DeeF
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Still, $50,000 will buy you a pretty nice room.
If this were the real world, $50,000 would buy you a kitchen with custom designed cupboards and high-end appliances like SubZero, Gaggenau, Miehle.
Or it might buy you a living room with antiques, Biedermeyer tables, beautiful upholstery, perhaps antique Oriental rugs.
Or it might buy you custom carpentry.
On this show, they went for (admittedly expensive) storebought items and some custom carpentry (which didn't cost them anything extra since it was built by the staff).
Overall, I wasn't terribly impressed with what they did, but I'm sure there were time constraints on the staff.
Doug's room looked finished, but I could never tolerate his choices in my house. The fake "Rothko" painted on the wall? The white furniture against those walls?
Although I liked Laurie's room better, I hated those curtains, and I didn't think she used the integrity of the house, obviously a colonial with Early American touches. The fireplace mantel, beautifully done by Ty, was wrong -- it looked like Craftsman instead of Early American, and it should have been made of oak.
I agree with those who have suggested that this episode was really on commercial overload. Maybe that's the only way they could afford to do this. But if so, why don't they do it every week? Really go for product placement.
The couples obviously loved the plasma TVs, and who can blame them? They were the nicest single things purchased for each house (even if we might think there are better quality plasmas out there -- mine is a Fujitsu 50").
If this were the real world, $50,000 would buy you a kitchen with custom designed cupboards and high-end appliances like SubZero, Gaggenau, Miehle.
Or it might buy you a living room with antiques, Biedermeyer tables, beautiful upholstery, perhaps antique Oriental rugs.
Or it might buy you custom carpentry.
On this show, they went for (admittedly expensive) storebought items and some custom carpentry (which didn't cost them anything extra since it was built by the staff).
Overall, I wasn't terribly impressed with what they did, but I'm sure there were time constraints on the staff.
Doug's room looked finished, but I could never tolerate his choices in my house. The fake "Rothko" painted on the wall? The white furniture against those walls?
Although I liked Laurie's room better, I hated those curtains, and I didn't think she used the integrity of the house, obviously a colonial with Early American touches. The fireplace mantel, beautifully done by Ty, was wrong -- it looked like Craftsman instead of Early American, and it should have been made of oak.
I agree with those who have suggested that this episode was really on commercial overload. Maybe that's the only way they could afford to do this. But if so, why don't they do it every week? Really go for product placement.
The couples obviously loved the plasma TVs, and who can blame them? They were the nicest single things purchased for each house (even if we might think there are better quality plasmas out there -- mine is a Fujitsu 50").
