I don’t know when the new episodes will start up, but tonight was Hildi’s infamous Wine-Label episode, so I figured a thread was in order.
First Episode:
Ugh, the Wine Labels! This one really gets under my skin. Hildi had already started putting them up before the HOs got in there for the Meet & Greet, so she knew it would have been met with resistance. She had to know the HOs were Pastors from their application. You have to list your job and hobbies. I know, because I looked at the TS application when I [shameful little secret] applied to be on While You Were Out. [/shameful little secret].
In her defense, the other HOs weren’t very forceful in getting her to change her mind, and at the homework assignment, it was Paige who had to encourage them to speak up about the wine rack/pot rack.
And putting a wine rack OVER a stove? How dumb is that?
Hildi’s comment, in reaction to the one HO’s remark about them not drinking wine… “They will now!” ranks right up there with her comment from the Hay Wall episode of “Tell the kids not to touch it.”
I thought it was cute that the HOs brought a steamer to the reveal, but would that get them off? They were stuck on with sticky adhesive. Not like wallpaper. What a mess. I could see them trying to peel them off and ripping wallboard off in the process. :rolleyes:
On the other hand… I liked Laurie’s room. I really liked the leather wall. I liked the buffet table with the legs that matched the chairs. That was very cool. I didn’t care for the table top and the skirt. I liked the idea, just not the colors and pattern she used.
The second episode was probably my least favorite Vern room.
It was nice, just not my style. He was trying to please the HOs, of course, and they loved it, which was important. I just didn't care for the diamonds on the walls.
I loved the photos on the vellum. That was really cool.
I liked the coffee table.
It was an odd room. I would have like to have seen exactly how it was situated in the house. It looked like it was just a loft area at the top of the stairs... and open to the whole house. It was kind of neat how it was a TV-watching place, but (to me, at least) it seemed like an odd area in the house.
I didn't care for Gen's room. I hated the bedspread, and I hate when they put drapey stuff over the beds. How are you supposed to clean that? I hated the orange paint on the nightstands. I didn't like the color, and it looked streaky. It also didn't match with the brown paint on the other pieces. And I hate when they bolt the headboards to the wall.
I did like the dog pillows with their monograms. And I liked when Gen was snarking on Vern. That was pretty funny.
Yeah, I thought those HOs were way too wimpy about the whole wine thing. They obviously knew going into this that a wine theme wouldn’t be fully appreciated by their neighbors, so why did they wait so long to say anything? And why were they so apathetic about it when they finally did? If it hadn’t been for Paige, they would have wound up with a wine rack in the kitchen!
Also, I kind of like that kitchen, even though I know I shouldn’t.
And I despise Laurie’s room. Pink and brown suede wall? No thanks.
The homeowners of the “wine label” house struck me as stuck up nitwits. When the other homeowners said that the labels might offend them, my first thought was “Good, they need to be offended.”
But, the wine labels were ugly, and a stupid idea. But, I did like the table.
Oddly… I prefer even the worst of Hildi then half the Martha Stewart Calico/Gingham crap Laurie puts out. I have this theory that Laurie is actually secretly the devil. She is evil I tells ya!
My Satanic theory on Laurie has something to do with here hatred of Ceiling Fans. She lives in Mississippi for goodness sake!One cannot survive a Ol’ Miss summer without a ceiling fan!
Well, they did say they were Pastors, and I remember reading on the TWoP board that they were (IIRC) Baptists, so I can see their point. What if the other HOs had been Hindus, and Laurie wanted that suede wall over the HOs objections that it would offend them?
(I’m not trying to create a strawman, honest!)
It just truck me that she knew it would be a bad idea, and that’s why she started before they got in there.
Hildi doesn’t care about her HOs. She should have saved the wine labels for a set of HOs who were wine lovers.
And she shouldn’t have painted those blinds - egad! Halloween nightmare w/sloppy strokes & nasty colors. Kindergarteners could’ve done a better job (though they’d’ve had too much color sense).
I saw Kia’s grave-themed bedroom yesterday. I’ve always heard about this room, but I’d never seen it until yesterday. I’m shocked that the woman honestly thought this would be a good idea.
When you have a minute, can you tell the rest of us what we should and shouldn’t be offended by?
And regarding the episodes:
The wine room was bad, but aside from the wine labels I think it’s workable. I didn’t mind the black cabinets. New paint on the walls, and new blinds and they might have something.
Lori’s room was ok, but I didn’t like that pinky color for sure.
I normally love Hildi (I think she is an under-rated genius), though the two rooms of hers I hated where the stapled flowers in the bathroom (I kept thinking the poor owners will have to spend thousands of dollars to replace the dry walls) and the recent black walls/ pee yellow furniture room - it looked like the illegimate love child of Big Bird and Ozzie Osbourne had exploded.
Definitely. Even after the HOs make it clear, she only ever says things like “well, supposedly these people don’t drink wine,” as if that could only be true of martians.
They probably were a little bit self-righteous; they were Pastors.
At least they were gracious about the room… not like Jackass Jessie, who had a temper tantrum like a 3-year-old, or the Deck-Dick from While You Were Out.
I just think Hildi has her own agenda when it comes to doing rooms. She gets an idea and is going to do it no matter what. She doesn’t care about what the HOs want or like.
Just an example: Say they got a set of HOs who said, “We love blue and green, but we really hate orange, and we’d like some additional seating because we have people over a lot, and we’d like bookshelves because we have a lot of books to display.”
Vern would do a great paint treatment in blues and greens, he’d create a practical seating arrangement for 12 people, and he’d design a beautiful shelving unit that could hold thousands of books.
Hildi, OTOH, would paint the room Screaming Neon Orange, she wouldn’t do any shelving, and she’d do 2 or 3 of those stupid uncomfortable backless stools for people to perch on.
“Still in repeats”?? This is what, the second week they haven’t had a new one in almost a year?. This is the one show that has too many freaking original episodes.
Despite it being the episode in which I liked Hildi the least, it was one in which I liked her room rather a lot. It looked really good. I think the wine labels made for a pretty cool effect. The trouble was, in typical Hildi fashion, it was all style, no substance. A wine rack. Over a stove? Why not just make it a vinegar rack and skip the middleman? Plus, I can’t imagine wine labels standing up to the stuff my kitchen walls go through. Maybe if they were sealed off with a clearcoat or something, but I’m forever grateful that I have solid ceramic tiles, because I’m always scrubbing something off them. Wine labels would take that for about 3 seconds before tearing to shreds. And the Hildi attitude was just too much.
