I finally succumbed to this plague! They are all over, at all times, in every channel! Credit goes to HGTV for being the first one.
These decorating shows are the revenge provided by television to sports programs widows. Actually, in my humble opinion, they have gone overboard. I personally like the ones where they take a mediocre to bad kitchen and convert it into a super deluxe room with major new appliances, all the latest models in features and expensive stainless steel. Granite counters, complete new wooden cabinets, and a center island, fully equipped. Additionally, a tiled backsplash and wooden laminated floors. All that for only $35,000. My question is this: If you own a home with an original kitchen needing all those changes, isn't that because you could not afford a house with a kitchen as the new one to begin with? Where were you hiding those $35K? Or a few years ago you found out about a new type of fuel for your car that costs much less than gas and no one else knows?
Here is another one of the unlikely unbelievable things in those programs...They are running out of time! They only have less than 2 hours before the make-believe surprised owner gets back to the house, and they still have not even cut the wood for the new wall to wall unit, plus
someone is half way through a non-personality non-character painting on a 8 x 6 canvas that also needs framing. Miracle! Just before the bell rings
the last nail is in place, all paintings are hanging in the right place, and the customary basket or bowl shines proud on the living room table with real fruit! Wow! what a team of decorators!
How about the one where two couples exchange homes for a day to convert each other's home into something unrecognizable, with the help of decorators, of course. Fortunately they only destroy one room of their homes. This one gets worse when one of the decorators, who wears black all the time and high heels during her "performance", decides to glue toilet paper and brown bags onto the walls, with an even all over sprinkle of pheasant feathers for the final touch. That's classy my friends!
But the best of these shows is how much you learn. First you learn that you cannot give a shit (oops, sorry) about your place; then you learn that with only $35,000 you previously robbed from a Bank you can change your kitchen; and finally, you also learn that with a few key words you may sound like you are also a decorator! DECADENT, FAUX, STRESSED and VINTAGE being the 4 cardinal words of decoration.
I would write more about this, but there is a soccer game on GOLTV in half an hour and I need to get ready for it!
These decorating shows are the revenge provided by television to sports programs widows. Actually, in my humble opinion, they have gone overboard. I personally like the ones where they take a mediocre to bad kitchen and convert it into a super deluxe room with major new appliances, all the latest models in features and expensive stainless steel. Granite counters, complete new wooden cabinets, and a center island, fully equipped. Additionally, a tiled backsplash and wooden laminated floors. All that for only $35,000. My question is this: If you own a home with an original kitchen needing all those changes, isn't that because you could not afford a house with a kitchen as the new one to begin with? Where were you hiding those $35K? Or a few years ago you found out about a new type of fuel for your car that costs much less than gas and no one else knows?
Here is another one of the unlikely unbelievable things in those programs...They are running out of time! They only have less than 2 hours before the make-believe surprised owner gets back to the house, and they still have not even cut the wood for the new wall to wall unit, plus
someone is half way through a non-personality non-character painting on a 8 x 6 canvas that also needs framing. Miracle! Just before the bell rings
the last nail is in place, all paintings are hanging in the right place, and the customary basket or bowl shines proud on the living room table with real fruit! Wow! what a team of decorators!
How about the one where two couples exchange homes for a day to convert each other's home into something unrecognizable, with the help of decorators, of course. Fortunately they only destroy one room of their homes. This one gets worse when one of the decorators, who wears black all the time and high heels during her "performance", decides to glue toilet paper and brown bags onto the walls, with an even all over sprinkle of pheasant feathers for the final touch. That's classy my friends!
But the best of these shows is how much you learn. First you learn that you cannot give a shit (oops, sorry) about your place; then you learn that with only $35,000 you previously robbed from a Bank you can change your kitchen; and finally, you also learn that with a few key words you may sound like you are also a decorator! DECADENT, FAUX, STRESSED and VINTAGE being the 4 cardinal words of decoration.
I would write more about this, but there is a soccer game on GOLTV in half an hour and I need to get ready for it!
1 comment:
My favorite show on that channel is Property Virgins, because they have to pick one of the three houses that they are shown. Why do I like this, you say? Because, my GF can never choose her mind up. We have personally lived through 100 of these shows in real life. I think if she went on this show, that the host would be strangling her by the end. Other than that, everything is just fine!!
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