Everyone loves a good makeover! However, when the makeover is so good that it brings you up a class level…feelings start to get hurt. In a time where nobody can afford their rent, buying a fixer-upper and splurging on an indoor terrarium room is flat-out rude. These six shows are guaranteed to kick you while you’re down!
1. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
On this show, Ty Pennington turns broke people into broke people that can no longer pay their mortgage. The crew finds people with tragic backstories and tragic interior designs to match. In a matter of days, the house is demolished and built from scratch again. It addresses all the needs of the family, except for the fact that they can no longer afford their own home anymore. And neither can you. Let’s be honest- you couldn’t even afford the “before” house.
2. Queer Eye
These home makeovers are top-notch due to their superior interior designing. Every home looks like the cover of a home magazine, which you peruse with willful ignorance and a negative bank account. Bobby Berk brings people to tears with these transformations, especially those watching who are worried their power will cut out mid-episode.
3. Stay Here
If you watch this show, you can expect to find Genevieve Gorder and Peter Lorimer turning rich people with “extra” property that they use as Airbnbs and vacation homes, into even richer people who can charge more for the same property (except now it has a map of the world where you can put where you’re from). We cry.
4. Rehab Addict
Nicole Curtis is “addicted” to fixing houses and “ignorant” to how offensive her show title is. This show will not only spit in the face of the lower class but those who have been to real rehab as well. Nicole’s “fun” addiction to restoring old buildings keeps us wondering how much these people could help actual homeless people who need a home. Hm. Cry while you ponder that.
5. Flip or Flop
Tarek and Christina El Moussa take it upon themselves to flip houses from “shabby” to “shabby chic.” They go around California and make rent even more expensive. True heroes.
6. Fixer Upper
Chip and Joanna Gaines turn a nice house you can’t afford into an even nicer house that could gentrify a white neighborhood. While watching, you will be convinced that you need two fridges in the kitchen for all your Pizza Rolls and Otter Pops. You could fit so much food from the Grocery Outlet in that baby.
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