Dumb homeowner tricks
I watch a lot of home improvement, remodeling, and landscaping shows on HGTV, and I've observed that some of the homeowners involved seem to exhibit a high "Duh" factor. (Or as Dogbert would say, they're real in-Duh-viduals.) Case in point, the episode of Ground Breakers that aired this morning.
Seems that the homeowners bought this beautiful (and very expensive) new home with a "splendid view of the golf course." They were delighted with the view -- until they lost a window and a door to stray golf balls during their first three weeks there, and discovered they needed a major landscaping job to ward off the golf balls. (And for privacy, since the golfers had a splendid view of their back yard.)
Isn't this a bit like buying a house that you know full well is next door to a pig farm, and then being upset that it stinks? Or, I suppose, buying a house next to a Naval Air Station and being dismayed at the jet noise.
Caveat emptor.
2 comments:
HGTV needs to tone itself down for the middle class audience. Most of the features on that network are out of my price range.
One woman turned her giant kitchen (BITCH!) into this super-expensive giant kitchen (BITCH!) so as to not have a single thing visible on any surface. She had those fancy sliding pantry panels and all kinds of cubbyholes (BITCH!).
Yeah, I'm constantly amazed on Designer's Challenge when they toss out the fact that "the owners have set aside $40,000 to remodel this kitchen" which is already way beyond anything I can ever hope to have. On Ground Breakers they don't ever say what it costs, but you can tell it has to be BIG bucks.
I do enjoy Decorating Cents and Design on a Dime. I used to like Landscape Smart when they kept it to one relatively small project with a reasonable cost if you did it yourself. Now it's pretty much the same as Landscape Solutions and Outer Spaces -- a whole yard makeover and they don't discuss the cost.
The really weird thing is that I never envisioned having any interest in this stuff at all. Yard work and home improvement were always my ex's bailiwick. Now that I have a house that's all mine, I want to do something with it. :)
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