Home Improvement Shows

[Liberalynn]

No not the Tim Allen sitcom though I loved that too, but the actual decorating and renovating of home shows?

Any one else a fan? My favorites are on BBC. I love House Invaders and have a crush on Phil Turner. I am less happy about it than I once was though because though I like Gordon on Changing Rooms, he isn't a very good host on House Invaders. I liked it better when it was Linda Barker and Anna Ryder Richardson. Although Anna is still with the show.

I was sorry to hear Changing Rooms has been cancelled in GB but I still love the repeats. Okay I admit I love Lawerence L. Bowen. He looks good in those leather pants.

Also on BBC though not really HI oriented I also love Cash in the Attic with Allistair and Paul. Those two are cuties. Don't like the other hosts or Jaunty though.


On American TV- I like While You Were Out. Andrew, Evan, and Jason are fine eye candy.

I also like Decorating Sense and House Hunters.

The Home Improvement Shows are my calm down medicine when I am upset and don't want to think about weighty world issues. They are just comforting somehow.

[madinmaryland]

1. I prefer "This Old House"

none of the fluff you see in the other shows. They also have "this old house on the road". I always like "New Yankee Workshop" with Norm Abrams. It was incredible the tools that man has!!

[BlueCollar]

23. if Tom Silva

shows up....ya know it's gonna be spensive.....

[Lavender Brown]

2. I like Divine Design

I think it's a Canadian show, but it's on HGTV. Also "If Walls Could Talk." :blush:

[XemaSab]

4. Ms Divine Design has a column in the paper

that my mom reads just so she can feel a black rage against Ms Divine. (Candace Olson, I think)

My mom hates the woman like she hates Nancy Grace, ya know?

[Lavender Brown]

7. Bah... she's not as annoying as Nancy Grace!

:D

[AlCzervik]

5. i love her designs and her show.

Hunky Paul, Chico, Edmund the sewer, come to my house please!! Of course i wil have a much, much smaller budget.

[Lavender Brown]

8. I think she's one of the least tacky designers on tv

I would actually choose her designs... some of the other shows produce the most godawful results.

[supernova]

11. I like her

Like someone else said, I could actually imagine living in the rooms she designs.

[Liberalynn]

14. I like Candace's designs too

and her gentleman helpers. ;)

[yellowdogintexas]

24. Candace and the crew are my favorites. The show is actually

entertaining as well as informative. She really does design beautiful spaces, too.

I like Design on a Dime


I am not too fond of Nancy Travis in all her incarnations. She DOES irritate me.

[XemaSab]

3. It's like pr0n

I can't not watch it when I'm in a hotel room, and I get magazines and just DROOL.

[Aristus]

6. I watch "Sell This House" when I can.

'Cause Tanya Memme is a super-hot chickie-babe! B-)

[mac56]

10. Amen to that.

[Digit]

9. I like Flip This House on A&E

Not to be confused with Flip THAT House on another channel.

It seems everything that CAN go wrong DOES go wrong. Usually, it is termites...and things go awry.

Ah, life in the south!
:eyes:

[mac56]

12. My wife really likes "Small Space - Big Style".

Not exactly a makeover show, but pretty close.

[supernova]

13. ReDesign is good also

I think he's very practical. And I like how he involved the clients in making their own artwork to fit the space.

[Liberalynn]

15. I like shows like this that show you how to work with

what you already have.

[Liberalynn]

17. P.S.

I meant Decorating Cents not Decorating Sense like I had in my initial post. It's on HGTV and the host is I think Joan Steffan. They show you how to design on a limited budget. I love the trash to treasure segement.

[kwassa]

16. The proper name for this genre is "House Porn".

[Catchawave]

18. "House Hunters" fan here.....

Especially since they now travel and name cities/price tags. Location/location/location !

[Liberalynn]

21. It is fun seeing

what is available across the country. Some of the places are amazing.

[mac56]

22. Have you ever notice how Suzanne Whang

always wiggles when she talks? She never stands still?

Also count how many times the home buyers use the word "cute". It'd make a great drinking game.

Also how many of the men looking for a home have a "home recording studio" they need to accommodate. Tons.

[Beaverhausen]

19. Surprise by Design

Where did that show go? I loved that show and usually loved what they did with the rooms.

[Liberalynn]

20. I loved that one too

Not sure what happened to it.