UK Style

extreme makeover

Advantages: happy endings to stories
Disadvantages: hyper hosts

Extreme makeover does exactly what it says on the tin so to speek, it is a show that completely rebuilds a new house. The show is made in America and is aired on sky tv on uk style channel 246 and 247 and is on at various times most days. The programme starts off by showing you the families homes before the makeover and the conditions they put up with and live in, some are really bad. The host Ty and his crew then show you what the plans for the ...
...demolish the house, I love this part of the show it just get stuck in and ripped to pieces. You are then shown the start of the new building, which doesnt take them long at all, not like it would be in England it would take us months to build!! It is now time for the big reveal, the families are taken round their brand new home and shown each room, the kids faces are the best they just cannot believe such special things are done fo them. The families ...

pompeysmick11 25.04.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Extreme makeover home edition

Kerbside Appeal

Advantages: Compulsive before and after home makeover show with great ideas for people planning to sell their home
Disadvantages: Half hour format is too short for this type of programme.

...point of view) to the UK around 7 years ago, having previously worked at staging homes in the USA. Ann’s TV fame came about almost by accident. Whilst on holiday in Italy she met an English woman who was intrigued by Ann’s ‘unusual’ career. By a quirk of fate the woman’s daughter worked for BBC's Home Front who got wind of the idea. Ann’s first TV appearance was staging a home for Home Front. The rest is history. The ‘House Doctor’ programme is built ...
...enjoys her shows and her philosophy remains alien to some, but I do believe that her ideas make a lot of sense and that anyone thinking of selling their house would do well to catch some of the old re-runs of ‘House Doctor’ which are shown regularly on UK Style. ...

fallen121 14.03.2004 · Read Full Review
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Review of UK Style - House Doctor

only if you are well off

Advantages: great ideas and designs
Disadvantages: unachievable to most

The idea is good but unless you are willing to spend, spend, spend then this show is literally, just for show. I would love to do my garden but it is too dear. The designers do lots of bold and inspiring things such as building tiled mosaic walls, putting up mature exotic plants, building weird and wonderful garden structures which would cost lots if you wanted to recreate them. That is unless you have a BBC site foreman and a team of workers to ...
...cement, steel, timber, earth, and of course, plants. Please Anne and Dairmud (the designers), when you say things are affordable and that 'this was done for £1200, please remember not some people can only spare a few quid on their garden. I'd recommend this program if you like designs and gardens but remember that there's a price tag.... ...

fumo 15.08.2000 · Read Full Review
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Review of UK Style - Home Front in the Garden

down to earth

Advantages: good clear concise info
Disadvantages: all repeats

This is a program that shows you how you can change your garden completely. Gay Search transforms a front garden with the various stages of work shown and explained. She shows you how to get the best out of what you have. What is good about this program is that the work is not done by a group of magical pixies who come along in the dead of night and complete the lot, but by the presenter and the family. If they can't do brickwork then a builder is ...

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Review of UK Style - Front Gardens

I wish they would come to my house!!

Advantages: Helps out a lot of people who really need it
Disadvantages: The loud megaphone used by the main presenter

...decided to see what this Extreme Makeover Home Edition was actually like! I was pleasantly surprised... to say the very very least! *About Extreme Makeover* Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is produced by Endomol USA. It premiered on 3rd December 2003 on the ABC Network in America. To date (May 2006), there have been three seasons produced and aired on television in America. In the shows first season, it won an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality ...
...also bought the rights for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition! *What is Extreme Makeover?* Basically... Extreme Makeover is the most extravagant version of Changing Rooms that you could ever get! It doesn't just give one room a facelift but utterly transforms a whole house. Sometimes this includes ripping an entire house down to build a new one and other times this means adding something substantial (in quantity or quality) to the plan of the house- ...

emzipops86 21.05.2006 · Read Full Review
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