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Rather than showing the couple preparing food in their kitchen or playing with their child in the yard, show me the house once they've moved into it. I want to see what each room looks like.
YES!! I would SO love to see that!
Especially the reality of what a kid's room looks like after a child is actually living in it. Or a bathroom that has appliances on the counter and the things people actually use.
I agree wholeheartedly with you! I am biased since I AM an artist, but homes without art that reflects the homeowner's tastes are really bland. Having artwork on the walls tells a story about who lives in the home, I think. A pedestrian-looking mirror or window frame just looks like the designer took a page out of a Pottery Barn catalog.
HGTV could definitely use a show that displays original artwork in rooms.
Great post and
I totally agree about homes needing artwork. When I see nothing but mirrors in a house, it not only looks bland it makes me wonder what sort of egos the homeowners must have to need to look at themselves all the time.
And Kathryn, I really think murals are about to make a comeback. Wallpaper too (or so they say, but we'll see if people really want to put it up after they had such a hard time taking it all down just a few years before).
I totally agree about homes needing artwork. When I see nothing but mirrors in a house, it not only looks bland it makes me wonder what sort of egos the homeowners must have to need to look at themselves all the time.
And Kathryn, I really think murals are about to make a comeback. Wallpaper too (or so they say, but we'll see if people really want to put it up after they had such a hard time taking it all down just a few years before).
I'm all about options. Put what speaks to you in your home. To me, my home is a reflection of me, my personality, my values, my life as a whole.
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.
The English guy, Michael Somebody, who mediated the fights between husbands and wives had my all-time favorite program.
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!
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!
I might have said this before, but my 3 favorite "classic" HGTV shows were Gardening by the Yard with Paul James, House Detective, and Extreme Homes. If they ever have "classic HGTV" blocks of TV time, I hope they include those, too.
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.
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.
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.
OMG, I saw that one too, was thinking the same thing.
I like purple just as much as the next person, but my kitchen sink? dont think so>
or that hideous wallpaper with the squigly designs.
black toilet, no thabnks.
i guess it would suit a younger hip something or other, so that leaves this old fart out./....
Gardening by the Yard with Paul James, House Detective, and Extreme Homes.
Of those three -- OMG yes, how could I forget Paul James and "Gardening by the Yard."
And Susie Coelho (Sony Bono's ex) had two shows: Surprise Gardener and....for the life of me I thought she had another gardening show also -- for one brief season, but I can't find info on it.
There was also a show LIKE "Extreme Homes" -- that also featured homes that had been firehouses, churches, etc. The host had extreme dyed blond spiked hair?
Oh can't recall the names of these shows:
-- The one where a family had to find stuff in the house and auction it off to raise money for whatever
-- Another where an appraiser just went to mostly older or historic houses and appraised what 'the homeowner had found"
-- Other shows: MY FIRST HOME -- remember that one... and then "My First SALE."
-- And the Canadian show that featured realtor Tatiana with the wild ringlet blond hair, she started her own RE agency? THE PROPERTY SHOP, that was it!!
-- And there was a show for only one season that I loved called "Design School" where students and we (the audience) actually LEARNED design principles.
-- I SORT OF liked the handyman competition show hosted (I think) by Mike Holmes and Scott McGilivry. But by that time HGTV was well on it's way to stupid premise type shows with everything having to be done in some crazy short time frame, like "24 Hour Design.".... "Design Star" had gone down hill..."Designed to Sell" had jumped the shark, and "House Hunters" was taking over....
OMG, I saw that one too, was thinking the same thing.
I like purple just as much as the next person, but my kitchen sink? dont think so>
or that hideous wallpaper with the squigly designs.
black toilet, no thabnks.
i guess it would suit a younger hip something or other, so that leaves this old fart out./....
...or someone who never wants to clean their toilet.
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I would SO love to see that! 
