Home Work

Candis....pull your dang hair back. It dangles in front of your face....very impractical for remodeling....well, unless you really don't do the remodeling.

....and don't be so bossy. Doesn't have to be your way or the highway!!!

I'm not really sure why there are so many bad reviews. I think people just like to be negative of other people's lives. I really enjoy the show and the design process in the rooms. It's definitely not my "style", but to each their own. She always shares some very budget friendly tips to use in your own home, but they usually have at least one design element from an expert craftsman that they visit with on the show.

People a bashing this, I have to say the show is more of a family story and less of the project steps. They are converting an old school house into a home. The style isn't to my liking but it's not my home, it's theirs. I love the ways they are involving everyone and everything and making it old but new. They are not Chip and Joanna and I'm glad, I don't want cookie cutter shows like Foxer upper, I like the new spin on renovation they do.

The process of how some things are created on this show was interesting. But their taste is strange. Note the unexcited expression on the brother in law's face when he sees their finished dining room. They hang old pictures of dead people looking into the camera all over the house and in bathrooms and bedrooms. Bizarre. The dated design going back in time didn't always work. Looked cheap. I also think the husband on this show appears essentially useless. The wife does all the creating and decision making. She definitely makes all the decisions. They show him fiddling with a drawer. He just sheepishly follows along agreeing with her and keeping her happy and in control. He seemed painfully out of his element. They have a strange dynamic. The school they convert into a home is massive. Seems a bit over the top that they need even a fraction of all that space. Then they stick all their sons in one room and barely separate the bedrooms with real walls or doors. And they get one bathroom to share. So the older boys and younger boys are all packed in one space. Yet the house is massive enough for them to all have a bedroom. Just an odd show on a few different levels.

Neither one of them knows what they are doing.

I so hope that people don't watch this and think that this is the way your work should be done in their own homes. I've been a contractor for over 30 years and have a little idea about what I am talking about..