Anyone watch Texas Flip N Move?

hammers, and start the oohing and ahhhing,

Ain�t that the truth!

Just about everything on HGTV these days is a dime a dozen, if you�ve seen one, you�ve seen them all. Same color palettes, same styling, no originality.

And if there is anything vintage, and in pristine, well cared for condition, well that requires a �total gut job�

What most of these idiots don�t realize is that many times things that you initially hate, after living with them for awhile you may ultimately decide you like them. You really need to live in a home for awhile to actually know what the best improvements you can make are.

Just the other day we watched a House Hunters show in which the buyer purchased a very well taken care of LA area ranch style home from 1954. In the kitchen were the original Frigidaire electric stove top and double built in ovens, in STAINLESS STEEL, and they tore they out! The bathrooms had the original ceramic tile and lovely inset sinks in excellent condition. You guessed it, �Not our style�, and out they went.

How I would love to see some new programming on HGTV where the owners/buyers actually have an appreciation for vintage features and appliances, and PRESERVE them! There is quite enough in the landfills already. And anyway, these costly, over budget renovations that they insist upon making are destined to be �dated� in a few years, and the next misguided owners are going to go thru the same kind of wasteful destruction, in the attempt to �achieve our style�.

A few years ago there was an HGTV show with a young women named Nicole, who bought rundown vintage mansions in the Detroit area, I believe, and she painstakingly restored and the beautiful old, vintage features, saving as much of the original character as possible. And she did a very good job of it.

Eddie


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Post# 1044827 9/13/2019 at 22:45 (1,683 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida)
Checkrate/Likes I've been watching this on Friday nights, probably for a couple years now. It's basically a show where they buy old wood frame houses and move them and renovate. In the beginning it was interesting, because they stayed true to the style of the house and actually reused things. Lately this year though, it's gotten stupid, IMO. They show the walk through of the house, then move it. Next thing you know there's absolutely nothing left of it, and all of the wood framing, trusses, etc are brand new. What's the point of buying a house at an auction and then paying to move it, if you aren't using any part of the structure? It'd be cheaper to start from scratch because they basically are? All of the houses look the same now too. Everything is framed up to 10 foot ceilings, weird house/room layouts with rooms that look huge but don't seem to have much flow. The outside of the houses look silly and have no style, basically a box with windows and a front deck or little porch. I saw one where there wasn't even a post on one side of the porch. Another episode had a living room with now windows nor window in the front door. The auctions where they buy the house are obviously staged with paid extras walking around looking at the house but they don't usually bid. Then the end when the renovated (basically totally rebuilt now) houses are sold have lots of what I'm assuming are paid extras "pretending" to walk around the house and examine it as if they've never seen a house before. I do like some of the ideas they have in the show, but everything looks the same now. Also, the price the houses sell for at the end is outrageous. The one I saw tonight sold for $250,000. And there's no garage, just a shell rock driveway, and they move all the houses into a neighborhood that looks like it's just random houses everywhere. Sorry for the rant, but I don't get this show. It may as well be Texas New Build than Texas Flip N Move.

Post# 1044845 , Reply# 1 9/14/2019 at 02:59 (1,683 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)
Checkrate/Likes *I used to watch it...* You're right that something has changed. The houses they used to renovate were done on a lot with the intention of being moved to another spot but then they did start moving them to some neighborhood where they were sold and stayed there. I think you hit the nail on the head with the staged extras. It used to feel authentic and now it feels staged.

Post# 1044849 , Reply# 2 9/14/2019 at 05:39 (1,683 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)
Checkrate/Likes 3 Typical HGTV crap. Destroy the old, usually with sledge hammers. Bring in all new, and start oooohing and ahhhing….

Post# 1044871 , Reply# 3 9/14/2019 at 12:36 (1,683 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)
Checkrate/Likes *It does sound dumb...* but wish we could find houses for 250k in some of the places we've been looking to retire! Naples FL, Denver, Palm Springs... fuggedaboudit, you're lookin' at trailers!

Post# 1044976 , Reply# 4 9/15/2019 at 12:13 (1,682 days old) by dartman (Portland Oregon)
Checkrate/Likes I like the show but I guess they have been doing a lot more of the plunk it on a lot, completely reframe it, and sell it for a LOT more money. Of course it's a bit scripted, they all are, or nobody would watch except contractors. You see all the people walking around and checking out the house but always one of their featured people end up with it and there's always some drama about something to keep it exciting. I wish we could have bought a nice lil stick built house as cheap as those usually smaller starter homes go for at auction. Probably could have got a nice plot and moved it in cheaper then buying what I have with almost no land and right against my neighbors. On our cable system the shows are on the SD channel, but if you restart the episode or just run down and watch them on demand for free most are in HD and look so much better so keep that in mind if you like the series.

Post# 1044980 , Reply# 5 9/15/2019 at 12:54 (1,682 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)
Checkrate/Likes 2 *Typical HGTV crap. Destroy the old, usually with sledge* hammers, and start the oohing and ahhhing, Ain�t that the truth! Just about everything on HGTV these days is a dime a dozen, if you�ve seen one, you�ve seen them all. Same color palettes, same styling, no originality. And if there is anything vintage, and in pristine, well cared for condition, well that requires a �total gut job� What most of these idiots don�t realize is that many times things that you initially hate, after living with them for awhile you may ultimately decide you like them. You really need to live in a home for awhile to actually know what the best improvements you can make are. Just the other day we watched a House Hunters show in which the buyer purchased a very well taken care of LA area ranch style home from 1954. In the kitchen were the original Frigidaire electric stove top and double built in ovens, in STAINLESS STEEL, and they tore they out! The bathrooms had the original ceramic tile and lovely inset sinks in excellent condition. You guessed it, �Not our style�, and out they went. How I would love to see some new programming on HGTV where the owners/buyers actually have an appreciation for vintage features and appliances, and PRESERVE them! There is quite enough in the landfills already. And anyway, these costly, over budget renovations that they insist upon making are destined to be �dated� in a few years, and the next misguided owners are going to go thru the same kind of wasteful destruction, in the attempt to �achieve our style�. A few years ago there was an HGTV show with a young women named Nicole, who bought rundown vintage mansions in the Detroit area, I believe, and she painstakingly restored and the beautiful old, vintage features, saving as much of the original character as possible. And she did a very good job of it. Eddie

Post# 1044987 , Reply# 6 9/15/2019 at 13:46 (1,682 days old) by brainardcooper (Columbia, SC)
Checkrate/Likes *Rehab Addict* Eddie, That show is "Rehab Addict" with Nicole Curtis. Watched every episode and love it. Wish I had the good sense to write her at tell her to save the old appliance!

Post# 1045046 , Reply# 7 9/16/2019 at 01:39 (1,681 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)
Checkrate/Likes 1 I gave up on these programs long ago.See them on the TV in the waiting rooms at the dentist and car place.The doctor wating room TV is tuned to health and medical stuff-CREEPY!For those new rehabs the NEW stuff they put in would be demoed by me and a backhoe and squashed into the dumpster with the backhoe bucket!Back with the VINTAGE!!!

Post# 1045114 , Reply# 8 9/16/2019 at 16:31 (1,680 days old) by rickr (.)
Checkrate/Likes 1 TV ran out of interesting ideas years ago. That is why I only watch PBS, or Netflix. I have no idea that is on tv, because I stopped wasting time with it, decades ago. Radio is about the same thing. I listen to NPR, and that is about it.

Post# 1045138 , Reply# 9 9/17/2019 at 00:10 (1,680 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Don't watch TV at all Too MUCH GARBAGE on it!!!!And too many prescription ads!!!