One of the worst on HGTV, but has such a prime time slot as it seems to be on whenever I work from home....
Hillary promises to do a full house gut, moving 2 bathrooms, redo kitchen, knock down a structural wall and finish an unfinished basement for $60k. Quoted prices are often low on HGTV because they seem to ignore labor costs, so I can deal. Then, some unforeseen issue like a few spots of mold shows up in the basement. The work to spray some bleach on the mold is going to cost the same as what they had budgeted for the kitchen!! No more kitchen. So when all is said and done, instead of getting the original list of crazy promises, for $60k they get a coat of paint, a new bathroom vanity and a built in desk in the otherwise unfinished basement. And lots of stuff from Winners Homesense.
The flip side is that they always start in awesome semi-urban neighborhoods in Toronto and say that they value the location. Then David tells them that they have to compromise "slightly" on location, that they will go "just 5 minutes" away, and suddenly they are looking at a new build in north, barren Oakville - and for the sake of television drama, the owners are actually shown debating this. The suburban options are "just 5 minutes" away, like I am 5 minutes away from my parents' house - by bullet train at 240 mph.
The drama in this show is so contrived. I don't know why people keep participating, because the producers go to such lengths to make them look like such brats.
Also annoying is how many of these people just need to bring a trash dumpster to their house, throw everything out, put in some built ins and stay put.
Hillary promises to do a full house gut, moving 2 bathrooms, redo kitchen, knock down a structural wall and finish an unfinished basement for $60k. Quoted prices are often low on HGTV because they seem to ignore labor costs, so I can deal. Then, some unforeseen issue like a few spots of mold shows up in the basement. The work to spray some bleach on the mold is going to cost the same as what they had budgeted for the kitchen!! No more kitchen. So when all is said and done, instead of getting the original list of crazy promises, for $60k they get a coat of paint, a new bathroom vanity and a built in desk in the otherwise unfinished basement. And lots of stuff from Winners Homesense.
The flip side is that they always start in awesome semi-urban neighborhoods in Toronto and say that they value the location. Then David tells them that they have to compromise "slightly" on location, that they will go "just 5 minutes" away, and suddenly they are looking at a new build in north, barren Oakville - and for the sake of television drama, the owners are actually shown debating this. The suburban options are "just 5 minutes" away, like I am 5 minutes away from my parents' house - by bullet train at 240 mph.
The drama in this show is so contrived. I don't know why people keep participating, because the producers go to such lengths to make them look like such brats.
Also annoying is how many of these people just need to bring a trash dumpster to their house, throw everything out, put in some built ins and stay put.