We’ve become hooked on the home decorating channels. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who knows me, I’m a Trading Spaces fan from waaaaaayyyyyy back. When I graduated college my aunt and cousin, also TS fans, took me to see Chicago on Broadway with Paige Davis. That’s how dedicated I was.
These days, it’s way beyond TS, though. There are shows on small houses, on finding houses, on selling houses, on flipping houses, on houses that don’t fit in their surroundings, on doghouses …
Doghouses?
Yes. Welcome to Barkitecture. The premise is that a family adopts a shelter puppy. How awesome is that? Along with the shelter pup comes the show’s vet Karen Tobias and handyman/desigener Kenny Alfonso. Karen teaches the family all there is to know about the dog: breed, temperment, health concerns, dietary needs, things like that. While that’s going on, Kenny designs and gets to building the dog house. In the last episode we saw, the hosts arrived with a black german shephed puppy to be a companion to the family’s own black shepherd, Scout. What kind of house did these two lucky pups wind up with? Bavarian architecture, of course!
I know a lot of people out there are dog lovers so you have to check this show out. You won’t regret it.
July 26th, 2007 at 10:46 am
“Designed to Sell” makes me feel all warm and gooey inside. Clive = mah bitch. I also like “Design on a Dime” because I’m poor.
Woooo!
July 31st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Ooh, I miss stuff like Barkitecture. I wish I still had cable. Flip this House (on TLC, I think) was also lovely.