I know that some people get annoyed with the house hunters’ obsessive desires for granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, but I don’t mind. Personally, I live in two places without either of these amenities, and I am quite content. I think buyers are just filling up air space with snooze-worthy topics because they have to keep talking while looking at walls and floors.
Years ago, I remember watching a particularly intense episode
of ER right before going to bed. In this episode, a woman delivering a baby in
the ER tragically died because of a series of unfortunate events. I was so caught up in the drama and
distraught with the results that I tossed and turned all night thinking about
the poor dead (fictional) woman and her baby. On HGTV's Love it or List It, deciding whether to leave a beloved
neighborhood to move to a bigger house is as intense as it gets.
So, I know I am better off reading a book and then watching
an episode or two of one of the HGTV shows before I go to sleep. Sure one partner or spouse may prefer a
contemporary look while the other likes traditional. But these problems are not earth shattering,
and they are neatly resolved by the designers and realtors in a half-hour or
hour-long show. I’m not saying that HGTV
is boring, but it is usually pretty low key with a resolvable crisis. So I can drift off to sleep knowing that
Sophie and Peter have their dream home or that Eduardo and Greg have a perfect
setting for entertaining that is not too far from their jobs. Ah, HGTV, you are my sleep-inducing nighttime
channel.
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