Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?

This is a fairly standard, enjoyable HGTV home renovation show - except for season 1, episode 5, when the homeowners' guinea pig is moved into a bottom cabinet of the laundry room, with much less natural light and seemingly less ventilation than the previous enclosure. Overall, I appreciated the designer's ability to creatively reimagine floor plans, but the family didn't mention the guinea pig's location or enclosure as a problem (at least not in the footage that aired). The family seemed to love their guinea pig, so I'm hoping they were just being polite when they marveled at the cabinet and didn't end up using it. I hope Poncho gets lots of love and attention.

The show is way too long , and at the end the designs are uninspiring and insipid. Also, the woman who the lead designer should take a lesson from the female designers of other shows ( Windy City Rehab, anyone?) and make and effort to understand "numbers' it is not that hard . Will save you trouble in the long run.

On the very first episode she goes into a house and I'm hoping that the homeowners intentionally made the house look like a junkyard because would anybody in their right mind let their kids have toys on every inch of space in the house? Would anybody in their right mind have dirty clothes and dishes sitting around? And all the whining that the homeowners do "oh I was so attached to that". Grow up for heaven's sakes and if you really want something changed then let the designers do their work and quit complaining. I for one would love to have a makeover and I wouldn't complain about a thing they were doing. Or maybe the producers coach the people on how bad the house should look and all the bad things they should say and or complain about just so they think it might make the show more interesting?

Liked the show and then all of a sudden I found myself getting irritable. I stopped doing what I was doing and focused solely on the TV. It was the homeowners responses to their renovation. Way way way over the top! All of them! Definitely being coached. Some even laughing wildly. Laughing? Why would you laugh? Smiling is good but laughing made no sense to me. The husband didn't bother me one way or the other. He's obviously just there to bounce things off. It's just those over directed over the top reactions I can't stomach. The renovations are all pleasing, I didn't see one I didn't like. And the host is good. One more negative is the wallpaper offerings. But obviously that's a very personal like/dislike.

The homeowners had clutter all over the place, including on the counters.

Instead of putting things away they spent $100,000 for a remodel.

Another dismal HGTV show.