OMG!
For those of you addicted to it, as I am, wasn’t
the Renovators Finale good last night? *has LMFAO’s ‘Party Rockers’ playing in
her head*.
Wasn’t it just incredibly amazing that most
everyone’s favourite won? That the fibro
cottage was the last one auctioned, and left everyone hanging? That the young buyer (who looked a lot like
Luke) was too afraid to bid, then just went nuts?
Isn’t it wonderful that August FAILED. The man everyone couldn’t stand, who had the
biggest ego of the competition, was shocked when he FAILED. Oh, it was wonderful!
I was wondering if it would turn out like The
Block’s finale; an anti-climactic fizzer.
However, we were not disappointed.
After all, it is Channel 10, where production rules and a perfect outcome
is guaranteed.
It’s was like a production teams dream come
true! You couldn’t have planned it
better. Oh, wait a minute….
Let’s be honest; the houses transformed were
spectacular. Agreed. However, were they any different to any other
house in the street, or were they just a ‘historical’ grab, because they were
part of a reality show that not many people gave a shit about?
Keep in mind, that the real estate market is
very slow up in Sydney
So the fact that these six houses actually sold
on auction night, was incredible.
The Half Done House was so over done, that it
was too classy for the area. Stunning,
but over the top AND, the only one 100% finished; apparently. I felt sorry for Peter.
The ’60 suburban… I think I was the only person
that wasn’t overly impressed with this house.
It looked cold and clinical, but a family could redecorate it, and it
would look liveable I guess.
The Inner City Terrace was amazing. Monochromatic and elegant; what I would have
expected Luke to pump out, and he met his target market.
The Weatherboard; I’m really surprised that this
didn’t go for more. Out of all of them,
this one is what I thought would have been closest to ‘a home’.
The Shop; I would have loved the shop to
decorate. As August said; it was a
completely blank canvas. However, I
didn’t particularly like what he did with it or how he decorated it, and I
don’t think I would like to live in something that looked like that. I would be expecting people to knock on the
door, and ask for the minimum chips and a couple of pieces of flake.
That leaves our favourite house: the Fibro
Cottage. The chippy wins out in the
end. What a complete transformation, and
winning the pool package surely helped his cause. That house looked lovely when it was finished,
albeit marginally less clinical than the others.
So, our favourite wins, our most hated loses,
and all’s right in the world again.
Incredibly, one of the dorkiest guys in the competition walks away with
$100K to spend on his girlfriend’s house (as she so quickly pointed out, he
needs to get back to her place and start working. However, I’m not sure if she’s just talking
about the house there…).
As for the competitors, all 24 of them; weren’t
they all tarted up? Why? We know you looked like shit whilst doing the
renovations, so why dress up? You have
nothing to prove. Do we really need to
know that you can look human? Do we
really care? Kristy: instead of using a
chisel on your next renovation, try it on your face because dude: WAY too much
make up. And Suzanne; put your tits back
in love. Overshare.
So, what will become of our judges? Will they disappear into oblivion, like the
competitors, who we will not give a second thought to in a couple of weeks’
time? I wonder if Baz will go back to
sailing around the world (as he does), and the Asian dude with the weird beard
will go back to his designing, Brendan back to looking gorgeous whilst playing
with plants on the Lifestyle Channel, and the chick (whose name I have already
forgotten… see) will go back to doing whatever she was doing before she was
plucked from obscurity.
I wonder if we will see a second season of this
series. I wonder if Michael will be the
only Top Australian Renovator? Never challenged; eternally awesome.
The only thing I’m disappointed in, is that
unlike the Masterchef model it’s
based on, the contestants didn’t bang on about their ‘renovating dream’. I wonder if Michael will take his $100K and pursue
his dream, whatever the fuck that may be.
Whatever the case; good luck to him. He deserved the prize.
I just hope the young lad that bought the fibro
cottage had daddy’s permission to bid that high…. Mmm…
Maybe we’ll get a Renovators reunion! OMG! Wouldn’t
that be awesome? Revisit them in six months’ time, and see
what they’re doing with their lives, and what the houses look like now.
Now THAT would be entertaining!
Happy renovating!
Peace out.
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