Even by the standards of shows that air on HGTV and/or TLC, this latest variation of house p-rn sets the standard for having a blow-dried host acting as a project manager, making complex project come to life for unrealistic budgets, and ending up with irredeemably hideous final results.
I am diving in for the first time with the episode where the host who looks like a model is managing the renovation of a chef and his wife who bought some scabby little bungalow on some scabby little street.
The project proceeds, costs run up, hurdles both real and contrived are overcome.
Then comes the reveal: the front landing has wh-rehouse wallpaper; the bathroom has a garish combo of copper pedestal sinks and gold-framed mirrors, and on it goes.
In 20+ years of watching these shows on these networks - including all of Tex and Edna Gaines tributes to bad taste, and that pair of tw!ts in Vegas (is that still on?) - this is the ugliest, crassest, most god-awful ugly house I have even seen (whether "before" or "after").
If I ever bother to watch it again, it will probably be for camp value.
