On any given weekend in my house, at least a couple of hours will be spent watching the designers, craftspeople and entertainers on HGTV or its spunky sister station, the DIY网络. The premise of these home-centered television networks is that somewhere, sandwiched between long commercial breaks for paint, faucets, flooring warehouses and something called “Slab Jacking”, you’ll find programming about real people making real decisions about their homes. 有时这些决定是关于买房，而其他时候他们可能是关于出售或改造房子。 在所有的情况下，专家都来帮忙，摄像组正好跟着，所以悦博体育其他人可以在舒适的沙发上欣赏正在展开的戏剧。

家装节目已经存在很长时间了，通常被认为是真人秀节目，但很多真实的生活在削减之间丢失了。 Here’s a quick guide of some of the more popular programs.

房子猎人 – 这个公式很简单，但总是很有趣。 每一集的开头都是有人对自己的生活状况不满意，所以他们打电话给中介，看了三处房产。 在权衡了各种选择后，选择了一个家。 Of course, this show is over-simplified and leaves out the long weekends the buyer spends in their agent’s car driving from listing to listing. What you do get is a sense of home values and styles in different regions, the humor of buyers’ reactions to homes, and the excitement new home owners feel as they take the keys to their dream home. 你很少能体会到在家购物带来的那种紧张感。 The big climax of the show is when an offer is made: the narrator might say something like, “Though their offer was rejected the first time around, the other buyer ultimately backed out and they ended up getting the house for X amount.” But I don’t think they usually talk about it at all. For that kind of tension, you need to check out 房地产处女。 The best part of the half hour happens in the last 30 seconds when you see how the new owner redecorates the home in their own style.

财产处女– Similar premise to 房子猎人, except these first-time homebuyers walk through the basics. 这部剧最精彩的部分是那些找房子的处女们的兴奋（有时还有笨拙）。 这个节目最糟糕的部分是潜在购房者对他们的第一套房子有不切实际的期望。

国际猎屋公司 – Comparable to 房子猎人 but everyone has accents and the kitchens are shockingly small.

为销售而设计 – Did you know that your spare bedroom filled with Grandpa’s taxidermy and the vintage 1950’s kitchen can be a turn-off to potential buyers? Valuable lessons like these are a just a few of the gems I’ve picked up on 为销售而设计. 每一集都有一个在市场上卖了几天但没有人有兴趣购买的房子。 That’s where the army of carpenters and designers step in. When they’re done, the house that looked like Grandma’s musty basement now looks like the lobby of a hip hotel, and they only spent a few hundred dollars. 我喜欢这个节目的灵感，但发现它缺乏现实。 The listed prices of these improvements don’t seem realistic, and I often wonder if the costs include the lifetime of carpentry skills, design training, garage filled with power tools and time required to do the job. If you are looking for design ideas and hope for a home that isn’t attracting buyers, you’ll find some great ideas here, but take the true cost of those improvements with a grain of salt.

房地产干预 – Being a real estate agent takes a lot of diplomacy, and this is never more important than that moment they suggest a market-friendly price to a home seller. On 房地产干预, that diplomacy generally fails, sellers are unrealistic, and a stern man with a menacing mustache steps in for an intervention. 他对卖家施以严厉的爱，并描绘了一幅清晰的市场现实图景。 在半小时内，他就能改变主意，让卖家对自己的决定感觉良好。

这座老房子 – 这位美国公共广播公司的常客写了一本关于家庭改善计划的书。 With (音) you’ll trade commercials for pledge drives, but you’ll also get a more cerebral home improvement viewing experience. (音) 确实需要耐心，就像完成一个家装项目需要一整个季节，而不是在其他节目上花30分钟。 If you are looking for the same quality instruction in a more digestible format, you can check out the spin off, 问这所老房子.

要注意的是，在看完这些节目后，家庭装修的毛病往往很快就会发作。 After a long HGTV bender, I find myself wandering through the paint sample aisle and making trips to home improvement stores that aren’t on my way home from the office. Sometimes life does imitate art and the voice in the back of my head keeps saying, “They make it look so easy.”

你呢？ 你觉得家庭装修节目有用吗？还是你认为他们设定了不切实际的期望？ 你最喜欢的家装资源是什么？

作者：Justin Waskow