HGTV Bitch Thread

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Awww, thank you. Everyone else in the neighborhood was doing cherry at the time (it was a new hood under construction) so I thought I would be rebellious and do mahogany. And egg door knobs instead of round because we live life on the edge.

I thought with the kitchen, we could have the best of both worlds - paint the uppers white to lighten the space but keep the bottom stained mahogany. MrB was not on board with that, his engineer brain just couldn't envision two-tone cabinets even with the multiple Pinterest pics I showed him.

[mojogirl]

I just realized when I said my house has some of the original 20's light fixtures I'll soon have to specify 1920's...

My other complaint about HGTV shows is that they show costs being so low... especially with the boom here in Seattle labor is hella expensive. We had a quote done to redo our tiny 3 piece upstairs bathroom, and it was 3X the top end of our price range.

I also want a kitchen refresh - repaint the cabinets and put in a gas cooktop with a hood that vents outside. We've put gas cooktops in our previous two houses, so someone else is benefitting from our kitchen upgrades, dammit. Our house has gas, but the problem is that it's on the exact opposite end and plumbers charge by the foot even when it's just a straight line so we're looking at around 10K just to run the line. My husband wants to do it but I worry about the house blowing up.

[madangela]

I can never understand why a perfectly functional kitchen “needs” to be gutted just to refresh it. My house was built in the ‘70s and has an addition from the ‘80s. The kitchen matches the era of the house. Yes, it’s dated, I guess, but it is consistent with the house. I can imagine potential buyers thinking What the hell. But why would we want to take down beautiful solid oak cabinets? Yeah, they’re from the ‘70s. So is the house. (Appliances are new.) These home improvement shows have sold a load of crap in a lot of ways, IMO.

[ratscabies]

Did someone mention the 70s?

[Mugsy]

Wow, just wow.
At first I saw the living room and thought, big deal. It looked like what hgtv is doing now with the mid century modern. But then the kitchen, and those bedrooms and bathrooms?!? I guess their mantra was more is more, and even more is even morer, or something.

Although I kinda like the purple toilet.

[scarlet]

As a rule, I despise mid-century modern, but I would take tasteful m-c-m in a heartbeat over this. I feel anxious and jittery just looking at all that wallpaper and shag carpeting and brightly colored walls.

[ratscabies]

Much to TrafficChick’s horror, I would move in tomorrow, and threaten bodily harm on anyone who attempted to change a single thing.

Then I would don a turtleneck and bell bottoms, and set about turning the purple bedroom into my recording studio. And I would go back to analog tape!

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

I used to live in a rental that was very 70s. There was nothing to do but just lean into it decor-wise, but I loved it for a rental situation. I love 70s kitchen items like canister sets and I have my Mom's Corelle Living Ware with a ring of green flowers. I grew up with them and have a sentimental attachment to them. I'm thinking of adding teacups and a few other items to what I have.

I now have a very 50s pink bathroom and again, it's the kind of thing you just have to lean into. Pink tub, pink tile, pink, pink, pink. Since pink flamingos are a sort of mascot for my neighborhood, I got a pink flamingo shower curtain. I had Rosie the Riveter shower curtain, but it was larger than life size and I felt like she was staring at me every time I peed. It was creeping me out.

ETA: Finally did it! I ordered the teacups, an avocado green mixing bowl with a 70s flowery ring around it and covered casserole dish, also with a 70s flowery motif. I love dinnerware and bakeware from this era. They'll go nicely with my Corningware casserole dishes (the cornflower blue design) from the 60s/70s, passed down to me.

[famvir]

I stayed 4 nights in a penthouse apartment for a company I was working with. It was totally blinged out never changed 70’s. Red flocked wallpaper. Mirrored walls everywhere. Dangling lights all over the huge dining room (with the three floor to ceiling mirrored walls, truly migraine inspiring). Shag carpeting that you had to rake!

The problem was the low to the floor, low backed furniture, low beds. It’s like the esthetic is tiny furniture in this massively over the top overwhelming walls ceiling and floor.

Maybe....this is ART! You are living in a Jackson Pollock/Andy Warhol modern art painting, and the furniture is a “make it so small that we can pretend it’s not here” kind of thing.

I am not a big person, but those couches chairs and bed were uncomfortably small. I couldn’t wait to leave.

[chitowngirl]

Mar 29, 2020 3:22:38 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

Did someone mention the 70s?

My eyes! That should come with a “sunglasses” warning!! So many reflected surfaces...