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Just don't take a drink every time she says "just". You'd end up in the emergency room. I love my cast iron skillets, but I also love my pyrex casseroles for oven use. Not as heavy, easier to clean! Le Crueset is nice, but honestly, I can't see spending that much for it. I'd buy Lodge's version in a heartbeat - I have 1 piece, and it's lasted beautifully. I'd rather spend the money on ingredients. :)

It helps that they're working where they are. Waco has a surprising variety of home types, from Victorian era to current homes.

Nicole, if that really is you, I would advise you to step away from the keyboard. Ask Aaron Sorkin about how well it works when creators interact in fans' safe places, which is what this is. And nothing you've said changes what I've perceived and felt. I'll be honest - this puts me off you even more, in addition to the nice piece of bullying in which you engaged today - tracking down a lady on craigslist to not sell her own property? Seriously now. https://www.facebook.com/nicolecurtisrehabaddict/posts/984907524858654 You literally bullied her into not selling her own property. Who made you judge & jury as to what someone can do? She wanted to replace something she didn't like with something else historically accurate that she DID like. Newsflash: not everyone in 1904 had perfect taste. Honestly, I'm done with you and your show. You're mean, and you've fetishized the past. You're very much "do as I say, not as I do." There are many people on DIY and HGTV who are gracious, knowledgeable, and willing to share that with fans without shaming them. You could learn from them. And specifically, I mean people like Bryan Baumler, Mike Holmes, John DiSilvia, Kayleen McCabe, Matt Muenster, etc. They are all exceedingly appreciative of their fans and never try to shame them. Oh, and: No, they don't. They may. But many areas are just full of old homes, and they're just homes. I know this because I've lived in those places, like Philadelphia. FULL of homes from 1700s on forward, but they're not all historically listed and protected.

I'm bored with this season. Even snarking it is boring because it's the same old snark. Lebron James didn't improve it - she's not doing an historic home this time, except it has plaster and lathe, and she's "fixing" that wrong. The family's nice, yay, but this isn't about restoring anything.

That strawberry pretzel thing seems to me to be the most white people food of all white people food. :D (I'm white but Italian soooo). Also, it seems kinda gross? LIke a recipe that is from the 1970s, and should've stayed there.

(note: I am not a lawyer) Here's an interesting page on deed restrictions: http://www.landchoices.org/deedrestrictions.htm Quote: It seems like most of them pertain to what you can do with your land, not your house. In other words, they might say you can't have a horse on your property. That makes sense - horses might lower (or raise!) your neighbors property value. I really can't see where Nicole's misuse of this could be enforceable. Most deed restrictions are sort of community enforced, like by neighbors who are impacted. A judge might challenge Nicole, asking what her standing is - i.e., how is she an interested party? You don't retain interest & rights on something after you've sold it - it's gone, it's no longer yours. Otherwise, you're leasing it. This is another interesting link: http://home.howstuffworks.com/real-estate/buying-home/is-there-way-out-of-restrictive-covenant1.htm I know this is all kind of pedantic, but I also find it interesting to look into these things! Law isn't just what you make it up to be. :)

This screencap sums up everything about Nicole and her philosophy:

Tonight: she says she's "walking away before it's finished" because the integrity of the house is intact. I don't even know what she's talking about. We didn't get to see a kitchen in this one. Someone explain this to me?

Tonight, she made a big deal about the birds eye maple trim she found in this house. Towards the end of the episode, she's voicing over the finishing touches, including installing hardware for window coverings. And then they show some guy drilling RIGHT INTO this pristine birds eye maple. I cringed. She makes such a big deal about preserving original things, then lets that happen? bah.

Watching tonight's episode, and: 1 - PUT ON SOME SHOES, NICOLE. I fully expect to find out some day that she got a nail through her foot, or lost a toe. 2 - they did too have cars in 1910. Those people were rich, and they were on horseback for rich-people riding. The woman had on a formal riding habit. If Mrs. Rich Lady wanted to get somewhere, she either had her chauffeur take her, or if they didn't yet have a car, she had her driver take her in their carriage. She didn't ride horseback to the department store. 3 - she put her hand print & her dogs' paw prints in the path. For a house that isn't hers. 4 - bunting. Ok, then.

This cracked me up so much, and I love it! It's utterly true. (and I knew every reference. :D)

Thank you! I can get those on the DVR :) She's continued to do shows in Canada, they just haven't aired them here :(

She's got a new season, y'all. And the new house is lovely, but I'm pretty sure that she spent a half hour tonight painting a small bit of a formal dining room and called it renovated. It really didn't need her to do anything to make it pretty except, possibly, refinish the floor. She said it was "out of date." Huh. Oh, the other kicker from this episode was the drama with the selling of a previous house. And then she mentioned how she drives past all the houses she's sold to check up on them. I would find that kind of creepy?

I agree - except the one I have in mind is my grandmother's, and her kitchen was about 4' x 8' :D She had a little dinette table and made bread and pasta on it. Of course, she was a very small woman! ;)

Islands are fine, if they fit the kitchen. Not every kitchen should have them or needs them. Our kitchen is about 18' x 18'. It only had two walls of cabinets, with stove on one wall, fridge/dishwasher/sink on the other - L shape. Yeah, we could fit an island in this room, but instead, on the 3rd wall, we have open shelving now, and on the 4th, which is a pony wall overlooking the living room, I have a counter-height massive table. (it was a craigslist freebie - originally a display table in a Gap store - solid cast iron. UBER sturdy). What I intend to do long run is put cabinets/counter all along the 3rd wall, and on the 4th, a peninsula. I already have barstools at the big table - basically, I use it as a peninsula now.

I'm looking at Zillow (which doesn't show as much info if you're not logged in, but I'm a real estate addict who logs in). According to that, John & Whitney's sold for 352,000 on 06/30/14 (http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-Sonora-Ave-APT-D-Glendale-CA-91201/20824247_zpid/ ) Unit B (Big Hair & Curtis) is here http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-Sonora-Ave-APT-B-Glendale-CA-91201/2107503015_zpid/ - but no sold price shown The sisters: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1119-Sonora-Ave-APT-A-Glendale-CA-91201/2107503016_zpid/ - again, no sale price shown. The brothers' isn't shown on redfin or zillow. I am so seriously unimpressed with the results of this show. I honestly call BS on it. We need to find someone who has access to actual real estate data to tell us what the other units sold for. I would think that too, except that it seems that usually, things go *down* in price as it goes on. I mean, why would you pay more for something that you've seen go for less 3 times before? There's no sense in that. (especially for that janky place.)

Going from memory, but I'm pretty sure they SCREWED those frames into the wall.

I lke Josh. I didn't intially, but then he grew on me. He seems sincere, and not fake. I like Matt Meunster, too. I would LOVE them to crash my master bath, because it's a weird, huge space, built in the 80s, and half of it is open to the bedroom and I can't figure out how to reconfigure it. Also, they always end up using $5000 tubs, and having all the bells & whistles.

The Colony is actually just another McMansionville these days, surrounded by, you guessed it, more McMansionVilles. I used to live on the D side (now on the FW side) and always said that Dallas is actually 300 suburbs in search of a city. As far as commute, depending on where her office is, she probably had a radius. That's what we did. I agree! I'm from Philly burbs, and I've lived in Delaware County and Chester County. And so much of it looks similar. I loved the Colonial place, but I wouldn't want to live in one - I've had friends who did, and there was ALWAYS something not working.

Sarah Richardson's show is coming back in October! Or, one of her shows - I don't know what the name of it is. Wait, found the instagram - it's called "Sarah's Potential" http://instagram.com/p/sc4PoNJLiv/ Tommy's in it! I think there's also a new Cottage show for her?

I like Property Virgins more too, because *gasp* sometimes they don't actually buy! And because it's nice to see a realtor give someone a reality check

It's not the lath that's a problem just that it generally indicates very old construction, which often means old plumbing, electricity, etc. A lot of galvanized plumbing and bad wiring hides behind it. It's tough and expensive to demo, which is one reason I think Nicole leaves it. Now, one that that's particular to it is that plaster-and-lath, over time, disintegrates. Not the actual lath, but the plaster. My hub told me about this. Over time, the plaster between the pieces of lath degrades and falls off the lath. Then it collects at the bottom of the inside of the wall, decreasing insulation value and structural strength. It also can collect on things inside the wall, like pipes and electric stuff, and that can be a hazard. It can be repaired, but again, it's not cheap. And modern drywall has so many virtues to it (fire retardants, green/eco features, soundproofing, etc), that I'd want it in my house. I'd also want to know that my wiring wasn't gonna start a fire, and my plumbing wasn't gonna fail. This past winter, Nicole posted pics on twitter when her plumbing in her own house froze and burst. You could see that when she renoed that bathroom, she didn't gut it - the pipes that burst were ones that were behind plaster-and-lath. Now, granted, weather was VERY cold and maybe they would've frozen anyways - but maybe if they'd been new pipes, they might have been able to withstand the weather, or maybe they'd have been insulated enough to handle it.

The mortgages must be structured differently, or people like teachers make vastly more money than they do in the US. I've seen couples with a teacher and a social worker buy a $900k house in the Toronto area on HH, LIOLI, Property Brothers, etc. I don't care how much you scale back your standard of living, a teacher here could not afford a mortgage payment for that kind of property!

That one drives me & my husband crazy. We're both from areas with a lot of very old homes, as in colonial homes. They had stone around hearths or areas like that, but red exterior brick was supposed to be exterior. My grandmother's home in Philadelphia was from the late 1800s, and when a young couple bought it after she passed away, they renovated it. When stripping off the 1940s wallpaper, they found turn of the century murals of the Philly area countryside! Victorians didn't want brick! Another thing I always wonder about - if you're stripping back to the brick, where's the insulation? There are legit reasons to have internal framing, drywall, etc. (I should take this to Rehab Addict forum :D)

Nicole is slavishly devoted to a certain look - one might even say she fetishizes it. Not every house built between 1880 and 1920 had subway, hexagon tile, or wood floors, or...many of the other things she loves.