Ok....it appears that I just need to get this off of my chest! As with most of our friends, I'm an avid HGTV watcher. Be it for getting great ideas/inspiration, making fun of bad home choices, etc etc etc. Whatever it may be, it is somewhat addictive, it appears that everything on my DVR is HGTV ( I can't tell you the last time I watched real time tv...or the news for that matter...is Bush still in office?).
One such show that I have started watching is Design Star. For me, this whole thing has become Design Flop. I am not saying that there aren't talented people on the program, but COME ON PEOPLE. Last night was a perfect example. Wayne Newton's home (well guest home anyway)....
(if you missed last night's episode, you can click here to see highlights- it is the Design Rewind Tab) under Exclusive Episode 5 Videos
Where should I start with this one. First they walk in his home...uuing and awwing...when they should have been throwing up from the tacky and ugly. LOL. I am hoping for the most part they were trying to be kind, but COME ON! It was only a chandelier and a mirror away from Liberace's home.....BAD.... I loved when asked about their taste in interior decor, Wayne's wife says "modern" (there wasn't a modern piece of anything in that house...)...his response was Louis the 14th. That's fitting, pull out his thrown. Actually I believe it was there, next to the God awful cherub thrusting, gilded piece of "gaw" that they called the fireplace (which dwarfed Wayne, who is no small man)..
OK, enough about the home known as "House d' Tacky", lets move on to what the "designers" actually did...without getting in to detail....Bad and Bad. I understand they want to look like Krafty Kathy's, but why does everything they do have to look cheap? Dwayne and I were discussing the living room earlier. They didn't need to build those frames for behind the candle sconces and stain them (ugly and bad color). The window treatments were blah...and well, there wasn't a thing in that room which was tasteful, lazy susan included. Please excuse me and pardon me if I don't want a "cheap" tilt - a- whirl in my living room.....and all of this "where do I look? where do I look?"....how about you give them something to look at. Where was the focus....how about that gigantic fireplace (which in my opinion should have been ripped out).... COME ON!
Kitchen......MESS. I still don't understand what they actually did in that space, other than paint and have their carpenter fill in a couple of holes with some improvised wooden shelving. The designers kept talking about warming up the spaces with dark espresso stained furniture, does this seem like a oxymoron to anyone else? Where was the warmth? Where was the cozy? This was a guest home for goodness sakes, it should feel like a retreat away from home, other than a room of well.....poor taste....isn't this "Design Star" and not "Design on a Nickle" (not even a dime!)
Unfortunately, because of my personality and not being able to turn my head from a "car wrecks" I will watch the remaining three fight out the remaining challenges with bad taste....who knows, maybe one of those fist blows might knock some sense into one of them. As of now, I'm supporting Kim, the only girl left. I don't know if she is the most creative, but she is certainly the only one with personality! She could possibly be the next Sandra Lee (Semi-Home Made on Food Network). For those who don't know Sandra, she is a talentless hack who seems to get by with her personality and very skinny tall figure.
Fortunately, for viewers, the cocky Rob went home, no tear hear. How in the world does he ever expect people to watch him, when he's already made an idiot of himself. And don't get me started on him calling the judge's fools. Blessings do rain from the heaven above.
If you're left wondering what kind of shows and designers I truthfully like, well honey...PLEASE and I MEAN PLEASE set your DVR's for Divine Design with Candace Olson. Although I may not love all of her work, I strongly appreciat 95% of it. That is a true designer. I can't wait to talk about her later, she always gets me excited, but let's please not talk about her budgets, I checked into some bar stools she used in kitchen makeover....really cute....and REALLY EXPENSIVE, try $2000 a piece....well lets just say I will be standing in the kitchen to eat for a little longer!
Until next time, COME ON!
One such show that I have started watching is Design Star. For me, this whole thing has become Design Flop. I am not saying that there aren't talented people on the program, but COME ON PEOPLE. Last night was a perfect example. Wayne Newton's home (well guest home anyway)....
(if you missed last night's episode, you can click here to see highlights- it is the Design Rewind Tab) under Exclusive Episode 5 Videos
Where should I start with this one. First they walk in his home...uuing and awwing...when they should have been throwing up from the tacky and ugly. LOL. I am hoping for the most part they were trying to be kind, but COME ON! It was only a chandelier and a mirror away from Liberace's home.....BAD.... I loved when asked about their taste in interior decor, Wayne's wife says "modern" (there wasn't a modern piece of anything in that house...)...his response was Louis the 14th. That's fitting, pull out his thrown. Actually I believe it was there, next to the God awful cherub thrusting, gilded piece of "gaw" that they called the fireplace (which dwarfed Wayne, who is no small man)..
OK, enough about the home known as "House d' Tacky", lets move on to what the "designers" actually did...without getting in to detail....Bad and Bad. I understand they want to look like Krafty Kathy's, but why does everything they do have to look cheap? Dwayne and I were discussing the living room earlier. They didn't need to build those frames for behind the candle sconces and stain them (ugly and bad color). The window treatments were blah...and well, there wasn't a thing in that room which was tasteful, lazy susan included. Please excuse me and pardon me if I don't want a "cheap" tilt - a- whirl in my living room.....and all of this "where do I look? where do I look?"....how about you give them something to look at. Where was the focus....how about that gigantic fireplace (which in my opinion should have been ripped out).... COME ON!
Kitchen......MESS. I still don't understand what they actually did in that space, other than paint and have their carpenter fill in a couple of holes with some improvised wooden shelving. The designers kept talking about warming up the spaces with dark espresso stained furniture, does this seem like a oxymoron to anyone else? Where was the warmth? Where was the cozy? This was a guest home for goodness sakes, it should feel like a retreat away from home, other than a room of well.....poor taste....isn't this "Design Star" and not "Design on a Nickle" (not even a dime!)
Unfortunately, because of my personality and not being able to turn my head from a "car wrecks" I will watch the remaining three fight out the remaining challenges with bad taste....who knows, maybe one of those fist blows might knock some sense into one of them. As of now, I'm supporting Kim, the only girl left. I don't know if she is the most creative, but she is certainly the only one with personality! She could possibly be the next Sandra Lee (Semi-Home Made on Food Network). For those who don't know Sandra, she is a talentless hack who seems to get by with her personality and very skinny tall figure.
Fortunately, for viewers, the cocky Rob went home, no tear hear. How in the world does he ever expect people to watch him, when he's already made an idiot of himself. And don't get me started on him calling the judge's fools. Blessings do rain from the heaven above.
If you're left wondering what kind of shows and designers I truthfully like, well honey...PLEASE and I MEAN PLEASE set your DVR's for Divine Design with Candace Olson. Although I may not love all of her work, I strongly appreciat 95% of it. That is a true designer. I can't wait to talk about her later, she always gets me excited, but let's please not talk about her budgets, I checked into some bar stools she used in kitchen makeover....really cute....and REALLY EXPENSIVE, try $2000 a piece....well lets just say I will be standing in the kitchen to eat for a little longer!
Until next time, COME ON!
