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Caitlin Flanagan Quotes

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“HGTV makes big, expensive, time-consuming remodels look like two weeks’ work and a modest amount of money well spent. Moreover, it links these changes so definitively to personal and family happiness that you begin to wonder what, exactly, is wrong with you that you haven’t made some of them. The discontent gnaws as the addiction to the programming grows, and you have to imagine many viewers find themselves enticed to do foolish things like take out second mortgages so that they can blast out a few walls and get a little of what Chip and Joanna seem to have.”
— Caitlin Flanagan, HGTV is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop, Look Closer and it Gets Pretty Ugly
Tagged: HGTV, Houses, Decor, Before and after, Fixer Upper
“The first thing counselors tell sex addicts is to stop watching porn, and we really shouldn’t be watching this much HGTV during our rehab. Although it’s a soothing experience, it is also a fomenter of deep feelings of discontent about one’s living arrangements, which began to hit me hard around week two. Why have I allowed my attic ‘bonus room’ to remain covered in the exact type of wall-to-wall carpet that repulses Joanna Gaines, Christina El Moussa, and both Property Brothers?”
— Caitlin Flanagan, HGTV is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop, Look Closer and it Gets Pretty Ugly
Tagged: HGTV, Houses, Decor, Before and after, The Digital Age
“Taking out a single wall when you want to leave the rest of a room intact involves carefully cutting the drywall, teasing it off, and then taking down the framing behind it. But the reckless bashing makes for good television, and it dramatizes the signal design imperative of HGTV: Whether you live in Burbank or Barcelona, you absolutely must have an open kitchen.”
— Caitlin Flanagan, HGTV is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop, Look Closer and it Gets Pretty Ugly
Tagged: HGTV, Houses, Decor, Open kitchens
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