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I hate the new busy gray/white variegated floors being used now. There are a few very nicely renovated houses in our neighborhood, but the floors scream...fake fake new trendy.
If I'm having wood floods (which I am), they better be classic.
The new Love It Or List It show did one really good thing for us--convinced my DH we're not moving to Seattle! Williamsburg seems pricey enough to us, but homes in Seattle are nuts! They just had a show with a house very similar to one we look at in WBurg that cost $400K. It cost $3.5 MILLION there. Yikes! How do people pay those prices? And then you see all the crappy construction issues. If I had paid millions for a house only to discover the weight of the house was being supported by an inadequate and tiny crumbling block of cement, I wouldn't be the good sport that the people in these shows are.
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I hate the new busy gray/white variegated floors being used now. There are a few very nicely renovated houses in our neighborhood, but the floors scream...fake fake new trendy.
If I'm having wood floods (which I am), they better be classic.
To each their own. Our floors are a traditional pecan-toned stain but I think many of the gray-toned woods are beautiful.
I hate the new busy gray/white variegated floors being used now. There are a few very nicely renovated houses in our neighborhood, but the floors scream...fake fake new trendy.
If I'm having wood floods (which I am), they better be classic.
925 Woodruff Place West Drive had original three-toned floors in the master bedroom: cherry (red stained), ash (white), and walnut (black). The flipper tore them out, of course.
HGTV used to have handyman contests. Do they still? They also had contests where they had 4 teams renovating apartments that will be sold in the end and the one that sold for the most, won. I really enjoyed watching those shows but I don't think they do them anymore.
925 Woodruff Place West Drive had original three-toned floors in the master bedroom: cherry (red stained), ash (white), and walnut (black). The flipper tore them out, of course.
HGTV used to have handyman contests. Do they still? They also had contests where they had 4 teams renovating apartments that will be sold in the end and the one that sold for the most, won. I really enjoyed watching those shows but I don't think they do them anymore.
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I loved that show - Flipping the Block. And the next season they did Beach Flip, which was 4 beachfront condos. Unfortunately, they haven't done another season after those two. I also like Design Star, which they don't have any more either.
I loved that show - Flipping the Block. And the next season they did Beach Flip, which was 4 beachfront condos. Unfortunately, they haven't done another season after those two. I also like Design Star, which they don't have any more either.
Yeah, that was it, Flipping the Block & Beach Flip. They were great shows. I wish they would do something like that again.
Some of the designers are really clueless about the needs of people with disabilities.
Saw two episodes of Love It Or List It that had me amazed HGTV would show their stars being so ignorant. Sometimes you have to wonder what they are thinking.
In one, Hilary couldn't understand why an older couple were using a formal dining room space as their master bedroom. Instead of asking about, she assumed they had no taste and gave them a design that put the master bedroom upstairs and a dining room in the DR space.
She was rather nasty about it, too. They said they needed a bedroom on the main floor because the husband had hip and knee issues, and she said, rather harshly, "I need to return your house to a functioning design and why is this the first time I'm hearing about this!"
Umm, hello? The guy can barely walk up steps and she didn't notice? She didn't think to ask why the bedroom was in the dining room? In the real world, a designer creates a "functioning design" that, guess what, functions for the owner, not one that functions for her predecided tunnel vision of how each room should function.
Right after this episode was one in which David has a client with severe visual and hearing impairment. The guy needs to be near a subway, and one of his big reasons to stay in his neighborhood is he'll need to relearn all the features of a new neighborhood. So what does he do? Take him to a house that is not near a subway and in a neighborhood that looked pretty challenging for someone with visual problems.
Some of the designers are really clueless about the needs of people with disabilities.
Saw two episodes of Love It Or List It that had me amazed HGTV would show their stars being so ignorant. Sometimes you have to wonder what they are thinking.
In one, Hilary couldn't understand why an older couple were using a formal dining room space as their master bedroom. Instead of asking about, she assumed they had no taste and gave them a design that put the master bedroom upstairs and a dining room in the DR space.
She was rather nasty about it, too. They said they needed a bedroom on the main floor because the husband had hip and knee issues, and she said, rather harshly, "I need to return your house to a functioning design and why is this the first time I'm hearing about this!"
Umm, hello? The guy can barely walk up steps and she didn't notice? She didn't think to ask why the bedroom was in the dining room? In the real world, a designer creates a "functioning design" that, guess what, functions for the owner, not one that functions for her predecided tunnel vision of how each room should function.
Right after this episode was one in which David has a client with severe visual and hearing impairment. The guy needs to be near a subway, and one of his big reasons to stay in his neighborhood is he'll need to relearn all the features of a new neighborhood. So what does he do? Take him to a house that is not near a subway and in a neighborhood that looked pretty challenging for someone with visual problems.
Is Love It or List It fake, too? Maybe the first couple knew they were going to "list it," but the producers wanted some drama? In the 2nd case, either he knew he was going to "love it," or he already knew which property he was going to buy, but the producers needed to show additional properties, for the show?
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Williamsburg seems pricey enough to us, but homes in Seattle are nuts! They just had a show with a house very similar to one we look at in WBurg that cost $400K. It cost $3.5 MILLION there. Yikes! How do people pay those prices? And then you see all the crappy construction issues. If I had paid millions for a house only to discover the weight of the house was being supported by an inadequate and tiny crumbling block of cement, I wouldn't be the good sport that the people in these shows are.
