I still cannot get over Jenifer allowing that gorgeous piece of wood being painted in one of the first episodes. Also, why in the hell would anyone get a huge
white couch with all those kids in that family? Where was the place for that huge family to eat? There was a glass top table with four chairs in the living
room and only six chairs in the dining room? She gave no thought to that family at all other than the wife wanted red in the kitchen. Both designs looked a
little too Ikea/Crate & Barrel for these families. Matt FTW!
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Posts: 2986 (07/27/08 8:38 PM) Registered User |
I loooved Jen's red kitchen with the black granite. The living room walls and the fireplace were really nice too.
I only liked Matt's dining room, specially the chandelier. His kitchen was really blah. Living room was just adequate. He seems like a very nice guy but lacks the host skills. If he wins, they'll probably give him a co-host / sidekick like they did to David. I like both designers, but based on tonight's challenge, I'm voting for Jen. |
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Posts: 3058 (07/27/08 8:51 PM) Registered user |
The sofa was LEATHER which is very easy to clean. It's not like it's a catastrophe if one of the kids spills something on it...you wipe it up. Matt's sofa would be riskier if someone spilled a soda on it. The dining room sat at least 6 and the breakfast table seats 4. What did you expect her to do? Put really long dining tables with benches on each side? She didn't pick the size of their house or the size of their family---they did. She's not a miracle worker. |
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Posts: 87 (07/27/08 8:55 PM) |
No, white leather does not clean easily. I know. I bought into that logic when I bought one. I had to clean it constantly and then lost the battle.
It's the same as having a glass top table in a house with kids. It is a constant chore just to keep it looking descent.
Jennifer never gave a thought to anything for this huge family other than winning this competition. She chose the dining room table because she "liked the silhouette" not because it suited the needs of that huge family. Then she painted it because it did not fit in with "her" design scheme. Why not a computer/office space or gaming area that the family could have used? The husband was a huge cook and the wife was a baker. Why not a double oven? When Matt was generous by choosing his first pick around her needs? She never said "thank you!" She said: "You're just trying to get votes!" Ingrate, selfish bitch does not deserve to win.
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Posts: 1124 (07/27/08 9:00 PM) MESS member |
I was really surprised Matt was chosen for F2 because all his solo stuff has been blah or worse and the only design stuff he did in the group comps were
carpenter type items. Trish had more design sense in her little finger than he's got in his whole body.
That being said, he didn't do too badly on the house. It at least looked pulled together and the family seemed happy with it, Jennifer completely outclassed him, though. Her kitchen was beautiful and by itself completely outshone every room he did in the other house. Her colors and accessories were top notch. If she doesn't win I'd be very surprised. She REALLY needs to not laugh, though. ETA: I thought it was really sweet of Matt to let Jen have Mikey first when he knew she didn't have the kitchen experience that Matt had. That by itself may earn a vote from me.
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Posts: 3059 (07/27/08 9:38 PM) Registered user |
No, white leather does not clean easily. I know. I bought into that logic when I bought one. I had to clean it constantly and then lost the battle.
It's the same as having a glass top table in a house with kids. It is a constant chore just to keep it looking descent.
Oh well...it's not like their house isn't going to be under water again anyway. The next hurricane to hit and they're back where they started. 
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Posts: 3 (07/27/08 9:50 PM) |
it's not like their house isn't going to be under water again anyway
as a Louisianan, I've got to say fuck you. on another note, I'm surprised no one's mentioned the similarities between Jen and Paige Davis. strip away the platinum hairdo, and she's got Paige's "spunkiness" down to a T. |
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Posts: 12226 (07/27/08 10:59 PM) AI Forum Moderator |
Jennifer FTW!
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Posts: 21601 (07/27/08 11:42 PM) Registered user |
Why did Matt not accessorize? Oh that's right the "minimalism" apparently means he can't incorporate a damn vase of flowers. |
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victalac |
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Posts: 1158 (07/28/08 12:43 AM) Registered user |
Ha! As at least one person observed, how long will those white couches remain white? About two seconds. Makes me cringe. This stuff belongs in a New York High
Rise condo, not in one of the poorest and oldest houses in Louisiana. It will get full of nor just dirt and animal hair, but grease that comes from lying on
your back and repairing cars. Damn, it's gonna get ugly quick.
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Posts: 6177 (07/28/08 4:20 AM) Registered User |
Matt's design was crap. It looked like the perfect compliment to his blah game room. He calls it minimalist, but really - he's either lazy or unsure
of how to decorate.
Forgetting about white couches, etc for a second - I would rather live in Jennifer's house than Matt's. Her kitchen >>>> his kitchen; and kitchens are what sell houses. And she had the glass table, but she also had the large dining table that can seat 8 people, she came up with a way that 12 people could eat at the same time, which isn't easy. They probably never had that before - just like they could never all sit on the couch before. Matt's furniture was on the ugly side and his rug didn't really match it. Painting the kitchen cabinets that putrid brown was a bad idea. And that $1700 chandelier - what part of minimalism doesn't he get? What she did with the fire place was beautiful. If he's such a builder, what exactly did he do that was so special? I don't get it. Is anyone else having problems voting? Maybe I should switch browers. |
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Posts: 572 (07/28/08 6:17 AM) Registered user |
Random Musings:
- This season is the most godawful pile of shit in the history of piles of shit. Cynthia is on crack with her 'this season better than last', etc. - Martha McCauley's legs looks like the trunks of 130 year old redwoods! - Vern is 9" tall - Man, Trish's tummy looked fuckin' hot up on that ladder. Sick body for 3 kids! Ok, Matt's: - AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL. Kitchen - no upper cabinets? Ok, fine. But no talking the client out of that? That will kill resale. Not even any open shelves? Not to mention shithouse brown cabinets? - Bubbling red paint - they didnt go back to that. What did the final look like? Once you've got bubbled dried paint, that texture is there. How did they solve it. - Anyone notice the big ass hole in the kitchen wall when the wife walked in? - Expensive granite over shitty oak Home Depot cabinets? - Painting the trim the same color as the walls? Ok, contemporary, I get it, but the 'architecture' of the house (6 panel doors, etc) wasnt contemporary. - Living Room - talk about a furniture store showroom. Coffee table WAAY too big. Artwork lined up on the same visual plane as the top of the window casing - mish mash of pillows. Red pillow on couch right next to red chairs versus on the other end of the couch to balance it out. - Hosting/Personality - when the show started, he was an 'is he or isn't he' guy. He's turned into a big old flamer - a manic one at that. Jen's - Painting - paints a table. No primer and it was being painted with what looked like a typical 1/2" nap roller for painting walls. That will leave an awful finish with a fucked up texture. The carpenter had a sprayer for the cabinets, why not use that and get a nicer finish. - Red Cabinets? Wow, there's a selling point! One shitty coat of red straight over nasty oak cabinets? Anyone ever have cabinets painted? Typically its one coat of oil based primer and 2-3 coats of topcoat with ample drying time in between. It's a 3 day job. This is a kitchen. Those cabinets will take a beating. Awful. - Dining Room - looked completely unfinished. No area rug? No real art? - Living Room - HIDEOUS couch. Where's the utility? There are 438 people in the family. Massive couch, but were do you put your drink? There was no coffee, end or sofa tables. - Window treatments - ugly, un-ironed hideous window treatments. - Fireplace - Tile all the way up? No mantle? Hmmm. Maybe a family of 438 would like to display some family photos or Christmas stockings on the mantle - not so much. Also, with tile, now you have no place to hang art - so the fireplace, the most obvious place for art, will have none. A big gray blob of wall. This show has not only jumped the shark, it fucked the shark in the asshole with a big rubber dick. 3 Carpenters and most weren't doing 'carpentery' stuff. Painting, cleaning, putting art on the wall - wow, big jobs. This show has it all wrong. I want to see what designers can do with a space with challenges and limitations. I don't give a shit if they have enough time to hang a curtain. The time crunches have only led to horrible shit quality work. This show has become fucking Trading Spaces without the bitch who puts feathers on the wall. Compare this to the glass house challenge in Bryant Park. It's as if HGTV said 'yes, still do the show, but do it for 1/1000th of the budget of the first season'. Top Design better be good! |
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Posts: 573 (07/28/08 6:21 AM) Registered user |
LittleA wrote: The difference is everyone wants to fuck Paige Davis (even with her shitty new haircut). No one wants to fuck Jen.
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victalac |
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Posts: 1160 (07/28/08 7:03 AM) Registered user |
Bring back the Glass Room finale!
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Lovejonze |
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Posts: 6180 (07/28/08 7:22 AM) Registered User |
Now that I know granite countertops emit Radon, I don't ever want granite. I'll stick with Corian.
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MsJulieR |
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Posts: 4910 (07/28/08 9:22 AM) Registered User |
wanted to see the rest of the houses..
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Drew B |
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Posts: 3615 (07/28/08 9:41 AM) Registered User |
I wasn't overly impressed with either, but Matt's painted kitchen cabinets were easily the worst thing done in either house, so I'll go with Jen
FTW...
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Posts: 569 (07/28/08 10:04 AM) Registered user |
Okay, having watched this in the wee hours after a couple drinks - I don't remember all the details.
What I do remember is liking Matt's house more than Jen's. Jen pisses me off with the fucking seating requirements already. She screwed over her own sister last week (who ended up with less comfortable seating than she started with) and this week she screws up the family with 483 people in it. Seriously, that table was seating six and I swear my little eye spied that those two ends were fold downs, which makes for adding on another 4 people total (2 more at each end) not only real cramped, but precarious. Of the 483 family members, it looks like 477 are children - so the glass top table and the white couch and white dining room table (are they going to do homework and crafty play stuff there, ya doof?) are thoughtless for the family's needs. Oh, and whoopie ding dong, that woman got her red cabinets. Was it only obvious to me that this family is lively and colorful - and they verbally eschewed the earthy tones to Jen, so she chooses fucking black, white and gray? These are primary color people, without a doubt. Idiot. I liked the tiled fireplace wall, but why did she plonk a damn plant right in front of it? That looked like shit and partially obstructed her own fucking "focal point." Oy, her voice drives me bonkers. Matt skeeves me out. Yup, the brown doo doo cabinets were really bad, but I appreciated the lack of upper cabinetry on the window wall of the kitchen. It made it appear bigger and there were still a shitload of cabinets in that kitchen. I liked the architectural feature behind the television; I just didn't want it on the wal behind the television. The dining room table he used is what Jen should have used - except she really couldn't because she didn't have the space. However, Matt's dining room table is a big, family style table. I don't care of either of 'em anymore. Somebody poke me in the eye if I start watching the next season (if there is one) of this damn show. Oh! And the scripted comments by the judges at the end, as they're watching the families see the houses were so awkward! |
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Posts: 4255 (07/28/08 11:17 AM) OMEDETO, CATHY!! |
I think Jen is going to win. If you go over to the site, her design already has been viewed about 5,000 more times than Matt's design even when it was put
up hours later. It was the highest rating any design has had all season.
If you go to the boards everyone is now in Jen's corner. The show basically left it up to America since the judges said nice things about both. I also think America prefer's Jen's spunk and energy over Matt's "calmness" (aka boring as hell ness). |
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swim4life227 wrote: I thought they actually gave Matt the more positive edit last night. He was always happy about...well EVERYTHING.
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