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We all know HGTV is just entertainment and not to be used for real estate advice or even decorating advice. Having duly noted this, it's a guilty pleasure for me and I suspect for a lot of us. So I thought it might be fun to rag on it a little (and even point out the things they get right).
I'll start:
1. Flip or Flop's open houses crack me up. Yeah right, all ya have to do is hold an open house and you'll get lots of offers! Love how all the people attending just happen to comment on the very decorating choices Christina just made (when has there ever been a real open house where visitors say things like "Ooooh, love the how they used Grey Dolphin Hi Gloss Paint on the Wainscoting").
2. Property Brothers hilariously has every single house they touch getting multiple offers over the list price. Suuuuure, that's believable.
3. Love It Or List It. Every episode Hilary ends up telling clients she can do all these things. Then they get mad because she ends up cancelling 2/3 of the things they agreed to do. You'd think these customer would know by now that she never delivers, but they always seem so shocked. Ahh, show biz.
4. Love It/List It, Flip/Flop and Fixer Upper all like using the dramatic device of having every single house end up with a hidden major construction flaw revealed once they start the demo. They then says things like "I'm amazed this house is still standing!" or "I'm shocked there hasn't been a major fire!" Watch too many episodes and you'll be afraid to ever buy a house at all, LOL. And it kind of makes you wonder about the wisdom of trusting these people to show you houses, if every episode they show people places that end up having major flaws. Just saying.
5. People who buy fixer upper homes apparently don't own any personal objects or artwork. Instead, they want someone to go to a flea market and buy a lot of random farm stuff to decorate their homes. Yes, please nail up a bunch of old records to my freshly painted my walls, that's what I'd love to see.
It does roll my eyes when someone who supposedly has mucho experience in evaluating older homes is continually surprised that an 80-year-old home has serious structural, electrical, or plumbing problems.
I like Mike Holmes. He does tend to grasp his pearls and faint over issues that ought to draw only a squint. But at least he catches them.
All of them have too much drama for me to watch and not roll my eyes.
Flip or Flop is so unrealistic as they almost always list over everyone else in the neighborhood but appraisal problems never arise It is also very fake. I love how they go in and place one tle on the wall or floor and we are supposed to believe they actually did any work.
Some of the first timers and highly unrealistic. Yeah I'm sure the producer of the show is going to let someone snip a 120 wire in the wall while hot
The one who I have the most respect for although I don't care for her taste is Nicole Curtis from Rehab Addict. Now that girl is a worker and she is not just for show.
It does roll my eyes when someone who supposedly has mucho experience in evaluating older homes is continually surprised that an 80-year-old home has serious structural, electrical, or plumbing problems.
I like Mike Holmes. He does tend to grasp his pearls and faint over issues that ought to draw only a squint. But at least he catches them.
I like Mike Holmes but he can go overboard and his clients seem to have an endless supply of money. He is way out of my budget.
Who do you think doesn't grasp that it's entertainment?
That doesn't mean those shows don't teach anything or help people understand a little more about home construction and remodeling. I think they actually do.
It's entertainment!!! Nothing more. To use any "instruction" from these shows is literally "asking for it"!
It is scary when people believe those shows...but they do show some things that can be done. Unfortunately if you are a novice you can't tell the right from wrong way
It's entertainment!!! Nothing more. To use any "instruction" from these shows is literally "asking for it"!
I have to agree. There are way too many people out there who both decorate and try to sell their homes based upon HGTV shows and then are amazed when the wine bottle cork wall that you adore and are trying to figure out a way to take it with you, is the first thing the buyers want to rip out!
I haven't watched HGTV regularly in probably 15 years. I used to watch some useful shows then. But some of the shows that came later are simply unwatchable! And I thought they recycled ideas too much and that the decorators were probably chosen because of their personalities and looks, instead of their skills.
I've picked up a random few shows now and again recently, and I am simply not impressed with any of what I saw. I do note that the decorators sure do like white kitchens cabs!
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It is also very fake. I love how they go in and place one tle on the wall or floor and we are supposed to believe they actually did any work.
is Nicole Curtis from Rehab Addict. Now that girl is a worker and she is not just for show.
