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Apprentice Ilisidi

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  1. Does putting on a nice bathrobe count as dressing for dinner? I saw the walls of a stairway in a fancy London town house with that wallpaper in a magazine, and I felt like drooling.
  2. I would like to formally register my opposition to accent walls. Of any color.
  3. I can't say that I love wallpaper in general, but for 20 years I have had the urge to paper my dining room in antique-looking Chinese wallpaper with a yellow background and images of birds and flowers (if you've ever seen a picture of it you'll know what I mean). However, I have always suppressed this urge.
  4. Yes! The big question in American life today is "what's coming after stainless steel?" It may be appliances of various colors, as you suggest. And/or, as I suspect, it may be European style appliances where they're hidden behind matching wood cabinetry, at least for those who can afford them.
  5. On another note: I watched a show set in Cairo, Egypt, where the family was moving to expose the kids to Egyptian culture (also, the husband came from Cairo). The American wife walked into a kitchen which had apparently-functioning appliances and said, repeatedly, "This is so outdated." How would she know what's outdated in Cairo?
  6. I remember reading a comment in a post above on the use of "ex-pats" as opposed to "immigrants" for Americans abroad on HHI. Have you ever noticed that in this country people from England and Ireland get called ex-pats, while people from Asia, Central America and South America get called immigrants? I have. Now just maybe the people from England and Ireland all intend to go back home someday, and all the people from Asia, Central America and South America don't. . . . But I'm not inclined to lay that flattering unction to American souls.
  7. Thanks, I guess I just haven't seen any of those Canadian episodes on Netflix of Amazon Video. I don't watch HGTV live because I get too impatient with the commercials.
  8. Your use of the phrase "bad boy" (innocently referring to an actual boy) reminds me of how irritating it is when HGTV participants refer to a counter or other object as "that bad boy".
  9. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, Mojito. Actually, I quite liked the subway tiles the first 5,000 times I saw them on HGTV. I'm sure your subway tiles are like those in one of the cool new subway stations, such as the one at 59th and Broadway. (Although I've only seen pictures of it.) As for Shaker cabinets, I don't know any Shakers and don't have any negative associations. The London toilets are a great gift to the tourist. I've never been in any other city so well equipped. Wherever you are when walking around the city, there's almost always a toilet in easy reach. But you can't crawl under the doors - the doors and walls go all the way to the ground. Love the heather-colored toilet paper and the toilet paper that says it's the property of the crown.
  10. How about Canada? We've seen lots of Toronto and (I understand) Vancouver on other shows, but I've never seen a show where non-Canadians move to Canada. There are lots of interesting places besides Toronto and Vancouver. I rather suspect that they can't do a HHI in Canada for some contractual reason.
  11. My favorite flipper is the squirrel. There's at least one squirrel shot in every episode. I think he's appeared on other HGTV shows as well. Must be on contract.
  12. DownTheShore, I absolutely agree. I don't like white subway tiles in kitchens or bathrooms. I live in New York City. We have many subways with subway tiles. Seeing them in houses makes me think of roars and stinks.
  13. Hello everyone, I'm new to the HHI forum and relatively new to HH and the other HGTV forums (thanks again, DownTheShore, for the recommendation. Pretty much all my HHI-specific comments have already been made by you smart people here. I do have one quibble-comment. In one of the Paris episodes, Adrian showed the woman-buyer all three apartments in the Marais. And of course they were very pricey. In a previous episode, she had steered the buyer to the bordering 11th arrondissement, saying it was getting very hip and popular but was cheaper than the Marais. So why didn't she show the poor Marais-only woman any apartments in the 11th, where she would have gotten more for her money but still have been near cool restaurants, shops, etc.? The woman hadn't specified that she wanted the Marais.
  14. Oh BearCat, I'm so sad to hear you say that "open concept" is here to stay (although of course you're right). It's not a concept. It's an open floor plan or an open layout or even an open design, but it's not a @#$$$% concept. I agree that the standardization of vocabulary is mostly up to the program crew, but enough people watch HGTV that its vocabulary - and tastes - must have become widespread. For example, from watching HGTV, I have learned that it is important to decorate with fruit. Depending on the accent color, the fruit can be lemons, limes, oranges or even apples. I want to make a strong design statement so I plan to put a bowl of grapefruit on the table. The beiges will really pop!
  15. That seems to be true, txvoodoo but the reaction to a split-level house was that it was weird for Waco. Or maybe it was the big modern windows at the middle of the facade of the split-level? I wasn't sure.
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