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March 31 - April 6, 2018—23 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN March 31 - April 6, 2018 — 23 48 hours. But in a concession to the times, the budget has been increased from $1,000 to $2,000 — which, according to Pennington, still isn't a whole lot to work with. "In the original, they would usual - ly leave like 40 bucks for to us build five pieces of furniture and now we have 80," he explains to a recent By George Dickie © Zap2it From 2001 to 2008, TLC's "Trading Spaces" introduced America to design, showing how a budget of $1,000, two days' worth of work and a lot of outside-the-box thinking can transform a single drab room into a showplace. And now the granddaddy of the genre is back. Premiering Saturday, April 7, with the first of eight hourlong episodes, the new iteration brings back many of the original cast, including host Paige Davis and designers Ty Pen - nington, Doug Wilson, Carter Oosterhouse, Frank Bielec, Gen- evieve Gorder, Hildi Santo-Tomas, Laurie Smith and Vern Yip, joined by newcomers Brett Tutor, Joanie Dodd, John Gidding, Kahi Lee and Sabrina Soto. The premise is essentially the same: The designers help neighbors redecorate a single room in each other's homes within a time frame of CroSSWord Solution Puzzle on Page 17 Sudoku Solution Puzzle on Page 25 filled by client gathering of journalists in Pasadena, Calif. "But that's what's great about the show, is it really is — it's a tight budget. And considering, like, the way design has really — it's certainly more visually out there, people have more ideas. So I think the stakes are higher, so you want to do more, you want to go bigger. "But I think the $2,000 still re- ally isn't that much," he continues, "considering the room that you can create from that much money still. I mean, it's a challenge, but it's nice that we've got a bump." As in any creative process, there will always be questions of taste ("I don't want to hear shiplap ever again," quips Wilson), but Davis maintains that's part and parcel of making design accessible to every - one. "I think that originally the show has always been about being re- sourceful, creativity, doing the most for the least amount of money, using what you already have," she says. "And even though we're in a land- scape where design is so accessible to everyone, those rules and those ideas still apply to us as a show. We still go out and I see these designers cre- ate rooms that are just mind-blow- ing with incredible resourceability and creativity and ingenuity." Editor's Pick A decade later, TLC's 'Trading Spaces' returns with more design wizardry Ty Pennington stars in "Trading Spaces," premiering Saturday on TLC.

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