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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,095

    My biggest current complaints with 'Home Improvement' shows are listed below:

    • There is never any clutter. Complete Balderdash. Life is full of clutter.
    • Grey is NOT a colour. It's just dirty white. And White is horrible if no other real colours are used in the house.
    • Concrete is NOT attractive. Actually, it's just grey made physical and it's horrible.
    • Virtually NOBODY can spend £500k on a property that already cost £800k. In fact, they're unlikely to be able to even think about £500k for the property itself.
    • How much do carpets cost compared to dropped & smashed plates? I reckon warm feel carpets save money on broken crockery and are nicer to walk on, play on, lounge on and the cat paws can grip them when the cat goes from asleep to racing away in an eye blink.
    • I'd like to re-iterate that polished concrete floors are a horrible way to use a horrible material.
    • Open plan houses are drafty and don't have enough walls for pictures. And when your budget is a bit tight, heating a sensible size room is more affordable than heating an open plan house.
    • The quality of workmanship in a century old house is frequently a lot better than in modern houses, and they've already lasted 100 years to prove the quality of materials. So DON'T DEMOLISH THEM becuse you need a room refresh and end up building anew.

    That's about all my complaints about home improvement shows. I think I covered the programs from start to finish with my various objections. Oh, and the presenters are often either smug and patronising or offensively jolly hockeysticks. So, apart from that little list. I love home improvement shows.

    Regards

    Richard

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,275

    Yeah, I will note I absolutely hate the 'games, jokes, puns, and cute family time spots' that are stuffed into a show, which otherwise might have been able to highlight the skills, costs, or real issues of the renovations of older or even newer homes. My current cable package doesn't offer DIY but I used to get it and it was better than HGTV in that sense. I really need to watch more PBS offerings if I could just remember to, 'This Old House' addressed some pretty tough issues in the early episodes.

    If I ever had the money to build or renovate I would like a large room big enough for a series of bookshelves (for books), cupboards, and windows facing over a garden patio. The floor would be solid surface able to handle be dripped on by either chalk dust, paint, water, dye, or to find pins, needles, or stuff you would not want on a carpet. The laundry room would be off to the side for said dyed product could be transferred back and forth easily. And an area for computers, cameras, etc...

    I occasionally buy lottery tickets with that dream. :-)

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 2,202

    I use Firefox as my main web browser. I haven't had any problems saving passwords or even credit card numbers. The only thing I miss is Chrome will let you create a temporary virtual card number to use instead of the real one, which is good if your favorite CG site has a history of leaking your real credit card information.

    I also haven’t had any problems with javascript. But for whatever reason, the Costco website works in Chrome and has not worked in Firefox.

    Now my biggest issue with these home improvement shows is the unrealistic couples they portray. Like, you have a husband who makes homemade greeting cards and a wife who does nothing, but they have a budget of $300,000 for home improvement. And they’re really worried because it will cost $500,000 to upgrade their $1,500,000 house and they only have a budget of $300,000 for home improvement. And somehow by the end of the show, the host manages to save money by using a vintage lamp she found on e-Bay so they are able to do the upgrade with just $499,000 instead of $500,000, which turns out to be within their budget.

    It’s about as realistic as a Hallmark Movie in which the million dollar lawyer husband is afraid to tell his wife that he wants to give up his million dollar job and grow his own herbs instead. And the wife is afraid to tell her husband she doesn’t want to live the life of a million dollar lawyer and really just wishes she could be more connected with nature. And they spend the entire movie not telling each other the truth until the truth is accidentally revealed at the end. And they live happily ever after as parsley farmers but somehow still having millions of dollars.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,275

    LOL

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,808
    edited December 9

    Have you folx watched Escape to the Chateau? I love it because it's so /real/... I mean, yeah, they're renovating a French castle, and often not to my personal taste, but things go wrong and bleeped-out swears are occasionally dropped, The money is tight, so in the earlier seasons they were not living in great conditions, and they're mostly doing it themselves. Sometimes they just have to save up and wait before they can tackle something big, and there's a lot of upcycling to make the money stretch. When something comes together it feels like a triumph because they worked so hard for it!!

    I haven't seen the last few seasons, but when the kids and I were temp living with my parents, Mom and Teen Kiddo (then 7) and I watched every week. (We were also, for a bunch of it, gutting and renovating my house due to the damage the ex did to it, so it was nice to not feel alone with some of the "oh, so this entire room is full of bat guano, that's gonna be fun" type issues.)

    I know there are a couple other similar that Mom follows, and I could get the names if anyone is interested.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,079
    edited December 9

    richardandtracy said:

    My biggest current complaints with 'Home Improvement' shows are listed below:

    • There is never any clutter. Complete Balderdash. Life is full of clutter.
    • Grey is NOT a colour. It's just dirty white. And White is horrible if no other real colours are used in the house.
    • Concrete is NOT attractive. Actually, it's just grey made physical and it's horrible.
    • Virtually NOBODY can spend £500k on a property that already cost £800k. In fact, they're unlikely to be able to even think about £500k for the property itself.
    • How much do carpets cost compared to dropped & smashed plates? I reckon warm feel carpets save money on broken crockery and are nicer to walk on, play on, lounge on and the cat paws can grip them when the cat goes from asleep to racing away in an eye blink.
    • I'd like to re-iterate that polished concrete floors are a horrible way to use a horrible material.
    • Open plan houses are drafty and don't have enough walls for pictures. And when your budget is a bit tight, heating a sensible size room is more affordable than heating an open plan house.
    • The quality of workmanship in a century old house is frequently a lot better than in modern houses, and they've already lasted 100 years to prove the quality of materials. So DON'T DEMOLISH THEM becuse you need a room refresh and end up building anew.

    That's about all my complaints about home improvement shows. I think I covered the programs from start to finish with my various objections. Oh, and the presenters are often either smug and patronising or offensively jolly hockeysticks. So, apart from that little list. I love home improvement shows.

    Regards

    Richard

    Just my opinion, but yep, totally agree, but also add:  Concrete, and minimalist architectures above the basement is just cheapness that you can charge more for.  Houses should have height, at least two stories.  Floors should be hardwood, walls should be plaster or at least plaster wallboard with some accents in stone or wood.   Old wooden houses have more character and can (with standard upkeep) outshine brick McMansions.  Doorways should be decoratively framed.  There should be pictures on the walls, rugs (not carpet) on the floor, heat should be forced air, ceilings should be high, bathrooms should be small, and basements should be utilitarian and cool, if not cold (good for storing potatoes from your garden)  This town is full of such gems.

    My aunt had a beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright ranch style house in Florida, built in 1958, Terrazzo floor, concrete block walls, falling apart in 2008.  Window rot, floor cracking, termite destruction in the rafters, basement flooding despite being built on top of a small hill.  The only things admirable about the house was its location (on a hill overlooking the Indian River Lagoon), and the center flat-stone, three sided, fireplace in the middle of the Greatroom with 50 feet of windows looking over an expansive lawn down to the lagoon.  Whereas this little town in western NY State is full of 100 to 200 year old, two story, wooden houses.  And despite the current lack of wealthy owners and old-time maintenance skills, are still in enviable condition.

    Edited to add:  Admittedly however, they were built when a wooden 2x4 was 2 inches by 4 inches of hard, old growth, dense wood.  Not 1.5 by 3.5 inches of soft pine.no  People today don't realize how much of Earth's treasures have been squandered and we have to deal with what's left.sad  I've seen the changes in my lifetime.  People are a blight on the planet.crying  Where's a big meteorite when you need it?devil

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,808
    edited December 9

    LeatherGryphon said:

    richardandtracy said:

    My biggest current complaints with 'Home Improvement' shows are listed below:

    • There is never any clutter. Complete Balderdash. Life is full of clutter.
    • Grey is NOT a colour. It's just dirty white. And White is horrible if no other real colours are used in the house.
    • Concrete is NOT attractive. Actually, it's just grey made physical and it's horrible.
    • Virtually NOBODY can spend £500k on a property that already cost £800k. In fact, they're unlikely to be able to even think about £500k for the property itself.
    • How much do carpets cost compared to dropped & smashed plates? I reckon warm feel carpets save money on broken crockery and are nicer to walk on, play on, lounge on and the cat paws can grip them when the cat goes from asleep to racing away in an eye blink.
    • I'd like to re-iterate that polished concrete floors are a horrible way to use a horrible material.
    • Open plan houses are drafty and don't have enough walls for pictures. And when your budget is a bit tight, heating a sensible size room is more affordable than heating an open plan house.
    • The quality of workmanship in a century old house is frequently a lot better than in modern houses, and they've already lasted 100 years to prove the quality of materials. So DON'T DEMOLISH THEM becuse you need a room refresh and end up building anew.

    That's about all my complaints about home improvement shows. I think I covered the programs from start to finish with my various objections. Oh, and the presenters are often either smug and patronising or offensively jolly hockeysticks. So, apart from that little list. I love home improvement shows.

    Regards

    Richard

    Just my opinion, but yep, totally agree, but also add:  Concrete, and minimalist architectures above the basement is just cheapness that you can charge more for.  Houses should have height, at least two stories.  Floors should be hardwood, walls should be plaster or at least plaster wallboard with some accents in stone or wood.   Old wooden houses have more character and can (with standard upkeep) outshine brick McMansions.  Doorways should be decoratively framed.  There should be pictures on the walls, rugs (not carpet) on the floor, heat should be forced air, ceilings should be high, bathrooms should be small, and basements should be utilitarian and cool, if not cold (good for storing potatoes from your garden)  This town is full of such gems.

    My aunt had a beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright ranch style house in Florida, built in 1958, Terazzo floor, concrete block walls, falling apart in 2008.  Window rot, floor cracking, termite destruction in the rafters, basement flooding despite being built on top of a small hill.  The only things admirable about the house was its location (on a hill overlooking the Indian River Lagoon), and the center flat-stone, three sided, fireplace in the middle of the Greatroom with 50 feet of windows looking over an expansive lawn down to the lagoon.  Whereas this little town in western NY State is full of 100 to 200 year old, two story, wooden houses.  And despite the current lack of wealthy owners and old-time maintenance skills, are still in enviable condition.

    Very much agree with your aesthetic choices... though I have to say from a practical standpoint, as a safety choice for a little person who gets massive zoomies and doesn't have a great sense of self-preservation when it comes to physics, at this season in my life I'm grateful for carpet over the hard floor/rugs combo. And also my heating bill is not super fond of high ceilings. And I would definitely be okay with my bathroom being a little bigger than it is. Living alone, I wouldn't care, but it gets hard to maneuver when there's more than one person in it.

    Post edited by SilverGirl on
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,275

    I have lived in an apartment with terazzo floors. Cold and clamy in winter, especially if the heat is not turned on by the owner. But it can survive a severe earthquake.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited 1:23AM

    memcneil70 said:

    Well as a sign of how well my flatmate, whose degree is in Computer Science does with his computers, some go back to 1990s and he has kept the Windows working, even taking one to the non-Windows/Mac OS, and has them all networked together. I have no clue how he does it. He resisted getting an iMac in 2013 and now primarily uses it as a monitor and to watch movies. His work in on the newer Windows 11 and MacMini M4. He has to be able to access Google Docs for that.

    Has anyone ever noticed that on home improvement shows they never show a room or space where a heavy computer user has a space? Heck, I haven't seen anything beyond a place for a notepad without a electrical outlet near it (ie in the center of the room). These shows are my way to take a break from stress and dream a little.

    ..somewhat the same.  Began programme in the punch card mainframe days (rhough LeatherGyphon has me beat) when what we can carry in our pocket or even wear on our wrist today took up a large climate controlled room in the basement of the  science and math building at hte college i once attended,

    Been running with Win 7 since 2012 and never had much more than an occasional BSOD (that was usually due to a "buggy driver issue".  The downside is software companies started abandoning it even  before 2020.  I also havea18 year old Toshba notebook running 32 bit Win Xp that still boots up and works fine. 

    While a major upgrade to meet WIn11 is needed it hasn't been in the cards for a while and likely not for a while more as memory prices have skyrocketed out of sight.  So I keep coaxing along my trusty old my 2,8 GHz 6 core Xeon 5660 powered homebuild with 24 GB of (yes) DDR2 1033 memory and a 12 GB (pre RTX) Titan X.

    In computer years it is age 85.

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,808

    kyoto kid said:

    In computer years it is age 85.

    Honestly curious (because I'm not tech /horrible/ but certainly not super proficient) -- is there an actual way to calculate that, like they do dog years or cat years? Or is that more of a joke?

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,808

    non-complaint: Once there's snow on the ground and clouds in the sky, the reflected light means there's something to see besides dark when I look out my window after the sun goes down. Makes things feel a lot less isolating when we're on a schedule that's not super aligned with the limited daylight. The lace of tree branches against the grey sky is stark but beautiful, and there are so very many lovely mature trees around here to enjoy.

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