Bargain Mansions

I'm sorry, but I think Tamara has no taste. Her projects don't come out with any finesse. Her choices for materials are awful and look cheap. She just doesn't have an eye for layout or decorating. I live in Kansas City and I'm embarrassed. Find someone who has some talent please.

This lady has no clue about Interior Design or decorating!!! I wanted to like this show because I live in KC but I just can't. She states she is a self-taught designer but I don't know what she taught herself with. The principles of design are completely ignored and her decorating is atrocious!!! She has no concept of the working triangle in a kitchen. In one episode she placed the fridge in the pantry and completely ruined the function of the kitchen. There is no harmony or balance in what she does. In this same kitchen she had tile with brass inlays and put it all over the kitchen walls with open shelving and three completely different style light fixtures. It was gawd awful. There was absolutely no harmony or balance.

I posted on her FB page and boy did I catch flack from her "fans". I was made fun of for having gone to a local community college where I earned an Associates in Interior Design, which, by the way, most designers only have an Associates, if they have any credentials at all. She could certainly learn a great deal by going to school. I just can't watch this woman destroy these beautiful old homes.

This show is not at all what it should be. Tamara buys these beautiful mansions just to rip out all of the 19th and 20th century charm. It defiantly hurts my heart to see her paint over the original wood work, reconfigure floor layout to destroy all signs of the home's original plans, and paint stately brick buildings with a "whitewash". Although her homes end up very nice in the end, she has no sense or care for original features. Poor choices in light fixtures and not historically accurate tile/counter picks just add to the frustration of watching this show. In addition to all this, she is not that good on camera. She seems to try too hard when explaining something and it is very cringe worthy. I feel terrible leaving such a poor review, but it is necessary to let others know that this show is not what it seems to be. I wish Tamara would change her views on her mansions and actually restore them instead of permanently changing them for the worse.

I like the idea of the show but agree with most of the other comments. She ruins the beauty of these older homes. The" After" of the "Before and After" is not much better. Mostly white walls and gold fixtures looks tacky to me..and not all historic because she rips everything out. The staging furniture and art work is ugly.

Since when is a 3,000 square foot house a mansion? Why do over an upstairs of a mansion and keep it at three bedrooms? Does all the art have to be blobs of modern art? Why have a 'living room' with one chair and a little end table as the only items in the whole room? What family is going to be happy with one chair in front of a fireplace? Does the family draw straws to see who gets to sit there? So much empty space and sparseness in huge rooms. Exterior of colonial mansion looked much better before than after. Beautiful, huge sun porch made into a closet? What a waste. Taking it off the dvr.