Unsellables | FULL Episode | David and Suzana
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Nestled in a super exclusive neighborhood, David and Suzana’s million dollar, Wild West-themed home has been on the market for nearly a month…And in spite of its classic period details and fantastic kitchen, no one’s biting. Sofie says at that price, buyers want more cosmopolitan than cowboy. The Santa Fe accents, bull’s horns, and fake rock dining table have all got to go, she says.
In order to create a uniform level of chic, Sofie comes up with a $6,000 plan. Motivated to sell (their baby is due any day), the couple enthusiastically packs up their accessories. And while Anthony and the team get busy neutralizing the décor, unifying the wall trimmings, and repurposing the upstairs bedrooms, David and Suzana get a few lessons about matching a home’s décor with its price tag.
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I work for a real estate office. Seeing them paint over the wood had me screaming at my computer. Most people, even the ones who would paint the wood themselves, would appreciate the wood. And with paint being cheap, I don't see the wood in its original state being an issue. That doorbell is another matter...
Totally agree. Patina is priceless. Remove the cheap wood furniture, put down a rug, put up curtains. That would tone the woodgrain down enough.
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I think getting rid of the southwestern theme, decluttering and sprucing the place up would have been enough. It's tragic that they destroyed that gorgeous wood; some future owner will spend a bundle trying to get that crap paint off and restore it to its original condition.
I love the original wood. The bubbly ceiling was more of an issue than the woodwork.
Thank you. I'll stop watching now! Sometimes I can't bear to see how they ruin things.
@@user-qo3jh9mn1t Yep, me too. Glad I checked the comments as soon as she said "paint the wood". I can't watch them destroy the unique & beautiful wood in an original Craftsman home.
Paint the walls, change the furniture, use light colored window treatments and area rugs to brighten things up. The only wood that needed paint was the closet doors in the bedroom...they were overpowering and were not original to the house.
If the younger generations are so tasteless and ignorant that they can't see the beauty in real craftsmanship & must have everything look cookie-cutter & cheap, that's just so sad.
If I was in the market for a house, the ruined woodwork would be a deal-breaker for me. They would have to take a huge chunk off the price to cover restoration of the woodwork, or I'd move on.
Agreed - I think very long and hard before painting any old wood. I hate the MDF fireplace - they could have painted the brick.
@@jdee4956I would paint the brick, too.
My heart breaks to see that fireplace in such a classic arts and crafts house turned into a hideous marble bland thing
So you're going to paint the beautiful wood in the dining room white because it's "too dark" but add a pitch black table? It was so gorgeous. It didn't need all that paint!
Awful and I would have asked her to leave. You don't paint historical wood and ruin the character of the home. Than bring in pitch black? She needs to be educated on historical quality!
Sophie should be FIRED
It's a shame that the trim and paneling wasn't STAINED and SEALED, instead of being painted. My house is the same era. The wood trim and paneling is darker than the floors and it's sealed and waxed. I'm lucky it was preserved when I moved in, all I had to do was oil and wax it to spruce up some dull spots. The paint is grotesque.
LOVE the HUSBANDS HUMOR!and God Bless the wife!!!!
After reading the comments I was a little scared to watch, but I liked the final effect. Guess I'm one of the cultureless masses. 🤷
Dark, depressing wood panels and dark wood trim are not everyone's cup of tea. Nothing wrong with liking the results of the makeover 🤷♀️
Lmao im scared too 🤣 i like the house in its original state but its not my particular taste. Havent seen the final yet, but im sure itll be more my style
We spent a bundle removing paint from the beautiful wood in our California Craftsman home. Never ever paint the wood!!
@Taylor how was it our damn fault when the paint was there when we bought the place? lol
@Taylor not to play a game of semantics but we did have to remove it if we wanted the house to be as it was when built as a true Craftsman home registered as am Arts and Crafts movement architectural exterior and interior home. Same with our
Joseph Eichler mid century California home. Gotta be original.
@@BethGrantDeRoos - if there is too much wood you don’t see it at all.
@@sherunswithscissors there’s no such thing in the craftsman. The wood is the whole point.
Sofie needs to educate herself on historic details, or at least care about them. Couldn't she have figured out how to brighten the house without ruining the beautiful wainscoting?! I would have asked her to leave. I lived in a Victorian farmhouse & it ended up beautiful--would have NEVER painted over the beautiful old wood. She's fine when re-doing houses with cheap wood, etc, but can't stand when she ruins historic details.
Exactly!
Also, antique radiators look much better EXPOSED than covered with cheap cardboard screens!
@@HaHaInc Yes!
So true, it ruins the wood and the historical look. She really has no clue or business dealing with historical houses.
Oh.... what a disaster! The decimated fireplace... marble??? in a Craftsman & the removal of the rich red tiles to be replaced by cheap tiles so thin that I expect a dropped fireplace poker will crack them. Her 2016 "shades of blue" paint choices only works with white - insipid colours which do nothing to enhance beautiful original woodwork. Like others in these comments I'm so saddened by the lack of respect shown.
That fireplace was so beautiful before it looks like a cheap prefab now.
Painting the wood -- groan!!!! The buyers after next will be stripping that paint off.
Oh my. They painted that beautiful, beautiful woodwork. :o( My husband and I were interested in buying a house with a large, beautiful brick fireplace ... until, on our second viewing, we saw that they had painted it a glossy gray color. :o(
Changing the fireplace from something with character to something ordinary? NQ, a thousand times NO!
It is UGLY!!!!
@@lucygray6162 Sad that these people have so little regard for history as well as the craftsmanship which went into creating this piece just in order to conform, how shallow.
I loved the wood such a nice and warm color!
House had dozens of showings and did not sell.
Commenters ages 50+ watching: how could they ruin the beautiful wood by painting it?! No one has any taste! No appreciation for craftsmanship! This is an abomination and sin against all that is right in the world!
If people who were looking for homes in that area and that price range were looking for dark wood features everywhere, the house would have sold as it was 🤷♀️ but, it didn't.
You can like what you like, but that doesn't mean most buyers are going to agree with you. The point wasn't to preserve decades old wood paneling, the goal was to sell the house.
painting that wainscoting and original wood on the wall ought to be a sin!!!!!! People spend YEARS restoring that to its original wood state.... find a way to work around it..... I hate that sophie ALWAYS goes after the wood and paint it.
It makes me cry seeing them DESTROY the original wood.
I agree.....no reason to paint all the lovely wood.
Exactly! This is at least the 2nd craftsman in which she's painted the wood, killing the craftsman style & charm. And I agree - people are always trying to refinish down to the wood. What bias has she against finished, not painted, wood?
They have a gorgeous house. Personally, as a buyer, id see past the poorly decorated house cause id be able to imagine it with my stuff/nicely decorated. Beautiful floors and walls and overall architecture
I would have bought the house as is if I could! The woodwork is beautiful.
Who on earth advises homeowners of a Craftsman house to paint over the original woodwork? The woodwork in its original state is what makes the house unique. The "property expert"/ host is smug and rude. She is condescending to the homeowners as well. I can see why this show was cancelled.
how could they paint that wood.
Anthony love his smiling clear vision input and his t-shirt "Jamaica... No problem" a reflection on how easy going Jamaicans are👌💖💕
Awful that they painted EVERY single bit of that gorgeous original woodwork. Now it looks like any other cookie cutter house in suburbia, but it's no doubt old enough to be a heritage home. Sad and disgusting. That's not "decorating," that's just laziness. I've seen Arts and Crafts homes maintain the original darker woodwork and add brightness and modern style with furnishings and wall color. Now in order to restore that woodwork one would have to pay a fortune to have it stripped down.
The upstairs has the original wood color paneling. Buyer will ask why?
That second comparison home was absolutely gorgeous
normally i don't mind when they paint the wood, even in historic homes but in this case it was unnecessary. if she had just found a color that coordinated with the wood i think it would have actually looked nicer and the wood would have been a feature that would have matched the price tag.
Destroyed the Craftsman style of the house. It's a CRAFTSMAN, for heaven's sake! Or was. . .
Fireplace looks cheap, too. Took all the character away. Boo.
Why do all you people think the brown wood should stay...its dark and depressing.
So glad they painted it!
You're in the minority in this comment section. I automatically like you because of that. Go for it and Express your bold, beautiful, and unique opinion. I love it and I love you for voicing it!
Cause it is a unique,special,much appreciated feature in a older, historic house and in that category of housing. If you want something newer, wood free, go for a newer house without this features. Only can be dark and depressing when not decorated to balance the dark wood color and not enough natural light, nothing to do with the wood.
Love their attitude towards change.
The house was gorgeous before the makeover. Just needed to remove the steer horns.
If homebuyers wanted a bland house, they would purchase something in the suburbs.
Fortunately most buyers have no taste- even in this price bracket. Everybody wants a copy of the most expensive, contemporary, home they've seen in a magazine. If I were to buy a home at that price- I'd be looking for the interior to match the style of the house (not give me culture shock ). I'd value the materials used, especially in an older house, as you can't replace that with modern DIY cheap garbage. Many woods are no longer possible to find today. This is what says "quality" . If your taste requires all that modernizing- buy a new house. It will be BUILT with phony material !
They wait till she is nine months pregnant to put the house on the market? Plus building another house at the same time? And then they wonder that they are stressed? -.-
My thoughts exactly.
Rather moronic timing. They should have waited. The baby's a sure thing. The house isn't.
So sad they painted that beautiful wood again, I would never use her as a designer. She just copied the other house.
Yikes, painting the original wood was a terrible suggestion. Clean the old smoke off the fireplace and clean out the adjacent cabinets of the crammed in stuff. This designer has done this paint wood paneling sin multiple times.
So the whole house looks light and trendy. And then there is the kitchen...😂
It's an old show, the kitchen is perfect for its time.
@@angelabacker1177 And she said the kitchen didn't need anything done
LOL. When Anthony got out of his SUV, I almost thought he had a red plastic gas can. Especially, when she said they called in him to speed things along.
I think the painted woodwork did the trick, and I noticed the beautiful wood in the SOLD home shown to the owners had also been painted. Anyone buying a million dollar home could have the wood restored.
For me, the House was much better before, the only awful things were
the furniture. The new color is great, but I would use it for bedrooms only, and leave the rest how it was but with Ralph Lauren style furniture, and the fireplace I would have painted the bricks white. The thing is, I am looking for an English traditional style home, and each one I find, has been remodeled in a contemporary style that looses the soul I am looking for. And for me, this is happening in this home, it came out gorgeous, just not in the style of its traditional architecture. Just my point of view, with all respect.
Just getting rid of all the southwest style (horn, etc) made a big difference. It broke my heart to see all that beautiful wood painted white. With regard to the 3 bedrooms, I'll never understand if a room is staged as an office, what it wrong with people that they couldn't imagine it as a bedroom.
I hate the beautiful natural woodwork being painted. That would be an immediate deal
Breaker for me.
This is a gorgeous house with the rich stained wood or the elegant paint. I agree it’s not good to cover beautiful wood BUT, I can’t stand dark room’s. The white opens things up and makes it appear more spacious and light.
Love these owners, so much fun.
¡¡¡ NEVER. !!! Paint good quality real stained wood. Do it on cheap or fake wood .
Ever been to Europe?
They really just needed to remove/replace the busy furniture, decor, and rugs...and freshen the paint on the
walls. They didn’t need to touch any of the woodwork.
@@sherunswithscissors What about Europe? I am from Europe. And in European countries old houses are protected. And people who paints wood details are only those who are lazy to clean century worth of grim off that wood, the easy solution - paint it over.
Totally disagree!
But that’s what sells houses, difference of taste and opinion.
Here's an idea..sell first and then build or buy something else. So far several have bought without selling their present home.
You usually only have a month to 6 weeks to get out once your house is sold. Bit difficult to build a house in that amount of time.
Also, don't do it when you are nine months pregnant xD
In my city with the way real estate is so competitive you are better off having 2 places than none!
I am agreeing. They shouldn't have painted the wood!! How annoying!!! Why cover that beautiful brick fireplace!!!??? If you had left all of that, the rads wouldn't have needed covering either!! All it probably needed was decor changes. Didn't say that it got any offers either.
I love the painted wood,
Over a million for that house on no property within spitting distance of your neighbors?! HELLLL NO!
I think they did a great job and it looked much better but I had a Victorian and never would have considered painting. When I moved into this 118 year old house it was the first thing I did. I think it depends on the house and quality of wood. I love Sofie's lavender dress
OMG, THEY RUINED THIS HOME!!! ):(
Too much of a good thing is simply too much. And there was too much wood. The floor stands out so beautifully now. Satisfying ones craving for wood, and now it’s not engulfing you. Dark rooms with big leather chairs , Scenery of pine trees out the windows, high ceilings etc.works in that environment. I think they did a wonderful job. They also satisfied the wood craving iIt works really well with the neighborhood the house is in
Sorry made a mistake they satisfied the word craving in the kitchen, The transformation they made really fits the neighborhood the house is in
So. Much. Better. LOVE the paint job!!! I adore. Sophie and her crew! I wish this was a current show🙌
Its heartbreaking to see the beautiful woods painted in white.....
The new buyer is going to have to really redo the floors if they didn't get damaged from the paint. Stupid thing to Do.
Ditto. I hate when they do that.
Exactly, Carol Trendall! It's an arts and crafts bungalow. That's a period as surely as Georgian or Eichler Contemporary is. Take down the cowboy motif, and the stained wood won't be so jarring.
Sophie removed the home office but offered no alternative. Fast forward to 2020 and 2021, whereby a big selling feature of this/any home would be a home office.
why would anyone paint that gorgeous wood?
Don't change a georgous wood feature. I was shocked at that being done. She could have put a long WHITE table cover( sheet) on the table to add brightness to the dining room. Add a few lights to the living room, floor lamp table lamp, up light on floor. WHITE drapes etc.
Too much wood! That comment is crazy! This makeover is a wood crime.
Maybe I'm different, but I can actually see a floorplan past the furnishings that aren't going to stay. I can see the walls under the paint color other people have chosen. I look at the floors, I look at the kitchen and the counters (and appliances if they are staying). I look at fixtures. I look at the number of electrical outlets and where they are. And I look to see if paint is peeling, plaster is soft, or trim is rotting. I also look at the view out the windows. And if there's period decoration, I prefer it be left 'period.
The worst thing that you can do is paint over the original panelling. People spend years trying to get that old gloss back off, because after three years it turns a horrid yellow colour.
Much improved!
Loved this! Pretty house. 👍
Never paint over beautiful vintage wood.
Why? Just because it’s old doesn’t make it beautiful or valuable.
It looked so much warmer en more inviting when the wood wasn't painted...also the new fireplace update looks cheap!
They did not do a very good job on the new trim work on the revamped fireplace surround, totally agree. It needs to be beefed up, not scrimped on!
I can't understand why people get so thrown off by decoration... Youre buying the HOUSE not the house furniture... You can clearly see its a beautiful home.... Have some imagination lol, imagine it empty
Why she paint wood white
Painting over the gorgeous stained woodwork just ruined it for me. That ‘timeless wood’ is much easier to keep clean and allows unique grain to show.
Don’t paint the wainscoting! Why? That’s part of the original architecture. Getting rid of the southwest look would have sufficed.
Think painting the wood is a mistake but I agree with the rest of the suggestions.
I think the trim around the windows, doors and baseboards only should have been painted, not the rest. I did like the update to the fireplace, but felt the trim-work added to it was a little chintzy looking, it needed a little bit of beefing up. Floors were beautiful to begin with. I liked the updated wall colors that were done. Paint effects on walls are so 1980s, was glad to see what looked like nicotine-stained living room walls disappear! Not a fan of all the darkish wood in the kitchen - why wasn't some of that painted as well???
Beautiful transformation. Still a craft house, but with an up to date look.
I don't get why some home owners, are reluctant to change.
Painting wood! They are Selling.
So let go. Sometimes there too
much wood, which makes it dark
and creapy.
What city are these shows in? Prices are crazy!! $$$
Some neighborhoods in Toronto seem to have HUMONGOUS homes on small lots. Must not have "set back" laws.
IDK but yeah, these markets are pretty crazy. The market where I live is like that too, in Denver. I am 41 and will probably never be able to afford a house anywhere around here, and I have lived here my whole life.
No set back laws. Lol. These homes were built before there were set back laws
I liked the wood better than the white . I have dark wood trim and doors in my house . My late husband and I designed it and I have never gotten tired of it . I didn't like the Southwest decorating. If that had been removed, the house would have been perfect the way it was . See , this is why there are no many different houses .😜😜
Cannot believe they painted it all over! People like this should be put in jail for such "improvements"!! And the owner paid them six grands for ruining all the character and beauty of the house!
why is the artwork blurred out?
My guess is because of copyright laws. Too much additional red tape for the network to get permission from those artists to show their work.
Wondering the same thing.
While artwork cannot be trademarked, it is copyrighted, and that means the creator of the work has the right to control how it’s publicly displayed and performed.
First, copyright is automatic for any work you create, whether that’s the words I’m typing or something you draw on piece of paper. You do not have to register something for it to be copyrighted, but you do have to register it if you want to sue someone.
This is called staging to sell, not decorating to live in or renovating some house to your preferences. They had over a hundred viewings and nobody bought it for the wood trim. They needed to sell, so didn't want to spend a ton of money on a house they were not going to be living in as soon as possible, maybe only a few weeks.
As long as the house sold, the staging has worked for them, and your not going to want to spend a lot of money on that.
Tastes change, and the younger home buying generations don't like lots of fussiness and have no understanding of the cost of totally superficial, completely decorative carpentry.
After glancing at the comments and seeing the tour, I can't even watch this episode! Tone down the western I get, but NEVER paint original wood, it should be a crime!
I can't watch this!!! I just know her solution will be to paint all the beautiful wood white. Can't stand to see this yet again!
White wood and green or grey walls. And horrible design.
No painting the wood was not the right way to go! Why did the home owners allow her to do that?
What’s the apprehension with painting wood? It’s paint. Once you put your house on the market, it is not your house anymore. You have to make your product (house) appeal to masses. The look has to be a show piece and not a movie set
Culture's a funny thing. Sofie said "Wild West" (accurate) but then said, "I'm sensing a Southern theme."
Now, while Texas was part of the Wild West, and is technically in the South, the Wild West schemata isn't thought of as "a Southern" thing. Americans likely went, "Huh?"
"Southern theme" usually conjures up the Deep South, the Southeastern part of the country.
But, Sofie's a Brit. How would she know?
The grey paint won't go with many prospective buyers' furniture. It should have been a lot paler. Buyer aren't going to want to have to repaint the entire house so it goes the furniture they already have. Builders and renovators forget this, I think.
I apologize for not mentioning that I'm an artist and am drawing upon my experience with color theory. There are colors that are more compatible with a wider variety of other colors. If you go to an art gallery or museum you can see that the walls are painted in colors that are almost universally compatible. There aren't many museums or galleries with white walls as a background for the artwork on display.
There are a gazillion shades, tints and tones of grey.
You have a great point, though. It's always pot luck when it comes to a new owners' furniture and whether it'll clash or look great with the previous owner's color choices.
When we sold our house the new owners turned the whole house stark white: the light fixtures, the cabinets (they painted over my beautiful solid hickory ones), the walls, the counter tops, and even the bedding. There were two pale grey chairs and that was about it for color. After 20 minutes in the house I felt so sensory deprived that I'd almost gone bonkers and couldn't wait to get out of the house! They had even painted the exterior bricks and front door white and had white pots on either side of the door.
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I loved the improvements,wooden floors are lovely, not keen on the kitchen
I don't believe that painting over the wood was a good idea. I felt like crying when I saw them paint everything white!
I think the woodwork throughout should have been left alone. It is irreplaceable. Get rid of the Wild West, cover the radiators, lighten the paint and change the bedrooms but the gum wood painting made me ill.
Painting out the wood hurts my heart
I’m not sure why they did not paint the wood trim I; the entry and hallway? Even the window on the stairs still had unpainted wood trim I know lots of people are complaining about painting wood... but this show was on back in 2008... so the style and trends were very different..
Woncder why they didn’t cover all the radiators upstairs in the bedroom like they did in The dining room.
Best one yet!
Why not paint the ceiling?
Sofie, you need to go see a chiropractor and have him adjust your neck. In all your videos, your head is bent to the left and you never have your head straight on your neck. Get it adjusted and you will feel better and look better. People feel strange when the person they are talking to can't look at them straightly. It makes you seem dishonest.
Honestly the house that she showed we so ugly, I feel like it wouldn't be out of place on this show
Awful, Awful, Awful!!!....they just destroyed the main feature that people are looking for in a house like this. And apparently no immediate sale after the renovation.....maybe buyers were concerned about how much work it would take to restore the beautiful wood features.
They did a fantastic job on changing that house and updating it
Where are the bathrooms?
Food Is Life I noticed they never show bathrooms
@@ericamerica89 They do but not on all episodes.
Why does Anthony always use cheap MDF to create a so-called "million dollar" effect while destroying original elements you can't get anymore?
She completely ruined the house and stripped the entire character, history of the house. The fire place is horrible and the wood painting. Turning a nursery to s bedroom,? She hasn't a clue what design is. I WOULD NEVER EVER HIRE HER.
The kitchen was ugly but they didn't even touch it!
Everyone barking about 'how great the wood is', if it's so great, why didn't it sell? It's a bit old looking. The house doesn't have enough light to make it look roomy and classy. I love natural hardwood floors, trim, furniture, etc. But the wainscoting, damn. It's just too, too much. I feel they should have had it painted professionally, however! I used to do residential painting for a living, and this is just so sloppy.
Gorgeous! I hate wood everywhere. So dark and drab and masculine.
Sorry, but that house is NOT a million dollar house.
I did not like the kitchen however the other rooms looked fabulous afterwards
Appalling and tasteless painting that woodwork - destructive. Enough to make me not watch this show any longer. Taking a gem like that and turning it into a copy of another house. Shame on her.
Painting that rare and gorgeous gum wood devalues the house by $20,000 minimum. Knock another $20,000 off for painting that magnificent brick fire surround. Sophie has totally lost the plot. Paint the walls, sure. Eliminate the wild west theme, absolutely. Gum wood is worth a FORTUNE, and stripping it back down will be a lot of work.
I can't even watch this travesty of a show. They are not making it sellable, and they are spending money to lower the value of the house.