HGTV Bitch Thread

[famvir]

I just swallowed my gum.....

[Mugsy]

I will never understand the obsession with two sinks. I'd rather have one sink and lots of counter space to set my assorted grooming stuff. What are these people doing that requires so much sink time?

The entitlement in the young home buyers bugs me too. Sure, everyone wants a perfect house, but it's usually something you achieve over time, not expect to have it all at 25.

I recall a princessy woman on one of these shows insisting on a new house because it grossed her out to move into a "used" house. I wondered how she functioned on vacation, having to sleep in used hotel rooms and all.

[eveschmeve]

Whenever my husband and I are in a bathroom with one sink, we do the melodramatic shoving and bitching that occurs when the couples are showing just how hard it is so have only one sink. Same when we're both in the kitchen.

The amount of space that people (well, Americans) think they need is ridiculous. My favorite homeowners are the foreigners on House Hunters International who are so reasonable. They'll be in a 600 sq. ft. apartment with a kitchen the size of a shoebox and are like, "Wow! Thees ees so beeg! And look, an oven!" Those people would have heart attacks if they saw the McMansions of Texas.

[eclair]

I have no counter space in the bathroom, just the thin sides of the sink. And Cosmo's big fluffy butt knocks the soap off the sink often. But back it goes, because there isn't a better place for it.

I do have a medicine cabinet, and the cats haven't figured out how to get into it yet.

[mrspickles]

Jan 21, 2014 0:22:35 GMT -4 eclair said:

I have no counter space in the bathroom, just the thin sides of the sink. And Cosmo's big fluffy butt knocks the soap off the sink often. But back it goes, because there isn't a better place for it.

I do have a medicine cabinet, and the cats haven't figured out how to get into it yet.

Well, not that you know of anyway.

[Brookie]

Jan 20, 2014 23:52:44 GMT -4 Mugsy said:

I will never understand the obsession with two sinks. I'd rather have one sink and lots of counter space to set my assorted grooming stuff. What are these people doing that requires so much sink time?

The entitlement in the young home buyers bugs me too. Sure, everyone wants a perfect house, but it's usually something you achieve over time, not expect to have it all at 25.

I recall a princessy woman on one of these shows insisting on a new house because it grossed her out to move into a "used" house. I wondered how she functioned on vacation, having to sleep in used hotel rooms and all.

I've seen some of the "House Hunters" shows where one of the couple was a germphobe and was going to change out EVERY toilet in the house after they bought it. Probably has never heard of Lysol.

[biondetta]

I don't get too upset with the International House Hunters, because I know how staged it is and I'm pretty sure they get them to find nitpicky things to say. That said, I always laugh when someone complains about how small a bathroom is, when it's perfectly functional and you can actually fit two people in at once. Because we basically can't. We have a lovely house in the old historic center so everything is walkable and I do have the dishwasher that I insisted on (because of past experiences), but to get all that, I also ended up with one of the world's smallest bathrooms. Sure, it has a bathtub (which we never use), but there's no counter space at all around the mini sink and because it's a Dutch bathroom, designed for Dutch giants, my 5'8" self can just barely see myself in the mirror. There are a few tiny shelves and a medicine cabinet, but it's all so small that any time I reach for one thing, everything else seems to go flying and there's not really enough space to bend over to pick it all up.

This is also the only bathroom in the entire house, which technically has three bedrooms and one of the previous owners was a family with three kids. So yeah, people who complain about small bathrooms get no sympathy from me. Well, except for that one Italian bathroom I saw on an episode. Even I thought that one was small.

[dcgal]

The greatest small bathroom ever was one that was on an elevated platform in the living room in Paris. The sink was open to the room and there was a small shower on one end and an enclosed toilet on the other. You had to go up a four step ladder to get to the counter with the sink. Not only was it just a weird set - up (that is having the whole thing elevated three feet up) but could you imagine how many times you would slip on the ladder in the middle of the night? That whole show was great because the girl had a tiny budget for Paris so one place had a bathroom down the hall and the final one had the bed in a loft where you couldn't sit up. Those are the shows I like not the endless beach houses in the carribbean.

For me HGTV is good background TV when I'm surfing the Web or reading a magazine. Most of the shows are formulaic and the homeowners crazy but I still watch it. I don't have DIY right now so I'm loving that they're showing Renovation Realities and Rehab Addict.

[famvir]

Did anyone one here see the kitchen with the stalactites and stalagmites? There were pointy things jutting out of the floor and ceiling. Weirdest thing I've seen on any show ever.

[Deleted]

Our house came with double sinks in all of the bathrooms (except the powder) and I honestly do not know why. I can understand the master where more than likely a duo will be sharing it, but the kids' bedrooms' bathrooms? Unless you are cramming a whole mess of kids in those rooms, it does seem like a waste. And really, MrB and I rarely use the sinks at the same time in our bathroom so there ya go.

I know that the buyers get mocked by viewers for always asking for granite and stainless, and I cringed when I did the same thing when we were building this house. But it goes with everything! And you can set hot things on the countertops! My countertops look like Moose Track ice cream, they make me happy (and hungry).