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One of my friend's moms is an HGTV addict. Every time I am over there I see her watching home décor shows or deciding how to redo their own home. I used to think some of those shows were boring and kind of pointless for me to watch (considering I won't be decorating my own home for years and years to come). But now I think they are interesting. I catch myself sometimes flipping through the channels when I am at home and ending up on the home décor channel. I'm hooked now, I love watching them flip houses or even watching trading spaces. It's funny to me when they set guidelines in trading spaces shows and they always break them. Like one family will say that don't care what color they paint their living room as long as it isn't green (or some other color) and then the designers and the other family on the show that they switched with paint the wall green and get green accent pillows for the couches and what not. It's crazy to see the reactions of the different families when they come back to their homes that were decorated by strangers, or even worse, their friends.

I used to laugh at her when she was always watching or Tivoing these shows, but my friend's mom has gotten me addicted to them. If I go to his house to watch a movie and his mom is watching one of these shows, I always say, “oh no go ahead and finish you show (even though it is being tivoed) we can wait to watch the movie”, even though she offers over and over to let us have the TV. I secretly want to watch all of the home décor and the different ways they go about buying homes and rebuilding. Its amazing for me to watch them take a completely outdated home and in like a week or even 3 days something (or so they say), they completely transform it. I can't even believe how they do the extreme home make over show. All of those families are so deserving and they completely knock down their homes in a week and build these amazing houses in their places. You secretly want them to bust through your door and make your home or your bedroom look spa like or like it came straight from a magazine.