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I'll admit it, I love home design shows. Not all of them, of course. Being a single guy living in an apartment, I really
can't get into shows where couples or families look for a new house, or shows where a rich couple adds a heliport to
their mansion, or even shows where someone puts $10,000 into redoing their kitchen.But I do like shows such as Design on a Dime, reDesign, and Small Space, Big Style, because I can picture myself doing those types of changes to my place. But I'm getting tired of Small Space, Big Style, because they've forgotten about the "small spaces" part. Just the other night they showcased two "small" apartments...that were 1000 square feet each. 1000 square feet? Sorry, that's not "small," even if it's two people living there. One person? It's a football field.
I'd like to see them focus more on really small city apartments and microapartments, places where you look in amazement at the cool things that people can do in a small space. There's some of that still, but there are too many episodes where they show people who have "small" apartments that are about 5 times the size of mine (note: mine is about 200 square feet). If any of these people who have "small" apartments of 1000 feet or more, I'll switch with them.
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4-22-2006 @ 8:48PM
Laura in TN said...
I totally agree with you! My husband found your blog (he's a TV junkie) and emailed me the link because I yell at the TV every time we watch that show. We love the show, like you, because we enjoy the creative ways people use the spaces they occupy. But since we've been married, we lived in a 780 SF 1BR apartment (where I rattled around as a single girl for 5 years before that), then a 610 SF 1BR townhouse & a 550 SF 2BR apartment before moving to a HUGE 1100 SF townhouse where we felt like King & Queen!
It really irritates me when they showcase an apartment in New York that's more than 500 SF, because the majority of the units in that city are smaller than your average apartments; I guess I figure they have plenty of smaller places to show in New York than the ones they do. So you can take heart that someone down south totally agrees with you about SSBS: HGTV, keep up the great work, but remember the first S stands for SMALL! :)
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