Whaz Up, DHHG!
Welcome back to another installment of the DHHG newsletter, where you get the 411 on the latest books, movies and tv shows relating to the world of your home.
The temperature is still sizzling hot, but hang in there, because we've got a preview of the exciting home-related shows coming your way for the fall. We don't want to grandstand, but we think the presence of the DHHG in our nation's capital is having some influence. There seems to be a definite Washington flava to the upcoming shows. Check 'em out for yourself!
From BRAVO: "Queer Eye for the Senator Guy"
The Fab 5 pay a visit to the guys on the Hill. Can the team take these style-challenged government types from power ties to the power of being properly moisturized? There oughta be a law!
From ABC: "Extremely Expensive and Wasteful Government Makeover - Home Edition"
Most home remodels involve extensive delays and spiraling budgets. And who knows more about that than our government? Watch as an average home is totally remodeled. Each makeover is expected to take 3-5 years and cost more than two billion dollars.
From HGTV: "Design on the Taxpayer's Dime"
The familiar format, which shows viewers how to accomplish various decor looks for budget prices, gets the Washington treatment. With little preparation and no plan at all, a huge team of decorators debates various design ideas until eventually someone gives in. The end result is a decor no one really likes, for more money than anyone wanted to spend.
Also from HGTV: "Mission Organization Accomplished"
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez leads a highly trained special ops team into the chaotic closets of messy homeowners. Working swiftly, the team whips the areas into shape, and then departs, leaving order and sanity. Sir, yes Sir!
posted by Tara Z. @ 8:51 AM
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Is it just a rumor, or was"Mission Organization Accomplished" cancelled when a segment showed Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez was shipped out on assignment to his father-in-laws home and.....well.......
As a person who has helped several friends with a move, I must extend these words of caution. The houses that were so clean a CSI would not be able to find trace evidence was considered at one time to be an easy move. Not any more. I have learned a very hard lesson, the cleaner and more well organized the house, well, beware the closets. Especially the locked ones. When opening a closet in an otherwise immaculately groomed house, and have a whole secondary house tumble down on me, I was, for a moment, sure that I had found the WMD's. Every phase of the owners decorating taste had not been given away or sold at a garage sale, but kept, "just in case". Just in case Ikea and Laura Ashley meet New Age crystals and windchimes, and together beautifully compliment the medevial gothic look, with a random leopard print ottoman thrown in for comfort. The American homeowner is very crafty, and Lt. General Sanchez and the team are going to have to sharpen their skills to deal with this particular brand of packrat, as for now, they pose the greatest threat to America's peace of mind and sense of safety. The horror of tooling over for a day to help with a move, when you have absolutely no idea the madness that awaits in the locked closets stays with one for a very long time. In some, it requires therapy. The percentage of 'good friends' has been on the wane, and the locked closets may very well have a bigger hand in it than we originally thought.
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