As a stay at home mom, I find different ways to keep my self busy. I volunteer at my church, I also volunteer at a low income facility that provides meals and clothing for families and I volunteer at my childrens school. That's the sunshiny stuff. But every once in a while an opportunity will come along that allows me to subject my family to pure SHENANIGANS within our own home. THE HOME MAKEOVER SHOW.
Yes, I am addicted to signing up my family for makeover shows. I love sprucing up the place and redecorating on someone elses dime. Me and the man get to work together and learn how to use different tools and gadgets that we've never even seen before. But even though it's an exciting experience and we get free stuff, it comes at a cost.
Time: Don't plan on doing ANYTHING while they are filming at your house. They come to your house just as you are wiping the crust out of your eyes in the morning. So imagine your already difficult task of getting the kids ready for school in the morning, interrupted for four days by having people in and out of your house starting at 7am. But I must say, by waking up 6 every morning now, we have actually been early to school every day this week. So maybe I need not complain about production lighting the fire under my feet to get my butt up earlier in the morning.
Stuff: My stuff is everywhere. In order for them to work, they have to move all your crap out of the way. They don't care where it goes or how it gets there, they just want it out. So we have dining room chairs in our office, our living room chair in our bedroom and my plant was put in the closet.....who the hell did that?! I appreciate the makeover but where the heck is the order and respect for my stuff. I'm going to be pulling my knick knacks out of odd places for the next month. Sheesh!!
Design: Lord have mercy. My love of makeover shows is about to have my house looking crazy. I'm trying to keep an open mind, but this design seems WACK! They got these multicolor stripes on my dining room wall looking like someone painted a bunch of paint samples on it. I've seen the designers work before and it was nice, but what they are doing in my house ain't hot. I was "eye hustling" and saw that they plan on covering my brick fireplace with marble. HELL TO THE NAH!! This ain't the 80's. Don't come in my house making it look tacking and outdated because you want to practice some DIY projects. Lord I'm nervous.
I can't tell you what show it is yet but when it airs, I will post an update with pictures. Fingers crossed that they have more vision than me and it ends up looking fabulous in the end. If not, I will be blogging about "How to recover after your husband chews your butt out for jacking up the house."
