Hildi Santo-Tomas
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Hildi Santo-Tomas (born April 4, 1961, Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American interior decorator best known for her appearances on the TLC home renovation TV series Trading Spaces. She is of Cuban descent.[1]
Biography
Santo-Tomas is known on Trading Spaces as one of its most controversial and polarizing hosts. Known for often ignoring the wishes of the homeowners, her convention-defying room designs, which have included covering walls of rooms with non-traditional materials, often to the dismay and shock of the homeowners. These projects have included covering the entire walls of a bathroom with artificial flowers, using old phonograph records as the cover for another room, and creating a mural-sized narcissistic portrait of herself across a living room wall.
She now lives in Paris in a small flat and is rarely seen in public.
Education
Santo-Tomas majored in industrial relations and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
References
- ^ Hildi's bio on TLC.com. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
External links
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