To think you should find out the client's tastes BEFORE you redesign their home?

[CircleofWillis]

I'm watching 60 minute makeover on Quest red and the team are making over the home of a woman in her 50s who has had a stroke.
Key brother?/friend? sneaking the team into her house where they are asked about her tastes. No floral, very minimalistic and light colours. However the designer has already chosen the scheme and bought all the materials. Floral wallpapers are planned and a black floor. Friend queries how she is going to keep a black floor clean (she is in a wheelchair). Designer shrugs and says it will look very 'contemporary'.

I am watching in disbelief. How is that poor woman going to react coming home to 60 minutes of bodging and her ruined violated home?

[CircleofWillis]

Her female friend is having grave doubts and is currently crying over the walls being stripped. "It's like we are stripping away her life". (Disclaimer - quotes not verbatim).

[CircleofWillis]

They are currently painting the walls black.

[ClashCityRocker]

I've always wondered of the legality of this where it's purported that the person doesn't know what's happening.

There must be some law against going into someone's house and redecorating - criminal damage maybe?

And the person must have consented to be on telly so I guess it must just be fake.

[MrsHathaway]

Usually the resident partner/spouse is in on it. Surely otherwise it's potentially criminal damage?!

I bloody love that programme though.

[SisterMoonshine]

A mumsnetter was on 60mins, she maybe got lucky wth the designer though - they really put thought into the ideas and what they like. Seemed to from watching it anyway.

[3luckystars]

It’s only tv. It’s all set up.

[CircleofWillis]

Her brother has given permission and let them in. It is their childhood home so perhaps he has the legal right to give permission too?

[CircleofWillis]

I've just realised - they don't do it in 60 minutes anymore...

[CircleofWillis]

@3luckystars do you think so? I am not usually so naive about these things.

[FuzzyCustard]

We call it "60 Minute Muckover".

Some of the designs beggar belief...and many are very impractical..."look we have made your bedroom look twice the size by taking out the three wardrobes you need and replacing them with a shoebox".

And the frequency of a chair in front of a door....

[FuzzyCustard]

And if there are any more black and white schemes, boudoir bedrooms, hotel chic anything or sparkly chandeliers I shall scream!

[SaucyJack]

It wouldn't make great telly if they just repainted it the same colour.

[CircleofWillis]

Oh her husband has given permission as well. (Can you tell I missed the first few minutes?

[CircleofWillis]

@fuzzycustard I quite like 'hotel chic' . It certainly beats my current 'explosion in a toy shop' theme .

[ArchchancellorsHat]

Poor woman - doesn't her husband know anything about what she likes? unless he's secretly harboured a love of floral walls and black floors for years of course.

[MrsHathaway]

"look we have made your bedroom look twice the size by taking out the three wardrobes you need and replacing them with a shoebox".

Tbf most home makeover programmes do this. I do wonder where they expect their victims to put their knickers and stamp collections afterwards.

[Oldraver]

Just turned it on...the friend doesn't look happy

[CircleofWillis]

How is she going to get her wheelchair round all those chairs?

[CircleofWillis]

She does seem really touched by it all.

[CircleofWillis]

The carpet is already dirty. Ah they got her a robot vacuum cleaner.

[CircleofWillis]

Oh no! Peter used the word 'Boudoir' to describe her bedroom.

[Thelampshadelady]

Yanbu. Hideous program.
They do such a half arsed job.

[CircleofWillis]

Such a relief that she liked it. Although she has just said that it took her a few weeks to get used to the floral wallpaper.

[CircleofWillis]

Now it seems they take a whole day to do the makeover. I can't even imagine how awful the finish was when it was really 60 minutes.

[FuzzyCustard]

They never paint any of the woodwork - doors and skirtings etc and that makes such a difference to a room. I suppose they don't have time. But it means you get the flash new colour scheme (always with metallic large patterned feature wall) with the 80's brown doors still in place.

I saw one once where they had a glass panelled door and at the start one of the panels was broken and "fixed up" with a bit of cardboard. It was like that after the makeover too.