Rick Rifle is the first and only film and television production designer cast member. Rick runs his interior projects like he runs his sets, adding a sense of Hollywood magic to the show in its fourth season.

Design Style: Rick's style, which can best be called "Hollywood with a classical twist," is comprised of witty, larger-than-life designs that follow the rules of classical architecture. With his imagination, training and experience, he is destined to become a favorite with the fans, both on the show, and behind the scenes as a production and costume designer.

Personal History: Born December 14, 1968 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, Rick moved to Tuscon, Arizona, when he was three, and Jacksonville, Florida, when he was eight. His first design effort was remaking the sets and costumes for his Star Wars action figures. Growing up in the South, he was fascinated by classical Southern Antebellum architecture and Addison Mizner homes. When a friend took him to see Peter Greenaway's The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Rick finally heard his calling. Today, he is a production designer living in Los Angeles, in a building designed by a legendary architect.

Professional Background: Rick got his start designing sets for Greek tragedies for Jacksonville's Florida Community College. He later received a BFA in Design for Costumes and Sets from Florida State University, and went on to attend NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. There, he learned from the best and the brightest in the New York design world of theatre, opera and film, including Desmond Heeley, John Conklin, Paul Steinberg and Carrie F. Robbins. After earning his MFA in Design for Film and Stage, Rick assisted interior designers and set designers including Eduardo Scicangco, art directed independent films An Argentine in New York, April V and Swing City, set designed on six television projects including the 1998 Winter Olympics for CBS, and designed scenery and costumes for the Stella Adler Conservatory. In 1999, he assistant art directed The Queen Latifah Show for Fox/Telepictures.

His first Hollywood project was art directing the then Fox Family Channel movie, Rocket's Red Glare. Since then, he has served as production designer for feature films A Little Bit of Lipstick and Murderous Camouflage, an episode of Sci-Fi Channel's Exposure, 13 episodes of the late night cable hit The Best Sex Ever, and most recently, a presentation pilot for a Showtime/Mandalay/EUE Screen Gems series, "Nightly." for a Showtime/Mandalay/Screen Gems comedy series. Earlier this year, he art directed the 2003 Art Directors Guild Awards.

Trading Spaces is not Rick's first on-camera project. In 2000, he hosted a pilot for a hip, edgy design show titled Housebroken, and he made a guest appearance on Lifetime's Operation Style in 2001.