Hack My Home

Ropes that hang from the ceiling in the kid's room? Spinning mirrors with shelves where bottles can fall off into a black hole and hands can get stuck? Moving closets that can be used as impromptus amusement park rides? Yas, let the lawsuits begin.

And it has not escaped my notice that these homes end up with a lot less stuff than they started with. And where is all this stuff? Sitting in storage containing on the curb, most likely, where it will all be dumped someplace inside the house, and they'll be right back where they started.

Seriously, I do appreciate what the show is doing for these families. But there are so many safety hazards I cringe with each episode.

I really love the hacks - like at the end of the episode and stuff. Always cool to see what they come up with and how they transform the spaces... but man is it hard to sit through when they are at "the headquarters" and how they communicate with eachother. It has this forced excitement and almost feels like they are being fed dialogue off screen to say. It doesn't feel authentic.

I wish they had a better cast of people that vibe better. The guy with the curly big hair is a little much. I really get turned off by people trying to force comedy. And this show has a lot of that...

Other than that though - the creative of these people is pretty impressive.

Literally the most annoying thing about this show is the absolutely unbearable use of the work "hack" to describe every minor thing that's changed. It's honestly not a bad renovation show and they do some unique things but it's like the producers have them a quota for the word that they must make or the actors will be tortured. We put added a lamp to this room, hack! We threw out all the garbage you had over here, hack! Bought you a regular desk from Walmart, hack! Just let it flow instead of trying to force the use of one particular word over and over. Especially when it almost never even applies.

So tired of every little thing now being called a "hack" & since that is in the name of the show they say it every few minutes. There were good, creative ideas, designs, & innovation, so please call them those grownup things, & not "hacks". The show tries too hard to make their hosts interesting by making them look & act eccentric & kooky to the point of it being fake. Ati Williams is the only one of the hosts who came across as real & personable. Kudos to the actual carpenters behind the scenes that do the actual work.

I would love to see the condition of the house in the first show a few weeks later with the 4 out of control boys who had no respect for anything. They were too old to be purposely dumping paint on themselves in the workshop - no adult tried to reign anything in. There's a difference between being creative & just allowing them be messy & rude. I wonder how long it was before one of the boys squished one or more of his brothers with the push button moving wall in the kids' tv area or jammed it up because of toys underneath? With all the moving components, the space only works if the kids are taught how to help pick up after themselves. They need to have respect for their home, the space, the things in it & their parents. They didn't have it before, so they can't learn that with the nice space given to them if they are never taught or made to be responsible.

Not sure if I will watch more episodes, there was a lot going on that was hard to stomach.

Except I guess for the first episode, the rest of the "hacks" are just throw away all your garbage, and tear down a wall to have more space and light.

You see families that cannot have anything organized asking for help, when the only thing they need is a proper furniture. I wonder what would be the look of all those places a month after the renovation.

Basically they have more than they can store, so in all the "afters" you see a lot less crap. Like the teenage girl's room. Her room had personality and junk, so they got rid of everything and turned it into some generic Barbie house. Don't talk to me about the guitar storage, it didn't make sense.

Anyway, it is a nice show to watch, maybe get a few ideas, and wonder all the time why are they doing what they do.