C: Bane of my existence

HGTV: Bane of my existence. I was happy but then back in the hey-day of 'Trading Spaces', early Oh's I discovered this concept of TV geared towards "home improvement". And I, like America, became obsessed. Now, I have weened myself off the drug that is HGTV but every once in awhile they pull me back in.

Like every February when they tease me with their supposed Dream House. I like to say that I don't desperately want that house but the fact is that I seriously do. Even though the decorating is that kind of crappy, 'matchy but not matchy' Southern Living look, I so want it. And then, every February, I spend the whole month hating my house and looking for inspiration

So here are some of the things that I hate (slash love):

• My House is Worth What: I love the host's hair but find the show generally depressing these days plus I cannot tolerate the long dramatic pauses

• Divine Design: I love Candice - she is genius...but her man-servants get on my last nerve...I especially abhor Chico. Plus she is Canadian...a future blog will explain that love/hate relationship....I don't have that kind of time.

• Carter Oosterhouse: Carter is my arch enemy. He is entirely too handsome and annoying...which is an overly common combination. I loathe how he pretends to have actual carpentry skills and care about the environment. I bet he uses toxic hair products - no one's hair looks that good naturally....hypocrite.

• House Hunters: Though this show is shockingly addictive, I do not understand how they manage to find the most truly annoying house hunters on the planet. Though on the flipside, I always end up feeling better about myself when watching.

• Domino Magazine: Okay...no tie to HGTV that I know of, but I do love/hate Domino. I basically love everything about this magazine but hate that I can never pull off anything like they do; even if I copied it exactly, I am just not hip enough to make it work, so it is just a monthly tease. 

Stupid Dream House; the logical solution would be to stop watching to lower my standards but I won't...instead I will just keep entering the contest year after year and accept my fate to live in a fairly non-dreamy house.

Comments

[Brooke]

While watching House Hunters count how many times the hunters say "this space would be great for entertaining."

Is that really a deciding factor? Is there something wrong with me since that thought never crossed my mind while shopping for a home?

[Caitlyn]

I think that real estate agents are very good at identifying people's insecurities. The type of people on house hunters must all have very obvious social insecurities (this is painfully obvious) so the agent is probably thinking "I bet they have no friends and if I talk about how they can entertain then they will think 'Wow, if I buy this house, my life will change dramatically and I'll have tons of friends to invite over for dinner parties'." And so the agent is selling this fictitious lifestyle instead of a plain old house.

You have to have friends to have dinner parties and you have to be normal to have friends and for the most part, house hunters are not normal, so my guess is that all this entertaining the talk about is make believe.