What Fixer Upper Gets Wrong About Home Renovating
Larry Busacca/Getty Images By Angela Andaloro/March 16, 2021 7:34 pm EST
Fixer Upper changed the way people look at home improvement shows. Chip and Joanna Gaines became household names, as everyone came to love them as professionals, as a couple, and as the parents of five kids. People became obsessed with the show, many dreaming of buying a fixer-upper that Chip and Jo could do the old magic on.
That said, the experience you get on Fixer Upper isn’t exactly what it would be like for you to get and renovate a fixer-upper of your own. There are a surprising amount of expenses covered by the production team that make the dreamy reveals you get to see on the show possible. There are also things like the aesthetically perfect pieces of furniture that participants aren’t necessarily keeping once the cameras stop rolling (per Country Living). If you were on Fixer Upper, you wouldn’t have to pay Chip and Joanna for their services, as the network covers it in their talent fee (per Dianne Perry & Company). In real life, you’d have to pay anyone working on your home who isn’t doing you a favor, which both cuts into your budget and makes it harder to recoup all the costs. While home valuations often increase drastically on the show, in real life that likely wouldn’t be the case right away.
What Fixer Upper Gets Wrong About Home Renovating
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By Angela Andaloro/March 16, 2021 7:34 pm EST
Fixer Upper changed the way people look at home improvement shows. Chip and Joanna Gaines became household names, as everyone came to love them as professionals, as a couple, and as the parents of five kids. People became obsessed with the show, many dreaming of buying a fixer-upper that Chip and Jo could do the old magic on.
That said, the experience you get on Fixer Upper isn’t exactly what it would be like for you to get and renovate a fixer-upper of your own. There are a surprising amount of expenses covered by the production team that make the dreamy reveals you get to see on the show possible. There are also things like the aesthetically perfect pieces of furniture that participants aren’t necessarily keeping once the cameras stop rolling (per Country Living). If you were on Fixer Upper, you wouldn’t have to pay Chip and Joanna for their services, as the network covers it in their talent fee (per Dianne Perry & Company). In real life, you’d have to pay anyone working on your home who isn’t doing you a favor, which both cuts into your budget and makes it harder to recoup all the costs. While home valuations often increase drastically on the show, in real life that likely wouldn’t be the case right away.
That said, the experience you get on Fixer Upper isn’t exactly what it would be like for you to get and renovate a fixer-upper of your own. There are a surprising amount of expenses covered by the production team that make the dreamy reveals you get to see on the show possible. There are also things like the aesthetically perfect pieces of furniture that participants aren’t necessarily keeping once the cameras stop rolling (per Country Living).
If you were on Fixer Upper, you wouldn’t have to pay Chip and Joanna for their services, as the network covers it in their talent fee (per Dianne Perry & Company). In real life, you’d have to pay anyone working on your home who isn’t doing you a favor, which both cuts into your budget and makes it harder to recoup all the costs. While home valuations often increase drastically on the show, in real life that likely wouldn’t be the case right away.
There’s another unrealistic aspect of budgeting many people fail to see
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