AO Home Improvement Show Awards
Thought I'd seen everything HGTV, TLC, PBS and local channels have to offer. Have in the last 30 days discovered "In A Fix" and now "Monster House". It's an industry. Maybe it has it's own awards, maybe not. Fellow home improvement show addicts, nominate your own categories, shows, hosts, designers, cast members etc. Possibilities are endless. Just a few of mine before cutting it short to watch Best Cop Show, NYPD Blue...
Hottest Cast Member: Jenny, "In A Fix"
Most Buxom Designer: Genevieve Gorder, "Trading Spaces"
Best Landscape Designer on "Curb Appeal": Pat Wagner
Favorite Weekend Landscaping Show: Ken Bastida
Most Unconventional(Not a Bad Thing)Designer: Hildi San Tomas
Hottest Cast Member: Jenny, "In A Fix"
Most Buxom Designer: Genevieve Gorder, "Trading Spaces"
Best Landscape Designer on "Curb Appeal": Pat Wagner
Favorite Weekend Landscaping Show: Ken Bastida
Most Unconventional(Not a Bad Thing)Designer: Hildi San Tomas
Comments
Hildi seems to take any comment by a homeowner of "I don't like..." as a challenge to ram it down their throats. :P Does anyone else remember the godawful straw walls she did? *shudder*
Entertainment Center: $150
Cable subscription: $40
Couch: $200
Having grown men admit they watch design shows: Priceless.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Genevieve is da hottie, hands down.
Hildi seems to take any comment by a homeowner of "I don't like..." as a challenge to ram it down their throats. :P Does anyone else remember the godawful straw walls she did? *shudder*
Genevieve's hot no doubtaboutit . Jeez I haven't seen HST's straw walls...
So she epoxied straw to the walls.
Originally posted by alcimedes
Television: $300
Entertainment Center: $150
Cable subscription: $40
Couch: $200
Having grown men admit they watch design shows: Priceless.
Most Erudite Host: Joe Ruggiero, "Homes Across America"
(good thing pscates isn't a regular in AO anymore, he'd be jealous)
Best Female use of Power Tools - Orbital Sander girl from this classic renovation video
plus she works harder than Paige.
Queer Eye isn't bad as far as the interiors go. The guy sort of does the same thing every time, but it's a decent formula. The only HGTV show worth watching is extreme homes, and even that, the narration is pretty worthless. These shows all talk down to the viewer, like they know nothing and can never be helped in that regard. They're also all about decoration, rarely does anything substantially improve a space or change it really. Poor craftsmanship is cherished, lighting is effectively ignored, and all the fittings and surfaces are paltry and have no sense of scale. The designs are always these Rube Goldberg rationales with lots of fussy little details that don't have any common idea, or the central idea is taken too literally and so poorly executed to even have kitch value. So many of these types of projects would be more efective if they took away some stuff, improved the light and more clearly defined the spaces rather than junk them up in the name of "character."
...and why am I telling you all this?