MovieChat Forums > Flip or Flop (2013) Discussion > Terrible designers

Terrible designers

posted 9 years ago by FloridaSunshine
11 replies | jump to latest

First time watching the show tonight and after watching a few episodes I am wincing at some of the hideous choices they made. Christina acts like she's a design pro but she needs to check that attitude at the door because she stinks at it.

The subway tiles she turned vertical... UGLY! Her bathroom when they did the challenge, subway tiles mixed with Moroccan tiles in the middle... just WTF that was so hideous! His bathroom with the tiles wrapping around the entire bathroom floor to ceiling... looked like a garage, not a bathroom.

Every now and again they had a good idea but those were few and far between. I won't be watching these 2 again.

.

[–] dehumidifier 9 years ago

But I do find their stuff more practical in terms of live-ability, use-ability and clean-ability than Fixer Upper's designs.

[–] singjohn 9 years ago

They're doing stuff that the buyers in LA and the OC love. Some of the ideas are really tired. So sick of those concrete floors. I can't imagine how cold those must be!

[–] ScrystaLz 9 years ago

everyone has different tastes and preferences afterall, but I really like their designs, they go for more modern, clean styles, which I love. I actually think some of their designs are much nicer than Chip & Jo's designs on 'Fixer Upper'...Chip and Jo live in Texas so their designs are mainly old rustic western style, which is not my cup of tea, and some of Jo's design and staging just seems "uptight". I prefer Tarek & Christina's design styles more, and their styles seem more comfortable and clean for me.

[–] FloridaSunshine 9 years ago

everyone has different tastes and preferences afterall, but I really like their designs, they go for more modern, clean styles, which I love.

True, and I admit they've done some things I like but so many times I'm left thinking yikes, why did you do THAT 

.

[–] ScrystaLz 9 years ago

we will just have to agree to disagree, I really love their designs about 99% of the time...I would love to hire them to design my home actually!  But I don't live in the US, so I doubt they would travel overseas just to design a house.

[–] vasq6876 9 years ago

I like their designs in general, though on occasion they've done a few strange things that I haven't liked.

Chandeliers in a bedroom for one.

I also didn't like the vertical subway tiles.

I'm so ugly...that's ok 'cause so are you.

[–] ScrystaLz 9 years ago

they are not the first designers to put chandeliers in bathrooms, I have seen that done by other interior designers numerous times before, and I like it. As strange as it is, you have to admit that it's unique and makes the bathrooms stand out, I mean, just how many bathrooms & toilets would have chandeliers in them? And sometimes Tarek & Christina do go for more unique looks and designs to make their flips stand out from the rest, of course that depends on the area where the house is located in and the neighbourhood demographics. If they are flipping a house in a more up-scale, more expensive and wealthier neighbourhood, then they tend to go all out with more expensive, fancier, flashier and in-your-face designs that reflect on the up-scale neighbourhood. And when they flip houses in a more cheaper and modest neighbourhood, then they tend to tone-down their designs a bit and not go too crazy, so it really depends on the area and location and the neighbourhood where the houses are located in.

But as I said before, general I really like their designs about 99% of the time, even their more wild, unique and flashier designs 

[–] ericegg-11129 9 years ago

Joanna from "Fixer Upper" is clearly the superior designer. They do have different styles but Joanna always creates a beautiful, classic look. Her color choices are always brilliant. Christina is very hit or miss, and sometimes she tries to hard to go with current trends even though they don't fit in the big picture.

[–] jeffhartley 8 years ago

Joanna's designs would be considered hideous to all but those that are huge fans of that genre and they'd have a very tough time selling homes with her designs. Bolting a bicycle or a section of fence onto the wall reminds me of something you'd see in a casual dining restaurant like Fuddruckers or Applebees.

Christina's designs are far cleaner and mainstream. Yeah, they're somewhat generic but that's the point; personalized homes are very tough to sell - especially quickly.

[–] Kompressor_Fan 8 years ago

Bolting a bicycle or a section of fence on the wall reminds me of something you'd see in a casual dining restaurant like Fuddruckers.

I know....I just look at that junk and laugh. Worse yet, her putting up framed photos with a single, pithy word like "ASPIRE" or "BELIEVE." I've always thought people who nailed that kind of twaddle to their walls were braindead idiots.

[–] liscarkat (19418) 6 years ago

And there must be a barn door, a wall covered with rotten shiplap, and a GIGANTIC 3-FOOT-DIAMETER CLOCK in every house.