Million Dollar Decorators- Recap

This Week

Mary met a new client who wanted to spend about a million and a half renovating a beach house.

This is the client, Dru. Dru has really bad taste.

This is Dru's house. She said it's like 8,500 square feet but it looked so small.

Mary said it looked like Taco Bell meets Taco Bell.

Dru wanted the dining room turned into a workout room.

This was Mary's assistant's reaction.

Everything that Mary mentioned that must be changed, the client didn't want changed.

The house really was awful...round rooms, bad windows, carpet and wood flooring in odd shapes.

At one point after seeing the bedroom spaces. Mary said, "I'm thinking maybe pastels."

"Yes", the client said, "like magenta"!

"No", Mary said exasperatedly, "Magenta is a bright color".

I think at this point Mary had every right to have an attitude.

Mary decided she had to break up with the client after receiving this fruit bouquet from her.

Apparently, fruit bouquets are the definition of bad taste. 

I always wondered how many chemicals are on them to keep them from spoiling before you receive.

Martyn went shopping in London for products to sell on 

His sale starts tomorrow...July 6.

I'm still not seeing anything good coming out of Martyn. 

I like him, but his design so far on the show

has been disastrous. Super expensive, tacky stuff.

Kathryn was also in London helping an old boyfriend decorate his country home.

She threatened to move in with her boys and dog and ex husband.

We didn't see very much of Nathan.

Jeffrey and Ross decide they are super models while doing a photo shoot for Jeffrey's new furniture line.

I'll leave you with this parting shot of Ross.

**Update**
Everyone keeps asking what I thought about the new floors at Ross and Jeffrey's restaurant overhaul. 
I totally forgot to talk about that. Jeffrey hated the existing floors which included a penny tile with yellow 
accents around the bar area. A lot was made of the fact that they were suppose to keep the floor and 
work it into the design scheme. 


Jeffrey hated it. I liked the floor but could see how it would really limit the design and the way the whole 
place would be arranged. Seems to me though..that the tile could have been ripped out and the existing 
wood floor patched and refinished to the gray sort of color he wanted.


But when Ross comes by the job site...he discovers Jeffrey has told the construction crew to demolish 
the floors. They did much more than that. The tile was gone the wood was gone and the subfloor was gone. 
You saw dirt and trenches dug into the earth. 


I suspect there were structural and or plumbing issues that meant the floor HAD to be ripped up.
This is not how a demoed floor would normally look. Trenches and dirt...so something else was going 
on and they were just making it like it was a big drama. 


They pitched a $50,000 floor to the restaurant owner saying it was all they could find on such short notice. 
But I think they actually...could get something local and create the look they were going for for much much less. 
But they were trying to make good tv.