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It doesn't say much for her recipes that a lot of people have reported that they have to "tweak" them because they contain too much sugar/salt/fat to make them edible, but then again, that's how "cowboys" like it.
I read that recipe - sugar AND brown sugar. For a steak salad. Two tablespoons of white sugar in the dressing - gawd, that's why I make my own - who needs their dressing that sweet??
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I've lived in Colorado and Arizona mostly. "Yeah" from kids (in school or out) and "you guys" are so common I don't even hear Joanna say "you guys". I notice most people don't use names when they're addressing people in real life, anyway. Like Chip and Jo, they'll refer to the Smiths or Rick and Molly or whatever in their absence but in their presence, it seems like it's usually "What do you guys think of this table?" or something like that. "What do you think of this table" is unclear which of the couple is being asked. "Rick and Molly, what do you think of this table?" is awkward and long in a conversational setting.
We don't realize it, but constantly referring to people who are in front of you by their names is a bad writers' trope. It's often a giveaway of a new writer (both books or screenwriter) to repeatedly use names. Listen to yourself sometime, and notice how little you use your significant other's name, or child's name, unless you're calling to them or differentiating between them: "Susie, you get the dog, Jimmy, take the trash out." There's just no reason to keep using someone's name in the course of normal conversation - they know it, you know it, it's redundant.
The use of something like "y'all" or "you guys" or "yuns/you'uns" (Appalachians) is more of a filler or discourse marker - sort of like a personalized "um" or "So,..." or "Well..." These things are trained out of public speakers, so in a way, it's almost refreshing that Chip and Joanna h ave them, because it means they haven't been trained that much yet.
Alison Victoria on Kitchen Crashers used "you guys...." frequently when she started, but has tapered off. (I only know this because the husband noticed it - he's a big fan :D)
Listen to different hosts now, and you'll start noticing their particular filler or discourse marker. I apologize in advance, because once you start noticing them, you won't be able to stop. :D
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Philly says "youze" without the guys. The guys is the midwest addition.
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I can't find that much to snark about in tonight's episode. Other than the fact that Nicole can't seem to remember to empty her pockets before the TSA screening. Edited to add: I forgot about her complaining about people painting ceiling beams. After she painted trim BLACK last week.
The furniture. "The antique market is getting really sparse." OK, someone from Detroit tell me, do you pronounce "sparse" to rhyme with "hairs"? For 52 years, I've been saying it to rhyme with "cars"! I had to rewind & look at closed captioning because I didn't know what she was saying.
But anyway, there are still plenty of antiques out there, just not free ones. Or maybe people aren't as willing to give her stuff for her tv show? I don't know. No one donates to Property Brothers, or LIOLI, or any of the other bajillion shows. It's a tv show, not a charity.
It's a beautiful room, but let's be honest - it started out that way. Repainting, really. Nothing exceptionally "rehabby" about it, except the window.
And yeah, not all beams started out as wood. Paint has been used for millennium! Even some actual Tudor era homes in the UK have painted beams and woodwork. (I admit it. I absolutely adore watching UK shows - Restoration Man, Escape to the Country, etc. They all are always converting, renovating, and expanding homes as old as 500 years. Thank heavens they're not as anal about keeping things originally to those eras! People would have to cook over open flames, and use outhouses and floor rushes! Shock horror, instead they actually install stand up showers, modern appliances, and open up kitchens to dining or family rooms.
p.s. - those windows are called "mullioned."
p.p.s those aren't "manors" - manor houses were mansions, on very large properties. It's a nice Tudor-style single family house. Upper-middle class, probably.
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Nicole claims to have never been married, and Dave Coulier isn't her sons dad, but he provided them with a taste of the high life for a few years, apparently.
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Good for you, getting yourself blocked on Twitter, are you also blocked on FB? I once made a really bening comment, it was during her begging for artists to give her work for staging, in exchange for "exposure." I said it was exploitive to ask artists to donate work like that, did she offer free design consultations, it got me blocked from commenting ever again on FB. She loves to censor her media!
I wonder how she ended up in Hollywood.
Nope, not blocked on FB, though I got on her bad side at one point. She posted about how people shouldn't take apart old sewing machines because OMG sacrilege! My husband & I posted pics of the ones we've rehabbed into things not put in the scrap pile. We do a lot of that kind of thing. She got all nasty on both of us, but a lot of other people commented saying how nice it was that we were doing it.
I don't follow her on FB, nor twitter, either. She's so annoying and me me me.
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And the point of Renovation Realities is to show the dumb things people do, so others will know not the hold a chainsaw up over your head on a heavily sloped lot.
That remains the most terrifying episode of RR I've ever seen. The teaser for it made me think that they were going to televise a decapitation!
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This isn't Nicole's first brush with celebrity either, here's a pic from 2005.
http://imagecollect.com/picture/dave-coulier-photo-2430478/archival-pictures-globe-photos-55471
This is her bio from MP, it mentions her life as a Hollywood housewife, LOL,
Joining the chorus of "Dave Coulier? Really?" also LOL.
"This street-smart Detroit native spent two years living the high life as a Hollywood housewife—decorating her multi-million dollar mansion with all the luxuries."
Housewife implies husband. It also implies rich "Hollywood" husband.
It's funny - by being non-transparent, she's inviting research into her past. If you're going to construct an Horatio Alger-esque background of rags to riches, you should be honest about the genesis.
From here (the whole thing is a paean to bootstrapping):
"I scrubbed floors for 10 years and worked my rear off to get where I am at-don’t think for a minute that I’m the person to whine to that you should be able to shortstep the process of dedication because you are a woman–last time I checked, I am too."
(They quote from her facebook - same style of commentary as she's done here.)
OK, when were those 10 years of scrubbing floors? Not when she was a Hollywood Housewife. In 2012, she said she came to Minneapolis in 2007. And she says once she did, she was doing real estate & selling furniture on Craigslist. Was she scrubbing floors in Hollywood?
Let me say, I have nothing but respect for single moms who support their kids. Or married moms. But it's not an unusual occurrence. It's what people do.
Hey, Nicole, if you come back to comment, why do your kitchens never have any contiguous counter space? There have been several times where a well-placed peninsula could have given one of your kitchens some much needed counter and storage space.
Pshaw - obviously no one needed workspace in old homes! ;)
At least she doesn't bring the dog on construction sites anymore.
I KNOW. That drove me nuts. I mean, with the flip flops, she's only hurting herself.
P.S. today she blocked me on twitter. I'm laughing! I guess she didn't like me saying she was mean to people on twitter, too.
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I grew up in PA and spent my Freshman year of college in Arkansas. My female friends from the South kept asking me why I referred to everyone, male and female, as "guys". It's just the way we talked at home, seemed natural to me. So hearing it on this show is not in the least bit out of place to my ears.
I really enjoy this show. I think for a staged reno show, it's well done.
I'm from PA too, & now have lived in the south for 20 years, 15 of them in Texas. I still say guys, but it's mixed with y'all. I don't think Chip is being inauthentic. Yes, college influences us, but so do our parents, our neighbors, and where we live later. He doesn't sound like he's from Hee Haw, he sounds like he's from Texas.
It always bothers me when actors try to do Texas accents but sound like they're doing Alabama, etc. It's a light accent, but does have certain colloquialisms. I feel the same way when actors substitute a New York accent for Philadelphia. :)
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txvoodoo, does the frozen cauliflower roast okay? I tried roasting frozen Brussels sprouts and they mushed up on me, so I stick to fresh for roasting. I love roasted cauliflower, but fresh is kind of expensive right now, so frozen would be great. I totally agree about the frozen veggies, though. A while back, I bought a lot of bags of my favorites because I though I was running low. However, I organized my big freezer later that week and I must have had 20 bags of frozen broccoli, cauliflower, and veggie mixes as well as some bags of frozen brown rice. It was funny to see when I got everything in order and I had about three rows of veggie bags on two freezer shelves. I'm working my way through them, though.
Time for you to make some soup up or something. :D
The cauliflower roasts up fine, in my experience. It's a lifesaver. If I had to buy fresh, half of it would end up going to waste.
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A lot of great stuff, quoting many of you to help keep my thoughts straight!
And did anyone notice in the reveal that the sink had a bar of soap sitting across that hole in the top of it (where the doorknob had previously been) and still had stains around the drain? Take that beautiful sink out and let professionals fix it!
As others have said, she's done this before. At least twice before, finishing a bathroom & strategically putting a totchke over a hole. I think one was the dollar house, and in that one, she used an awful old dresser - really beat up - and a broken piece of marble for the top, and the "after" pics mostly avoid showing the broken corner. But nothing could camouflage the bad black paint on the particle board on the side of the dresser. She'd have done better to glue a piece of luan or ply over it, then paint it.
Of course, then this year she ranted about using dressers and converting them to bathroom sinks. Do as I say, not as I do!
THE BATHROOM SINK. That alone merits its own post. First Nicole says, "Meh, separate hot and cold faucets. Who cares?" I would. Modern technology allows us to mix hot and cold water into one faucet for a more pleasant experience. It's a simple fix with a new or newer vintage faucet set. Then she does a crappy job of "fixing" the rust with a sloppy ceramic patch. THEN she places a soap dish over the hole from the missing faucet piece and calls it "done." Notice we didn't get an up-close look after the patch job. Please repair or replace the sink to a version a buyer would actually want to use. I love old houses, but that sink was not acceptable as finished.
You know another reason we do mixer sinks now? Safety. It's way to easy to get burned without them. And the reason they didn't used to do them? Because you could use non-potable water for hot water heaters, and use water from the mains for cold. The hot water heaters could have dangerous microbes. So for a long time, they kept them apart. Then we learned how to have clean hot water. Progress - it's amazing!
Your grammar and punctuation are unique, and I can't read your fans comments, too much ass kissing and repetitiveness. Also, I haven't "liked" your FB page, because of my busy life I don't want constant updates on your's, so I might have missed some info. It seems like you tightly control your FB page, it must drive you crazy that you can't control what is posted here,
Just wanted to thank you for that giggle.
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I'm over it. Setting the DVR for upcoming eps of Renovate to Rent. Young guys. Minimal drah-mah. For them, it's business and they seem to be serious - and successful - with the business.
And, BTW, on an episode of RTR I saw yesterday? They went to the salvage place (Bauer's?) in Minneapolis that we've seen before on RA, and bought a set of woodwork (door casing and columns) which they installed in the house they were renovating to restore its original period entryway. [ETA: No doubt the editing monkeys worked that bit heavily as to them just walking in and "finding" just the right stuff, but the fact is they did buy and install a major bit of period woodwork.] They also did coffered ceilings, and at the end they had a beautifully restored house of the era that Nicole specializes in. We saw the purchase price, total spent on renovations, and amount of rent they're getting. And, they honored and restored the period features of the entry/stairway/living/dining areas.
I really like Renovate to Rent. They're not in the business to become celebs, but to do work. They're also pretty successful, which allows them to go on and "save" more houses, even if they are doing them up as rentals. I appreciate seeing the financials - it lets non-pros know how much it can cost to fix up older homes.
I would think her producers would be against posting on message boards like that.
A few months ago, on Twitter, Nicole livetweeted her tv watching for the evening. She got pretty derogatory towards a bunch of the people on Renovation Realities, and then babbled on about how some "other shows" aren't doing what she does, will rip out anything etc. Yes, she needs a handler. This week, she posted a screencap of a message on FB from someone. It wasn't the nicest message, but she just loves "punching down." You don't do that when you're a celeb. Of course, then she goes on about how she didn't want to be a celeb! Please. You do not go on TV without knowing that you will get some fame. If you say otherwise, you're lying.
I recently started watching Renovate to Rent, I love that they give ALL the financial details, it's very informative, and something Nicole hasn't done since the Minnehaha debacle. They tend to be frugal, and also keep a lot of original features in the houses, but they renovate the homes to appeal to people, not do a shoddy cover up job to flip the house as quick as possible, like Nicole. They don't pretend to do all of the work themselves, they give credit to their crew, but are quite hands on. What I love about the show is there is no drama, it's very straightforward, and it's not an ego trip about the host rather than the house. The guys are not very popular amongst Nicole and her neighborhood cronies because they are buying in the trendy Uptown neighborhood she lives in, and often turn single family homes into rentals, something Nicole and cronies are very much against.
I'm sure Nicole despises them. I'm surprised she hasn't directly talked about them yet, but I do think it's funny that you never see interactions between them, considering their proximity. All the other DIY/HGTVers interact!
You know what's funny? Many many houses have been used as rentals over the centuries. I was looking up census records for my family's house in Philadelphia around 1905-1920. These are brick "rowhouses", lovely places, great floors, stairs, marble stoops, etc. - they weren't separated as rentals, but census showed about half of them had boarders. It's nothing new. All those "grand old houses" in urban areas were not always lived in by single families.
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Right - that's what I mean though. When we're young, we can handle dark dark eyeliner and more extreme makeup. It does us no favors when we get older.
Ast least she puts her hair in ponytail when she's working - drives me nuts on some shows when long-haired women don't do that - I worry a lot about safety!
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Tonight's ep, the powder room. Just going to put down my thoughts as they occurred.
OK, so she wonders about the glass on the powder room door, saying something like people weren't as bothered by it 'back then" - does she remember her "open plan master suite"?
People don't get ready in the mornings in their master baths? It needed a medicine chest? whatever.
Refinish the door - take the only brightness out of that room, and stain it. Also, it was probably painted (with oil-based paint) before because it's more water resistant.
The color. UGH. It looks like a goth bathroom. Like a coffin. Nicole, there are colors other than white and blackish brown. Live a little.
I liked the sink, but like many of her cast iron tubs, I would've sent it out to be refinished. Her patch job is insufficient.
Now, this is commenting on her personal stuff, but she's the one putting it in the show. She's flying back and forth *every day*??? That really doesn't seem fiscally sound.
Nicole used to be cute, but she is looking very haggard. It's not helping that she has started wearing much, very black eye liner. It's usually all smudged, and it makes her look very severe. And while I'm at it, I wish she would trim that ratty, dry out hair. Yuck!
I think a lot of it is just natural aging - happens to all of us. And we have to learn how to soften our look as we get older.
BTW, I didn't comment on the first ep, but that screen door looks so wrong with that house.
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Apparently the Zillow thing is whole season. How annoying!
I guarantee that the Eddie/Fergus thing is because they're not licensed in the US. This new guy, though yes, he's witty, is an actual contractor as well, and licensed in NC.
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Yeah, I thought it looked like it had potential, but there is no way I would have the patience to break an entire head of cauliflower into tiny little pieces like that. I do mine roasted as well -- normal sized florets, a little olive oil, salt, and red pepper flakes, popped into the oven for 30 minutes.
I can't lie - I do a cheat. I buy bags of frozen cauliflower. There are only 2 of us in this house, and 1 won't eat cauliflower! So the bags let me do single serve of whatever I want to do with it - roast, or one of my favorites, pureed (how I love you, my Cuisinart Stick Blender). I'll puree with either olive oil or butter and some garlic.
Frozen veg are a lifesaver for me.
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I think it's interesting that he kept mentioning in his exit interviews that Jaclyn and him being the swing votes were because of strategy on their parts, not luck, but then explained that they became the swing votes because the other people on the two opposing sides couldn't get along or work together, whereas he and Jaclyn could. I get that he's saying they made attempts to be cordial to everyone, but really the whole thing comes down to other people not being able to work together. Sounds like mostly luck/circumstantial to me.
I don't think Jon can encompass things happening via luck. God, maybe, but not luck. He's so secure in his own abilities that he thinks everything that happened is because of his own agency.
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That's a weird word to use for the finale, when only 1 person will emerge victorious. I imagine at this point you go into every TC thinking there's a good chance you could go because, well, Survivor!
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I did feel like there was a ton of wasted space in there, too. One bathroom for 5 people has got to be pretty frustrating in the mornings and the toilet was just out there in the open (along with the vanity and shower), so you couldn't really have more than one person in there at a time (unless they don't give a flip about privacy). I was wondering if they couldn't have done something to separate the toilet and shower area from the sink area so multiple people could have used it at the same time? They had taken the bathroom down to studs and moved the plumbing around, so couldn't they have thrown up a wall and door to separate the two areas?
I felt like they totally could've pulled out the built-ins. They weren't so blessedly original as to merit preservation. A few drawers and a cabinet, painted over multiple times, and then again painted over. Take that out, and you had more space - I would've put in a stand alone shower AND tub, or a crapton of good storage. That's what a family home with only one bath needs.
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There's just one thing, though. Natalie that been playing so stealthily that nobody except Baylor, and Keith a little bit, really knows about her scheming, and so far nobody's giving her much credit. Jon wanted to take the credit for playing his first idol. Missy gave Baylor the credit for finding Natalie's idol. And both of them assumed that Natalie voted for Alec by accident. And now I see in Jon's Ponderosa video that Jon and Alec, and possibly the other jury members too, think that Missy is the women's ringleader and orchestrated Jon's ouster. Plus, Natalie was left out of the plan to vote off Jeremy, so that's a point against her. If she makes it to F3, will she be able to convince the jury that they should vote for her instead of Missy?
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On the other hand, at least Reed and Jon seem to be pissed at Missy, and maybe Jeremy too, for being the ringleader they think she is. Maybe that will work in Natalie's favor.
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So it's kind of hard to predict how this jury will vote. None of the players who are left have a slam-dunk in the F3 as far as I can see. Jaclyn can argue that she and Jon were in the middle of most of the votes. Keith is kind of likeable and is a challenge contender. Natalie's won challenges and orchestrated votes, but she'll have to convince the jury of that, and they may hold her TAR background against her. The jury may begrudgingly consider Missy a power broker.
If Natalie makes it to the final 3 and Missy's there, I think Missy will make the case FOR her. Missy will want to convince Jon and others that no, she didn't scheme against him! She was loyal! It was all Natalie! At which point, Natalie can say "yup, I did it. I outplayed."
If she's smart.
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Boy, was Jon full of himself. What exactly did he say when talking about Natalie's Alec "blunder?" "I just have to think that God makes everything happens for a reason, and this will somehow get me closer to winning" or some horse-puckey like that. In other words, Jon believed there was a divine plan in motion to anoint him the winner.
You need to watch his arrival at Ponderosa, and his little speech there. He's mad at Missy for telling him to trust God & by extension, her. He really thought that trusting in god would mean God would make sure he won.
I do so love when people think their God would favor them over another fellow believer - it makes their God seem like some kind of bargainer, or auctioneer: "you prayed best, YOU win! I'll just ignore the other 15 people and their prayers." That's a whole new level of entitlement.
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That was so satisfying that I'm about to watch it again, and that has never happened with me on this show. I'm shockingly now enthusiastically rooting for Natalie. I think she and her twinnie are in a toxic relationship, and the time apart is helping at least one of them. I loved in the reward challenge that the three women actually beat the team with the two men in the physical portion.
It's a shame that Natalie would probably not been cast if she wasn't a polarizing character from TAR. They only cast bikini ready females, and the occasional mother figure (40s-50s).
Stupid Jon - of course he dismissed Jaclyn's concern that Natalie's Alec vote was no accident. Of course he dismissed Jaclyn's concern that he might be blindsided. So happy to see him go! And then he took it like a man and walked away without bitterness. Good on him.
Baylor has greatly risen in my eyes. She kept the vote last week a secret from Missy, didn't cave and tattle on Natalie at the reward, and persisted in voting out Jon - even after Missy tried to guilt her out of it.
YES. It's so refreshing to have someone not bikini ready or momma-type., i.e. more like all the rest of us.
Baylor's elevated in my eyes a bit, but not enough for me to want her to win. She should've convinced her mom before now to stand on their own 2 feet.
I'm watching again, too. :D
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I'm not about the finale on a Wednesday, and they didn't mention the reunion. Do not deprive me of the reunion, show.
2 hour finale, followed by reunion show. YAY.
YESSS! So happy to see Jon voted out! I did like the guy, but I love a blindside, and love when someone thinks they have the game in the bag and is "visualizing the win" and they get unceremoniously booted. And I love when someone pulls of a big move, and doesn't let the self-imagined bigwigs run away with the game as they do so often.
So, GO NATALIE! I am rooting for her to win. She at least is instigating strategy and making moves, and seems to be a good actress as far as making it seem like she was going along with the group when she was planning to oust Jon. .
SO MANY people wimp out on the big move for the sake of loyalty near the end. They forget that it's an individual game and they can't win that way. I get that they're tired and hungry, but man, why do so many let people walk all over them?
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They respect him. They like him. Even Baylor has apparently come around to thinking he is cool.
Wait, what? No, I disagree. I think they're cool with him being there because they know they have the numbers against him, and they have no fear of him. That's the opposite of respect. They're ignoring him.
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Once again, how? No one respects his game. The only thing he can rely on is challenges. And that only worked for Bob in Gabon because the jury were just bitter babies, and for Fabio in Nicaragua because Chase and Sash were so disliked and had fucked over way too many people.
I see almost no one on this jury being all that bitter.
I think the only way it'd work is if the virtually all-male jury voted for a guy, just because. But I don't think he's going to make it to the end.
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I know that what we see of TC is such minuscule amount of what goes on, but I cannot see how Jon could hear wht we did and not play his idol.
Straight up hubris. Exactly what he's displayed all season!
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Well, at least Missy can tell Jon that she didn't vote for him. And Natalie finally got her revenge for Jeremy's blindside.
Looks like Jaclyn has a major hissy fit when they get back to camp. Finally, she's talking to everyone.
Would love to see Natalie win. How ironic would that be? One twinnie goes out first and the other is the sole survivor.
Jacyln has no one to blame but herself & Jon. She let him carry her - none of her own initiative.
I'm actually torn now about who I want out next, Jacyln or Missy. I don't think Missy should be allowed to skate, but I'm going to be very happy to see Jaclyn go when she thought she'd be in the final 2.
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From tonight's ep:
"You can't just put any color with dark stain, and people think that you have to go a dark color because you have a dark stain, and that just makes your room seem smaller, darker - it's not a good feeling."
I'm cocking my head like a confused dog, as I consider those words, and think about the powder room.
She also seems to not appreciate irony "The 1940s, 1930s, women didn't want their mother's houses. ... Women of the 30s and 40s and 50s - they wanted new and modern, and the first thing to go was all the dark woodwork. - they painted it all."
See, it goes in cycles. We had painted woodwork through the 70s - and people who are adults now don't want *their* mothers' houses, hence the return to stained wood. (Except where you grew up with bad 70s paneling and have an allergy to anything that looks "woody" now).
Ahh, the "logic" behind the new furniture - buying locally! At a chain store!
She couldn't find period sconces? Why not get some in Minneapolis and bring them down in her empty luggage?