[Magdalen] Appliances was Medical update (& honestly, getting' a little s...

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We used to watch "Trading Spaces."  Two households near one another agree
to go rehab a space in the other house while the other guys do the same to
theirs. They each have two days and $1,000.  They had interior decorators
who supervised the action.  Throughout the event, neither household is
allowed to go back to their own house at all.  Then at the end, each of
them has a big reveal in which generally they are blown away by how great
 (or horrible) it is.

The host was a cute young lady named Paige Davis, who was just a sweetie.
She said the hardest part of the show was on one occasion, giving the
closing lines of the show while a lady just off camera is sobbing her heart
out because of some ghastly thing that decorator-from-hell Doug did to her
house. (The other designers were generally great.) The carpenter for that
show was Tye Pennington who may be familiar to some.  He was a terrific
carpenter/builder, and a hoot in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Qsbrqvk8E

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 5/7/2016 9:43:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> I use  that, but in two shakes the stuff is nasty again. I absolutely
> DETEST
> stainless appliances! There, I've said it. Oh, and you can have  granite
> countertops, too. There are none in our kitchen and never will  be.>>>>>>>
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> I am amused by the real estate programs on HGTV.  For one thing, I  wonder
> where these youngish 25 year olds come up with these fantastic  "budgets"
> of, say, 600 thousand dollars (US - though much of it is taking place  in
> Canada).  I suppose there are lot of young marrieds who are  inheriting
> money from one or both family sides.
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> Anyway - They routinely come into a home and want to redo the
> kitchen and the bathrooms, even though to me they look just fine.
> Then come the granite countertops and the hardwood floors, even
> in the kitchen.
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> I read something recently that a lot of this is fictional, but I will  say
> that the "Property Brothers" make their programs very appealing
> :-)
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> David Strang.
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