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Frank Bielec
Frank Bielec (September 24, 1947, in Sealy – May 15, 2020, in Houston) was an American interior designer and artist from Katy, Texas, best known for his work on TLC's ''Trading Spaces'', '' Trading Spaces: Family'', '' Trading Spaces: Home Free'', '' Trading Spaces: Boys vs Girls'', ''Trading Spaces: We're Back'', ''Trading Spaces: 100 Grand'', ''The Best Of Trading Spaces'', ''Training Spaces'', '' While You Were Out'' and ''Elf Sparkle and the Special Red Dress''. Personal He was married to sculptor Judy Lynn Neal. The couple had two children, Melissa, nicknamed Mosey, who was killed when she was three years old in a car accident caused by a drunk driver, and a son, Matt. He died at a Houston hospital the day after suffering a heart attack, according to his wife. There was no funeral service. Frank was cremated, his ashes put inside a round wooden box and placed on top of a fireplace in their home. Career Bielec worked as an award-winning elementary school teacher in art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of Harris County, Texas, Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the List of Texas metropolitan areas, second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth. With a population of 2,314,157 in 2023, Houston is the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and the List of North American cities by population, sixth-most populous city in North America. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the List of United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trading Spaces
''Trading Spaces'' is an hour-long American television reality program that originally aired from 2000 to 2008 on the cable channels TLC and Discovery Home. The format of the show was based on the BBC TV series '' Changing Rooms''. The first iteration ran for eight seasons. A revival began airing on April 7, 2018, with several team members of the original run returning. Premise In each episode, two sets of neighbors redecorated one room in each other's home. Each two-person team had two (later, three) days, a budget of US$1,000, (later $2,000) and the services of a designer. Both teams in early seasons shared one carpenter, while later on, each team had a carpenter. Although the producers generally allowed the teams to go over budget slightly, there was one instance when a designer went $150 over budget and the producers forced her to return a rug she bought for the project. The teams have no say over what happens in their own homes, but they are able to give input into wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family
Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization. Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a married couple with children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents, spouse and children, may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins). The field of genealogy aims to trace family lineages through history. The family is also an important economic unit studied in family economics. The word "families" can be used metaphorically to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Free
Home Free may refer to: Music * Home Free (group), an American a cappella group * ''Home Free'' (Dan Fogelberg album), 1972 * ''Home Free'' (Red Rodney album), 1979 * ''Homefree'', a 2009 album by Fanu * ''Homefree'', a 2010 album by Nnenna Freelon Other uses * ''Home Free'' (1993 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Home Free'' (2015 TV series), an American reality series * ''Home Free'' (2023 film), an American comedy film directed by Aaron Brown * ''Home Free'' (2024 film), a Canadian drama film directed by Avi Federgreen * ''Home Free!'', a 1964 play by Lanford Wilson * Wanda Homefree, a fictional character from the comic ''Little Annie Fanny ''Little Annie Fanny'' is a comics series by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. It appeared in 107 two- to seven-page episodes in ''Playboy'' magazine from October 1962 to September 1988. ''Little Annie Fanny'' is a humorous satire of contemporar ...'' See also * Free Home, Georgia, US, an unincorporated community {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boys Vs
A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is usually described as a man. Definition, etymology, and use According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy is "a male child from birth to adulthood". The word "boy" comes from Middle English ''boi, boye'' ("boy, servant"), related to other Germanic languages, Germanic words for ''boy'', namely Saterland Frisian language, East Frisian ''boi'' ("boy, young man") and West Frisian language, West Frisian ''boai'' ("boy"). Although the exact etymology is obscure, the English and Frisian forms probably derive from an earlier Anglo-Frisian *''bō-ja'' ("little brother"), a diminutive of the Germanic root *''bō-'' ("brother, male relation"), from Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European *''bhā-'', *''bhāt-'' ("father, brother"). The root is also found in Norwegian language, Norwegian dialectal ''boa'' ("brother"), and, through a reduplicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
