The BEST episodes of Trading Spaces season 5

#1 - California: Avenida Aragon

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/16/2005

#2 - Houston: Suncove Lane

Season 5 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/28/2005

Designer Christi, carpenter Faber and homeowner Lynn butt heads in the battle of contemporary versus rustic elegance. Edward and Amy head for the Zen with a contemporary Asian design. Will the owners dig the design that Edward dug up?

#3 - Key West: Roosevelt Boulevard

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/2005

Laura Day and Kia Steave Dickerson choose between two bedrooms and a living room. Carter Oosterhouse is carpenter. This is Paige Davis' last episode as host.

#4 - Santa Fe: Navajo Road

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/2005

Homeowner Pamela and her roommate, Monica, are trading spaces with Pamela's boyfriend, Andy, and his best friend, Don. Pamela and Monica work with designer Frank Bielec and carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor to renovate Andy's game room. Says Pamela, ""When I saw Frank in Andy's house, I wanted go screaming out of the house like a Munch painting."" Amy Wynn has her work cut out for her, as Frank's plans call for a loft bed, bar and new basin sink. Andy and Don work together with designer Genevieve Gorder and carpenter Faber Dewar to give Pamela's bedroom an Old World, romantic feel. For his part, Faber heads to a salvage yard to search for scrap wood he can use for two armoire doors. But then the plot thickens ... A few minutes into filming, Faber receives a call from his fiancee that their baby might be on the way. Nervously, Faber continues working … and waiting for the phone call that will make him a father.

#5 - San Diego: Piedmont Drive

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/23/2005

#6 - Napa: Jefferson Street

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/2005

In the heart of the elegant Napa Valley wine country, four Bed and Breakfast owners are ready to modernize their traditional styles. Designer Laura brings in up-to-date funk to a cozy hideaway, and Doug warms up a popular moonlight in white sonata.

#7 - Oakland: Chestnut Street

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/2005

Barry Wood and Carter Oosterhouse team up to redesign a space with three sisters and a lot of soul! Laurie Smith and Faber Dewar team up with their close friends and neighbors.

#8 - Phoenix: Frye Road

Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/2005

Four friends are looking for love, but this time it's in their bland homes. They need help, but do they have confidence in their design teams? Tune in to find out if the girls will fall in love or dislike what the Trading Spaces design team designs.

#9 - Phoenix: Cathedral Rock Drive

Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/2005

Two homeowners may live with beautiful surroundings on the outside, but not on the inside. Jon and Faber use a jigsaw to create a 14-year-old skater boy's fantasy room while Frank and Carter ditch the dark marble to fashion a classy village with antiques.

#10 - Miami: West 18

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/2005

Hildi Santo Tomas will redecorate a dining room, master bedroom or living room while Doug Wilson and team will choose between a living room, dining room and kitchen. Amy Wynn Pastor will be carpenter.

#11 - Texas: Bevington Oaks Circle

Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 6/11/2005

Two of designer Frank Bielec's friends hope to have some fun trading spaces. Homeowner, Mike is elated to work with Amy Wynn but what about slave-driver Hildi Santo Tomas? Our other team is cruising though their work thanks to Faber, Frank and Mrs. Bielec

#12 - Oklahoma: Route 1

Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 6/18/2005

Laurie & Amy do a room on an Oklahoma pig farm while Kia & Carter update a room on a cattle farm.

#13 - Philadelphia: Hazel Avenue

Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/25/2005

Check out this tricky assignment with two sets of homeowners technically living under one roof! Barry and Faber team up to redo a room in one half of the twin home while Amy and Genevieve try to keep their design plans under wraps on the other side!

#14 - Philadelphia: Baltimore Pike

Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/2/2005

Sisters Christie and Sue compete to re-design living spaces for each other's families. Christie likes simplicity and open space while Sue prefers displaying her doll collection in complexity. The challenge heightens when their styles clash.

#15 - Hartford: Old Field Drive

Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 7/9/2005

Check out the gang in Hartford, CT; Teams Frank Bielec and Amy Wynn Pastor along with Edward Walker and Faber Dewar give classic country style a whole new meaning; As they face the challenge of renovating two living rooms for horse loving neighbors.

#16 - Connecticut: Harvard Terrace

Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 7/16/2005

Hildi teams up with Carter while Laurie joins forces with Amy in this Connecticut based episode. Hildi and Carter recreate a living room for a couple who have not changed a thing in nine years. Laurie and Amy renovate one large master bedroom.

#17 - Hartford: Stoneridge Road

Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 7/23/2005

Teams Christi and Faber, and Laurie and Carter create two fabulous bedrooms in Hartford, CT. Best friends Deb and Liz view this trade off task as an opportunity to give gifts to one another. Budgets run high this time, which means the stakes soar also.

#18 - Montreal: Monpetit Boulevard

Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/30/2005

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#19 - St Louis: Russell Boulevard

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2004

Doug Wilson, Laurie Smith and Amy Wynn shake it up in St. Louis.

#20 - Philadelphia: Bugle Lane

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2004

Trading Spaces kicks off a brand-new season in suburban Philadelphia, Pa. Preston and his wife, Rachelle, are trading with their neighbors B.J. and Sue. Preston will put in some extra-long days because he has to get up at 3 a.m. to go work on his morning radio show. And because he couldn't take time off, he's doing his show live from his neighbor's house. Speaking of 3 a.m., that's when neighbor B.J. starts work on her overnight job that her boss wouldn't let her out of, and so for part of the time, Sue has to carry the weight of redecorating without her teammate. In spite of being shorthanded, designer Hildi Santo Tomás manages to pull off a kitchen redo that is pretty radical. Imagine that from Hildi! Next door in Laurie Smith's family room, carpenter Carter Oosterhouse is faced with a daunting list of projects.

#21 - Los Angeles: Turmont Street

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2004

The Trading Spaces caravan rolls into California bearing new twists and a whole new look to the show. Host Paige Davis knows that one of the rooms in each house is the ""money"" room — that means it has a bigger budget. But, of course, designers Edward Walker and Hildi Santo Tomás don't know which room it is. What fun would that be? So the designers and their homeowners have to pick which room to do right there on the spot. Do they pick the money room? How much will the budget be on this episode? How will the homeowners react when they don't even know which room has been chosen for redecoration in their house? And has carpenter Faber Dewar lost his Scottish mind? To tear out that whole wall? It's a wild ride in this episode from South Central L.A. And you won't want to miss these high-energy homeowners at their reveal!

#22 - Seattle: 46th Place

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2004

Trading Spaces invades the Pacific Northwest in this episode that finds identical twin, Norwegian-born sisters living directly across the street from each other. The husbands are along for the ride and anything goes in this episode. Designers Barry Wood and Christi Proctor team up with carpenter Carter Oosterhouse to remake a family room and a dining room. Barry should change his last name from Wood to Concrete after this episode as he tackles a highly unusual and challenging project in his dining room. Is there enough time and sand and cement for his vision to come to life? Meanwhile, Christi — always the optimist — tackles an entire kitchen redo. If she were a classical composer this room would be called the ""Unfinished Symphony."" Host Paige Davis tries her best but sometimes even she can get our designers to the finish line. Tune in to see if identical twins have identical reactions to their new rooms!

#23 - Seattle: 197th Avenue

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2004

Trading Spaces rolls into Seattle once again, and in spite of a little rain, manages to completely transform two rooms in only 2 days. Designers Christi Proctor and Edward Walker have their hands full this time with their fun-loving party-hearty homeowners. One of the great new twists on Trading Spaces this season is the possibility of a ""bonus"" budget to redecorate your room. In this episode we roll doubles and it's a mighty big budget. But money doesn't buy you extra time and Christi has a race to the finish even with the luxury of a larger budget. Meanwhile, Edward has mucho carpentry to keep carpenter Amy Wynn Pastor busy right down to the end. And if this is a home redecorating show why in the heck is host Paige Davis giving one of our homeowners a haircut? Wanna find out? Gotta tune in.

#24 - Jersey City: Webster Avenue

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2004

Hildi Santo Tomás and Laura Day trade spaces in Jersey City with Amy Wynn Pastor as carpenter

#25 - New Jersey: Lenox Drive

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2004

Barry Wood and Christi Proctor trade spaces in New Jersey with Amy Wynn Pastor as carpenter.