Our MAD House Needs Some TLC! | Reno vs Relocate S1 E6
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Heather and Gord have a family of 4 and now Gord's mum is moving in with them. As if their house wasn't awkward and small enough things just got worse. Heather wants to renovate but Gord wants to relocate to a brand new bigger home. Can the professional interior design and real estate expertise of Robin Lewis and Vanessa Roman help them make a decision? Find out now only on "Reno vs Relocate".
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I love how much she wanted better for her mother in law❤️ That was the sweetest part of this entire thing!
They could have donated that kitchen island in tact. No need to smash everything up.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Totally agree, why so wasteful?
If you go back to the beginning; they showed where the laminate was peeling off and was in overall bad condition. I agree; I hate when cabinets are broken up like that when they can be donated; but some simply aren't worth it.
They could still donate it. There are people who can fix things. Habitat for Humanity should be contacted. But that's not exciting TV...
I'd have to really love Christine to let her have that living room.
Only thing I didn't like was the wallpaper design. It makes the living room smaller and darker.
Beautifully done. And what's amazing, that wife and mother in law already have a lovely bond.
Did anybody notice how the husband cut in front of his wife when they went into the door for the reveal?
not very gallant.
The couple love textures. Wallpaper makes living room looks busy and outdated.
This is an old show, where white walls weren't in trend, and that new wall paper colour was in trend, I remember wearing quite a few clothes in purple and wine colours back then, now it's all pink and blush tones with greens from plants for colour or even grey. Overall I really the family and they're home from before was lived in and not cluttered except the kitchen didn't have a practical design. New space is great.
The house that was shown wouldn't have worked: the kitchen was no bigger or better than their original house. Even though the basement sported living space for Christine,
it would not have worked as she got older. Being in your 70s or 80s and having to go down stairs is not ideal.
But the original house has tons of stairs.
I think, they might regret their choice... for one reason: THE STAIRS!! The house has so many stairs, in a couple of years someone of the family is not able to move up and down anymore.
Always better to renovate than relocate, if possible.
I am glad they loved it, he did up their home to 1983!!
How do designers not look at plans for the kitchen before making their design? Once a contractor came to look at my kitchen for a remodel & wanted to move my stove from where there was en existing chimney it vented through (going up on other floor & through the attic) and place the stove against a wall with a staircase behind it. It was a gas stove & there were no gas lines there. Also the stove would have stood in the path through the kitchen to the back door. Then he wanted to move my sink from under the window where there was natural light & put it against a partition wall on another side of the kitchen. Move everything AWAY from natural light coming in from the windows, which lit the sink & stove in the existing layout. With his plan, at the sink & stove I would have been blocking the light to both the sink & stove when I worked at them, and would have had no counter space around the stove. When I pointed out that there was no way to vent the stove through the staircase, the upstairs apartment & the attic, and that the plumbing would have to be moved to move the sink onto a wall with no natural light, AND the gas line would need to be moved, he blew me off, saying he was an expert with lots of experience. He was dismissive of me, not quite parting me on the head & saying 'Little lady.' I told him he was dismissed and hired someone who was not trying to cheat me with ridiculously expensive & extensive renovations when all I wanted was more cupboards & counter space on the dead partition wall where the first guy was proposing to put the sink. I got a lovely workspace with room for four-six people at a table. And no moved plumbing, gas lines and no new chimney going up through the upstairs neighbor's staircase!
The husband made me smile...You can tell he's a big kid at heart...Loved the design. I think we are almost headed back to darker kitchens....Great show...Great design!
thank you!
I know, his reaction seamed unreal.
I thought the producers picked just a random home they wanted to renovate and people, whom they paid, and aren’t such good actors.
I love the renovations but the wallpaper in the living room does not go with their furniture or accessories. I would have just painted it the same color used on all the other walls -- would have made this room look much bigger.
I would have skipped the wallpaper in favour of a delicate paint colour, but the overall design was lovely.
I think i would have bought to the other house though.
I would have used paint instead of the wallpaper, also.
It can be a lot of time consuming sanding or replacement of walls, to remove the wallpaper glue, once a wall is wallpapered if you want to update it's quicker to use wallpaper again.
heartbreaking to see how they just break that island, but the makeover looks beautiful
I agree about the mom and stairs. I think the designer should of given them the option of laminate floors.
Arrgh, they should have saved the money on the wallpaper and just painted in there, and done a little fixing up in the basement - that looked pretty bad down there 😬.
What's the deal with taking down wallpaper and putting up more?
I was already happy when the wallpaper was removed. Only to be replaced with a new wallpaper!?
And the acting on this episode is so cringey!!! Lol
The wallpaper is hideous. The rest of the design is great
lol....yeah.
Fewer stairs as the mother ages! Getting into a tub/shower will be harder as she gets older.
What a buffoon that husband is!
The way he almost pushes his wife aside to get in the door first!
I thought that the colour scheme for the kithen was old fashioned. It still looked very nice, but could have looked much fresher with more modern colours. I have no idea why wallpaper was puf up again. 😯
Sometimes, it is more cost-effective to re-paper the room. Removing wallpaper can damage walls, as it would have done in my house because of the way it was applied.
I like tiles in the kitchen myself, no wallpaper at all, just plain calm light colors. I hope they let them pick out what they wanted.
Only dislike is that forested wallpaper!!
The placement of the dishwasher in the original was perfect...I have the same thing. What's so great? No one can get to the sink to dump their dishes. Straight into the dishwasher!!! Regarding the other home they looked at....I didn't see a single egress window in the basement. Its not code which is why it was so cheap.
The renovation should not include wall papers.
Exchanged one atrocious wallpaper for another, 😂
Somethin somethin wallpaper
I noticed right away when you came in the entryway that you had to go up the stairs right away and that's a no-go for me I don't like that and I wouldn't bought a house like that and I wouldn't stay there
10:36 THIS. is So cute! 😆🥰
If the family wants to stay in their current home, why not make the current family den into Christine’s living room. Update the unused living room so it coordinates with the adjacent dining room. That way when the family entertains they have a continuous flow of spaces and if Christine wants some privacy she will have her space across the hall which should include a door. (Though not within this budget, more homes should have a minimum of a powder room on the main floor for guests or future mobility issues.
Nice family
The carpet and wallpaper needs to go‼️ Should have donated the kitchen cabinets to habitat for humanity.
Tjis is the first version of LOVE IT OR LIST IT!!!
I thought the same.
Major wrong move. That home was immaculate for only $400,000. I would have ran after that home! Even in a PERFECT location.
10:36 Could seriously be a movie cover lol
I like the makeover except that Wall paper sucks! And will eventually have to be removed ( it's still old, dated looking) ...he should've just painted the living room walls. 😊
Did they leave that horrible pink entryway?
What's with her hair? Ringlets went out with Mary Pickford. And why on earth wouldn't they use those old cabinets in their unfinished basement?
Yes how rude he was and he pushed his way through
Ruth here, the husband was so rude, he squeezed through in front of his wife
I prefer the old kitchen.
Not sure why they only have two barstools and two chairs when they have 5 people? I would have designed a way to seat five at the peninsula. Does the dining room have the nice view to backyard? He gave them a lot for 55k
All you have to do is get rid of your Island
Demolish a kitchen (o.k. laminate is not a sustainable material but the new one is also fake) , vinyl (fake and bad for the environment) floor, outdated dark wallpapers ......
Wrong choice of wallpaper.
Muy hermosa la cocina y el comedor, pero el living no está al nivel de la remodelación, para mi gusto está horrible, sobre todo por el papel mural. Por cierto, la isla (que se veía en buenas condiciones) se podía haber donado, para qué romperla?
Do they never extend during these renos? Or is this show just cosmetic stuff?
It looks good, but the wallpaper is dated
What a waste. Next time give away cabinets. There are sooo many poor people that would have loved those.
Brown with yellowish counter? Can you say 70s?
Must be Canadians. These shoiws never tell you what year and where it is located. It is a mystery. Looks like Canada to me.
Too much wallpaper.
Great reno just not ot a fan of the wallpaper
He is not very nice person
Hate vinyl flooring, so fake looking & extremely toxic in a fire
Where is the living room for the family.
3:37 family den, remodeled side for grandma
I thought this was an older video. The colors and wallpaper remind me of the 90’s. The layout was nice , floors practical but decor was dated.
This is from early 2000's.
Don't like the wallpaper.
Basically sucked do to advertising coming on over and over and over.