Room for improvement

By Stacey Ballis

Subjects: Women interior decorators, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Reality television programs

Description: Lily Allen's dream job working as an interior designer on the reality home improvement show Swap/Meet has become a nightmare, thanks to the show's ditzy host, a jealous competitor, feuding fashion czars, and a handsome but curmudgeonly carpenter who knows how to push every one of her buttons.