Liz, according to current estimates from what I’ve read the common estimation of gay people in the population is currently between 10-12%.

Gay couples on a whole tend to be in the income bracket of married people referred to as DINKS - Dual Incomes, No Kids. It’s generally a middle class to upper middle class income bracket.

I cannot fathom why the hell you would need 3 dishwashers unless your house had 3 kitchens.

The G in HGTV is Garden. It is the Home and Garden Television Network.

I personally think you are gay man enough to accomplish anything you want.

By Wavemancali on 2009 02 23

I’d pair up with you and pretend to be a lesbian couple in order to get on one of these shows, Ms. Lizzie.  (Or should I say Ms. Lezzie?)We’ll tell them that we summer here in The Lou and winter there in MS.

By Gwen on 2009 02 23

i’d have to retain veto power. i saw one episode where this weird chic with some kind of tricked out color wheel redid the basement/spare/music/office kinda deal for a lesbian couple. it did not end well. one of the girls was just all laura ashley and shabby chic and the other one looked scared to death of what the room was going to look like.
turns out girl #2 was right to be scared.
the room ended up a brown and orange monstrosity with ‘accents’ of teal. it looked like an acid head from the late 60’s vomited.  it just looked ~so~ bad. and there they are, trying to pretend they liked it. how horrible.

By heather on 2009 02 23

Dave,
Thanks. Especially for your confidence in my gay man abilities. Ha!! Too cute!

Gwen,
You’re a hoot! And NOBODY winters in MS on purpose. We did have Trading Spaces come here once- Laurie, one of the designers, lives in MS. It’s the episode where Hildy stapled a billion fake plastic and slik flowers on the homeowner’s bathroom wall.

Heather,
I know! It is a true gamble. Usually I like what the decorators do, but every once in a while I think, “dear God that is horrid.” See my comment to Gwen for a full illustration.

By Liz on 2009 02 23

gwen beat me to the offer to be half of your gay couple.  dammit!

it does drive me nuts that those incredible makeover shows take care of rich people.  they need to come and put a new roof on my little house.  and, ya know, throw some color on my white walls.

i think we need a letter writing campaign.  because clearly four letters will make the fuckers see the error of their ways.

By hello haha narf on 2009 02 23

Hello,

I think I know what ‘four letters’ those fuckers need…

I hope you get that. It’s suspposed to be a joke, but it’s kind of lame. Unless you got it. Then it’s incredibly witty!

By Liz on 2009 02 23

you got it, i got it...we win!!
now redo my kitchen, bitches!

By hello haha narf on 2009 02 23

what was the one about 5 years ago where the “decorator” decided that it was a brilliant idea to cover a bedroom wall with chicken wire and then cover ~that~ with florist foam and moss. what the holy ~fuck~ was that chick thinking?
i’d have decked her and made her and her crew remove every trace of it. 
what a dumbass idea for a bedroom in snow country.

By heather on 2009 02 23

I heard that on some of those extreme home make-over shows, that the homeowners lost their awesome new homes, because they couldn’t afford the taxes on them. Oops!

By churlita on 2009 02 24

I keep wishing that someone would sign me up for ‘What Not To Wear’. I’d love a makeover, a fab haircut, and some shopping money.

Ditto getting a home makeover. I know what I’d like to do, I just can’t afford it. Vern could come to my house anytime - our taste is similar enough that I wouldn’t have an anxiety attack over what he would do to my house.

Redneck used to work with a guy who had a kitchen remodel done by HGTV - his wife won it in some kind of contest. I never did see the episode but Redneck told me that after it was over, the wife was ‘unhappy’ with her $7000 dishwasher and sold it on Craigslist.

Seriously? I didn’t even know there WERE $7000 dishwashers and I sure as hell would not have sold it if I were lucky enough to get one. I’d even sue for custody of the damn thing if I had to.

By Roadchick on 2009 02 24

I think your poll might be skewed because you have to watch HGTV to apply to be on one of their shows. They don’t just select home owners at random. And I’m not saying no straight men watch HGTV because I watch it in abundance. And it’s fabulous.

Jody and Brad (Smith) once discussed being on Trading Spaces. I would have paid good money to watch that episode. They would have needed a demolitions expert.

By Steven on 2009 02 24

Steven,

You know… that’s a really good insight. I never thought about the possibility that gay couples apply to be on HGTV shows at a 50:1 ratio! Absolutely Fabulous observation!

OMG. Jody and Brad Smith? Uh...... yes. That would be awesome indeed.

By Liz on 2009 02 24

a $7000 dishwasher! holy fuck! i could make over my entire kitchen with $7000!
granted, i’d have to do all the work myself and instead of watching pretty boys with their own cameramen i’d be watching my oh, so lovely, spouse invent new curse words every time he realises that he should have done something my way the first time cause now he’s got a mess to fix. lol

By heather on 2009 02 26

Dave is 100% correct about you being enough gay man to qualify. 

on the show “Monster House” a while back, they would come in and redo an area of your house in extreme fashion, if you were into Star Trek, they would redo your living room in the Enterprise motif. 
One episode they had a couple where the wife was British and the husband was American, so for some freaking reason they decided to do the entire living room as an old English ice skating pond.  It was ridiculous, they had no chairs or TV or anything, just a big, fake ice skating pond. 
The next season they had to do a show where they came in and changed the job, because the home owners were so pissed.

By Killer on 2009 03 01

I don’t have cable, but a while back I spent a lot of time in motel rooms watching cable.

I think that I must have been there once when it was “I hate purple” week.  These designers would come in, and the wife would say that she hated the place and she was open to just about anything except purple, cause she just really hates purple.  And then she would come back to find some guy painting her house purple, or lavender or some other variation that was still pretty much purple.  And then she’s either pretending that it isn’t so bad cause it’s done and she’s stuck with it, or else she catches them at it and they have to do it all over again.

I have also seem shows where they remake a bathroom for like $30,000.  And maybe that isn’t even the main bathroom, maybe that’s just like one of the kid’s bathrooms.  So I hate that, cause my whole house probably isn’t worth $30,000, so how come people get to spend that much on a bathroom just cause they don’t like the color or some dumb thing like that.

I think of I won a contest to get a $30,000 remake, but then they tell me I can only spend that on the bathroom, I’d have them knock out a wall and make a bigger bathroom and put in a big whirlpool or something.  With a $30,000 remake I’d have to entertain people in the bathroom.

By laughingattheslut on 2009 03 14

So, if you want that G, why not help get the word out and join in on the HGTV Protest Campaign on April 13th?
Since HGTV won’t listen, maybe their advertisers will.
The info is here: http://hgtvprotestcampaign.blogspot.com/

By Tina on 2009 03 31

75%?  Is that all?  It is 99% this side of the pond, if you go entirely by design programs.

Actually, I think all stats should be generated entirely from design programs.  That way we’d all (officially) be living in gorgeous exposed-brick minimalist loft conversions with huge plasma screens seamlessly mounted on pristine white walls without the tiniest inkling of a tiny bit of wiring anywhere.

By stoneskin on 2009 04 05

You gotta see their faces when we tell the up-tights my wife and I are a domestic couple!  LOL We are heterosexual.

Truly, though, I thank HGTV for teaching me that peopke are people - no matter what theur sexuality. Good and bad; nice guys and jerks, regardless of sexuality.  This new perspective has changed my life.

Sexuality is hardly ever chosen, but one’s attitide is almost always chosen.

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By share your option on 2009 07 13

I’m copying that last guy’s remark for future use in any given blog.

By Steven on 2009 07 13

Hi, my friend would really like to sign up for trading spaces. I went on the website and had trouble finding it. Anybody know how to sign up? Thank you SO much for your help.

By Stock Exchange Updates on 2010 08 23

It just makes me sick...sick… that HGTV uses their network as a cover to promote the gay lifestyle. Obviously it is a well thought out marketing idea, because the number of shows featuring gays is far more than in the population as a whole. In reality, gays are about 1% of the population, not 10. Forcing this on us causes those that did think let them be to say ENOUGH!

By kathy on 2011 11 09