Decorating Advice and Paint Colors

What’s not to like about the new show on HGTV “Junk Brothers”? Two brothers find junk that has been thrown to the curb, fix it up & then return it to the family that threw it away. Well, I’ll tell you what’s not to like:

1. Not at all practical. These are projects that you need a full metal shop, wood shop, & a mad scientist brain for. The average person would lose a limb trying to replicate this.
2. The hosts remind me of watching “Strange Brew”. Something you only need to see once in a lifetime.
3. No Budget. In most cases it would just be cheaper & easier to buy a pool table instead if trying to turn a dining room table into one.
4. The people don’t seem at all surprised when their stuff is brought back to them. Apparently a bike being turned into a ceiling fan & hung in a tree is an everyday occurrence. Plus, it doesn’t seem like these people really need or want their junk back.

Honestly, I watched most of this show on mute.  It can go away & I wouldn’t miss it. What are your thoughts on this show? Leave a comment & let me know.

I have nothing against boys. I just don’t want to be around them all the time. This is why I turned off HGTV’s new show “Hammered: with John & Jimmy”. I watch HGTV to escape wrestling, football, golf, bowling, baseball, basketball, or whatever else is on the other networks. I don’t understand the recent trend of trying to “manly-ize” decorating channels. If I wanted to watch a show with boys I don’t care about doing something I have no interest in, that’s what most of the other channels are for. HGTV is for shows like “Date with Design”, one of my favorite shows a few years back. A person looking for love would tour 3 homes, choose the one they wanted to redo, decorate it, & then go on a date in the room with the homeowner. That was a show appropriate for HGTV. Until we see make-up tips on Monday Night Football, stick to your demographic.

Usually when I have a brilliant design idea that goes awry (The stenciled ivy of ’99, or the forest green sponge paint fiasco of the same year), it is up to me to fix. Invariably, I learn to live with it, at least for awhile, because, well, I’m lazy. Enter “Takeover My Makeover”, a new show on HGTV. This show has become one of my favorites. They take $2000 & transform your room into what it should have been. I love seeing how people have messed up their rooms & how to fix them. Plus it has designer Frank Fontana the winner of the reality show “The Great Domestic Showdown”. I hope this one stays around.

I promise I will get back to my usual crafty ways soon. However, I have been watching my TV lately & had the urge the scream & throw things. This tends to happen a lot when I watch the news or “Gilmore Girls”, but never when I watch decorating shows. They are my happy escape from the world. Suddenly this season, everything has changed, so the next few weeks will be my rants. I can’t help it. It’s not my fault there are suddenly tons of decorating shows featuring therapists & astrologists. Someone has to make fun of them & I didn’t get the name Sarakastic for nothing. I do this simply because I shouldn’t be the only person throwing stuff at the TV.