mariondowning-427-469344 Horrible couple and horrid show. The wife is the most annoying though and clearly full of herself. She does nothing other than stand around telling people what to do (and changing outfits every minute like a fashion model or something). I think she has a sideline in being paid to help advertise clothing since they hardly sell any of the houses and they're being paid more than the network would pay them. The husband must have slave labor hired to help with the grunt work. And news outlets gush saying "How do they manage to do all of this with their kids etc". The houses are all boring and forgettable too.

dolly-19966 I can not believe that you rate them at 7.4 when only 3 out of 16 comments are rated a 1,2 or 3. I watch a lot of home renovation shows. This one I can not even stand to watch. You can't tell me that most of these houses aren't a complete gut. The electrical, plumbing, mold, dry rot etc. Yet they have the least costs for their renovations even including their major add on of footage. Then sell with the biggest profit. With the two of them he doesn't have a backbone. Her Assistant designer doesn't have a say in anything either. It's Kortney's way or the highway. She doesn't have a clue about designing. Like one of the other comment said either does the lady that stages the house. Do not like this show at all.

Art Vandelay Like most flipping shows on these networks, it's mostly nonsense. The costs are unrealistic. We learn nothing about arranging financing or making deals. And we learn next to zero about how renos are done. Plus, the wife's taste in colors is horrible. On the other hand, if you watch these shows as ''couples fooling around with houses'' this is an entertaining diversion. The couple has a good rapport and they have senses of humour. Some of the footage of Dave is like watching outtakes from a Christopher Guest movie. Much preferable to the FlipFloppers with Jerry Seinfeld's lookalike and his 46-toothed Barbie doll wife's 30-minute infomercial for their flipping seminars ''coming soon to an airport hotel conference room near you.'' Less grating than Teeth McGillivray's fantasy reno show. Less obnoxious than Tex and Edna Gaines (&Family) exercise in bad taste. Are there more? I've lost track.

Special K I think this just might be my favourite of the reno shows when everything is considered. The finished houses are all different, style wise, and they don't always stick to the "neutral" notion that everyone else seem obsessed by. They do things like painting the internal trim a colour other than white (oh no, they wouldn't, the design lemmings scream aghast). They don't always paint everything in "neutral tones", inside or outside. They actually incorporate televisions into the design. They paint front doors orange or turquoise (more screams of protest ensue). They take chances in their designs, their finished houses have character and are often quirky, and I for one like that! I would even want to buy one of their flips and not want to change, repaint everything within a month. Not to dismiss shows like Fixer Upper, Income Property, or the Property Bros, (and others) which I do like, but hey, how much beige and grey and white can one person take.The discussion on the renovations themselves, are pretty good also. Choices, problems are explained. And they seem to try to keep the extreme fake drama (take that; love it or list it) down to a minimum. What does come up, for the most part, seems viable. The need for certain changes, and building codes are explained with it getting too top heavy (that's what Mike Holmes is for, lol). Sometimes when I watch these reno shows, I have to think the people in charge of inspecting the house had to be idiots that the problems found after demo were a surprise. Especially when it's in the basement or foundation - that should be the first place inspected when first viewing the house and definitely before buying one. I also like that they show the need to go around and take photos near the end of the reno of the bits and pieces that aren't done -- a realistic part of any reno.Someone mentioned that this show was somehow less because the final staging factored strongly in the final sale price point, but that would be the same with all of these shows. I think this speaks more (negatively) about the potential buyers and their personal lack of imagination, than of the show. It has been shown repeatedly that buyers, that people, are really only interested in the final vision, the pretty picture. They don't really care about what's behind the pretty facade. That behind the nicely finished basement walls or floors, is a crumbling foundation allowing water and earth and critters in, causing untold damage. Let's face it, what's behind the walls isn't sexy (okay, it is to me, but that's another story).My one huge criticism of this and pretty much all of these reno shows is the unwarranted waste and garbage they create on "demo" day, by their complete destruction of all of the existing cabinets and such. Yeah, maybe it's fun to smash stuff, but c'mon, most of that stuff could be reused, repurposed, by many other people who don't have tens of thousands of dollars to just buy the kitchen or bathroom of their dreams. Or even donate the building materials to places like the habitate for humanity type places. Just trashing all of these potentially reusable materials and creating even more landfill is not cool at all!