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
[edit]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.[1]
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.[2]
Career
[edit]Bielec worked as an award-winning elementary school teacher in art and social studies.[3] He then became a florist for 20 years. He joined the TLC show from 2000 to 2008 and then again in its 2018, two season revival.[4] His unplanned audition for the show came during a Nashville convention on decorative paint when he served as a replacement for demonstrator who was ill. A Home & Garden TV producer was in the audience and tapped him for the role.[5] It was on Trading Spaces that Bielec worked with industry names including Ty Pennington and Vern Yip.[6]
Bielec and his wife founded the Mosey 'N Me craft company in 1989; the couple also wrote books and pamphlets: Mosey 'N Me the Book, The Four Seasons and Mosey 'N Me the Sequel.[3]
Bielec also created and designed paper products with Houston-based design company Paper so Pretty working alongside award-winning stationery designer Michael Wolfe and his wife Shannon from 2009 -2011 under "It's Funky, it's Fun, it's Frank" line of invitations and announcements.
References
[edit]- ^ Neese, Joseph (2020-05-16). "Beloved 'Trading Spaces' Interior Designer Frank Bielec Dies at 72". House Beautiful. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ Drury, Sharareh (May 16, 2020). "Frank Bielec, 'Trading Spaces' Designer, Dies at 72". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- ^ a b "Frank and Judy Bielec: TLC, Mosey 'n Me, and a New Decade". .Fort Bend Lifestyles & Homes magazine. 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ "Frank Bielec, 'Trading Spaces' Designer, Dead at 72". Entertainment Tonight. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ McDonough, Lauren Smith (2018-03-29). "Frank Bielec REALLY Didn't Want to Do the "Trading Spaces" Reboot". Good Housekeeping. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ Artemis Moshtaghian; Jay Croft (16 May 2020). "'Trading Spaces' designer Frank Bielec dies of heart attack at 72". CNN. Retrieved 2020-05-18.