I F**KING HATE design shows

[Jand3rson]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I am so FUCKING SICK of all these fucking design shows. I HATE them. They are ALL my wife watches. They are so FUCKING STUPID. They are ALL THE SAME. All the rooms that they do look like SHIT. It's all painted garbage and shit they find at thrift stores. I HATE all these fucking "personality" hosts that host them. I FUCKING HATE listening to all the women who live in the house cry and scream "OH MY GOD!!!!!" at the top of their lungs for 5 minutes straight.

I HATE DESIGN SHOWS!!!11!!!1!1!11!1!1

:hitler:

[backtrail69]

Yep, you aren't the only one...

[SandyEggoE30Girl]

I am a designer, and I HATE THESE FREAKING SHOWS!
Everyone thinks they can do what I do with no education in the trade at all.
That and most of the so called ""designers"" on TV are nothing but decorators., with no formal training.
OH Well......................... They all call sooner or later when their homes don't look like the ones on TV.


OK I am done venting now.:???:

[Jean]

yep.

[Charlie]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I am so FUCKING SICK of all these fucking design shows. I HATE them. They are ALL my wife watches. They are so FUCKING STUPID. They are ALL THE SAME. All the rooms that they do look like SHIT. It's all painted garbage and shit they find at thrift stores. I HATE all these fucking "personality" hosts that host them. I FUCKING HATE listening to all the women who live in the house cry and scream "OH MY GOD!!!!!" at the top of their lungs for 5 minutes straight.

I HATE DESIGN SHOWS!!!11!!!1!1!11!1!1

:hitler:

TRAVERTINE TILE!

GRANITE COUNTERTOPS!

LAMINATE VINYL FLOORING!

Yea, I hate those fucking shows.

-Charlie

[gazellebeigem3]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I am so FUCKING SICK of all these fucking design shows. I HATE them. They are ALL my wife watches. They are so FUCKING STUPID. They are ALL THE SAME. All the rooms that they do look like SHIT. It's all painted garbage and shit they find at thrift stores. I HATE all these fucking "personality" hosts that host them. I FUCKING HATE listening to all the women who live in the house cry and scream "OH MY GOD!!!!!" at the top of their lungs for 5 minutes straight.

I HATE DESIGN SHOWS!!!11!!!1!1!11!1!1

:hitler:

finally! a rant worthy of the hitler smiley

[AndrewBird]

I may be missing something, but do you hate design shows?

Or am I totally off base here? Just let me know. ;)

[browntown]

When my girl isnt watching one of the myriad law and orders or csi's, I get to watch a house flipping, my 1st house, or one of the above mentioned "design" shows.

I am the furthest thing from a designer, but the one thing that always makes me want to scream is when they paint wood. Wood can be sanded and stained whatever shade makes you happy, but painting any good wood is just wrong.

Oak baseboards? no problem, paint it. Maple cabinetry, lets paint it pink to lively up the room. Mahogany entry door, lets paint it, then make it worse making a design with sponges and more paint!!

Cedar siding? Shit costs a fortune, my parents have it. Yet the P.O. decided it would be best to paint it beige instead of restaining. I don't really care what the fat guy in the beard wants to frolic around painting the walls with murals of happy days, but for the love of all that is holy, if it's better than pine, ash, or fir --- stain it, dont paint it.

[Jon325i]

I think Josh has issues with this guy....




:-P

Jon

[browntown]

the main offender of painting wood is this guy:


Don't get me started on all the "carpenters" that build everything out of fiberboard.

[Jordan325iC]

You know this guy has his own magazine now?

[rwh11385]

i agree. screw turning one's house into a home! screw getting ideas from the tele to customize your own place. fuck all that noise, we should all live in vanilla-styled pre-fab places!!

[Jscotty]

You know what.. its stuff like this that makes you really appricate Bob Villa and Norm Abram back in the days when they were on PBS early saturday mornings.

I think that every man who is married or has a live-in significant other hates these shows simply because the woman watches the program, gets the big ideas, and then its the man that ends up doing all of the work.

Even though some of the stuff looks really nice on TV, they mislead you into thinking that these projects are relatively easy and that they take only a couple of hours. I cringe every single time I see the pepped up girl bouncing around the house talking about how they just casually knocked down a couple of walls to open up the space in this otherwise crowded room. And then they used this old set of drapes to recover the sofa while gluing their kids' marbles to the wall above the fireplace to make a cool design.

And because of shows like this, there are many people with houses that are full of incomplete projects. And while I am on the topic of incomplete projects, they had this other show on TV where the crews go in and finish all of the stuff that these hen-pecked husbands could not complete. And one thing that I despise about this show is that after the husband started all of this stuff that his wife dropped in his lap, they come on the scene and make this guy look like a total loser. I saw one episode where the husband was standing there with a piece of wood in his hand looking completely lost while the guys from the Discovery Channel were busting their butt to finish everything.

[FredK]

Oak baseboards? no problem, paint it. Maple cabinetry, lets paint it pink to lively up the room. Mahogany entry door, lets paint it, then make it worse making a design with sponges and more paint!!

No quartersawn oak, no care. ;)

I think we've come full circle on the habits of post-Industrial Revolution America, which is paint anything with a solid surface. If you've ever seen the doors in a tenement house built at the turn of the 20th century, the builders pretty much slathered on lead paint on all exposed wood. Even if it was clear, >=FAS, first growth wood.

Here's an ad from 1940 I found on wikipedia.

[325Projectz]

send your wife to work.