MPDP welcomes us again to Texas. I know Texas is a big state and all, but this is getting ridiculous. At least they've retired the cowboy clichés. This week, we are in a suburb of Dallas. The designers this week are Laurie and Frank, and Ty is the carpenter. Oh, dear. It appears that one of the homeowners likes to dress up her dog in crazy outfits. That's so sad. The poor dog. Ty looks just as horrified as I feel by the dog's dinosaur outfit.

Tracey's den will be redecorated. Her friend Jeff will be helping her out. I'm nosy, so I would like more information on this friend Jeff. Is he a boyfriend? A former boyfriend? A college buddy? A co-worker? How do they know each other? I realize none of that is material to the episode, but like I said, I'm nosy. Anyway, Tracey's den is "the largest room in her house," and as such gets a lot of use. It currently has wood paneling on all of the walls, and decent green furniture. There's a brick fireplace, but the brick is gray and has weird black shapes painted (?) on it. ["I don't know what was going on with that fireplace, but whatever it was, it looked awful. I think someone attempted to give it texture and depth by painting black slashes on it. Did Frank already do this room once before?" -- Deborah] Tracey is the one who dressed up her dog; the dog is now in a cowboy outfit, complete with little hat. The dog looks at the camera as if to say, "Please? Help me?" ["Maybe PeTA could stop paying nubile women to pose nude for anti-fur ads and actually help some poor animals to stay nude...as God intended them to be." -- Deborah] Tracey says that her room is nice and big, and that she likes to entertain there, but that she's embarrassed about the paneling. I feel her. My dining room has paneling and I'm counting down the days until I can afford to get rid of it. And I also apologize for it the minute anyone sets foot in my house. Tracey says that she's tried to compensate for the paneling by adding Southwestern accents.

Rick and Holly are newlyweds who like to travel and decorate their house, but they haven't always been happy with the results. Holly says that they just redid their eat-in kitchen last year, but that they're not really happy with it. The kitchen has off-white cabinets with gray-blue accents. Rick adds that they got his grandmother's china as a wedding gift, and they would like to be able to display it. It's currently in that corner shelf unit that Ikea sells. I nearly bought that the one and only time I went to Ikea, but it wouldn't fit in our car, and we live too far away (and in another country) to ship it. Holly says that she's okay with TS changing the chairs and the floors, but she wouldn't want fabric on her walls, because it would retain food odors, and she burns things a lot. Heh.