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Home renovation TV shows are all the rage these days. Literally scores of them are on the tube ’round the clock. A couple of cable networks are devoted exclusively to the genre.
With the exception of just a few of those shows — the ones with an emphasis on restoring the structures in a manner in keeping with the original architecture — what I see are essentially unpaid hour-long ads for new appliances and flooring and windows and ...
It pains me to see original tile work and flooring and such torn out and replaced with lesser stuff (and at a tremendous expense), not because it’s worn out or in any way unserviceable, but because it is “dated.” Any variation on that word — “outdated,” “updated” — in reference to residential real estate is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
With the exception of just a few of those shows — the ones with an emphasis on restoring the structures in a manner in keeping with the original architecture — what I see are essentially unpaid hour-long ads for new appliances and flooring and windows and ...
It pains me to see original tile work and flooring and such torn out and replaced with lesser stuff (and at a tremendous expense), not because it’s worn out or in any way unserviceable, but because it is “dated.” Any variation on that word — “outdated,” “updated” — in reference to residential real estate is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
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