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Perfectly Preserved And Wallpapered With Nostalgia, 'Trading Spaces' Returns

TLC's room-renovation show returns this weekend, almost unchanged after a decade off the air.

There is no shortage of television shows built on the premise that whatever your home looks like is wrong. The paint is wrong, the furniture is wrong, the floors are wrong, the floor is wrong, and it's entirely possible that your plumbing was put in by marauding vandals who cackled gleefully as they connected your upstairs shower to your kitchen sink in a way that has been causing you to unwittingly wash your hair with Dawn on TLC.

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