TV property shows, would you go on one?

[beanstalk]

I've just seen an advert for a new Sarah Beeny programme, our circumstances fit the bill but haven't contacted them. Would you do it? DH says we should, I wonder what we get out of it. Do they pay you for these programmes?

[SoccerMum]

KC3 - in this climate you would think they had people like that coming out their ears!

Did you take it any further, or were they after your hubby to provide the contacts?

[pasturesnew]

I like "The Home Show" as it always looks like the people in it get high quality advice and work. I wouldn't like "60 second makeover" round though, their work often looks rubbish, bubbly wallpaper etc. and the designs are pretty garish.

[noddyholder]

Grand designs but not a make over show esp those quick fix things they usually make it worse!

[pasturesnew]

I assumed that George Clarke in the Home Show did proper architectural drawings off-screen and the builders aren't working to the ones on the wall. Also I think if he leaves a bathroom unfinished then you could just say, right, please remove all this furniture etc. and give me the cheque, I'm off to Ikea and B+Q like normal, and then get it all finished that way? It is a little bit annoying but clearly part of the format, I think the contract behind the scenes probably makes more sense.

[SoccerMum]

My friend was on the 60minute makeover......they did her place very much to suit her personality and spent about £32k, which she would NEVER have been able to afford, so im all for them!

[pasturesnew]

Grand Designs is great to watch but I don't think participants get any free stuff from Kevin do they?

[pasturesnew]

SoccerMum did they really leave her with new furniture or was it just "styling"?

[SausageRocket]

60 min makeover is TERRIBLE. All they do is slap up bubbly wallpaper and overfill the rooms with tacky furniture.

[SausageRocket]

The homeowners end up tiptoeing between the masses of overlarge furniture when the 'designers' are showing the homewoners around.

[SoccerMum]

She had 4 rooms done - the kitchen, living room, her bedroom and her DSs bedroom. They also did a man room/shed for her hubby!

Kitchen - was done top to bottom - free standing units and all applicances.

Bedrooms - All new beds and free standing furniture. DS bedroom had games console, plasma etc.

Living room - I didnt like, a bit to out there for me, too busy. BUt it was my friends house and she loved it, very much to her taste. Leather suite, solid oak cabinets etc

Shed - was done as a blt hole for her hubby, with drinks fridge etc, with his games console and lazyboy!.

No bubbly wallpaper in site

[jeanjeannie]

Don't think they get free stuff on Grand Designs. We know the timber framers who helped the guy build his place in the woods - he certainly didn't get a nice Corian worktop and a set of bi-folding doors

[noddyholder]

60 minute makeover is shocking.Does anyone really like that much pattern and clutter.Cheap cheap cheap!

[Chevre]

i don't think the wood guy was really into corian worktops!

[SoccerMum]

Noddy - my friends house was done pretty tastefully, they only did one room with a bit more of a 'feature look'

Plus, if they hadnt been in, she would still have been living in a house in desparate need of decorating with no means of doing it. So even pattern and clutter that you wouldnt choose is sometimes better that the current situation.

She did give a few bits of the furniture away and removed some of the millions of scatter cushions once they had gone though!