HGTV used to be about creating personalized lifestyles, about getting your hands dirty in gardens you intend to watch mature from inside homes that reflected your character.
Now, it's curb appeal, increasing the market value of your home, squeezing every last cent out of prospective buyers, & turning your home into an ATM instead of building equity so that your home will always be your soft place to fall.
It's about what people will pay for 300 square feet in New York City, couples in crisis because they can't manage a bath remodel for less than $30,000, a kitchen remodel for less than $100,000, & newlyweds who can't find their dream home on a "budget" of $400,000.00.
Landscaping is not gardening. Copying is not decorating.
It's a leap to say that HGTV's exploitation of a homeowner's desire to turn a buck is responsible for the housing crisis in this country but, hey, sometimes the tail does wag the dog.
That's my take, what's yours?
2007-10-25
08:22:54
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Liligirl
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Did everyone catch Saaanen's brilliant comment?
Was looking for opinions about the current programming idylls of HGTV not remedies from latent three year olds.
2007-10-25
12:09:31 ·
update #1