Well, here's a surprise: I hadn't seen Room by Room on HGTV this season and thought it had been cancelled. No, HGTV's just showing the new episodes at 10 a.m. Fridays. (Hello? Working people watch this show, guys...) Surely they can make some room in primetime for new Room by Room shows and get rid of one of the multiple showings of Divine Design. Candice Olsen is fun to watch, but she's on three times a week. Basta!

Anyway, Matt Fox and Shari Hiller have a new website--Matt and Shari--and a book coming out for Christmas, Real Decorating for Real People (which for some reason is not on Amazon.com but is listed on Barnes & Noble's website).

I wonder if that title is twitting shows like Designer's Challenge, which features some gorgeous rooms, but the budgets make me gasp. They've redecorated a teenager's room for $25,000--imagine 25 grand for a kid's room?--and other rooms for an average of about $35,000. My gosh, that's just half of our gross yearly income. I get dizzy thinking of what I could do with $35,000 in the whole house: new vinyl flooring in the kitchen, Pergo flooring everywhere, maybe someone to remove the old wallpaper in the kitchen and hall bath for us instead of having to do it ourselves, or new kitchen counters. And new windows! $35,000 for one room. Wow.

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