Sir, you are a giant fustercluck. I'm not a professional, but I have restored from the ground up an 1840s ordinary-person Victorian (ie no fancy turrets, gingerbread, stained glass etc.) Let's roll with my irritation:
In your intro, you lead with some before and after shots or footage. We can see in the before shot some very modern cheater beadboard (plywood with the grooves added, to give the illusion of 4 individual strips of beadboard. An affordable alternative to real beadboard which wouldn't have appeared in an authentic, never previously restored "pig's ear," as you call them. Ok fine, maybe you're restoring a restoration.
But then another before shot of another house shows the wood siding on the exterior. Anyone who has done any restoration on an old house knows that duplicating the spacing, angle, width, thickness etc of authentic siding is tough and expensive, but a quality restoration is tough and expensive. What did you do? It sure looks like you slapped aluminum siding on her. Anathema. Doesn't breathe, lets moisture and bugs accumulate. Next...
Built in 1895, you describe your project as a "Queen Anne Craftsman style house." There's no such thing as a Queen Anne Craftsman style, you doofus! Queen Anne is a subset of Victorian. Craftsman is totally different. And anyone who ever dipped a toe into historical architecture styles would look at this and say it's all Queen Anne, zero Craftsman.
You're in a dark house pointing out things with your flashlight beam while you describe them. Within about a 15 -second span, you're looking at peeling PAINT and in other areas, BEADBOARD coming apart, and you describe both as PLASTER coming apart. No plaster visible!!
Then you complain about a stink and turns out it's coming from a completely dry, almost no soft tissue or skin, cat skeleton laying on its side. Conveniently, there is a fresh teddy bear hamster corpse (doesn't look like a rat and wrong color pattern) laying on the floor in the center of the cat skeleton abdomen. Did you guys decide to do a little pre-staging?
One more thing and I'm going to throw up and find something else to watch. You commented that it was really well preserved by the prior owners, as you fondle a hideous stained and varnished piece of plywood in a very 1980s style fireplace surround.
I see there's just this one season, filmed back in 2016, so I imagine you gave up on this gig or maybe decided to go back and get some learning on. As many have commented, you could follow the footsteps of Brett Waterman in Restored. He's pretty solid.
