<p>agree zoosermom^^^^I love eye candy!!! :p</p>
<p>Do you get Summer Home in the U.S.? It’s a design show with Samantha Pynn who is absolutely delightful. She takes a room in a summer home and does her magic. She is very talented and I think her designs are far superior to Sarah’s. I like some of what Sarah and Tommy do but I find that their work varies for me. Sometimes I love it. Too often my reaction is, oh that’s nice but I wouldn’t want it in my house.</p>
<p>Is Trading Spaces totally off? That was one thing I liked because it was done on a budget and a real (as opposed to fake self-imposed) short timeline.</p>
<p>Snowdog, I’m pretty sure that Trading Spaces is gone. It ended at least four or five years ago so every episode has probably been rerun hundreds of times.</p>
<p>S and I have bonded many a time over making fun of the whiny folks turning up their noses at anything without hardwood floors and granite countertops. Especially when they whine about paint colors. Haven’t these folks ever heard of painting a room a different color? That said, I prefer the design shows, since I’m not moving again, ever!</p>
<p>Same with me, bucasmom. I never expect to buy another house, so I’ve totally lost interest in HGTV . I spent a few days checking the channel to see if something good came up, but no corn pellet for bethie. My behavior has been extinguished and I am moving on!</p>
<p>Personally miss Trading Spaces, Design on a Dime & (anyone remember) Surprise Gardener with Susie Coelho! As much as I like to “lookie-loo” at properties, I am so bored with the current programming. </p>
<p>I liked (like) the shows where they teach me to spend my $100 like $500.</p>
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<p>I HATE that! And it so staged. When a couple walks into a home and they love the kitchen and love the closets and then see the ugly dining room chandelier, there is a pregnant pause, dramatic sound effects and cut to commercial. For God’s sake, just buy a new light fixture! I’ll give you the 60 bucks for it if you’ll take the stinkin’ show off the air and bring back Design on a Dime.</p>
<p>It would have to be Design on a Dollar…</p>
<p>I also miss Candice! Were her shows ever packaged into DVDs? I think I’ll check ebay and amazon.</p>
<p>This thread brings back memories of home shows through the years, and how much the rosters of stars and shows have changed. </p>
<p>Before there was HGTV there was PBS With “This Old House”’ “Yankee Workshop” and that show from Canada (with a couple who I thought were married) who walked you through the building or renovation of a complete house each season. They were “real”. That’s what is missing in most of the present programming on HGTV and DIY: the feeling of watching a real project unfold over the course of months. The slow progress, with problems solved and people who know what they are doing. The kind of programing that doesn’t follow a complete story arc in an hour.</p>
<p>Rehab Addict is one show that follows the multiple week story line. </p>
<p>I also really like a show that has Bronson Pinchot as the host, it follows his quest to redo all the buildings on his property. I don’t remember the name of it, and I’ve only seen it a few times. He has such a distinctive, personal perspective. Really fun show.</p>
<p>I just googled Summer House, alwaysamom, and it looks interesting. Reminiscent of the Sarah series where she made over the house on the island somewhere. </p>
<p>I wasn’t able to view any video (US internet users are barred), but Samantha Pynn’s portfolio gallery was fun to look over. One thing I would say is that she tends more towards whites than I do (I think that’s why I like Sarah, even if she goes a LITTLE overboard with color sometimes).</p>
<p>I agree with eastcoastcrazy, that the best part of This Old House was watching the project unfold -and I loved Roger the landscape specialist in the early episodes - he was so quirky! Anyone else remember his spin off show where he tried to recreate the building of the pyramids?</p>
<p>I believe Trading Spaces was on TLC.</p>
<p>I hate the scripted, “It’s a nice size,” or “It gets plenty of light,” when couples walk into a bedroom. I never said those kind of statements when we bought our present home.</p>
<p>Instead I said, “OMG, I love this house!” and “Love the screened in porch”, and “This kitchen is fabulous!” among other exclamations. When my husband (then fiancee) and I were along in the car, he said. “Maybe that wasn’t the best reaction when we are planning on making a lowball offer.” Hah! Oops!!</p>
<p>(We made the lowball offer, they rejected it and said they would only accept ONE MORE OFFER from us, so we reissued the same lowball offer and they accepted it. Love that story, but I digress.)</p>
<p>FMTTM–love to hear that story! Need a new thread on decorating disasters and successes among ourselves.</p>
<p>We have Sarah’s renovation on her personal island lake cottage saved on our DVR because we loved some of her ideas so much we HOPE to one day use some of them! We’ve watched it several times.</p>
<p>This Old House was a great show. Remember them taking the cameras to historic commission meetings and other stuff that really takes time to do right. </p>
<p>I am sick of the “well this would take 2 weeks to order and we need it NOW (for no reason most of the time) so we’ll make do with that” slap dash mentality of the hgtv shows.</p>
<p>I don’t miss the Trading Spaces and other often craptacular “design” shows on the cheap. Cheap is usually crap unless you do it yourself over years. But the home buying shows have become tedious and too fake.</p>
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<p>This statement made me flashback to the time Hildy glued hay onto someone’s wall and tried to call it “art”.</p>
<p>I miss Hildy! that was an incredible mess with the hay! Shivers of horror on remembering it!
But hey Barrons! Cheap is not always craptacular–good design will win out no matter what the budget.</p>
<p>I think you can do nice work with re-purposing old objects and such but it usually takes many years of searching and hard work to do it well. Bronson Pinchot’s show covered that well and he had been collecting for many years and working for many months per room to finalize his look.</p>
<p>[The</a> Bronson Pinchot Project: Interview with Bronson Pinchot - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/interrogation/2012/02/the_bronson_pinchot_project_interview_with_bronson_pinchot.html]The”>The Bronson Pinchot Project: Interview with Bronson Pinchot)</p>