I will give points to HGTV for the title “Save Us From Our House”. I pictured a large, two story, cartoon house with teeth, chasing the homeowners down the street. Suddenly a superhero in tights whisks out of the sky to the rescue. The actual show was much less interesting. The show teams a designer & a therapist to bring a family together & well…save them from their house. So while the designer is painting away, the therapist will have the family play drums together or do a ropes course, or something to solve all their emotional problems. I’m all for emotional problems being solved, I really am. My only question is…When did decorating become so stressful & damaging to the mental health? Decorating should be fun, not emotionally scarring. This show really could use someone in a cape & tights.
What’s not to like about the new show on HGTV “Junk Brothers”? Two brothers find junk that has been thrown to the curb, fix it up & then return it to the family that threw it away. Well, I’ll tell you what’s not to like:
1. Not at all practical. These are projects that you need a full metal shop, wood shop, & a mad scientist brain for. The average person would lose a limb trying to replicate this.
2. The hosts remind me of watching “Strange Brew”. Something you only need to see once in a lifetime.
3. No Budget. In most cases it would just be cheaper & easier to buy a pool table instead if trying to turn a dining room table into one.
4. The people don’t seem at all surprised when their stuff is brought back to them. Apparently a bike being turned into a ceiling fan & hung in a tree is an everyday occurrence. Plus, it doesn’t seem like these people really need or want their junk back.
Honestly, I watched most of this show on mute. It can go away & I wouldn’t miss it. What are your thoughts on this show? Leave a comment & let me know.
I have nothing against boys. I just don’t want to be around them all the time. This is why I turned off HGTV’s new show “Hammered: with John & Jimmy”. I watch HGTV to escape wrestling, football, golf, bowling, baseball, basketball, or whatever else is on the other networks. I don’t understand the recent trend of trying to “manly-ize” decorating channels. If I wanted to watch a show with boys I don’t care about doing something I have no interest in, that’s what most of the other channels are for. HGTV is for shows like “Date with Design”, one of my favorite shows a few years back. A person looking for love would tour 3 homes, choose the one they wanted to redo, decorate it, & then go on a date in the room with the homeowner. That was a show appropriate for HGTV. Until we see make-up tips on Monday Night Football, stick to your demographic.
Usually when I have a brilliant design idea that goes awry (The stenciled ivy of ‘99, or the forest green sponge paint fiasco of the same year), it is up to me to fix. Invariably, I learn to live with it, at least for awhile, because, well, I’m lazy. Enter “Takeover My Makeover”, a new show on HGTV. This show has become one of my favorites. They take $2000 & transform your room into what it should have been. I love seeing how people have messed up their rooms & how to fix them. Plus it has designer Frank Fontana the winner of the reality show “The Great Domestic Showdown”. I hope this one stays around.
