I'll admit that I like the property brothers show,but I don't like their designs. Everything is uber modern,all white kitchens, which I hate, subway tile everywhere,which I also hate,bizarre light fixtures, weird patterns on the window treatments and wallpaper. I really hate to see any grand older home with beautiful and ornate features ripped apart to be replaced with weirdly "modern" design. I don't like glass tables, industrial looking art and fixtures, everywhere you look there are useless spheres and sharp corners. Very cold.

Then again, my own taste has been called atrociously tacky. I like curvy canopy beds, swirly curly accents everywhere, my pink kitchen, hearts everywhere,stuff like that. I don't think HGTV will be calling me as a consultant any time soon. :)

From what I've seen, the exterior of the house (looking at it from the street) looks the same in the "after" shots as it did in the "before" shots. What owners do to the inside is up to them. After all, it's their house and they have to live in it. How do you know that a great number of the "gracious old houses" in that area haven't also been totally redone inside?

I wonder what the basement storage cost, I didn't hear it mentioned. I'll bet it cost as much as what 'average' people pay for their first house.

I've only ever watched one show and it was about a year ago. And in all honesty, I was quite surprised one was getting married to a woman. I thought they were gay.

AmyLou, they won't be calling me either. Except for the drapes, I like the before picture much better than the after. I used to watch quite a few of the shows of several different people. I quit after I found myself yelling at the tv, saying "no, no, no,don't tear that out!"

I love the Property Brothers design sense. Designers are like musicians... their work is distinguishable. Joanna Gaines... i dont much like her style.

I'm sure the neighborhood was not very happy with the show being there. It's bad enough with just the work crew but throw in production and the amount of vehicles double!

Drew and Johnathan gay? DH thought the same thing but im not sure why. They're corny, yes!

No they are not gay lol. Johnathan has been married before and I heard he is engaged now. Drew has been dating his girlfriend for several years now. I am surprised he is going away from Vegas. The house they did for the whole family to live together is in Vegas. It had a rediculous huge water slide from the second story to the pool. I can't imagine what the neighbors thought when the giant crane lifted that monster over the houses into the backyard lol. I do like Johnathan better.

Are there any wildfires near that area?

When this show started, and they were talking "art deco" as the style, I was looking forward to seeing how they would incorporate it. Maybe my definition of art deco is different, because I'm not seeing more than a touch here and there. But I will say, as much demo as they did for "their style" and the asbestos removal, they wouldn't have found the terrible plumbing breaks, and the rotted wood supports. I'm definitely not an ultra modern person, and don't care for many of their designs.

No wildfires in that area.

Lol at the "not gay" property brothers. Maybe the 3rd one is gay.

They've made it big! Congrats! But I suffer from overexposure. I lived in one of those Marriott suites for 3 months a couple years ago. It seems like the property brothers were on 24/7. Sheesh. Too much.

And yeah, replacing the cove with layers of MDF was just terrible.

Lindsey, I have a LOT of friends who still live in that neighborhood. Of course, bathrooms and kitchens have been upgraded, and additions put on the backs of many houses. But most people buy in that neighborhood because they love the old architectural details of the houses, and they don't destroy them. When Buckingham Palace is given it's upgrade in the next few years, I greatly doubt that it will be a gut job, regardless of rotting beams, wood, old plumbing etc. It will be repaired and worked around.

When we lived there in the early 1980's, there was constant disruption from filming going on in the neighborhood - all those generators and trailers - blocked entire streets. The movie "War Games" was filmed across the street - they wanted our house but we were renting and the owners said "no" and that was fine with us. When a movie needs a neighborhood that looks as if it could be Cleveland, St Louis or Greenwich, they head to this neighborhood, as many streets have no palm trees. The movie "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation" was filmed right next door. We would constantly see houses from our neighborhood in movies and in commercials. Some people said they could pay their mortgage for an entire year on the fees they got for the use of their house.

But most people got VERY tired of the noise, the confusion, the general disruption. An ordinance was passed that limits how many times a year there can be filming in a particular house, on a single block etc. And peace again did reign 'or the earth. It's that kind of neighborhood. People either love it and wouldn't consider living anywhere else at any price, or they hate it and wouldn't live there if they were given a house.