NATCHEZ &8212; Move over TLC, Trinity Episcopal is coming your way.

The school&8217;s Art II class &8212; inspired by TLC and HGTV design shows like &8220;Trading Spaces&8221; and &8220;Design on a Dime&8221; &8212; has given new life to an abandoned middle school classroom.

A giant purple and green zigzag lines one wall, records will soon cover another and the door is getting blue flames.

The design is the brainchild of six juniors and seniors and the product of $250 and some donations.

Middle school teachers decided they wanted to invest some of their allotted spending money to refurbish the building&8217;s old band hall as a student lounge of sorts. Students with all A&8217;s will be able to spend breaks in the room, and those not quite making the grade will be challenged to improve, art teacher Rebecca McGehee said.

Teachers were going to do some work to the room on their own, but McGehee thought it sounded like a good project for her advanced class.

They set to work on ideas after Christmas, viewed fabric samples at Wal-Mart, visited the Salvation Army for furniture and created their own plans. All six plans were posted in the teacher&8217;s lounge for judging.

Senior Page Mullins &8212; she wants to be an interior designer &8212; won the contest. But since then, it&8217;s been a story of compromise.

Mullins&8217; design was overtly feminine in the eyes of the three guys in the class. So they started edging in their ideas &8212; blue flames.

&8220;We had an idea, but we still kind of played the room by ear,&8221; senior Trey Wallace said.

The physical labor started about a month ago, and now the room screams &8220;cool.&8221;

It&8217;s not finished yet &8212; the flames aren&8217;t painted &8212; but middle school students are already peeking in boosting the designer&8217;s egos.

&8220;They are using imagination and creativity to create a comfortable environment,&8221; McGehee said. &8220;They&8217;ve enjoyed coming off a plan then doing it, and then seeing the (middle school) kids come in and say it&8217;s cool.&8221;

And there have been lessons too, she said.

&8220;They&8217;ve learned how to snap chalk lines, do the math and work with the principals of design,&8221; McGehee said. &8220;And maybe they&8217;ll remember some this in their college apartments. You don&8217;t have to go to Pottery Barn to buy everything.&8221;

Working within a budget was a lesson in itself, senior Clinton Pomeroy said.

&8220;We got shut down on a lot of ideas when we found out we didn&8217;t have that much money,&8221; he said.

&8220;We designed it thinking if we were in this room what would we want the room to look like.&8221;

Pomeroy and Mullins both think they&8217;ll use lessons from this project again. Pomeroy plans to start school at Itawamba Community College next year in their car fabrication program &8212; he&8217;ll learn how to paint blue flames on cars. Mullins will start an interior design path at LSU in the fall.

As for the room, the class will continue working during their morning class period and try to be finished by the end of the year.