Before we bought our house, Linda and I went through a phase where we watched a lot of Home and Garden T.V. With the Great Recession, our viewing dropped off. It was quite the disconnect to see spoiled young yuppies complaining about "no granite countertops" and "no wood floors" and blah, blah, blah.
Our culture lost it's way.
There would always be some couple complaining about 3000 square feet being TOO SMALL!!! Not a pretty sight. (All the jokes about walk-in closets; "should be enough for my cloths, honey, but what about you.?" The man-caves (awful term. It was always interesting how the outdoors seemed to have little weight, and how they would so often choose a condo over a stand-alone.)
Like I said, not very flattering. A lot of these people came across as very spoiled and whiny....
I've always wished they would have a Post - HGTV channel, where they follow up all the renovated and newly bought and 'flipped' houses. How many of these guys lost their shirts?
Lately, they've started showing a few HouseHunting shows that were produced in the last couple of years, and the tone is very much different.
Still...
As I mentioned, we are renovating our downstairs bathroom. We had a leaky toilet, and it did some damage, and so the whole room had to be redone. Our 'landing' or 'laundry' area is just off the garage, off our 'his' and 'her' downstairs offices. So we decided to tile that. We need to replace our washer and dryer -- 25 years old and screetching.
Our shingle roof is 25 years old and HAS to be replaced. Our lawns are non-existent or so torn up, that we need to start over. And while we're at it, we probably need to paint the outside, as well.
We've drifted back to watching those damn shows again, because for all their excesses, they do contain little kernels of insight.
Our culture lost it's way.
There would always be some couple complaining about 3000 square feet being TOO SMALL!!! Not a pretty sight. (All the jokes about walk-in closets; "should be enough for my cloths, honey, but what about you.?" The man-caves (awful term. It was always interesting how the outdoors seemed to have little weight, and how they would so often choose a condo over a stand-alone.)
Like I said, not very flattering. A lot of these people came across as very spoiled and whiny....
I've always wished they would have a Post - HGTV channel, where they follow up all the renovated and newly bought and 'flipped' houses. How many of these guys lost their shirts?
Lately, they've started showing a few HouseHunting shows that were produced in the last couple of years, and the tone is very much different.
Still...
As I mentioned, we are renovating our downstairs bathroom. We had a leaky toilet, and it did some damage, and so the whole room had to be redone. Our 'landing' or 'laundry' area is just off the garage, off our 'his' and 'her' downstairs offices. So we decided to tile that. We need to replace our washer and dryer -- 25 years old and screetching.
Our shingle roof is 25 years old and HAS to be replaced. Our lawns are non-existent or so torn up, that we need to start over. And while we're at it, we probably need to paint the outside, as well.
We've drifted back to watching those damn shows again, because for all their excesses, they do contain little kernels of insight.