Worst decorating show ever made

LilyDaleLady

Seriously, this is just worst of the worst decorating shows. I went to check it out here, and was gobsmacked to see that it has run for at least 10 seasons! from 2003-2012!

It's sad and fake. Clearly pretty Tanya Memme has no creds in design whatsoever -- she's a model/actress (who resembles closely Jill Hennesey of "Law & Order" fame) -- she's clearly here to provide "hotness" and wear tight skimpy clothes that are wildly inappropriate for someone supposedly painting or staining furniture!

Roger Hazard: what the HECK? this guy cannot really be a designer nor interior decorator. I think he claims to be a "staging expert". (Neither "actor" has the slightest credentials.) He looks like a body builder. He is so out of his depth here, I have to wonder if he's the producer's formerly unemployed cousin or something. The two of them are just plain embarrassing.

The episodes are being rerun on a new TV station in my area, with nothing that told me how old they are (17 years ago? yikes!) but sorry, nothing in 2003 nor in 2020 justifies the awful stuff they do to people's poor innocent houses.

Most of these houses suffer from nothing worse than lack of tidying-up (re: Marie Kondo), a good cleaning plus carpet steaming and putting personal items away in boxes while the house is being shown by realtors. Instead....Tanya and Roger move in, making lame jokes and acting "cute".

In one horrific episode....Roger compels a homeowner to allow him to paint her perfectly OK (if dull) bungalow's interior with bright ORANGE paint....NOT KIDDING! when was that EVER in style? it violates a well-known realtor's "rule" to paint things neutral, so you don't put buyers off. (You are trying to SELL after all, and not decorating a new home to your own taste.) So Roger paints this entire, very small house neon orange -- not one accent wall -- the whole bleepin' house: living room, dining room, kitchen AND a very large family room with a 2 story ceiling. I've never seen anything so awful in my life. Whoever buys that house (if anyone does -- the show overlaps the 2008-2013 housing/foreclosure crisis in a deeply troubling way -- meaning many of these folks were likely very desperate to sell and may have been FORECLOSED ON due to Roger's heinous decorating "advice"!!!!) probably had a huge expense to repaint every room, meaning they paid UNDER market value for sure.

The next show had him....painting someone else's living room bright orange. Another one: bright green and another bright blue. These are colors designed to make buyers run screaming.

But the worst, fakest part: the show starts with buyers who are supposedly looking at the home during an open house, and secretly videotapes them saying really awful hurtful things -- not about the HOUSE itself, but about the family's furniture and knick-knacks! how dumb and mean is that? no buyer thinks they are buying the FURNITURE or decor! Most buyers accept they will have to do a bit of painting.

THEN in the fakest bit of all, the buyers supposedly come back AFTER and now rave about Roger's "designs" -- neon orange walls in every room, awful "craft art" and cheap curtains that look like sheets, and (bizarrely) new bed linens. (Do these buyers think they get the BED LINENS?) What home buyers come back a second time? NOBODY, that's who! the only way the show could do this would be to pay or bribe them somehow (and they must be paid for being filmed!). So this is 100% faked for the show. That is dishonest and even fraudulent.

If that's not enough...at the end of EVERY show, Tanya says the same thing" "for sure, the buyers will get an offer ANY DAY now!" -- never once saying if the house really sold, or for what price, or if the decor helped or hurt. They spend an average of $1400 (of the owner's money? or the show's? they don't say!!!) which is frankly totally wasted on crap that likely harms the final selling price.

I'd give $5 to know how many of these botched abortions of redecorating resulted in a foreclosure in the worst housing market in 75 years. Yet this show went on and on .... was it really popular? or just very cheap to produce? who was the audience? HGTV and its clones have devolved into self-parody and useless, low-information garbage.

If you do watch, it's only laugh at the obscenely awful decorating "advice" here.

score 1/10

LilyDaleLady 24 March 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw5573290/