Hideous Houses

First off the dynamic between the designer and contractor is not good...it seems like they hate each other! The main guy is on something cause just how off the wall he comes across! They have a $20k budget and 4 days to get it all done, plus all the trades are on the job ant the same time, a bad strategy! Seems like they bite off more than they can chew in more ways than one. The paint they choose for their projects is awful especially because there's just too much of it for such small spaces. Interesting this show was made in 2012 and I'd never seen it before. I guess it's not a surprise they only have one season.

15 minutes in and I'm really hating these people. They seem to have absolutely no concern for the people whose houses they're working on. The budget is insanely small, which I get - the show is new, and if they don't have money, they don't have money, plus it doesn't seem like the homeowners are having to pay anything, and wouldn't be able to afford it if they did. But why only four days to do a whole reno? That timeline is insane, even for a small house. Hell, it can take over a week for other shows to fix up a garage to make it liveable. I don't know if it's because of this timeline that the hosts are stressed or what, but that's no excuse to just throw out impoverished people's stuff against their will and to completely talk over them while they're trying to speak. It feels like the showrunners don't care about the people living in the home at all except as a source of labor. Even the premise is to find "ugly houses", not "people in need of help".

I don't know who lied to Meagan and told her she is a world class designer. Her design style is hideous. At least they aren't lying about the shows name. She uses a pish posh of paints and colors for such small houses. These houses are so small she shouldn't be using more then two colors in the interior for walls and trims combined. Color should be incorporated in the furniture, pillows, curtains. So far I have seen an array of tacky colors all over the walls at the end of each project, peach, blue, vanilla, lavender, lime green, yellow, ugh and yellow lamp shades, gray curtains with white prints, red pillows, gross, brown and black furniture and every other color you can think of under one roof. Heard her say once that a carpet was "hotely". I'm surprised she said that, since (in my opinion) hotel is her style. She's short tempered, barks at the rest of the cast for her design mistakes and her delays. Her attitude is a real downer...not entertainment. I like watching home shows on HGTV for relaxation, not for an anxiety, stress induced, experience that raises my blood pressure. I really dislike this show, the designer, and feel sorry for the people that win a makeover.

Watching this show today on HBO and I am honestly a little stunned. First off, it's mean. The whole idea is to find a house in poor condition and fix it up, but what they're really finding is poor people with homes in disrepair. And then they proceed to call their homes "hideous!" over and over. They put a whopping 20k into making repairs over four days by what I am convinced is the dumbest contractor and the WORST designer I have ever seen on TV and try to sell it as entertainment. I have sat through 3 episodes now thinking "this has GOT to get better," but it never does. I will say it did make me laugh a few times, mostly at how awkward the whole thing is, and for those laughs I gave it two stars.

The contractors and designer are the hideous part of the show. They basically shame people for being poor and not able to improve their homes. They decided to have people fight on television to obviously ramp up the "pressure" and entertainment value. It wasn't entertaining, it was horrible and stress inducing for all of the wrong reasons.

I hate the fake interactions on most of these shows but this one really takes the cake. They honestly don't appear to know what they are doing. And don't get me started on the "designs." If I could have left a review with negative stars I would. Someone please make that a thing.

This is probably the reason Sears went out of business.