In with the Old

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.

I literally made an IMDB account just to write a review on this show. It passes itself off as a revivalist/restoration home renovation show. But honestly all it does is exhibit obnoxiously pretentious people that basically modernize beautiful historic homes into these ugly Pinterest-esque monstrosities. I love historic homes and vintage/antique things in general and this show is insulting. The only reason I gave this show a rating of 4/10 rather than a 1/10 is because of the beginning of each episode that shows the original state of the featured home and the history behind it. Other than that it just aggravates me.

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.

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.

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.