bl**dy renovator shows

Apparently there's another renovator show on telly ....consequently our bathroom colour is out of date (by about 3 months)....our kitchen, which is 20+ years old ( and has been fashionable at least 8 times in that period ) seems to me to be sound and servicable and has aquired a warm patina of use.....the old appliances (still working) are all wrong....the drawer handles are sooo yesterday...etc etc etc...
is it just me :? ...or is this a conspiracy perpetrated by those hardware mega stores:rolleyes:
I was going to post this in the renovator forum but decided not to :q

Ahhh! the joys of those bloody shows.

As far as I can tell, the only positive to come out of LOML wanting something like that done (and she never does, to her credit :rolleyes: ) is that you can slip some almost-related tool purchases in with the rest of the upgrade :2tsup:

Cheers,
Dave

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Originally Posted by underfoot

Apparently there's another renovator show on telly ....consequently our bathroom colour is out of date (by about 3 months)....our kitchen, which is 20+ years old ( and has been fashionable at least 8 times in that period ) seems to me to be sound and servicable and has aquired a warm patina of use.....the old appliances (still working) are all wrong....the drawer handles are sooo yesterday...etc etc etc...
is it just me :? ...or is this a conspiracy perpetrated by those hardware mega stores:rolleyes:
I was going to post this in the renovator forum but decided not to :q

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Surprised she let you get 20 years out of the kitchen.:D

"you can slip some almost-related tool purchases in with the rest of the upgrade"

Shhhhhhh my swmbo might hear you!

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Originally Posted by ozkaban

ahhh! The joys of those bloody shows.

As far as i can tell, the only positive to come out of loml wanting something like that done (and she never does, to her credit :rolleyes: ) is that you can slip some almost-related tool purchases in with the rest of the upgrade :2tsup:

Cheers,
dave

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Originally Posted by jim carroll

surprised she let you get 20 years out of the kitchen.:d

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:d:d:d

A few years ago I had a mate who, every time I went round to his house, seemed to be painting the kitchen. On one occasion he was painting it blue and I said to him "Wasn't your kitchen blue before?" "Aye" he said, "About eighteen months ago. Since then its been grey, cream, primrose, and now its blue again." Half an hour later, after commiserations and a couple of beers, I remarked, "It's a good sized kitchen is this, how big is it?" and he said' "When we moved in it was six metres square, it's only five and a half now!" :roll:

Careful she might just work out how to update you.

And for those us living in a double brick house should move out because it is so old.

Sound un-proof concrete slabs are much better. Your neighbours can hear you burp. :U

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Originally Posted by pugwash

On one occasion he was painting it blue

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He found somewhere that has blue paint???
I went in to buy some paint the other day....
"I'd like some orange paint please"...sorry sir we don't have orange....we have "Bali sunset in august"...."what's that?" I ask.......it's like orange sir...
"what about black"...sorry sir no... but we do have some "taxi de London"...or "eyepatch a la pirate"...:q

Obviously I don't watch - or care about - those shows - my kitchen is older than I am by several years - it was built by my grandfather for my mother, in his garage/workshop/factory at Ramsgate, Sydney - along with all the other woodwork except the doors in my house.

I really should take the doors off, replace the worn out hinges (can I claim on warranty - only 60 years and a couple have broken?), then strip & repaint the 30 year old paint scheme.

I wouldn't mind renovator shows if they actually showed you how to do some of the more tricky alterations, instead of making dog kennels or running around a bloody maze looking for a letterbox. From what I've seen of these shows they are all about personalities and setting people up to fail and have nothing to do with renovating

Hey Undies, sounds like it is time your TV was 'Out Of Date' & got thrown out. :D

A REAL renovator's show would be great wouldn't it. Instead of shows where they have 12 hours to do something. :rolleyes: How about some well considered, well made renovations? :that don't involve MDF? :doh:

One show I saw they had the audasity to make a piece of "wall art" out of MDF and the owner of the house was an artist. :rolleyes:

Get on to Foxtel,some great shows there,some that not so good but have a look

I do not think the shows are really about what is made more to do with what can be made. The concerns that I have when watching these shows is why are so many people emotional. And they advertise it on the adds with someone crying?

Strange.

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Originally Posted by Christos

why are so many people emotional. with someone crying?
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that's because they've seen what it's going to cost them to renovate :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Christos

why are so many people emotional.... with someone crying?

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The quality (or otherwise) of the work.