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Just wondering about what bugs you on TV decorating shows, or just around your house.
1. How many home remodeling shows start in a house with an oven that hasn’t worked for 8 years, or they’ve been using a stove with only one working burner for 5 years? I’m watching one right now. Wouldn’t you think that a sensible person would have just replaced the oven or stove? On one show I watched, the couple were afraid of setting off the alarm in the house they bought, so they just never touched it. Remodeler came in and ripped it off the wall. Problem solved.
2.Why do The Property Brothers wear clothes that are one size too small?
Just wondering about what bugs you on TV decorating shows, or just around your house.
1. How many home remodeling shows start in a house with an oven that hasn’t worked for 8 years, or they’ve been using a stove with only one working burner for 5 years? I’m watching one right now. Wouldn’t you think that a sensible person would have just replaced the oven or stove? On one show I watched, the couple were afraid of setting off the alarm in the house they bought, so they just never touched it. Remodeler came in and ripped it off the wall. Problem solved.
2.Why do The Property Brothers wear clothes that are one size too small?
IMHO many of these shows aren't really about actually remodeling some house. They're veiled advertisements for manufacturers of building products and appliances. Sow dissatisfaction in viewers who have functional homes so they feel compelled to buy new stuff they don't really need. If some range manufacturer is paying them to showcase their product, voila, a range gets ripped out and the manufacturer's brand installed. So, the hosts can wear whatever they want, regardless how impractical. They're talking head shills that brandish a sledgehammer once in a while for dramatic purposes.
My husband's grandparents had a wall oven that stopped working sometime in the early 2000s. Then their built in cooktop lost a burner.
Mind you, these were old people who didn't want the hassle of workmen coming in and tearing things up and replacing them with stuff they were not used to.
But yeah, it does happen.
Personally I can't imaging going for over a decade without an oven.
Yeah, I have watched both parents "let things go" in their homes like non-operational burners, "hot" outlets and the like, claiming that they can work around it for the time being and "eventually" get them fixed. And once they get used to "working around it" they see no point in wasting money to get them fixed. And as I get older, I see myself falling into the same habit.
I'm not even going to try to justify anything to do with those Scott Twins, though. Their 15 minutes ended years ago.
IMHO many of these shows aren't really about actually remodeling some house. They're veiled advertisements for manufacturers of building products and appliances.
In the 1990's and early 2000's, it wasn't even about that. It was about heavy drama/fighting amongst the people renovating their home. Not unlike a different setting and characters for "Jersey Shore" or "Real World" (although the latter was more about sex than fighting... actually, 99% about sex). Very little on those remodeling shows taught viewers anything about architecture, appliances, or home renovation.
Last edited by MillennialUrbanist; 09-21-2023 at 09:41 PM..
Reason: added context.
I spent half of my childhood in a house where the stove had one functional burner & a nonfunctional oven, & a nonfunctional washing machine, making it necessary to go to a laundromat or more often, wash my clothes in a sink, so it does happen.
I only ever watched the very first Househunters shows, b/c at the time it was a unique concept & all the houses were in my neck of the woods. They didn’t even share the prices of the houses back then, which I thought was pretty strange. I think that was because of some kind of realtor syndicate.
Personally I can't imaging going for over a decade without an oven.
Lol... I personally know SEVERAL people who have remodeled and kept their kitchen up to highest standards with all the "most talked about" gadgets you can find on the market.
None of it was ever used. They don't cook at home. Ever. Don't know how, not interested to learn.
The kitchen it's just for show, when family and friends come over to visit. They live in their house 20+ years now.
Same with other things. They have the "must have, most trendy" stuff but never use it.
I don't watch those TV shows. They are staged, scripted and paid for advertisements. Fake and "influential". It's entertainment.
If l actually want to learn something, then I look for tutorials on YouTube.
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IMHO many of these shows aren't really about actually remodeling some house. They're veiled advertisements for manufacturers of building products and appliances. Sow dissatisfaction in viewers who have functional homes so they feel compelled to buy new stuff they don't really need. If some range manufacturer is paying them to showcase their product, voila, a range gets ripped out and the manufacturer's brand installed. So, the hosts can wear whatever they want, regardless how impractical. They're talking head shills that brandish a sledgehammer once in a while for dramatic purposes.
