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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:19

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?

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:23

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).

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:27

They are currently painting the walls black.

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ClashCityRocker · 08/02/2018 19:27

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 · 08/02/2018 19:29

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

I bloody love that programme though.

SisterMoonshine · 08/02/2018 19:31

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 · 08/02/2018 19:32

It’s only tv. It’s all set up.

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:34

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?

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:35

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:36

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

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FuzzyCustard · 08/02/2018 19:36

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 · 08/02/2018 19:37

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

SaucyJack · 08/02/2018 19:38

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:39

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:43

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

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ArchchancellorsHat · 08/02/2018 19:45

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 · 08/02/2018 19:45

"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 · 08/02/2018 19:47

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:49

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:50

She does seem really touched by it all.

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:53

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:54

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

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Thelampshadelady · 08/02/2018 19:55

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

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 19:59

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.

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CircleofWillis · 08/02/2018 20:00

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.

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FuzzyCustard · 08/02/2018 20:02

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.