CruiseDiva

So sad to hear about Suzanne.

Maybe because it needed the ubiquitous "pop of color"? 😎 I had the same thought about the door, especially after they spent so much time to get the color of the siding correct.

The HGTV website has a virtual tour of the house that is very interesting and might even have a floorplan. I skimmed through the site last week and don't remember what all I looked at.

I thought I noticed that as well. I loathe the see-through midriff styles. To me, that's a slutty look and inappropriate for any church wedding.

It was really odd the way they stripped all the best features out of the living room and it ended up looking really small. My take on the couple was that the boyfriend had a great job making a lot of money and was the one actually buying the house. The girlfriend's "distress" over the cost of renovations was simply fake drama. He made all the important decisions (like the pool) and clearly he wasn't going to go for the aubergine paint on the kitchen island. Although he said he'd compromise on some features to please her, he didn't give in when he wanted something a certain way, like the slider instead of master bedroom windows. Obviously, $50K over budget didn't faze him at all because he could afford to do what he wanted.

My parents built a "California ranch-style" house in 1955 for $10K. It had a galley kitchen open to the living room with a dining area in between. No vaulted ceiling, but huge window in the front, flat roof, and redwood siding. With three bedrooms and one bath, it totaled about 1000 square feet. This is after we sold it in 1986 and it was updated.

It's a pretty standard flip show with the typical tensions, but I actually kind of like them. Her shoe collection is to die for and the house porn is interesting.

Her book is available free on Kindle Unlimited 🙂

I never followed The Brady Bunch. I wasn't their target audience when it first aired (I was in college) and when I did see it, it was a bit too saccharine for my taste. That said, this "recreation" of the TV home within in the actual house used for the exterior is interesting. I hope the Property Brothers aren't front and center on the remaining episodes, but I'm afraid they are the "narrators" so we just have to put up with them popping up all over. The grown up actors are interesting and their enthusiasm for the project is refreshing. I have to agree with previous comments. Those interiors are really ugly. The set designers for the show must have been going for every interior decorating cliche of the era.

Our powder room is on the first floor and other bathrooms are upstairs. We use the powder room bathroom ourselves throughout the day more often than schlepping upstairs to use one of those. Trust me, the vanity for storage in the powder room is a necessity for toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, towels, cleaning supplies, etc. We even had a medicine cabinet put in there for medicine and first aid supplies. My neighbor had a pedestal sink put in her downstairs powder room to replace the vanity when she remodeled and ended up putting a cabinet above the toilet for all the things that used to be in the vanity below the sink.

It was funny at the end when the troublemaker young girl and her innocent dad showed up at the house asking if they'd seen her "missing" drone. It looked to be in pretty good shape when they gave it back to her, although I thought the guys stomped on it after they removed the battery.

I had the episode on DVR and fast forwarded through the Randy fashion show stuff. I like Randy well enough, I just wasn't interested in watching runway models in his gowns.

That tile was a hot mess. With an adjacent brick wall, the backsplash tile should have been a different shape or at least a plain subway tile with no border that didn't obviously mimic the shape of the existing brick. It ended up being too much of the same shape. That new homeowner didn't just have bad taste--she had no taste at all.

With grease and dust in the kitchen those 3-D tiles will be a bitch to keep clean.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the various HGTV designers do to renovate the house, but I hope they don't go all-Brady, all-the-time during the process. The promos are really silly and kinda off putting. A little of that goes a long way.

I'm with you on that! We had a 'garden' tub in our 1987 master bath and got rid of it last year. It had only been used twice in 30 years. In its place is now a huge shower with a bench seat. The space where the old shower was is now a big closet with shelves for linens and a rod for hanging bathrobes. It will be a challenge to clean around the floor behind those free-standing tubs. I shudder to think of the grunge that will accumulate there. My friend's 100-year old house has an original claw foot tub and she says that keeping the floor clean around and under it is a chore.

The Washington house hunters in Phoenix were definitely one of the most unpleasant couples to ever appear on the show. What they bought is neither a vacation home for them or a short-term rental for vacationers. It's a money pit that won't generate income and I look for it to be a future foreclosure.

Last night's HHs in Raleigh, NC... the wife was a major bitch. I felt so sorry for her husband. He appeared to be such a nice guy. Why, oh why, would they need a dedicated guest room for his mother who comes to visit for what sounded like a month or so each year? The rest of the year the room would be unused. Just set it up as an office/den with a daybed or sofa sleeper for when it's needed for a guest. Use your imagination, people! I was surprised that the best house, the one they chose, was right under the airport's flight path. You do get accustomed to the noise, but still it's not ideal.

RH's parents might be paying her rent and other expenses. That's the only thing I could think of unless she gets a waitress job. Looks like she picked the best roommate option.

I've seen those "sailcloth" patio covers done well. If installed properly one corner should dip down enough so that rain will run off.

When my cousin got married the first time the bridesmaid dresses were floor length "culotte" style. Going to the bathroom was quite an ordeal. I took my mom in with me to hold the top of the dress while I pottied so it wouldn't drag on the floor. We laughed about that for years. Some of those "sexy" dresses look like they are more appropriate for a Vegas floorshow than a wedding. Especially a church wedding! A friend's daughter, who isn't really slender enough to pull it off, wore one of those strapless mermaid dresses that was skin tight and (bless her heart!) she looked extremely uncomfortable. With the boning in the torso and the built in bra, she looked like the dress was wearing her.

I've followed this show for some time now and it's really changed. The teams are no longer "flipping" the houses, IMHO. The way they now move them to a lot they "own" to renovate and sell is somewhat disingenuous. It seems to be a waste of money to buy a small house at auction, pay to move it, and then basically tear it down. It seems to me they would have a larger profit without the move since they aren't actually flipping the house they buy. The houses they buy at auction are essentially torn down and what they end up selling is a new build. I really don't mind the revised format because it's still house porn and I like the teams, although the Hayhurst Bros are annoying and not particularly talented. However, it isn't the same premise as it started out. Screen doors... my house in Georgia has French doors that led to a deck (now sunroom) and we put in storm/screen doors ourselves. We put them in on all the outside doors. Apparently they aren't something that builders install here in the south.

I liked that second house as well, but whoever renovated it made a big mistake not putting in a dishwasher. Unless maybe there was a dishwasher hidden behind a faux cabinet front and Mrs Blue Hair wasn't bright enough to realize it? A lot of designers are putting those matching cabinet fronts on appliances these days.

I'm glad he refused to pay for the necessary beam for open concept and got his defined dining room space. It was disappointing that the Brothers didn't mount the TV over the fireplace after telling him that that was where it would go.

It was difficult to watch Mr Handlebar Moustache and Mrs Blue Hair or take them seriously. They looked like they were auditioning for jobs in a carnival. The kitchen cabinets in primary colors were an eyesore. I hope the wife got her dishwasher. From what I understand about the way the ground settles and moves in parts of Texas that have a lot of clay in the soil I doubt that terrazzo floors were a practical choice. The husband acted so snippy when it was obvious they were going with his wife's preferred "style" that I was afraid he was going to hit her. He had a look of pure disgust on his face that he wasn't getting his way. Maybe that was part of his brutalist routine. Yet HE was the one who insisted on a bathtub so he could soak. He was kind of a sissy boy yet wanted to appear to be a manly man. Brutalist! Yeh, sure.