There is no doubt we just love a decet property decorating or revamp programe over here in UK. We can never get enough of looking at a messy cramped house that isn’t selling well on the market. There was one such programme in the late 1980s & 90s with the premise that the presenter would come by with her very uppercrust side kick, to respoond to cries for help to sort out why the house was not flying off the agent’s shelf. As these programes are very formulaic and designed for halfwits, it was never hard to see that the disgusting state of the place was 100% to blame. So there would be the pow-wow to get the presenter’s initial view of the problem then the fun would start – we would get her full and frank reactions to the problems before her. There must have been financial inducements to go on the show as everyone seemed to accept the dire criticism and make promises to follow her guidance to bring the property up to good sellable standared. Out would go all tatty old furniture and effects. Skips were brought in and trips to the garbage tip were plentiful. The rooms were systematically stripped and repairs carried out to make safe. In prime areas such as the kitchen & bathrooms there would be a magic transformation with the tatrty old kitchen replaced for as little as possible but with the maximum publicity for the show and the presenter. The programme aired for several years and the transformations that went ahead were basic but a very good reminder that for very little money, it is possible to turn your domestic life around and get a house that is liveable, sellable and not a millstone around the neck!