magemaud

I didn't see the Chicago episode so I'm just going by the comments here. If you insist on a "million dollar kitchen" and your budget is $ 1.1 million, doesn't that just leave you $ 100,000 for the rest of the entire house? And I don't get the popularity of these huge professional stoves unless you're cooking for a large family! I have cooked for a family of four for years and can only remember a handful of times that I used even THREE of the burners on my stove at the same time because of having a microwave to heat the things that my mother's generation might have heated up in a saucepan on the stove.

There was a huge discussion of the NY to London couple, especially the nasty woman, back when the episode first aired, June, 2014 and it starts on page 2 of this thread.

Just watching the rerun of the "successful" Maryland to Costa Rica couple with grown-ass sons in tow. Ugh, that woman was such a sourpuss!

My husband walked by the TV room during the Mobile couple episode and asked me, "Is that a CHILD talking?" when he heard the wife. When he saw her in that baby doll dress that barely covered her...you know...he said, "M-kay..."

Family sizes ARE getting smaller, but heaven forbid a child should be forced to share a bedroom or bathroom with one or more siblings! If there are more bedrooms than people, the extras become rooms for the constant influx of overnight guests (who also must have their own bathroom!) or the requisite "craft room" or to display the husband's collection of antique guitars.

The Santa Marinella couple ruled out the third place-far out of town, all white, totally impractical and over budget. But I can't remember if they chose the first or second place, it was the under budget one with the winding staircase (NOT the steep modern one with open risers that went straight up the wall of the living room)

Can someone refresh my memory, what was the name of the town in Sicily?

Phyllis (how many times did her husband say her name, like every sentence?) struck me as the type of flight attendant who would only work in the first class cabin and look down her nose at those of us back in coach! I bet the only issue the producer could dream up for drama was the paint color of the house they bought. And I agree with the theory that they didn't move to Sicily year round, they would have had a much larger budget if they had sold a home in Carolina plus the flipping aspect really leads me to conclude this is an investment which they will live in part of the year and rent out the rest. I was half expecting them to buy BOTH the pink house for now AND the studio for future use.

Only halfway through the Sicily episode and I'm already ready to strangle Phyllis! What kind of experienced house flipper is going to reject a house because of the color! Paint is readily available in Italy!

According to FB, he's still in CR. https://www.facebook.com/gainskelly However, he seems to have returned to OK for a visit in May. Also, Marci and son Jacob have a different last name, so maybe he's not Jacob's biological father. Or Kelly is using his professional name on FB.

I figured the comedian husband from the Costa Rica episode would be working as a lounge act in an English speaking beach resort. But how much money could he make doing that as the sole breadwinner? Wouldn't it make more sense for the wife to continue working as a nurse and the husband staying home to take care of Jacob's special needs? Wouldn't his comedy act be a night job anyway? I'll bet that's what they're really doing and the drama behind the move was all fabricated for the episode. Also, he didn't strike me as being a particularly funny guy, sort of dour and negative, maybe a Don Rickles type of comedy?

Oooh, link please! I couldn't narrow down the sellers on Etsy, although I did see a rectangular one that was supposedly Colorado, or was it Wyoming...I wonder if she's also outlining European countries, there might be less competition.

No, I thought it looked pretty amateurish, like a string art kit from the 60s. And even if anyone wanted an yarn outlined state, who would want to pay shipping from Spain to the US? I knew they wouldn't take the second apartment with the balcony because it was obviously currently occupied, but when she complained about the bedroom with no natural light I wanted to scream at the TV, "Use the DARK room for sleeping and the brighter one for your tacky crafts!" Imagine my surprise when they did exactly that, but with the first apartment, the one without Tony's coveted balcony (which I was ready to push him off by the end!)

or press "mute"

I didn't see the episode last night, but was the Hipster Girl obsessed with the house having a "chandy"?

My daughter thought the bride was on old picture Barbra Streisand!

Chicken farmers? Well, now it all makes sense. Of course, where else would you go for the gown for your "Chicken Farm" themed wedding but Kleinfeld's! But even if this dress and headpiece monstrosity were meant as a joke, somebody spent an awful lot of time creating them.

I posted the picture on Facebook after seeing the episode featuring it four years ago. Today it came up as my "Memories on Facebook" from July 11, 2012. I don't remember any details of the episode, but I'm pretty sure the dress was a Pnina (okay, safe bet!) the girl might have been Greek and that's her opinionated Dad in the background ready to shell out whatever it takes to make his little princess happy. I recognize Randy, but not the consultant. Here's the only link that I have to the photo, although it doesn't help to prove or disprove its veracity: https://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/320365_10151020070504629_949536286_n.jpg?oh=e7aee9d253027e4868f5a57993a8b74b&oe=5827C594

I came across this photo from an old episode. Could somebody refresh my memory about this bride/dress story?

Just caught the end of the rerun of the "adventurous" couple moving to Grand Cayman who end up buying a sailboat. (suuuuure...) When I first saw their realtor, I thought I had turned on Bravo by mistake and was watching Theresa Guidice on "The Real Housewives of America."

I was distracted by how she dwarfed her boyfriend!

The Detroit range hood guy was the one who also wanted the place to have a "story" and he kept saying he wanted it to have "spirit." I hope that a poltergeist doesn't take that as an invitation to haunt the firehouse condo.

I remember a big discussion of Netherlands' Wife HBV, coupled with "up talk" when the episode first aired.

IKR! How many times did she mention the grand prom-worthy staircase, an event probably at least sixteen years in the future! I must admit the first time I toured my current house and saw the foyer and stairs I mentally started decorating it for Christmas but at least that's a yearly event. At this point, I have now decorated it for 35 Christmases as well as taken a handful of prom pics. I can also imagine Triplet Mom as already dreaming of the day when her daughters pledge her college sorority.

To me, the dress Shay put on the Surprise Proposal girl was so plain it looked like a strapless full length slip that you'd wear under the real gown!