extreme makeover - house edition - stupid question
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Originally Posted by Scot' date='Feb 21 2005, 10:42 AM
Last night they took someone's 1800 sq foot house and replaced it with a 5400 sq foot mansion! That was really nice, but why the hell would they ever do that? then they gave this family $100k for "living expenses" since the utilities would be triple (or more) than the previous house.
I don't get it though.... the other houses in the neighborhood were probably all 2000 sq ft. So now this semi poor family of 5 who doesn't have any great need for 5400sq ft has a house that is towering over all of their neighbors.
I like the idea of the show, but didn't get why they did that on last nights show.
anyone watch it?
I don't get it though.... the other houses in the neighborhood were probably all 2000 sq ft. So now this semi poor family of 5 who doesn't have any great need for 5400sq ft has a house that is towering over all of their neighbors.
I like the idea of the show, but didn't get why they did that on last nights show.
anyone watch it?
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Originally Posted by SkullDeezay' date='Feb 21 2005, 08:35 PM
The makeover was extreme because the show isn't called "Conservative Makeovers".
i think it is all done with $ from advertisers / donations, etc.... but.... still dumb to build a monster house for 4-5 people who couldn't afford to live very well in the small house.
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Originally Posted by s2kbrian' date='Feb 21 2005, 09:22 PM
i went and looked at the house cuz its only 15 mins away from me. It is huge and looks like crap compared to all the other houses in the neighborhood.
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I say instead of tearing down perfectly good homes with minor problems, They should send the Makeover team to places devastated by the tsunami and start building houses / Shelter...(Makes more sense to me)
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I never really liked the show. The host is a bit of a whack job, and the houses are designed in the most impractical manner as possible. Who needs a gigantic pirate ship in the backyard as a playground? They do a lot of crap that just makes no sense. I say rather than making it pleasing to the audience just make the houses more pleasing on a day to day basis. Scot I completely agree with you on your original statement. I gotta give the show a 
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They do a lot of crap that just makes no sense. I say rather than making it pleasing to the audience just make the houses more pleasing on a day to day basis. Scot I completely agree with you on your original statement. I gotta give the show a .
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Dude you're talking about Monster House on the Discovery channel and everyone else is talking about Extreme Home Makeover on ABC. Clearly not the same thing. I do agree though that the pirate ship episode was plain silly.