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Post by momrek06 on Dec 23, 2018 18:11:11 GMT
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 23, 2018 19:19:15 GMT
I watch HH International because the HH people are always super critical of the houses that they ultimately end up buying, and it bugs. Why buy a house that you've stated doesn't suit you and that you hate? Plus, most of the regular realtors on HHI (Paris, London, Amsterdam in particular) shut down buyer/renter nonsense really quickly, lol. I used to love Love it or List it but (as I stated in here before) quit watching it because of way too many homeowners wanting 200k worth of work done for 60k, then cop an attitude when Hilary has to take things off the list, or when the house has some sort of fault that eats into the budget. These same homeowners then get mad at David because they only want to live in a certain area (usually expensive) and the only thing he can find in their (usually tiny) budget is the size of a postage stamp. Some of those people are so unpleasant I'm surprised Hilary or David haven't snapped and cursed them out! Can't wait for Hometown! I haven't been watching Love or List too long but it seems like there's at least one half of the couple that can't be made happy. Love It Or List It is so scripted they film both endings and choose which one to use later. I honestly don't think any couple moves they are just remodeling their homes. It one sense it is a kinda "fake" show but it combines remodeling with house hunting, which a lot of folks luv.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 23, 2018 19:22:38 GMT
What, it seems as if she just divorced Tarek and waaaay too soon. Ahhhh, the article says they split in Dec 2016. Does that mean the actually divorce or just that was the final straw? OKay, looks as if the divorce was finalize Jan 2018.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 23, 2018 19:26:29 GMT
What, it seems as if she just divorced Tarek and waaaay too soon. Ahhhh, the article says they split in Dec 2016. Does that mean the actually divorce or just that was the final straw? OKay, looks as if the divorce was final Jan 2018. It always confuses me when a couple splits and starts dating during the split and the divorce is not final. I don't know, if you were really serious about the other person and the marriage you would go through a mourning period and that takes time. Makes me think that the couple really was not that serious about the first marriage.
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Post by MissGriss on Dec 23, 2018 20:24:54 GMT
Love It Or List It is so scripted they film both endings and choose which one to use later. I honestly don't think any couple moves they are just remodeling their homes. It one sense it is a kinda "fake" show but it combines remodeling with house hunting, which a lot of folks luv. I didn't know that they film both endings. Interesting. The whole show feels super fake to me--lots of manufactured drama, but it is fun to see what Hillary can do with a house and what the other housing options could be.
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Post by Kao on Dec 24, 2018 0:27:21 GMT
What, it seems as if she just divorced Tarek and waaaay too soon. Ahhhh, the article says they split in Dec 2016. Does that mean the actually divorce or just that was the final straw? OKay, looks as if the divorce was final Jan 2018. It always confuses me when a couple splits and starts dating during the split and the divorce is not final. I don't know, if you were really serious about the other person and the marriage you would go through a mourning period and that takes time. Makes me think that the couple really was not that serious about the first marriage. Depending on whether you believe "sources" (probably Tarek tbh) in the tabs or not, but there was some significant overlapping between the start of other relationships and the end of the marriage. Something in the milk ain't clean.
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Dec 24, 2018 1:53:33 GMT
Let us hope so! Truth be told, they were both getting on my nerves even before the divorce. I know nothing about Ant Anstead EXCEPT that the producers of "Wheeler Dealers", a British automotive show, decided to cast Ant as the auto mechanic, booting Edd China. Edd was the original mechanic. Hubs and I have watched for years and I had a soft spot for Edd. For the children's sake, I hope Ant is a good husband for Christina and good stepfather.
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Post by momrek06 on Dec 24, 2018 16:04:59 GMT
When the new season came back we did not see the "usual" Tarek.
He was soooooo angry and sooooo argumentative with Christina which we never saw before.
Tarek was a very laid back person prior to the incident at their Yorba Linda home which made national news.
Whenever Christina would tell him what HER decisions were for colors or design or anything he would ALWAYS AGREE.
Then the new season opens and all he did was CHALLENGE her. ugh.
So OBVIOUSLY to me it was Christina that ENDED their life together.
To watch her HAPPY demeanor and watch his ANGER demeanor ... you knew she was the one that wanted to move on from THEIR life.
Well I wish the new couple happiness and hopefully Tarek has moved on as well.
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Post by MissGriss on Dec 24, 2018 17:17:50 GMT
I've been watching a show on Hulu that I think was originally an HGTV show called Build Small, Live Anywhere. The designer/builder is Todd from the second season of Design Star, and it's fun to see him again. I laugh when I see the "small" houses that they are remodeling (and sometime adding to), since they are all well over 1000 sq ft. Most are around 1600 sq ft and are three or four bedroom houses that the average family of my generation raised their families of five children in. And now these mostly young couples who are buying their first homes are coming in and exclaiming about how tiny they are. (Rolling my eyes.) But it's fun to see what they do with them.
I don't know if there are multiple seasons, but the ones I've been watching are all beach houses in Southern California.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 25, 2018 16:42:43 GMT
Flip or Flop Atlanta Season 2 Episode 11 - Making History - 11/29/18
A 3 bedroom 2 bathroom 1700 sq ft home in the historical district. Looks as if it has an additional of a big master bedroom and bath upstairs. Has weird outside stairs, a rental at one time perhaps.
I do like it when the flippers just really widen the casement openings between rooms instead of totally ripping stuff apart. It was an amazing transformation opening the living room to galley kitchen to sunroom. Yes the living room and sunroom are small but that is what you get in an older home. Anita does tend to use darker colors than I really like but I do like the dark lower cabinets (black or very dark grey) and the white uppers. The brick veneer backsplash does make the kitchen dark but with the open shelving it fits. Again a pet peeve are the light fixtures. While individually they light fixtures are nice and invoke a rustic industrial touch there are simply too many large size light fixtures too close to each other. I do think the master bathroom was one of the best they have done in regards to having the claw foot tub with a hand held shower wand and that the actual shower had a regular shower head and a hand held shower wand. Liked the black and white theme and I thought putting the cement tile or porcelain tile that has the look of cement tile on the outer walls of the shower stall was brilliant.
Hated that they left the cracked driveway as is. Like they can't use filler and clean it or skim coat it. It looks trashy when they leave cracked and crappy driveways and walkways after they reno the house.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 25, 2018 16:51:30 GMT
Flip or Flop Atlanta - Season 2 Episode 12 - Smells Like Trouble - 11/29/18
A small 3 bedroom 2 bath in Gresham Park that smells horrible and it looked as if all the doors and windows where rotting. A small and cramped house. Removing the walls between the kitchen, the one bedroom, and living room changed that house, I still didn't like the flow of the living room as on the floor plan it looked huge but after the staging it looked as if half the living space was more of a foyer/ office space/hallway to the back of the house and not space you could spread the family out. Kitchen was amazing with a small eating area to the side. The white shaker cabinets with the navy blue crescent back splash tile was beautiful. I did like that they kept to a grey and navy blue palette. It was trans formative on the outside of the house and looked great inside. Didn't particularly like the narrow master bedroom that was a former garage, needed different orientation of the bed. That or needed to stage a small sitting area in the extra space. The house after the paint job look way bigger on the outside then it did on the inside.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 26, 2018 2:47:31 GMT
Flip or Flop Atlanta - Season 2 Episode 13 - That 70's House - 12/06/18
A ranch house in Milton, on 1 acre of land, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, a finished basement with an in-law suite, and drive in garages.
I have noticed that they don't always give the square footage, I want to know. I also noted that now all the rooms are shown in the reveal, and that they are not showing much in regards to the planning. I mean they show the main area then a problem is filmed and it is as if the rest of the house does not exist. Really? Not showing the kitchen, and all the bathrooms and the bedrooms results in me slamming the show and may be not watching. Idiot producers. Stupid call.
This is a huge house and by removing some walls between the den, kitchen and living room they made the house look fabulous. The front porch was a nice touch although initially it sounded as if the porch would cover the entire front of the house. The basement looked great. I wasn't sure how they reconfigured the walls and enclosed the stairs, I wish they had shown that.
Biggest pet peeve. TOO MANY LIGHT FIXTURES. The Front porch had two, then there was one in the foyer area, one over the first sitting area, one over the dining table, two over the island, one near the fire place and a wall scone by the stairwell. Enough, this is ridiculous. It is OVERKILL. Put in recess lighting in the majority of the place. You are dictating where folks will put their furniture in this big open space, maybe they will move their stuff to different areas and that makes it awkward with all these big light fixtures. It is ridiculous.
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Post by Bearcata on Dec 26, 2018 18:13:00 GMT
Flip or Flop Atlanta - Season 2 Episode 14 - Little House of Horrors - 12/06/18
They showed the new Red Barn office in Woodstock.
This flip is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1,200 sq ft home in Sylvan Hills on sale for $85,000 and has been vacant/on the market for 14 years. This is the worst house in a good neighborhood. The lot size is great and the space in the attic looks good enough to put a master suite up there and double the size of the house. However, it would take 60 days for a code variance. Would they even get it. However they decide to make 3 bedrooms and add another bathroom. While the finishes looked nice, Anita is still playing with that industrial/farmhouse look it is tight with TOO many BIG light fixtures. What is that woman's obsession whit installing as many light fixtures as possible? This would have been a great first time home for someone especially if they could wait to have a second floor put in.
I have mentioned it before but I have noticed they don't show the entire house and that is why I watch these shows not for the drama. Even with the fake drama on the original Flip or Flop they still manage to show the entire house, including all the bedrooms and bathrooms. Duh!
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Post by Kao on Dec 27, 2018 1:25:23 GMT
For those who are interested, HGTV is streaming the second episode of season 3 Hometown this week!
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Post by Eastcoastmom on Dec 29, 2018 16:11:24 GMT
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Post by amber on Dec 30, 2018 9:31:48 GMT
Rather certain Tarek and Christina will continue Flip or Flop and other joint business ventures they continue to work on together.
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Post by Bearcata on Jan 1, 2019 17:22:21 GMT
Rather certain Tarek and Christina will continue Flip or Flop and other joint business ventures they continue to work on together. Quite sure that HGTV will milk this relationship to the end.
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Post by nennie on Jan 1, 2019 18:11:38 GMT
Rather certain Tarek and Christina will continue Flip or Flop and other joint business ventures they continue to work on together. Quite sure that HGTV will milk this relationship to the end. I agree Bearcata. I think toward the end of the season they put aside a lot of their differences and worked better together. I am sure HgTV had a lot to do with the drama. Makes for good rating for them, so they think. I got tired of it real fast.
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Post by Kao on Jan 1, 2019 23:15:46 GMT
Christine is supposed to have her own show with HGTV, so time will tell if she also continues with Tarek. Quite frankly, there's other shows in the franchise that are better and a lot of viewers were not pleased with last season's FoF.
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Post by nennie on Jan 2, 2019 14:44:32 GMT
I watched Windy City Rehab last night. I might be able to like it if I could get over Alison and her silly laugh. She gets on my nerves. This one will be a hit or miss watch for me.
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Post by Kao on Jan 2, 2019 18:14:03 GMT
I really enjoyed Windy City Rehab. I'm very familiar with the Bucktown area, and in the 90s (when it first started to get extremely popular)lots of developers put those nasty cinderblock houses up on empty lots so they could capitalize on the area. Unfortunately, Bucktown is full of lovely A-line and 100 year old brick houses and apartment buildings and those things stick out like sore thumbs. I've seen the one they remodeled last night and it was an eyesore, even worse than you saw on TV because the whole block is full of cute old renovated houses and then you had...that monstrosity. I was actually rooting for them to do the other house because I saw more potential in it, but of course they did the crappy one.
Overall, I think they did a good job. Love the front of it now as at least it sorta blends in with the neighborhood more, and the fence and poles look so much better than what they had. The Master bathroom is the thing of dreams, and I loved the old wood they put in the rec room as a focal wall. Using an old pocket door as a front door was a very good idea as those things are made out of good, solid wood. The fireplace (and the piece they made to fit on top) they got to replace that old one looked fantastic. I'm pretty sure the store where she bought the pocket door and fireplace from was Salvage One, which is a huge store that specializes in salvaging artifacts and pieces of old homes and furnishings; it's very popular here with people who buy houses of a certain period who are trying to renovate them back to their former glory. I'm interested to see what she will do next; even if they stay in Bucktown there's such an amazing array of housing stock there the audience won't get bored.
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Post by nennie on Jan 2, 2019 20:15:32 GMT
I didn't say I didn't like what they did to the house. The outside looked great after they finished it. It's her that I don't care for. The guy that works with her isn't my cup of tea either. Just preference.
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Post by waywyrd on Jan 3, 2019 0:45:10 GMT
I watched Windy City Rehab last night. I might be able to like it if I could get over Alison and her silly laugh. She gets on my nerves. This one will be a hit or miss watch for me. Yeah, I have trouble watching her too. Definitely not my favorite on HGTV with the goofy laugh and the little black tank tops in 10 degree weather. Coat or not, put on a freaking sweater like a normal person. And was that her husband with her? He just sort of bumbled around looking lost. But, I watched to see the old house get fixed up, and it was pretty nice. The only two gripes I had were the gray island - looked sorta weird with the cabinet color, but that's probably just me - and the fireplace surround. The reclaimed wood piece was beautiful, but the plain gray-ish whatever that was around the firebox looked so boring. A pretty tile or something would have dressed it up so well.
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Post by nennie on Jan 3, 2019 1:01:00 GMT
I watched Windy City Rehab last night. I might be able to like it if I could get over Alison and her silly laugh. She gets on my nerves. This one will be a hit or miss watch for me. Yeah, I have trouble watching her too. Definitely not my favorite on HGTV with the goofy laugh and the little black tank tops in 10 degree weather. Coat or not, put on a freaking sweater like a normal person. And was that her husband with her? He just sort of bumbled around looking lost. But, I watched to see the old house get fixed up, and it was pretty nice. T he only two gripes I had were the gray island - looked sorta weird with the cabinet color, but that's probably just me - and the fireplace surround. The reclaimed wood piece was beautiful, but the plain gray-ish whatever that was around the firebox looked so boring. A pretty tile or something would have dressed it up so well.
I agree. I was saying to my self stop the stupid laugh.
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Post by Bearcata on Jan 3, 2019 18:40:52 GMT
Yeah, I have trouble watching her too. Definitely not my favorite on HGTV with the goofy laugh and the little black tank tops in 10 degree weather. Coat or not, put on a freaking sweater like a normal person. And was that her husband with her? He just sort of bumbled around looking lost. But, I watched to see the old house get fixed up, and it was pretty nice. T he only two gripes I had were the gray island - looked sorta weird with the cabinet color, but that's probably just me - and the fireplace surround. The reclaimed wood piece was beautiful, but the plain gray-ish whatever that was around the firebox looked so boring. A pretty tile or something would have dressed it up so well.
I agree. I was saying to my self stop the stupid laugh. Laugh didn't bother me, there were times when she would just STARE into the camera and NOT BLINK. The island color was blue to contrast with the white shaker cabinets. She was going for a black, white, grey, blue palette and bit minimalistic. I though it was a bit off in the living/dining area she had this great front door, a fireplace of the same period and put in these horrendous self made pantry doors that were not even the same brown black color as the other pieces. The pantry door did not look as if it belonged. Overall better than I had expected.
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Post by nennie on Jan 3, 2019 19:04:56 GMT
I agree. I was saying to my self stop the stupid laugh. Laugh didn't bother me, there were times when she would just STARE into the camera and NOT BLINK. The island color was blue to contrast with the white shaker cabinets. She was going for a black, white, grey, blue palette and bit minimalistic. I though it was a bit off in the living/dining area she had this great front door, a fireplace of the same period and put in these horrendous self made pantry doors that were not even the same brown black color as the other pieces. The pantry door did not look as if it belonged.
Overall better than I had expected. I thought they were going to put latches on the door but when they showed it at the end there wasn't any. I didn't like the doors either. Again this will be a hit and miss show for me to watch.
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Post by Kao on Jan 3, 2019 20:12:36 GMT
I agree. I was saying to my self stop the stupid laugh. Laugh didn't bother me, there were times when she would just STARE into the camera and NOT BLINK. The island color was blue to contrast with the white shaker cabinets. She was going for a black, white, grey, blue palette and bit minimalistic. I though it was a bit off in the living/dining area she had this great front door, a fireplace of the same period and put in these horrendous self made pantry doors that were not even the same brown black color as the other pieces. The pantry door did not look as if it belonged. Overall better than I had expected. I agree. It would have looked a lot more cohesive had the pantry doors been stained to match the front door and fireplace.
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Post by Bearcata on Jan 3, 2019 20:20:26 GMT
Laugh didn't bother me, there were times when she would just STARE into the camera and NOT BLINK. The island color was blue to contrast with the white shaker cabinets. She was going for a black, white, grey, blue palette and bit minimalistic. I though it was a bit off in the living/dining area she had this great front door, a fireplace of the same period and put in these horrendous self made pantry doors that were not even the same brown black color as the other pieces. The pantry door did not look as if it belonged. Overall better than I had expected. I agree. It would have looked a lot more cohesive had the pantry doors been stained to match the front door and fireplace. And if the pantry doors were done in the same style as the front door and fireplace not barn. Like she couldn't have found some nice architectural salvage doors. If she couldn't she should have done shaker style doors like the kitchen cabinets.
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Post by waywyrd on Jan 3, 2019 20:38:05 GMT
I agree. I was saying to my self stop the stupid laugh. Laugh didn't bother me, there were times when she would just STARE into the camera and NOT BLINK. The island color was blue to contrast with the white shaker cabinets. She was going for a black, white, grey, blue palette and bit minimalistic. I though it was a bit off in the living/dining area she had this great front door, a fireplace of the same period and put in these horrendous self made pantry doors that were not even the same brown black color as the other pieces. The pantry door did not look as if it belonged. Overall better than I had expected. Blue and white? Okay, I think I watched the very first episode they had On Demand...Bucktown Rebuild. Apparently I've missed the more recent one you're talking about! I need to go check if they have it available to watch yet... And I see there's a new season of Flip or Flop Nashville starting tonight, one of my least favorite ones. Blah.
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Post by Bearcata on Jan 4, 2019 0:25:21 GMT
I have Flip or Flop Nashville set to record just so I can watch it and fun trash it.
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