I've probably been a fan of houses since middle school, and of home improvement shows that show how other people's homes are decorated.

On weekends during those years, every Saturday night at 6:30 pm, I would definitely hold my rice bowl and stay in front of the TV just to squat on a CCTV-2 set called "Exchange Space" program, hosted by the beautiful Wang Xiaoqian.

Now this program has been off the air for more than a year, but my perception of the house, the enlightenment of home decoration, can be said to have come from this only 50 minutes per episode of the variety show.

Is that just decorating a house? No, it's decorating our own expectations of a better life.

Every time I watch the show, I fantasize about my home being swapped, and I've also conceptualized in my mind the many different styles of decorating that I'm looking forward to.

Yes, I was watching the show at the time and thinking, "How nice it would be to grow up and be given a house like the one in Swap Space!"

Then, the house in "Swap Space" was the decorating white moon in our hearts.

But if you ask me now, do I still want a suite from Swap Space?

But don't!

Because when I watched the show again, I realized that a lot of the decorating styles that seemed so foreign, chic, cozy, and wonderful at first now look like one big decorating flop!

Today, let me take you with me to revisit the childhood classic home (see) decoration (drama) program - "Exchange Space"!

How trendy it felt then, how blind it feels now.

First of all, in terms of decorating styles, there are a dozen or so that I can think of from memory on this program: European, American, Chinese, Rustic, Countryside, Post-Modern Industrial, Bohemian ......

But of all the styles, there is one style that can definitely stand on the C-suite, and that is: Mediterranean style.

People at that time also do not know why especially like this kind of Renaissance before the rise of Western Europe, with free-spirited, colorful and bright characteristics of the style. Almost every two or three issues, there is a home by the designer to create a Mediterranean style.

In the eyes of different designers, their understanding of the Mediterranean style, are the same, Mediterranean is blue.

Overall, there must be a residential seaside, with a seascape feeling, so there will be some elements of the beach, such as this small fence.

The entrance door should have a fish tank like this.

Home such primitive style of red brick and dirt.

Beach style with blue and white wallpaper, plush carpeting, and even the escalator next to it is made to feel like clouds.

It must not be forgotten, the blue sky and white clouds woven with gauze and lamps, I'm afraid it can be called one of the most bizarre Mediterranean designs.

In addition to the Mediterranean, we have to talk about the designers' second favorite: country rustic style.

All the countryside style can be summarized in two words: floral.

For rustic style, there must be floral wallpaper, one kind may not be enough, if you want to style strong point, you can just come to ten different kinds of floral.

For example, this one, has the flavor of sunflowers? It does!

The whole bottom of the room is green, embellished with bright yellow sunflowers, this is the designer's eyes colorful rustic style.

Industrial style is similar to the design of the rough room, but also nowadays very hot Syrian wind.

One installment of the owners hope that their home remodeling is post-modern industrial style, the result is the design of the red brick cement closet.

Chinese style is the favorite of the older generation. The elements that must be there are lotus tiles, plum orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, so that the flavor is stronger.

The so-called European style is the tassel chandelier, silver curtains, the whole gives a feeling of Broadway.

Fantasy luxury is wallpaper, no matter what, change a style, is to change the wallpaper.

In this show, I got to know many, many wallpapers of various colors, styles and patterns. It led me to think as a child that a home's decor is incomplete without floral wallpaper.

First up is the New York Flowing Gold Nightscape wallpaper:

Wallpaper can make a mediocre home feel like a lake view home.

Wallpaper, too, can give a house a different ethnic flavor.

For example, this Zhuang style in Guangxi, is the effect of such a wallpaper, a bunch of strange poses of the matchmaker painted on the wall, even I, a person in Guangxi are convinced by such a design!

Backdrop is an important means of displaying the designer's decorating skills.

The designers of the whole program must have put a lot of things on the background, either drawing all kinds of pictures or writing love declarations and so on.

In short, the backdrop must stand out as well as be eye-catching.

There are such handmade DIY backdrops with trees,

There are those who write the whole song "Irene Speaks" on the backdrop, which is called having a literary flavor.

There are designer hand-painted backdrops that are the only one of their kind in the world.

The designer of this program especially loves to paint, because as long as it comes from the designer's hand to paint on it, it's a one-of-a-kind.

But all of these masterpieces can't hold a candle to this design.

The hero's name is Liu, the heroine's name is Lei, and then the designer put the two words Liu Lei on the background wall to go, but also with a white background and black lettering of the two Chinese hanging in the living room, is not the world's most romantic background wall!

Think about 2005, the country's first batch of commercial housing neighborhoods have just begun to be built, and many places still do not have the concept of well-decorated housing or even commercial housing.

Decade after decade, not only the real estate industry has changed a lot, people for living space, for the aesthetics of the decoration, has also changed a lot, a lot of things that felt very beautiful at the time, now look has been completely out of date.

But I'm not going to lie, given my childhood aesthetic, give me any one of these and I'd be happy enough.

I even thought that when I grew up I would decorate my house like Swap Spaces, or use the TV show as a reference for decorating my future house.

It was all very new, both for me and for the families who participated in the show.

The whole show culminates in the moment of delivery, and each delivery is like unwrapping a blind box of joy.

Both sides go home blindfolded, because of the various suspense intentionally created by the program team, basically more than 90% of the owners, in the 48 hours back to their own homes, the most you can see the scene, and hear the feedback, are such a pleasant surprise,

There are just entered the door, so happy that they do not dare to

The ones who went in to see,

Wiping tears like crazy after seeing it

Even after the catalog was finished, they were still crying in the storm,

"Is this my house, I don't believe it" "I don't dare to go in," "Wow, I want to thank the designer",I can't say anything"...

Every time I see such a scene, I wish I was in the TV, just 2 days and 1 night, the house can be completely changed, into their dream look.

But dreaming doesn't work every time, and there were many cases where the goods were inspected and turned over.

Because what looks good to a designer doesn't look good to the average person.

What else is there to look forward to than a house that clearly doesn't like its own home after it's been blindly tossed around, but also has to force a smile and bring you likes?

For example, the reaction of the man in this installment of "Refusing Mediocrity", who initially fell silent, with his wife soothingly beside him, "It's fine, it's fine."

Toward the end of the program, the host did not show a smile on his face, because the designer installed two large doors to their home, and two faucet tiles, right in the entry living room back wall place.

Finally, the man used two words to describe the design style called: "maniac ".

There is also this wedding room called "rainbow agreement", those who have seen it should have some impression, blinding color collocation, I do not know what the three-dimensional device.

When the house was handed over, the man was highly curious about the designer's creations, while the woman, with a question mark written all over her face, blurted out, "Is this a tent?"

Some homeowners really can not accept the design, but also directly say, "This is too earthy."

Because the designer gave his TV back wall this design: use lines, with some letters.

Doing a black and white treatment on the TV wall, the letters are the sofa background behind the haphazard splicing of unintelligible English, and finally the designer also hard to tell them a password story.

And the hostess laughed at this, and the host only said, "This word is quite funny."

There is also a case, because the design of their own wedding room, designed as a black and white wind, the hostess into the room, see a good wedding room into the spirit of the hall, without saying a word, directly angry cry.

The whole family used white yarn as a design embellishment, wallpaper is also all black, black and white.

Details are not spared, such a lampshade, always feel exudes some kind of spooky atmosphere.

To be honest, home to be decorated like this, I do not dare to go home at night, not to mention the wedding room.

Many people now look back on this program, more trolling and flirting.

But that doesn't stop it from being the youth of our generation, and our first memories and enlightenment about houses and decoration.

"Swap Space" was born in 2005, "Swap Space" is an interior design program that promotes the concept of "light decoration, heavy decoration", and selects two groups of families for each episode, each equipped with a designer, and uses 48 hours, 20,000 yuan of renovation funds and 10,000 yuan of home appliance funds to complete the renovation project of the other's home. The program will be broadcasted on the Internet.

Weekly, there are more than 500 episodes of the program, more than 1,000 groups of families have exchanged space, that is to say, it has accompanied us 14 years.

The main idea of the program is to play a space-swapping game with strangers and experience unpredictable surprises and brilliant ideas.

It's not only the first home decorating program I can remember, it's also the youthful memory of many post-90s, and it's like an old friend of ours.

In the era when we grew up, we could watch TV, movies, variety shows, very few choices, simple production, rough picture, but a lot of them became a classic that we never get tired of watching.

Then there were various home improvement programs such as Dream Makeover, but they were not as good as the original "Swap Space" that brought us the kind of inspiration for home improvement and the love. love.

Because of this program, from wallpaper and wall paint to table decorations, the whole process, although cumbersome, but the decoration of their own houses, there will always be a kind of outside and inside with the decoration of a little bit of a feeling of enrichment, there is a kind of seriousness to their own living environment, and then serious about the feeling of life.

"The space of exchange, my home by you to install, your home by me to install, as long as do not be the same as before..."

When hearing the theme song Swap Space again, many people can still hum it as I did, though spitting, though funny, but irreplaceable.