13 Worst ‘Trading Spaces’ Designs, From the Sob-Inducing Fireplace to Straw-Covered Walls (Photos)

In honor of the triumphant return of TLC’s “Trading Spaces,” TheWrap looks back at some of the worst designs from the show’s original run, from hay glued to the wall to furniture nailed to the ceiling.

Straw walls

Hildi Santo-Tomas was always “Trading Spaces'” biggest provocateur. Eventually even the homeowners knew to steel themselves if she showed up as their designer. Never content to simply paint the walls, Santo-Tomas aimed to think outside the box — way, way outside. And perhaps the epitome of that was when she had the bright idea to glue straw to paint the ceiling pink and glue straw to the walls as some kind of avant-garde wall treatment. The homeowners, predictably, hated it.