Top 10 Times Home Renovation Shows Went Horribly Wrong
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- Get your house decorated on national TV, they said... It'll be fine, they said! For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the most infamous, embarrassing and awkward design disasters on home renovation shows. Featuring all your favourite DIY classics, including "60 Minute Makeover", "Your Home in Their Hands", and "Changing Rooms"!
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Bro I’m dead. She ask “ what message u have for the designer” dude said “ don’t touch the other room” ☠️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a collector of many things, my heart goes out to that poor woman who lost her teapot collection. I hope the idiots that caused it to be destroyed spent hours and tons of money scouring ebay to replace them for her, but I doubt that happened.
Honestly,that was the funniest part of it all for me.Someone who is literally that dumb,and so far uo their own asshole to think owning 6000 pounds worth of fragile teapots is a worthwhile,and lifelong investment,honestly deserved to have life slap them in the face as elegantly as this was done.Would have paid extra to see them smashed individually,and literally in front of the owner lol It's literally wasteful thinking such as hers that leads the entire world down its path of wasteful destruction.
She got cash for them as I recall as they were insured
Just seeing her trying to hold it together breaks my heart. I don't think those hosts realize that collecting is not just a hobby, it's a part of someone and who they are. And if it brings them back memories, it just adds to it.
@@not.supermario Exactly! My collection, (I have a few) isn't just "things". It's "Oh here's the glass dog my niece gave me for Christmas. And here's the ceramic one from Brazil she got me for my birthday a couple of years ago". "Here's the one my brother gave me". "Here's the one I got on Ebay that I really really wanted and never thought I would win on such a low bid" and with every memory comes the emotion you experienced when you received (or won) that specific piece. And GOD FORBID any of those were family heirlooms because even if they are "replaced" they are not the same ones mom or dad or grandma held and used.
Linda Baker hasn't good taste to decorate houses .She makes horribl😢e thigns @@not.supermario
A sixteen year old girl wants a room that expresses her own taste and interests and personality. Not someone else's.
What was that designer thinking? I can see that being - more or less - something a preteen might like, but not a teenage girl.
I liked that one (I'm 53).
it didnt show any personality. it was more so looking like an art project.
It would be a really weird place to spend an extended period of time. It makes for a fun coffee shop look but not a bedroom.
Imagine being on acid and she invited you in
The fact that blonde presenter constantly wears what I presume are pleather catsuits just screams serious lack of taste 😳
She is presenting a home make over show; already shows her lack of taste.
@@andrewleah1983 no it doesnt🤣🤣
@@theparajse2020 Yes it does.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Her name is Ceila Sawyer. Her dress sense is rather tacky.
Who in their right mind thought that a free hanging unit would be good for the teapots? Even if they hadn't added the books they could easily be pushed off!
A dog or a cat could wreak havoc.
The only taste Linda has is in her mouth.
She reminds me of some wound up coke head. and that obnoxious nervous giggle...
A disaster waiting to happen that certainly happened. Blind Freddy could see that coming.
It's design over practicality.
Too clever by half
What was the idea behind having a whole ass garden INSIDE the house?? Thats a bloody nightmare! Imagine the upkeep? Insects?
I remember watching that changing rooms episode!, I was young at the time so the value of the teapot collection went over my head. Watching it again with older eyes, my heart breaks.
Yes, especially a collection a person has spent decades acquiring. I imagine some of those teapots were irreplaceable. Or at least so rare, she'd never be able to afford them again. So sad!
Not so much the money but the time and sentimental value
They just destroyed history by not caring and doing "exciting" things
I mean, everyone wants their fragile valuables on a swinging shelf 😖
All through the video I was thinking, "you haven't seen anything as horrible as the brown media room that Doug did on Trading Spaces" - and there it is! Good choices for the worst home makeover disasters!
Lol, that was one of the first ones I thought of!
That wasn’t THE worst though
I remember one episode where they changed the couch into wooden crates and everything was just a dark shade of grey. Haunted me in my dreams and mum and I used to joke about it. It was a most depressing site.
I get that the homeowners didn't want the fireplace altered and that the style was not to their taste, but I don't think the room was an eyesore like the technicolor nightmare room at 7:49 or the other one at 2:44.
What could possibly go wrong with letting a bunch of show offs who don't know you into your home? Think anything by Lawrence Llewellyn deserves its own stream but the "tart's boudoir" should definitely be on the list!
I was thinking of that room as well.
It's nice to know this show was just as much of a disaster in the UK as it was in the US
What the hell were these people thinking!? I hope the family was promised a do-over or something for some of these, it's just not realistic to live in.
One of these shows in New Zealand years ago, the old guy who owned the house walked in, took one look and said "what the bloody hell's this mess?" 😆
"what have you done to my lounge diner? I said no turquoise!!" 🤣🤣
Fan of Gimme Gimme Gimme I presume 😅
The whole idea of allowing "professionals" free rein to renovate and/or redecorate your home - at your expense - is terribly flawed. I would insist on approving the process at every step, and I suspect that most people would feel the same. Especially if they're paying the bill.
That's how they do it on a french renovation show, they get some actual sketched designs of how they plan to make it look before anything is actually touched, allowing the homeowners to provide input with a clear idea of how it would look.
Whole point is its free
@JoAnna Edssay On most of these shows, the homeowner pays for the renovations.
Changing rooms was the gift that kept on giving. I can still clearly remember the mdf faux medieval dining room disaster. LLB had a lot to answer for. Linda was one of the more 'restrained' designers 😆
I think the presenter for “Your home in their hands” has a leather fetish 🤣🤣🤣🤣
She looks good in leather.
@@kevinrussell2718 I agree.
@@kevinrussell2718 l'm sure she does. But nobody who dresses like that would ever be allowed to redecorate my house!
@@snowmonster42 If she came to your house dressed like that, you wouldn't kick her out of bed!
Yeah she looked revolting. She needed renovating.
I hope Linda paid in full for the teapots she ruined
@matt allen omg really?! That's awful!!
@matt allen what a cheek!! I hope Linda is ok now she looked really upset :(
@matt allen wow she's a lot more forgiving than me i'd be pissed and bitter at the person for a long time if she ruined my 3k collection of stuff.
its insane that they did that why would you put extra weight on that knowing how fragle those things are those were sacred to her and they were destroyed by a total idiot mind me saying that but she was STUPID for doing that with the clients prized posessions
In the last clip, you should have shown the looks on their faces when they were in another room and hard a loud crashing sound as the shelves containing the teapots collapsed. Just shows that whilst designers are full of ideas, not all of them are good.
Heard*.
Is nobody going to mention the stripper pole in the first one?
And?
Maybe owner is secretly Batman?
Please tell me they covered the value of the ladies teapot collection and some? Felt so awful for her.
That looked like a
a production story
They most likely skipped town & left her to suffer , words cant describe how heartbreakibg that must of been for her to see her prized collection destroyed because of some big titted blond bimbos stupid idea
@@BoxLaneProductionsUnlikely, they want people to sign up for the show, not avoid it like the plague
I don't feel he appreciated that is wasn't just a squirrel. It was an albino squirrel.
Honestly, the squirrel and pearls was an amazing set piece. Perhaps not for this bedroom, but I would love it in my living room.
This is how you get yourself onto an NSA watch list.
This is why I refuse to let people redecorate my place
i am assuming you get offers quite often then.
You know actual designers don't work like reality tv, right?
You get to weigh in along the process so that everything is designed to your tatse and nothing gets done without your approval.
@@behabtwa I been asking them for awhile now but they won’t let me
There are far better professionals who can do it way better than this and actually take into account your own style and what you want. “Mr. Kate” does great at decorating rooms! They’ve done lots of TH-camr’s homes renovations.
I am an interior designer and when ever I have an project nothing is ever bought or removed without the client’s approval
The cartoon room would be pretty sick for a music video, but not to have friends in
This level of awkwardness and mistakes is how my brain thinks all my social interactions go.
be social with me
That cartoon room would be really cute for a much younger child, not a teen lol.
I kind of like it as an idea but not how it was executed. Also clearly the teenager had not mentioned anything in that style
“Cartoon room”!?. More like nightmare room
It looked like a cute idea for a clothing store or something like that but not a bedroom.
I think younger kid would like more colour tbh
It would look better if it was in a bigger room, and less illustrations. As it is it is SO stressful and chaotic for a room you’re supposed to sleep in.
How can you forget Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen's "Tart's Boudoir" from "Changing Rooms"? There is a post-script to this incident: the home-owner contacted the team at "Noel's House Party" to arrange a "Gotcha" in revenge, which they duly obliged.
@matt allen No: it was a botched TV "renovation", and the "Gotcha" was in revenge.
You can tell by the host face in most of these that she hated the rooms too 🤣🤣🤣
The woman apologizing for the teapot disaster " I will take the rap." That is no consolation to someone whose collection clearly meant a lot to her and was irreplaceable.
Yikes 😬
The broken tea pots is heartbreaking 💔
I am more concerned why that presenter is dressed up as madam whiplash!
Brilliant comment!
I hope those shows have been stopped now. Those poor people who's homes they have destroyed and that poor lady with the no longer teapots, what possessed the show to add books onto something that was held up with what looked like fishing line. The wood alone would have been too heavy. Use chains you daft lot and anchor them well in the attic. I could have cried for all these people as they now have one heck of a job putting their rooms back to how they had them. If someone says please leave the fireplace as is, damned well leave it where it is. It makes me sick to see these people so unhappy. A cartoon room is for little kids - even they might not like it - but for that young girl of 16, it was just so gross.
cartoon room would be a great boutique hotel room but definitely not a everyday room!
I like how they said "warm hug" and that designer was like "oh yeah, Walmart garden section gotcha".
Seriously though, how can you not think to at least use warm colors and lighting? You've got a shit ton of green, mustard yellow, and little blue aquariums. Looks like they got a biologist instead.
I think the Room in my hands designer should immediately change professions
Is it schadenfreude if i could not stop laughing this whole video??? 😂😂😂
I mean these people sign up for it so they must have a streak of narcissm about them. I bet some of them deliberately set out to appear unhappy, just for the publicity.
I would love the sleeping pods 😂😂it looked big enough for both of them to fit in even if they had their own. I feel like i would sleep like a baby in one of those
The cartoon room is just funny who the hell thought of that 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Please tell me you are going to do more videos of things going hideously wrong. I enjoyed this and Grand Designs where houses were teetering on the edge of a cliff and would go over the edge in a few decades.
GD is all about hubris and the presenter seems to know it.
I personally have a rule in my life called, “Don’t do the obviously bad thing.” This generally applies to placing items in precarious places where they will inevitably be damaged because I “hope” it will be ok, but the rule has many applications. It certainly would have come up with a precious collection of delicate irreplaceable teapots hurriedly placed on an untested hanging open shelf. That poor woman trusted them. I now consider going on a show like this an Obviously Bad Thing.
That's the Murphy's law.
You're fucking dumb lol Thanks for sharing that you literally have what is called "common sense".
There's nothing to rival the teapot carnage, no wonder the owner still can't stand Linda
I remember these shows starting out when shows like this started and it was then to try make something good but nowdays I feel it’s done for a shock reaction and entertainment at the cost of the home owners dismay
Whoeved designed free-hanging shelves for teapot collection display must be insane.They weren't thinking.
I think I remember home on their own. If it is what I think it is, I remember the episode where they put a McDonald's in their kitchen and the episode where they removed the spare bedroom door and accessed it via a hidden door at the back of a wardrobe in the 2nd bedroom
Year, I remember the burger bar kitchen. The mum was not impressed, definately should have been on this list.
@@richardpenstone4330 She wasn't impressed because she was vegetarian!
ok, I have to search for this show. it sounds funny
I remember a slide and castle
@@richardpenstone4330 I remember that episode. She hated it so much they had to put the kitchen back how it was. The bedrooms were themed to Narnia I seem to recall too.
There's a worse Changing Rooms, the woman who wanted one style and go one from the wrong era, with garish floors and walls and furniture.
That teapot one had me in tears.... They were so beautiful
I have watched this a couple of times and I always laugh soo hard 😂 every time.
I love the way British people say SKWEERELLE
Squirr-elle!
The squirrel thing reminds me of Miranda Richardson's Highway robber Amy in Blackadder Three. I hate squirrels!!!! 😆
Yes! lol 😅
That's a first, the presenter in the 16 year old girl's bedroom looked like Catwoman without a mask 😂😂😂
No,it's not a first,BY YOUR.OWN ADMISSION.If she looks like catwoman with her mask off,then actually catwoman with her mask off is a first,and this is a close imitation of that.
10:30 Handy Andy told them not to put heavy books on the bottom shelf, they ignored him. I watched this episode and cried for the tea-pot lady and her friend. This programme never really listened to the friends/neighbours because all they wanted to do was promote the latest stupid decorating fad, in this case free hanging shelves. I wouldn't have them over my threshhold, that's for sure.
I remember seeing the tea pot scandal show. I have to say as lovely in every way possible a woman can be, Linda Barker is, I would have gone ballistic if my whatever collection had been destroyed. No truthfully she could get away with anything with me.
so sex over taste!!!
@@susannahhunt100 Charm over obsession maybe!
My mom and I loved Trading Spaces in the US at the start but once designers seemed to purposefully do what owners didn’t want for the ratings, we quit watching-#2 Pam, I actually really like the finished room but our fireplace is a space we wouldn’t want touched either so I can empathize. My husband built our fireplace when he was 16/17 (we bought home from his dad years later) and his two rules in home design are don’t touch the fireplace and don’t paint the wood, otherwise I have complete control.
The fact that the same show is being featured on here multiple times tells you everything!
I knew the lady with ths teapots and saw her just after. A lifetime's collection was broken. She was heartbroken. I dont think it was handled well after either.
The cartoon room is where I’d never ever wanna do an lsd trip in 😂
The squirrel was in very bad taste rather horrifying
Honestly, I'm 26 and would love the cartoon room. 😂 Maybe a dark themed version tho...
If they DID mean it to make it ugly, it wouldn’t be that horrible
The cartoon room looks like something out of Clockwork Orange.
Good lord. All of those were horrible. I've never seen the one called something like, "Your home in their hands" is so awful!!!!
Oh no! The teapots!! 😱 What idiots would hang them from the ceiling? Inconsiderate. Bad decorating is fixable.... The pots, not so much. 🫖
Home owner: " I would like a little touch of colour"
Interior designer: smears the walls with rainbow 🌈 colored unicorn shit 🤦♂️🤣.
These interiors look atrocious.
Them people was laughing to keep from crying .. OMG those were hands down the FUGLIEST home makeovers I've ever seen.. I would be weeping
Not that you will ever able to own a home of course lol These shows all died in 2004,because that's the last time a human OWNED their home.
A cartoon room would have been cute for a kids room, but not a teenager
i can see a room like that for a child that is like 5yrs old. for a teen not at all i agree
2:27 bond ambition GONE WRONG😂😂😂
The squirrel though lmao
This makes me feel better. So glad I was never picked to be blessed with an update on my house.
I remember the teapot debacle; that almost made me cry. 😢
I love how in these shows you give them the exacts "no's" and they take it as a sign of "lets do that". Like how can you be so dense?
“She still very bouncy and I don’t think she deserves the bounce” 😂
I am scream laughing. This is incredible TV.
Something tells me we shouldn't be putting our homes in their hands.
i love the way they say home on their own was a 'short-lived' series!
I wish I had a pod in my room when I was a kid, especially for when I felt overestimated
I'm sorry you're so broken.
That cartoon room was dope imo
No wonder the free-standing shelves collapsed, those teapots were 6,000 pounds.
The squirell is cute tho! But then again... I love weird niche faux taxidermy lol
In a nutshell, crazy art teacher breaks into poor family homes, reaks havoc
Sometimes it pays to think before setting one's self up for disaster.
Most Finnish shows like these ones are horribly bland. It's all about white with a hint of grey and lots of "modern, clean" elements. I hate that kind of safe approach for styling. At least these ones did something else, even when they failed miserably. The brown room was just absolutely horrible, poor Pam.
I actually love and want the albino squirrel lol I have a strange eclectic taste though and there's a lot of taxidermy in my house.
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I remember #2, the Trading Spaces fireplace, quite well! I'm surprised the episode where one of the designer glued pale feathers on every single wall isn't on this list. Ack!!!
The show with the kids designing the house sound fun
I feel so bad for that woman who almost started crying because she felt bad for not liking it. I feel really bad for the new designers put on these shows because there’s no way that they’re intentionally not meeting briefs this much. This sucks for everyone
ok but I want that squirrel
Nothing to go on off, okay, but when the homeowners SPECIFICALLY requested the fireplace to be left alone and you do the opposite? Shame on you.
It’s not just taking the wrap for breaking the teapots! It’s £600 worth, PAY UP! U owe them the price of those collectibles
Cartoon room was Amazing!!🖤
I loved Trading Spaces' until the designers, namely Hildi would do exactly what the home owners had on their list of things they didnt want or like. I remember that fireplace episode and always wondered if they were still friends with the neighbors.
she's the one that did the straw wall and sand room isn't she?
@@vickiechandler3112yes! That was awful too.
I've always said screw a "home makeover" give me cash and I'll do it myself.
Going into this, having watched enough episodes of 'Changing Rooms' i was going to be exceptionally disappointed if #1 wasnt #1
Ngl I like the squirrel and cabinet, but I have the taste of a Victorian serial killer, soo....
I actually kind of like the greenhouse one 😂😂😂 definitely not the carpet though
That squirrel looks like it’s pooping out those pearls!
Why not call this “I’m going to talk over all the make over clips and i love the sound of my own voice”
LoL the best one is when they show the room of broken antics
The thing is, that was actually one of the best rooms Doug had ever done! He usually left the homeowners with these vulgar, garish designs just to be a controversial ass hat, but that brown room was probably the most tasteful, sophisticated room he ever produced for anyone and that woman BAWLED! 😂😂
I always wonder why people like that even go on those shows! I mean, you can't go on a show about surprise makeovers and be like "but absolutely do not change a thing about this, that and the other or I'll be DEVASTATED". Like, go on Wife Swap then!
These designers were treating people's living quarters as their own little art project. Kinda fucked up tbh, you don't go experimenting wildly with people's homes.
"Your home in our hands" is the entire reason why I will never sign up for home renovations.
You'd have to own a home first...
Ok the cartoon room was awesome tbh
for number 2, not only did they ask for the firplace not to be touched, they also demanded that there be no brown