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I'm not interested in the patients' back stories at all so I save episodes to the DVR and fast forward through their stories and the commercials. Win-win 😊

The husband called the camper her "she shed" and during the reveal segment he found her sitting in it. She was kind of whacko to want it in the driveway when there was plenty of room to park it in the back yard out of sight.

Yes, that was a new episode. So glad to see Restored has a new season. Brett's work and the historical aspects are so interesting and the results are always stunning.

Even the husband didn't want to look at that camper in the driveway. The wife had hair to die for and seemed nice, but her insistence on "projects" was annoying.

That girl was a hot mess.

The interior really turned out nice.

I call BS on Christina quoting her $3000 to remove that tile floor in the living room and replace it with laminate flooring. Plus, it looked like the tile extended from the living room into a hallway as well. The demo alone should have cost at least double that unless Izzy wasn't charging her for labor. I just had the tile floor in my foyer replaced and it cost $2800 for the demo, sub-floor prep, and the replacement porcelain tile, which is elegant and was budget friendly. My foyer is a LOT smaller than that living room.

Slut dress for sure. I can't even call it a wedding dress. And she's wearing that in front of her children... WTF was she thinking?

Indiana husband and wife doctors with a blended family of six children wanting a 6-bedroom house near her child-caregiver parents. They seemed like a very nice couple, but I wondered if his sons from a previous marriage would even be spending a lot of time with them in that huge house. The husband said the boys were fine with sharing a room. They did select the best (and with the playset in the yard, the most obvious) house. It was a very pleasant HH episode to watch.

Although it didn't look as useless in the reveal as I expected, the coffee bar was a silly feature. It wasn't really deep enough to use for much of anything they mentioned, like a spot for children to do homework. I don't get it when the boys spend money on things that don't make sense or are very taste specific. All that coffee bar was good for was to use as an expensive bookshelf.

Not sure that it's a red hot market, but maybe The Boise Boys are fueling it? The three houses the couple toured were dumps. I wonder what the neighbors think of that tree house. What an eyesore to have in a front yard! Almost as bad as all the cars parked in the yard of the other house. I'm so glad I live in the Deep South. In my subdivision you can buy a 2500 square foot, four bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home with living room, dining room, family room, kitchen/breakfast nook, laundry room, and deck for $250K. That might also get you a screened in porch and swimming pool.

So boring. Even episodes of My Lottery Dream Home are more entertaining.

I was actually relieved that she saw the light before building a house on his family property. The boyfriend seemed like a gold digger during the entire episode.

I didn't mean to imply it couldn't be done. You do what you have to do. We lived in a two-bedroom house for several years and I have three younger brothers. But my parents didn't go on TV and spend nearly $400K for it. I felt sorry for the HH husband who clearly wanted the roomier house and caved into his wife's demand for the crappy beachfront place.

Last night's couple was looking for a year-round permanent home at a beach town in Mass. close to extended family. The wife insisted that they be ON the beach. A ten minute walk to the beach from a lovely 3-bedroom house (husband's preference) just didn't cut it for her and they ended up with a 2-bedroom, one bathroom shack "right on the sand" that was actually more expensive and over their budget. The two daughters were toddlers so sharing a room now won't be a big deal, but they aren't going to have the room they need in less than 5 years or so unless they can add on to that 1000 square foot house. Sure, they can spend a lot of time outdoors in summer, but they are going to have cabin fever when the winter snow sets in and they are stuck inside with two small children. And the beach was not appealing with all those rocks they had to step over to get to a sliver of sand. I see a lot of stubbed toes and cut feet in their future.

They were a very strange couple and their "party" looked less than festive.

Tamara Day is far more talented than Christina the Queen of Hair Extensions.

That seemed to be the least appropriate choice of dwelling for two adult couples and two toddlers. One thing I noticed from a long shot of the back of the house...there was a door on a lower floor that opened to the back yard below the main floor deck. My bet is that there is a walk-out basement space in that house. It might not be finished, but could serve as extra living space in the future. I found it odd that it wasn't mentioned, but suspected that they would select that house since it was the least expensive.

A good friend has a house on Deer Island, which is a part of Hilton Head just off Harbor Town and the house is on the marsh. Every day as soon as the sun started going down the deck was unusable because of bugs. The only way you can sit outside in a Low Country marshy area is if you have a screened in porch/sun room. Trust me, I know this from first-hand experience.

And it has a banquette! I really dislike those, especially when they have a round table. To me, that's not a comfortable seating area for dining.

Her dresses look like they are designed for hookers. They're just so sleazy.

We just had our foyer retiled (old tile was cracking) and used 12" porcelain tile that looks like marble with very small grout lines. It looks very elegant and isn't slippery the way real marble would have been.

I'm 71 and remember riding bikes and roller skating on the driveway, but not playing in the front yard. I had three younger brothers and outdoor play was always in the back yard where the outside toys were kept. We lived all over the country and none of the homes we lived in had big front porches.

Although I don't mind sitting in a booth in a restaurant, I detest the banquettes that TV designers are putting in so many homes. It's not just Nate & Jeremiah who have them installed. We had one in a breakfast room when I was a teenager and I hated having to jump up to let the other kids out.

That is a convenience, but I would worry about the washing machine overflowing or the hose breaking and flooding the first floor. It happened to a neighbor.