In with the Old

I have watched much of the series and enjoyed it, but when I hit the Maine episode, I was appalled by the relentlessly self-congratulatory city couple. "Look at me! Look at my stuff! I'm a genius! This laundry room paint makes me look luminous!" Please.

The space was lovely, but so over-filled with matching posey pots and "merchandising,"...These are sort of people who move to the "country" and collectively drive up real estate prices and demand urban services and goods.

I embrace the preservation and renovation of old buildings, unfortunately it sometimes falls to moneyed jerks. Perhaps choose renovators with a good deal more personal appeal.

I love restoration stories, especially of beautiful buildings which have been abandoned. But I couldn't take more than 15 minutes of this show. Loads of "look how cute my family is" footage. Loads of "look how pretty the landscape around here is" footage. Not a lot on the design and construction of this project. And to top it all off, the narrator is vapid and annoying. So disappointed. Love the concept but hate the show.

Watched this expecting to see old/historic homes being renovated with an eye toward retaining the historic look and feel of the house, similar to This Old House projects. Instead, for example, I see them destroy every bit of charm from a beautiful Cape Cod brick house and turn it into a shame to look at. Typical to a lot of shows, it starts talking about how horrible the shape of the house is and really all you see are a house that needs the trim stripped/painted, new roof, and landscaping cleanup on the outside as well as minor reno on the inside. The example house winds up the host's personal vision of a modernized style-less thing. If you want to see someone retain all the charm of truly old homes, watch Nicole Curtis on Rehab Addict.

This is so bad. Where other shows use the process and opinions of the homeowners to voiceover pictures and views of the home, this show focuses only on them. Every single episode quickly scans the finished room, never stopping the camera not even once!!! You never get the full picture of the room from a fixed viewpoint, but they do focus on the homeowners, usually incessantly talking nonstop as if their opinions are so much more important than what they've made.

Even when you google the show, you can't see very many pictures of the finished product. Is it to hide the show so you'll watch it? Well I watched 2 entire hours of non stop droning about feelings and opinions to see a few 10 second pans of the finished home, zooming in on so many little ridiculous details that you never get to see what the homeowner sees everyday. Has to be the worst renovation show ever.

Great work but colors are not best. The wallpaper in the brick house was off and bad. Mustard paint in foyer was not period so learn to ask a designer. Interesting show though.

I would watch it more if Magnolia shows it as paying for it could be a bit much. Better choices hopefully in the color choices and not just her preference if she is the only one to do the show. I did watch only one show.