

unfortunately, I missed this weekend's Trading Spaces episodes. Does anyone know if there will be a rerun soon? I'm almost afraid to see what Frank did. I would have thought enough guests would have ended up upset enough for them to have replaced him waaaaay back when. :)
If the designers make a mess of your home, what happens? Are they obligated to fix it?

I can't wait to see some of Kia's creations!! I absolutely love this show :D. My co-worker told me about this show and I have been hooked since. I missed the fraternity episode, but TLC tends to show repeats of TS all the time, so I will catch up eventually.

:) :cool:

about time!!!
 

I absolutely LOVE that show.

I will be glad when Laurie leaves; she is a royal pain with her wannabe-southern-belle routine. Did you see the episode last weekend where she took down the ceiling fan when the homeowner specifically said not to? Even the neighbors did not want to take responsibility for it. The room would have looked better WITH the fan than that piece of crap she put up there.

I like Vern and Genevieve; Frank needs to go, Doug has issues.

I will definitely be checking out the Sista.

Don't even get me started about Trading Spaces!! I am seriously considering taking a carpentry class so that I can hook my house up with some window seats and a headboard that spans the entire wall. :D

I have seen about two shows that featured Roderick. He wasn't all that. I, too, can not stand Laurie. She is ridiculous! She is always whining about how she can't lift, bend, paint, stretch etc. because she is pregnant. Well, she needs to sit out for a while! I am also not a lover of ceiling fans and I don't blame her for taking them down, however, please put up a light fixture that is worthwhile. Geneveive is cool. Frank is just wacky. Doug is L-A-Z-Y!! If he can make a couple do ALL of the work, he will. Vern is THE man!! And Hildi is my girl! She is always elegant.

I will be all too excited to see a sister design. Hopefully, now, there will be more brothers and sisters on the show that are willing to allow TS into their homes.

*NOTE to the white designers: Just because we are Black doesn't mean that we want our rooms to be comprised of Kente clothes and animal prints. :rolleyes: *

Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!

Frank made me so mad with that "Ethnic" (code word for black) design he did for the Black people. If you wouldn't do it for white people, then don't do it for us. I think that the couple knows that they are black. They do not need some old man trying to remind them of that by slapping together Zebra print and ugly colors and calling it African.

P.S. Trading Spaces makes the couples sign air tight contracts. If you don't like what they do, then your just out of luck.

I love Vern's designs. I like Genevieve's style too (mostly because I like her use of color). Lori is always pretty good. I like Hildie's use of fabric coverings on walls, although I wasn't too sure about the brown felt thing. She is a bit too cocky for me sometimes though. Doug is a b__thole and is entirely too lazy. Dez is on some really wacked out stuff with those ugly lamps that she makes. Can you all tell that I am SO addicted to the show?