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I have black and stainless in my kitchen, and it's EASY to keep clean. Just 5 minutes a week with this:
Jesus, some of you just love to hear yourselves complain. "OMG, it's too hard to keep anything clean!"
Yeah, I don't get it either. I have stainless now, have had both black and white in the past. They all get dirt on them, and they all wipe off clean. I totally don't get the whole "Stainless is impossible to keep clean" thing. IMO, if anything, black shows the most dirt of all, not stainless.
Well, I have to say that we did no updating (and were advised not to by our real estate agent) of the house we sold in Miami in December 2012. We painted, cleaned, freshened, replaced faucets, light fixtures and a couple appliances that inconveniently died just before we sold the house, and made sure everything worked, but the house hadn't been remodeled since it was rebuilt after being virtually demolished by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and we had replaced the roof in 2011. But there certainly was no granite in the kitchen, wood floors, or stainless steel appliances. None of that mattered, we sold the house for the asking price We had three offers on the first day the house hit the MLS, one from a buyer proposing to pay cash, but he lost out because he couldn't come up with a firm offer that day.
that's what we're going to do -- I don't see the sense in buying new appliances while we're still here -- I cook almost daily. We'll offer a credit for them to buy their own appliances.
What funny is 30 years ago it was SO different. People took their appliances with them, and most people wanted houses they could fix up. We so happy when the guy who sold us this house left his really old appliances because we drained our savings to buy this house.... a year later they all started breaking but we were in better shape to purchase them one at a time.
Nah -- they wouldn't make that show. The problem is the "powers that be" feel people over 55 only purchase Depends, Metamucil and hearing aids. Which is why any program that skews older in demographics gets cancelled.
I wanted to add -- I guess I understand the fascination for stainless steel appliances (actually, no I don't, I have to clean elevator panels every day from fingerprints...) but I'm really starting to get the feeling that the people looking think that stainless appliances are actually superior in quality, when it's the same stove with a different exterior. It's not better because it's stainless. It's just stainless.
Plus, how is something "stainless" when you have to constantly wipe stains from it?
I hate my "stainless" fridge, I can't put magnets on it and it looks dirty even 1 minute after I clean it. But I got it because it was the only fridge that would fit in the weird space our kitchen had for it.
Weren't a good number of hgtv shows claimed to be scripted? It seems they start off real but the scripting comes later. Even my absolute favorite hgtv show of all time, Real Estate Intervention with my husband (in my mind) Mike Aubrey, was said to have some scripted story lines here and there. Perhaps that was the case by the 3rd season. But I honestly believe the first 2 seasons were as real as it got.
All "reality" TV is scripted. It's really obvious when you watch it that they have scripted lines. Of course they don't read from scripts, but they literally will give the people a list of 10 phrases to say and they film them saying that. They'll also use editing to make it look like someone is saying something about one thing when they're really talking about another.
My source of this information? My appearance on Room Raiders where I had to do 4 takes of my being "surprised" at the door of my condo. They told me what to say and how to say it.
since it's scripted, you'd think they would vary the script a LITTLE bit! Find someone who wants carpet, or a really NICE big walk-in shower rather than a "soaker tub". I bet someone has come up with a House Hunters BINGO game with all the catch phrases...Open floor plan, granite, SS appliances, hardwood floors, soaking tub, etc etc.
The show that's the worst as far as being scripted & OVERLY so is "Love it or List it". Ugh! Those people get on my last nerve.
I don't think it would be possible to find two more catty hosts than David and Hillary.
The property brothers are sweethearts. David and Hillary are just beeyotches.
Plus, how is something "stainless" when you have to constantly wipe stains from it?
I hate my "stainless" fridge, I can't put magnets on it and it looks dirty even 1 minute after I clean it. But I got it because it was the only fridge that would fit in the weird space our kitchen had for it.
If you spill and burn something on a stainless cooktop, you can use Brillo to clean it. That's why it's stainless -- it's pretty impervious. That's why they use it in industrial kitchens -- because each night they have to clean out and degrease the stovetops, and they clean up pretty easily.
BUT -- that doesn't translate to a home kitchen. I prefer white appliances...since they don't have pink or turquoise unless you want to spend $$$$ on Elmira appliances.
For a while there was a whole black and white thing going on in appliance world (white with black doors and trim), but my kitchen is dark and doesn't get a great deal of light -- black appliances make it look like a cave.
...since they don't have pink or turquoise unless you want to spend $$$$ on Elmira appliances.
When I was in the military, I was in South Korea for a few months. I remember walking past an appliance store and all of their appliances were all sorts of colors. This was back in 99 and I remember thinking how cool this was and wondered why we didn't do this stateside.
since it's scripted, you'd think they would vary the script a LITTLE bit! Find someone who wants carpet, or a really NICE big walk-in shower rather than a "soaker tub". I bet someone has come up with a House Hunters BINGO game with all the catch phrases...Open floor plan, granite, SS appliances, hardwood floors, soaking tub, etc etc.
The show that's the worst as far as being scripted & OVERLY so is "Love it or List it". Ugh! Those people get on my last nerve.
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