Guess Who's Coming to Decorate
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This room makeover show boggles Grandmother's mind, Kaitlyn, although I have to admit it does have its intrigue.

The notion is that a secret person from someone's past comes to the home of a former friend, lover, even spouse, and revamps a room while the owners go away. The intrigue here is that not only does the audience get to keep guessing over the final Reveal, there's also the intrigue of the couple or individual receiving a revamp guessing who from their past is redecorating their room.

Grandmother cannot imagine anyone from her past showing up to revamp a room in her house. The whole notion seems quirky.

Monster House Makeover
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The major networks, in this case ABC, jumped onto the home makeover craze with this idea and it is, indeed, the granddaddy of them all.

A family is chosen, usually based on some human interest tragedy. In one case, the selected family had a large SUV crash into their living room. Grandmother addressed this segment in another missive, titled 'Monster House'.

This is not a room makeover show, Kaitlyn. In this show the entire house, or most of it, is completely torn down and another one rebuilt.

The new house is furnished with wonderful furniture, marvelous technology and fine décor. Sometimes entire cars are part of the deal. Or new swimming pools or even a tennis court. In one case a house belonging to a paraplegic was given an indoor lap pool!

It's America excess at its best but that's just me.

There's lots more decorating type shows currently on the cable and broadcast networks, Kaitlyn, but on this day of our Lord, it is a concept that has captured America's imagination.

A few celebrities have emerged from the phenomena, including the aforementioned exhibitionist Paige and now we have the quirky Ty, the carpenter of Trading Spaces who moved up to be host of Trading Spaces and is now working for Sears!

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