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Posted by MiamiCuse on May 19, 2008, 11:58 pm
Occasionally I will watch the shows on HGTV.
I just don't understand, why the prices seem so far out of reality...they
redid an entire basement, extended a living room on the ground floor and
made it into a balcony for the master bedroom on top, redid the landscape,
all new kitchen...and the total price was like 38K? Where have they been?
38K is not even enough for the kitchen cabinets.
Tonight I watched the House Hunters show, where they showed three houses to
a couple and they choose. The wife said "I don't like the location, it's
too far from work, and the rooms are small, however, I really like the
closet door decor and the brush nickle finish feature of the faucets".
Hmmm...ok...brush nickle faucet feature - checked - sold!!!
MC
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Posted by Kris Krieger on May 20, 2008, 12:23 am
> Occasionally I will watch the shows on HGTV.
>
> I just don't understand, why the prices seem so far out of
> reality...they redid an entire basement, extended a living room on the
> ground floor and made it into a balcony for the master bedroom on top,
> redid the landscape, all new kitchen...and the total price was like
> 38K? Where have they been? 38K is not even enough for the kitchen
> cabinets.
I think because they make teh homeowners do a lot fo the work. They don't
show it all step-by-step, but from what I've seen overall, there is a lot
of "sweat equity", as opposed to having all of it done professionally.
They also seem to cut corners.
>
> Tonight I watched the House Hunters show, where they showed three
> houses to a couple and they choose. The wife said "I don't like the
> location, it's too far from work, and the rooms are small, however, I
> really like the closet door decor and the brush nickle finish feature
> of the faucets". Hmmm...ok...brush nickle faucet feature - checked -
> sold!!!
I know, some of the comments are incredibly dopey - although I suppose that
shouldn't be surprising.
I used to watch it sometimes to try to get ideas, but a lot of their ideas
in the recent couple of years seem to be og decreasing interest to me.
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Posted by thisbeit on May 20, 2008, 7:56 am
These shows are all sponsored and supplied by the manufacturers.
> Occasionally I will watch the shows on HGTV.
>
> I just don't understand, why the prices seem so far out of reality...they
> redid an entire basement, extended a living room on the ground floor and
> made it into a balcony for the master bedroom on top, redid the landscape,
> all new kitchen...and the total price was like 38K? Where have they been?
> 38K is not even enough for the kitchen cabinets.
>
> Tonight I watched the House Hunters show, where they showed three houses
> to a couple and they choose. The wife said "I don't like the location,
> it's too far from work, and the rooms are small, however, I really like
> the closet door decor and the brush nickle finish feature of the faucets".
> Hmmm...ok...brush nickle faucet feature - checked - sold!!!
>
> MC
>
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Posted by on May 20, 2008, 5:12 pm
I watch some of these home shows from time to time simply because I am
in the middle of a major redo project and I was hoping to get some
ideas...unfortunately I have gotten none.
Most of these shows are not very creative. Same idea recycled over
and over again.
This house has a ugly looking carpet, so how to improve it? Wow just
like magic, you pull up the carpet there is this beautiful untarnished
original oak wood floor or terrazo, ding ding ding, problem solved!
and the owners didn't even know!
while I am sitting here still trying to figure out how to hang a few
ceiling fans in a non-intrusive way, went through three dozen ideas
and none stick.
Forget it, I am going to let the wires hang for another two weeks, may
be some idea will come to me, meanwhile onto the kitchen!
Don, you left Florida in time, the real estate down here is just
completely depressing.
but I do like the brush nickel finish feature of the faucet. LOL.
MC
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Posted by on May 22, 2008, 2:00 pm
>
> Boring carpet over better floors. I basicly don't like carpet, probably
> because I'm not a neatnik, have 3 dogs, and it's easier and cleaner to sweep
> a hard floor.
> EDS
>
don't like carpets, does not work in hot/humid Florida anyways.
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