Thursday, January 28, 2010

Curb Appeal: The Block

We totally made the cut. We are going to be on Season 2 of Curb Appeal: The Block! It's the Atlanta version of HGTV's Curb Appeal. And while I know that lots of vintage-minded people are dubious about the makeovers that HGTV does, we think this is going to be wonderful. The designer who does the Atlanta episodes is named John Gidding and he is really awesome. Also, we get $20,000 (aaah!) worth of work done to the outside of our house! And for the record, we think that doesn't include most of the labor on the project, which is mostly covered by HGTV staff. We mentioned in our audition tape that we love Mid-Century Modern design, so even though our brick will get painted, which we have reservations about, we are confident that the overall design will be really modern and awesome. I'm not sure yet how soon this is happening, since I just got the call this afternoon that we were picked, but I'll keep everyone posted. We are so incredibly excited, and feel like we won the lottery. We would never in a million years have been able to pay that much money to fix up the outside of our house. We would have had wonkey stoop, the cracked driveway, and the dried blood color siding for years and years to come... Yay!

5 comments:

  1. WOW!!! This is fantastic news! You SHOULD feel like you won the lottery. And I can't wait to see what it looks like when it is done. I know you don't know details yet, but do you have any sense of timing?

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  2. Thanks! It should be fairly soon. We will meet with the designer sometime soon and then filming should happen sometime in spring. It apparently takes 2 to 3 weeks for the whole renovation. Apparently John Gidding came to our house sometime today to start sketching.

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  3. What? That's crazy! I'm going to watch you on the telly!

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  4. I found your blog via Retro Renovation's post about the Room & Board sectional. How awesome that you were on this show. How lucky that you were able to get on this show. I've seen them do some terrible makeovers of Mid-Century homes, but yours turned out amazing. I've set my DVR to record it when it's replayed.

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  5. Thanks Amy! I appreciate you stopping by. :)

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