Does Anyone Watch Any Home Design/ Remodeling Shows or Food/Cooking Shows?

Lilac said:
Love to watch Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives with Guy Fieri. Good Eats with Alton Brown is another. American Test Kitchen is interesting to watch. I really liked Door Knock Dinners with Gordon Elliot that was on many years ago when the Food Network just started.

As a kid, I loved to watch Julia Child. She was down to earth & had no airs about her like some of the chefs do today.

The two people I don't like to watch is Bobby Flay & Giada De Laurentiis.

Home Town & This Old House are the ones I like to watch the most for remodeling. I'll also watch Love It or List It. Some of the other shows where they want to tear down every wall for an open floor plan drives me crazy.
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That makes me nuts too. What is it about an open floor plan that's so wonderful? Kids noise from one corner of the house to the other, TV blaring when you want to read, everyone seeing your messy kitchen, etc. And I can't believe how much money they want to tear down a wall. $4,000.00 to tear down some drywall and studs? I can see it if they have to relocate plumbing or put up a support beam, but most times they don't.
 

Ruthanne said:
Does Anyone Watch Any Home Design/ Remodeling Shows or Food/Cooking Shows?
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Not cooking, but I used to watch some of the "Home Design/ Remodeling Shows". Interesting at first, but I kind of got burned out on them. For one thing having done some actual remodeling and restoration I could see how they glossed over lots of the harder things.

Also as I finding out that many of the shows were not actual reality was a kind of disappointment. I should have known better, little that comes out of Hollywood is really real life. The Property Brothers was one of my favorites.

In the world of home improvement dramas, Drew and Jonathan Scott are kings. The Canadian twin brothers — who moonlighted as birthday party clowns and underwear models before landing their current gig as hosts of HGTV's top-rated reality series, Property Brothers — have created one of the most compulsively watchable shows in the home-decorating universe.

Why Property Brothers Is Totally Fake
https://www.nickiswift.com/27699/property-brothers-totally-fake/
 
I’ve always wondered how much of the furniture and decor the new owners keep. From the article Rob linked….


“Don't believe us? Unlike other renovation shows (*cough* Fixer Upper *cough*), the Scott brothers let you keep everything, because it was all worked into the budget. "Every one of our shows, where it's a homeowner moving in, they all keep the furniture," Jonathan Scott told Popsugar. "I've heard that some other shows take it all away and I was like, 'Uh . . . That's a jerk move.' You get someone to fall in love with a room and then you're like, 'See ya!' So no, everything that you see on TV stays." Mark us down as Team Keep Furniture.

Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/27699/property-brothers-totally-fake/“

If I’d had to pay for some of the things they’ve brought in, I’d be unhappy. They tend to put in a lot of white couches in homes with little kids.
 
Jules said:
I’ve always wondered how much of the furniture and decor the new owners keep. From the article Rob linked….


“Don't believe us? Unlike other renovation shows (*cough* Fixer Upper *cough*), the Scott brothers let you keep everything, because it was all worked into the budget. "Every one of our shows, where it's a homeowner moving in, they all keep the furniture," Jonathan Scott told Popsugar. "I've heard that some other shows take it all away and I was like, 'Uh . . . That's a jerk move.' You get someone to fall in love with a room and then you're like, 'See ya!' So no, everything that you see on TV stays." Mark us down as Team Keep Furniture.

Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/27699/property-brothers-totally-fake/“

If I’d had to pay for some of the things they’ve brought in, I’d be unhappy. They tend to put in a lot of white couches in homes with little kids.
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And why, when a couple is on a tight budget, do they take them to expensive lighting stores to buy a $3,000 hanging light? I've seen beautiful lights at Lowe's and Home Depot for a couple hundred dollars.
 
Before I ditched cable I loved House Hunters and House Hunters International. Who remembers Trading Spaces...what joke that was. I watched as many home dec shows as I possibly could.

Cooking shoes were of utmost importance to me. I loved the Food Network for awhile and adored The Chew. Everything in between, too. The weekend PBS cooking shows were wonderful. I never liked The Kitchen, tho'.

I do still watch some cooking on YouTube and thanks to @katlupe , I'm going to explore Alexander Gator for home design.
 
I'd be firing my realtor if he acted like some of them on House Hunters.

The buyers say, "We MUST have four bedrooms, two full baths and we HAVE to have a two-car garage and $400,000 is our absolute top! Oh, and it can't be more than 20 minutes from work" and the first two places the realtor shows them have two bedrooms and a single bath, no garage, and an hour from work at a price of $600,000.

Of course, the buyers ultimately buy one of the 2-bedroom places, so what do I know?
 
Jules said:
My other question is about how much the buyers/renters get paid to do these shows.
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I don't think it is much, if anything, and the owners have to pay for the renovations. When I was doing a remodel once I contacted Property Brothers to see if I could apply. That was the deal then, no pay and had to foot the bill for the work. I didn't send the application back.

Not all home owners are happy with their results, not too surprising.

Former Participants On Home Makeover Shows Are Revealing What Their Houses Look Like Now, And It's Shocking
"In reality, it was literally things stuck together with staples and tape."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/home-makeover-show-participants-share-their-stories-reddit
 
I watch and enjoy many of these programs. One thing I sometimes wonder is where would I put my stuff? The winter clothes, the Christmas decorations, the lawn mower? Three books might look cute on an end table but what if you have three hundred?

We updated a Victorian house in New Haven and a mid-century modern house in GA. What they had in common was that neither had been messed with. The Victorian had the original molding and staircase, and the modern had a working prairie fireplace and lots of glass. Both were bargains and paint and new floors did wonders. We didn't have to stage them with pottery and plants. Of course, we didn't make a fortune either, but it was fun.
 
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