Get Your House in Order (Channel 4)

mmmsnow

I was wondering if anyone else saw this? It was a strange programme that was based on a shopaholic hoarder selling their stuff to fund a house make-over. It's a cross between Spendaholics, Hoarders and Changing Rooms.

The main issue I had with the program was the conflicted messages being sent. The VO kept talking about vintage clothes retaining their value and HS ones not but then, they talked about sending your old clothes to the CS, rather than selling them. :undecided

Also, the house make-over lady said at one point "£1,000 isn't much for 3 rooms" and wanted them to raise more cash. :eek: I'm sure the house looked great with all the stuff removed from it so I question the need for the make-over.

They also didn't address the reasons behind the hoarding and just made the woman to get rid of her stuff (a bit like telling a depressive to "just cheer up").

SavingPennies_2

I agree the reasons behind the hoarding were not addressed at all. I didnt like the makover, the dark walls, particularly in small rooms with low ceilings looked awful. The study was horrid, but then maybe thats just my taste. I understand the idea was to make the home lovely in order to take pride in it but I wasnt keen.

lally666young

I have only watched about 20 minutes on demand and then gave up! It was borring, channel four are really scrapping the barrel now!!!! Abigail Ahern is a up market designer, so I am even suprised she has even done a programme like this. I think it was more to shame the poor girl from what I saw!!!! And what do you do when you are like that? Buy more stuff to fix that wound!!! So they should have had a phsycologist to talk to her. I would have liked to watch that bit.

mmmsnow

I do agree that the make-over made the house look tiny. Everything was very dark and I didn't see where the £2500 went - a £80 picture and a £150 chair and lots and lots of black and blue paint, I guess.

Also, at the end, they gave the couple the £350 that was left over from the house make-over for their wedding. I couldn't help thinking that giving them the full amount and forgetting the make-over would've been better!

Smithills

I wasn't very impressed either. Did you see how the "cheeky chappie" valuer tried to create a bit of tension at the start- he said something along the lines of "There's no value in this lot", then by the second ad break he was expecting to clear a grand or so, and by the 3rd ad break, this went up again!!

I was interested to see how those colours would look in the house and it confirmed my thoughts. I was a bit uncomfortable too about the psycological effect that it might have had- the lass was clearly more than just a bit of a shopaholic, I hope she's OK now the programme has run and she perhaps has seen all her stuff again. It was pretty amazing (and intimidating) when they had it all in the warehouse. I did idly wonder how much she had spent on it all- probably enough to keep people on this thread in rubber checken/chickpeas/Approved Food etc etc for years :rotfl: