Okay so last night Ryan and I tuned into HGTV, own of my favorite networks by the way, to watch the $250,000 Challenge. The premise of the show is 5 families, all from the same neighborhood are competing to win a mortgage pay-out. Each week the challenge is to renovate one room in their house. They get the funds from HGTV to renovate plus a skilled carpenter and helpers, so labor is free, and they get an allotted budget. Cool right? Well I thought so too. Who wouldn’t love to renovate their home and possibly win $250K for doing it? Last night was kitchens. I thought to myself, awesome… I love kitchens, I want to re-do mine so badly. The 3 families left each got $20,000 and 32 hours to renovate. And here are the results.

That is the kitchen that lost, now for the other 2…

This one is pretty good besides the silver line on the cabinets, I love the back splash.

Hmm… I am noticing a trend with the cabinetry. Anyways, this couple designed a very nice kitchen.

I don’t know about you but I was throughly un-impressed. The 3 kitchens were very nice but… all three used the same white cabinetry and stainless steel appliances. It disappointed me that no one ventured outside the safe option of white cabinets, SS and granite. If someone is giving you $20,000 don’t you think you could do better? I am not trying to sound snarky… okay maybe a little snarky, but still their choices were uninspired (the inspiration was supposed to be nature) and too safe. I just wish someone was done something different, because all 3 ended up looking too much alike. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE white kitchens but these were all the wrong cabinets. The 2 families that are continuing on did some pretty back splash work, inter-mingling tile types. But, honestly I couldn’t get over the cabinetry to look closely.

Okay rant over. I’ll watch next week to see what they do, and take some inspiration from HGTV and NOT get my cabinets from Home Depot if I choose to go with white. But still, Home Depot is cool, and so is HGTV, and so is the competition’s idea. 

Next blog post, hopefully something more upbeat.

Cheers!

Thanks to HGTV for the images.

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