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[Mominohio]

I don't very often turn on HGTV. No real reason, just not on my channel flipping route I guess.

I saw the Scott brother's show this evening, and they were redoing one house for a couple while helping them hunt for the new one. 

First, I couldn't believe the price of simple houses! I know the market varies tremendously in various regions of the country but my oh my! Makes me glad to live where what they were selling for over $600,000 can be had here for probably under $200,000!

Second, while the house they were fixing to sell wasn't perfect, there was only one thing they did (improve the fireplace) that I thought was better than what was there. I hated the color change on the wood floors, I hated the color changes on the walls, and the furniture and staging was so modern I have to say I've never actually been in a house that looked like that. (this isn't a slam on that style, I just never met anyone that decorated like that in my actual life). 

I found the show entertaining, but I am totally disconnected to the pricing and styling in these kinds of shows. Anyone else find those things 'foreign' to their own lives when watching such programs?

[HB glamma]

Goes to show that your perspective largely depends on where in US you live. We watch all the HGTV programs and think, 'gee I'd like to be able to get a house like that for only $500K', or whatever the price is as it's undoubtedly lower than California and West Coast real estate!  We see some lovely homes on HGTV that are in the 100-200K range and we just drool.. ha!

[september]

I find it foreign that a house could sell for less than $600,000.

I does depend where you live.  That price would be a steal in my part of the country, and it would be a fixer upper.

[sweetee2]

HGTV is on my  channel flipping route and I very rarely see anything I like. I think it's my age. Back in the day you wouldn't want your kitchen visible from your front door then you had to keep it spotless all the time. Now it one big room. I'm not sure they clean like we do anymore.

[Mominohio]

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@sweetee2 wrote:

HGTV is on my  channel flipping route and I very rarely see anything I like. I think it's my age. Back in the day you wouldn't want your kitchen visible from your front door then you had to keep it spotless all the time. Now it one big room. I'm not sure they clean like we do anymore.

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@sweetee2

That is a big thing for me too.

I was raised in old homes that had such beautiful features (beautiful woodwork and trims, such style and charm) and one thing I love is the separation of rooms. I hate to walk in the formal front entrance of a home and see the kitchen. I don't mind a kitchen/family room combo that is open and somewhere away from the main entrance, but I am big on formal dining rooms and kitchens that aren't seen from them or from the formal living rooms. 

[Kachina624]

HGTV has a few programs they show over and over and over.  After one season, maybe two if the program is very good, I'm sick of it and am ready to move on.  I've had enough of the oh so cute Scott Brothers, Love it or List it, and even Fixer Upper to name a few.  I'm also tired of House Hunters International as I don't care what apartments are like in Paris.  I guess I'm just tired of real estate shows period.  They used to have so much more variety.

[QVCkitty1]

What bugs me is the open floor plan. Now it looks ok in a really big space, but some of these places are so small that the open plan resembles a furniture showroom, with everything crammed together. When I watch the Scott brothers I think if it were my house ,I would object to all the turquoise, they love that color. 

[Desertdi]

Yeah well............I'm kinda short...........and people keep telling me I need to buy one of those "tiny homes" that they have on HGTV...........

(No thanks...........)

[Kachina624]

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@QVCkitty1 wrote:

What bugs me is the open floor plan. Now it looks ok in a really big space, but some of these places are so small that the open plan resembles a furniture showroom, with everything crammed together. When I watch the Scott brothers I think if it were my house ,I would object to all the turquoise, they love that color. 

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@QVCkitty1. Sorry but there's no such thing as too much turquoise.  Bring it on!

[Oueen of everythinh nice]

I AGREE WITH YOU!  WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME OF THE OLDER SHOWS BROUGHT BACK.  THEY WERE MUCH MORE INTERESTING. lIKE YOU SAID THESE  3 SHOWS ARE JUST NOT FOR ME.  i'VE SEEN ENOUGH OF THEM.