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Lately, I've been trying to make friends with Flip or Flop Las Vegas. I just watched them install a black toilet, purple kitchen sink and purple spray painted tile back splash. I might need to lie down.
Here's hoping that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Yeah, well I'm 41, neither old nor young and I'd buy a home with a purple sink. I'm eclectic like that. I was going to install a plum colored undermount kitchen sink but changed my mind.
HGTV shows these days are largely boring and peddle the same stuff. Fixer Upper is wearing on me. Flip or Flop is largely a flop in all ways, along with its spinoffs.
Yeah, well I'm 41, neither old nor young and I'd buy a home with a purple sink. I'm eclectic like that. I was going to install a plum colored undermount kitchen sink but changed my mind.
HGTV shows these days are largely boring and peddle the same stuff. Fixer Upper is wearing on me. Flip or Flop is largely a flop in all ways, along with its spinoffs.
You know what? I did not mind the purple sink that much, and I am in favor of individuality. When they started spray painting the wall tiles and installing the black toilet, they lost me. I don't care if it is Las Vegas, their taste level is questionable.
Unless everyone in Las Vegas looking to buy a condo is a young single who either works in downtown casino or loves the downtown casino look, her color choices hurt her sales - badly.
I can overlook orange curtains with teal furniture, as those will not be my curtains or my furniture, but painting white kitchen tiles purple and putting in a purple/pink sink? She cut down the number of people who would be interested to a small fraction of the Vegas home buying public. And I don't think she understands that, she views herself as young, edgy and fresh.
It's just like the Snow Sisters on DIY's Texas Flip and Move. The last two episodes we watched:
Brick wallpaper in the kitchen (WTF?)
Pink painted kitchen cabinets
Ugly pattern tile in the bathroom from the 70's
Window awnings on the inside of the house
It's like they pick the absolute worst possible things during these renovations.
Oh I HATE -- hate, hate...flooring on the wall. Old reclaimed wood you might be able to persuade me. But actual flooring? Uh, no.
I don't care that some "TV designer" says it's an accent wall...or you can use this as a headboard, to it creates interest.
Uh -- NO!
Other pet peeves Iv'e seen:
-- covering up outlets
-- angling a bed from the corner (just seems so much lost space that way)
-- oh my ...the absolute over use of sconces.
-- headboards ON the wall, AND wall mounted lamps and bedside shelves (instead of night stands). If the headboard is on the wall and the night side table is fixed to the wall. You could NEVER move the bed without redoing all that. Granted in some rooms there is one obvious wall where the bed pretty much would have to go .... but even so...
Ah, yes, Michael Payne, "Designing for the Sexes" -- one of my favorite, now gone, HGTV shows.
I think I read somewhere that he just got tired of doing the show, as the time commitment interfered with his real design business.
I've PRAYED HGTV would use its overnight or late night time slots for an "HGTV CLASSICS" block of shows:
Kitty Bartholomew, Michael Payne, Cris Casson Madden, Room by Room, Decorating Cents, Sensible Chic, Design on a Dime, Room for Change, Double Take, Decorating with Style (with Cindy Piccoli), Hints be Eloise, Carol Duvall (Craft Show), Fix It....Weekend Warriors, Designer's Challenge, Landscape Smart, Luxury Open House, Homes Across America (with Joe Ruggiero), Help Around the House (an handyman show with Henry Harrison), the Handy Ma'am show, Gardener's Diary, Curb Appeal (the FIRST seasons), This Small Space, Home to Go, Dream House (that followed a home remodel for an entire season), Before and After (with Pat Simpson) (which followed a whole house remodel in one show)
Some canceled shows that were part of the down fall:....Save my Kitchen, Save my Bath, Designed to Sell, 24 Hour Design, and others. But the time these shows came along HGTV was already going down hill. The previous shows I listed, I'd say was HGTV's glory period. Then, the programmers got too smart for themselves and thought they'd move away from what helped them grow the ratings. WHY??
And let's not even talk about how they have NO gardening or landscaping shows. (And I DON'T count that landscaping show with the guy picks up people at the Home Depot and goes to their house and remodels a backyard in two days.)
Newer viewers watching HGTV today have no idea about these shows and how great HGTV USED TO BE.
There've been a VERY FEW more recent shows that I liked: the EARLY Income Property shows, The VERY early House Hunters, the VERY EARLY, Design Star. AND PLEASE can we have more CANADIAN HGTV shows: I loved the "Stagers" show, and ANY of Sarah Richardson's shows. I also liked the early Debbie Travis shows (painting makeovers)
And it wasn't on HGTV but I like the EARLY episodes of "Moving Up" (which followed remodeling new owners did and had the old owners come back to see the house.)...and of course.....Lynette Jennings, and my favorite OF ALL: Christopher Lowell. TO THIS DAY -- I use the short cuts and tricks of the trade I learned from his show!
It's just like the Snow Sisters on DIY's Texas Flip and Move. The last two episodes we watched:
Brick wallpaper in the kitchen (WTF?)
Pink painted kitchen cabinets
Ugly pattern tile in the bathroom from the 70's
Window awnings on the inside of the house
It's like they pick the absolute worst possible things during these renovations.
Consider who is buying these homes--can you honestly say those people have "good taste"?
They know their market would be my take and are pitching to the lowest common denominator...
Found a show this past week on DIY network--not HGTV--
Called Big Beach Builds---
Remodeling show out of the Delaware Beach area--Rehobeth Beach and towns in area which I am not very familiar with and which doesn't show up much on any HGTV show I have watched.
Host is Marnie Ouesler--comes from 5 generations of home builders--her father has development company in Washington DC area but they summered on Delaware beaches and she returned after graduating college--
Worked in RE, bought/remodeled home for herself out of college, sold for profit--did same thing again--had people come to her asking for help...
She is very personable/attractive--reminds me of a younger Nicole from Rehab Addict--
petite but gets on her hard hat and works with her crews...
She has new-home building company--does maybe 10 homes a year in that area and now does the remodeling show---seems to know her business...has a master's==
built first LEED home in that area of Delaware
First season--13 episodes out--does some great design--only say 1 choice she made that I thought was really tacky--has found problems during remodeling she has to correct--
Seems to do the right thing...
Money is not mentioned so these people have deep pockets
Will be watching for S2--hope she gets renewed---don't think it's been decided...
Other pet peeves Iv'e seen:
-- covering up outlets
-- angling a bed from the corner (just seems so much lost space that way)
-- oh my ...the absolute over use of sconces.
-- headboards ON the wall, AND wall mounted lamps and bedside shelves (instead of night stands).
I hate when design shows do the angled bed from a corner thing. I've never understood the point of doing that. It's not an efficient use of space and it just looks weird to me.
I keep wanting to reach through the television and push that bed either to the left or to the right.
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