Yeah, the faux drama on Love It or List It always brings all my eye rolls. This stuff requires permits, audience – there's no way they're really deciding at the last minute to ditch the deck plans and convert the garage into a music studio with a bathroom.
Velar Fricative That was us when we were house hunting. No open concept. I hate them. My realtor was totally surprised since so many people want that. I was all "show me the houses built in the 60s and 70s!" And ended up in a house built in 1973. Give me all the rooms!!! ETA: I do hate my poorly designed 70s kitchen but love that you can't see it from the family room or dining room.
Velar Fricative That was us when we were house hunting. No open concept. I hate them. My realtor was totally surprised since so many people want that. I was all "show me the houses built in the 60s and 70s!" And ended up in a house built in 1973. Give me all the rooms!!!
Our house was built in 1906, and the kitchen is *gasp* not connected to an open family room/dining room/multipurpose room hybrid. We have an actual entryway, with separate openings to other rooms! People often randomly remark, "You could take out that wall to make the kitchen more open." And I always say, "Why would we want that?" I don't want to have to clean the kitchen all the time in case someone comes over.
I'm just too lazy for all the house stuff. And I DETEST moving so I won't do it.
We move in one week and I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN!!!!!!!! So much left to pack, house is in such disarray and I keep forgetting that even once I have all of this packed, I will have to unpack it next weekend. NEVER AGAIN
"This Old House" is great if you really want to learn something about renovating, latest home technology, small projects, money saving tips, etc.
That's my H's favorite thing.
The only show I really liked on HGTV (I think?) was Renovation Realities because I like watching people fuck up. Because I am a terrible person. Like when that guy put his leg though his roof or when the one couple got NOTHING done in a month and then had to hire a professional anyway.
There was a show I used to watch on BBC America where they just redecorated a house with some stuff they brought & stuff the people already had lying around. It spoke to my crafty self.
Yes! I love that show!! I live seeing people screw up.
I'm also completely over the Texas farmhouse look now. I used to love it, but I associate it so strongly with the Gaineses that it annoys me. We recently moved into a neighborhood that is right up the HGTV alley (so joke's on me I guess) and the houses can get really cookie-cutter. I'm feeling a need to rebel.
There's a house down the street that installed the sliding barn doors on closets. It looks OK now, but when that fad passes it's going to be hell getting rid of those things.
Shiplap is the new paneling. I refuse to have that crap in my house if I ever own another house. And I need color! There's too much white and gray and muted.
Anywho, I watch all of these shows because there isn't jack shit on t.v. during the day and I work from home. Plus I love a good before and after. I love to watch Botched or one of those shows where they will redo your style like What Not to Wear. I don't care about all of the stuff in the middle. Just show me the before and the after.
Why are we comparing Fixer Upper to YHL? YHL doesn't flip houses. They turn their personal houses into blog material. Apparently YHL has been offered TV deals but they have turned them all down. Anyway their blog was super stale as all shelter blogs are but their podcast is fresh. This AM I listened to an episode on how to organize my pantry. And instead of acting all know it all about pantry org, they interviewed two organization experts. This is basically what their weekly show has been for a year now. It's great!
This is what YHL should have been doing all along. Their diy abilities were never strong, but their marketing skills were and they were a likable young couple when they started out.
It irked me to no end that they became diy and decorating/design gurus when they did really shoddy work and weird design. They seemed like they were offended if someone who was interested and was trying to learn questioned a method they were using, and waffled between sounding like they thought they were experts or playing the we're just a couple of unskilled diy-ers like you card.
I actually liked a lot of their design ideas. I could see the vision, I just thought that they didn't know how to bring their visions to fruition in a way that elevated them. I would think that they were finally on the right track, and then they would fall short somewhere in the execution.
I would have disliked them even more if they had been on TV. She was awful on the Nate Berkus show, and was annoying on their videos.
I'm just too lazy for all the house stuff. And I DETEST moving so I won't do it.
I feel that. I plan to die in this house.
Every time I glance around the market to see what's available my question is always "Is it amazing enough to make the hell of selling, buying and moving worth while?" And the answer is always NOPE!
Post by oregonpachey on Sept 21, 2017 17:04:38 GMT -5
Also, I don't want to out this person, but there is a poster on GBCN that was on House Hunters. I keep hoping one day she will talk about it and do an AMA.
Also, I don't want to out this person, but there is a poster on GBCN that was on House Hunters. I keep hoping one day she will talk about it and do an AMA.
There's more than one. I think 3?
ETA: I wonder if you search if it will come up with the last time we talked about this. Several have shared their stories.
I recognized one old school pestie on house hunters because of her dog. LOL!
Also, I don't want to out this person, but there is a poster on GBCN that was on House Hunters. I keep hoping one day she will talk about it and do an AMA.
Also, I don't want to out this person, but there is a poster on GBCN that was on House Hunters. I keep hoping one day she will talk about it and do an AMA.
There's more than one. I think 3?
ETA: I wonder if you search if it will come up with the last time we talked about this. Several have shared their stories.
I recognized one old school pestie on house hunters because of her dog. LOL!
There was someone on ML who had a style blog and actually filmed a pilot for HGTV. I wish I remembered her SN. I think she got semi run off the board for something unrelated to decorating.
Sort of similar to House Hunters, Netflix has a show from BBC called Escape to the Country. It's interesting but also totally works as background viewing too.
Also, Team This Old House.
And like pp I liked the first season of Fixer Upper but now it's such a formulated show and they've started tearing out rooms where I'm like "there's nothing wrong with that!! leave it be!"
Sort of similar to House Hunters, Netflix has a show from BBC called Escape to the Country. It's interesting but also totally works as background viewing too.
Also, Team This Old House.
And like pp I liked the first season of Fixer Upper but now it's such a formulated show and they've started tearing out rooms where I'm like "there's nothing wrong with that!! leave it be!"
The BBC also does Grand Designs, which is a "more money than sense" house-building/remodeling show. I don't know that I've ever seen it in the US.
I don't put This Old House in the same category as the "reality" shows on HGTV. When I was watching This Old House on Saturday mornings, it was always more concerned with keeping the house functional and close to period. They never ripped out walls in old saltbox houses to make big, open plan living areas the way the HGTV shows do. And they had a decent contractor who knew what walls were load-bearing and what you could do with the house. I think the HGTV people are all for ripping out anything that's in the way of a large open-plan room.
I want to see the layout of the houses on House Hunters. I really wish they would show the floor plan as well as the walk-through, because I am really interested in how the boxes are cut into rooms and sometimes I cannot figure out the flow of the house in the walk-through scenes. I really hate the comments that the houses are out because they have stairs and "what about the baby?" so most of my watching is rage-watching.
Sort of similar to House Hunters, Netflix has a show from BBC called Escape to the Country. It's interesting but also totally works as background viewing too.
Also, Team This Old House.
And like pp I liked the first season of Fixer Upper but now it's such a formulated show and they've started tearing out rooms where I'm like "there's nothing wrong with that!! leave it be!"
The BBC also does Grand Designs, which is a "more money than sense" house-building/remodeling show. I don't know that I've ever seen it in the US. ...
At least Season 13 is available in the US on Netflix or Amazon. Great show! Thanks also for mentioning it because I had no idea there were so many seasons until I just Googled it and now I want to find the others.
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"This Old House" is great if you really want to learn something about renovating, latest home technology, small projects, money saving tips, etc.
I LOVE This Old House. They share practical tips and tutorials that are way more helpful than anything I have watched on HGTV. Plus I like that they want to restore and stay true to a home's historical architecture which you rarely see on HGTV.
Yesssss! I once saw them take a mid century modern house on Flip or Flop and just destroy it. This Old House is the best.
Post by CheeringCharm on Sept 22, 2017 8:01:54 GMT -5
I'm definitely susceptible to those house inadequate feelings but for me the culprits are Pinterest/House/Instagram not HGTV which I never watch because it's so boring.
Post by lovelyshoes on Sept 22, 2017 8:15:17 GMT -5
All of these shows make me think of Edward Scissorhands. Everyone wants to be the same, have the same home, and so on. It's my nightmare to have a huge home and love far from the city. The copy cat flip shows are the most awful ones. Where do they find these people?!
I used to like the international show, but it's so boring now and the budgets are nuts.
I'm just too lazy for all the house stuff. And I DETEST moving so I won't do it.
We need to move eventually because we're not staying in this apartment forever. But I have no sense of style at all. I'm pretty sure my mom is going to pick out colors for everything and my stepdad will do all the work. And I'll just cook for everyone and go along with whatever they choose.
I used to hate on open concept houses, until I bought one. I’ve had both, and I actually love having the open plan. I have other, more closed off spaces though so maybe that’s why I like it so much. I still draw the line at two-story spaces. I have my limits.