Career
Before being known as a designer, she appeared as a commentator on the MTV series, Sex in the '90s. She was one of the original decorators of the TLC's hit series Trading Spaces.
During her tenure at Duffy & Partners, in New York City, Gorder designed the bottle for Tanqueray No. 10 gin. She became famous on Trading Spaces and quickly became known for her soulful designs and her unusual habit of working barefoot. She parodied her lack of footwear in a series of Swiffer sweeper commercials that started running on television and in periodicals in 2003. She has always explained that her preference for working barefoot was in order not to ruin shoes, and not for comfort reasons.
In addition to her role on Trading Spaces, she was a decorator for a spinoff show, Trading Spaces: Family. In 2005, she made-over several small American towns for her show, Town Haul.
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