House !!!!!! to do up my house for me?

pickledpink

GDB2222 wrote: »

Ok, here is the picture. We've been in our house here 10 years now, and quite happy. When we moved in, the house was decorated and all that, but we've done very little since then. Young family have grown up and dilapidated the place much faster than we could improve it, and we've accumulated a skip-full of clutter.

Now, what I want is one of those TV companies to come in and spruce the place up for us. Then, we'll look suitably chastened when nobody buys it on the open day, and suitably elated when told that one or two couples were definitely slightly interested. TV company has another episode in the can. The viewers can ogle our house and wonder how we let it get so shabby. We have a load of new carpets and decorations. Win-win, all round!

So, which TV company should we favour for this?

I can't imagine why you'd want to do such a thing!

Shabby chic is very much in vogue now.:D

Lurleene

If you haven't been put off yet, this TV company are currently looking for 'contributers' as I believe they are called in showbiz.

http://www.mavericktv.co.uk/interiors

This has just been sent round at work.

Good luck!

GDB2222

Lurleene wrote: »

If you haven't been put off yet, this TV company are currently looking for 'contributers' as I believe they are called in showbiz.

http://www.mavericktv.co.uk/interiors

This has just been sent round at work.

Good luck!

Thanks for that. I spoke to them, and unfortunately they want the punters to fund the makeover. I asked them what they contribute, and it turns out to be 'design advice'. 'We would inspire you to think out of the box.'

So, the punters end up having to do what the 'designers' suggest and pay for it as well, so as to provide the programme makers with some free material to film. Such a bad deal for the punters, surely?

Phirefly

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Lurleene

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks for that. I spoke to them, and unfortunately they want the punters to fund the makeover. I asked them what they contribute, and it turns out to be 'design advice'. 'We would inspire you to think out of the box.'

So, the punters end up having to do what the 'designers' suggest and pay for it as well, so as to provide the programme makers with some free material to film. Such a bad deal for the punters, surely?

Sorry about that - I just presumed it would be free!:o I thought houses recieved a makeover in these shows in return for the upheaval and allowing the public into their homes - and the TV companies got to make a relatively cheap programme.

I agree that doesn't sound a good deal. Certainly if I had the money to spend on re-doing my house I would want to spend it on things I had chosen with love, not something a TV presenter bullied me into!:rolleyes:

GDB2222

Certainly no need to apologise! It was an education for me, too.

SingleSue

My friend had her house made over....

She said what you see on the screen is a long way from what you actually get on the day.

What she found weird was that they painted 2 walls (the ones the cameras filmed) but left the other walls in her lounge and dining room. Put up a weird concoction of a bookcase/storage thing that immediately they left, she tipped sideways and moved (much more practical) and the finishing off was a little eeekk to say the least.

She was however, very very pleased with her bedroom, they actually did a complete job in that room and it looked gorgeous and was completely to her taste.

She didn't have to pay anything towards it at all.

fc123

Our Friends in Charlton had their house 'done' back in, I think 2003?.
I am out of touch with tellyland at the mo but it was a reasonably, personable bloke who is an Estate Agent Expert (or Expert Estate agent) and it was Daytime telly.
It's aim was to work out why houses didn't sell (and this was when any old cowshed would sell) and he did his Guru thing...voila...house sold.

PN will know who he was.

But, beware, Telly land is not what it seems.

My friend is a 'very, creative person' with 3 young boys who are like an unruly herd (as boys are)....so, they put all her stuff into storage, paint bla bla.......and claimed the house sold.
It didn't....but it was decorated to enough of a standard for then rent out.
Only prob is they did an equity thingummy to buy another place.
They are doing OK, but it's not the easiest situation.

We also had some IT work done years back by a girl who purchased Laurence Llewelyn-Bowens house down the hill....she reckoned overpriced and work within it was dead bodge up....and this was his private home.....but she still bought it.....but this was 2001/02 sometime.


Thing is GDB....You, more than anyone, know that there is no such thing as a free lunch....or a freebie makeover without a bit of humiliation from the presenter......it's part of the show.;)

fc123

Does anyone remember the changing rooms with the shelves and the huge, lifetime collection of teapots?
It was the blonde who did the DFS sofa ads.......Linda Barker.....they showed it in slow motion as a camera fixed in the room filmed it.

The whole lot fell down and smashed everywhere.

Kavanne

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