Bargain Mansions

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.

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.

I can't take anything Tamara Day says as credible. Since when is it ok to "work" any construction site in high heeled boots and skinny jeans. Her self taught "expertise" is a long way off. Her kitchens are a joke and the staging is so crowed it often looks like packrats live in the newly renovated house. What on earth was HHTV thinking?

As others are saying, this is definitely NOT restoration, but renovation. I watch in horror and disbelief at Day as she says she is in the process of restoring and bringing these beautiful and neglected stately mansions back to former glory. What she says and what she inevitably does, is the opposite of restoration. I have watched her over many episodes. And each and every time, I watch with increasing angst as she successfully makes her way, with methodical and very detailed intent, to destroy every last vestige of vintage beauty that these houses had. I have given her opportunity to redeem herself more than she deserves, and each and every time, I am sick by the end of every episode. I won't watch this show anymore.