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How to Get Your Home Featured on a Television Makeover Show

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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

How to Get Your Home Featured on a Television Makeover Show

MarketWatch on The Wall Street Journal website features Vern Yip, interior designer and star of several TV home improvement shows, talks about his latest design ideas, why we love home shows on television, and how to get your home features on a makeover show.

According to Vern Yip, people now want their homes to be the "ultimate destination" and be happy to be there.  Homes, Vern Yip says, should be a multi-dimensional representation of their occupants and that it is OK to mix styles since we're not one-dimensional people.

People are really interested in transformation shows.  We all love watching the OMG moment when the transformation is revealed.  Watch a one minute "reveal symphony" from TLC's Trading Spaces featuring contestant reactions to their new remodeled rooms below.

What can you learn from watching TV makeover shows?  First, you get ideas about what can be done to overhaul your living spaces.  You can see the "before", "after" and "in between" of what goes on during a transformation.  Second, you don't have to be a designer or hire a designer to transform your surroundings, but, it helps!!!  Third, you learn that it doesn't have to cost a fortune to do over a room, a home, or outside space.  For as little as $500, you can transform almost any room from drab to a spaces that will delight you, your family and your friends.

Are you interested in being featured on a transformation show?  For a listing of HGTV series currently seeking guests, their homes and projects to appear on episodes, casting calls can be found here.

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Comments(6)

Scott Seaton Jr. SLS Home Insp
SLS Home Inspections-Kankakee Will Iroquois Grundy Counties - Bourbonnais, IL
The Home Inspector With a Heart!

Every week my wife says, "We should send in a video for our house." And I say, OK, just so we don't get feathers for wallpaper or painted dirt floors, I'm cool. Thanks

Jul 09, 2011 02:09 AM
Dennis Puckett
Adams,Cameron & Co. - Deland, FL

I must admit to envy when I see someone getting their home made over.

Jul 09, 2011 02:12 AM
Stephen Howell
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Annapolis, MD
Annapolis MD Homes For Sale 443-994-8043

Scott ... Feathers and dirt, I'm sure that you'd end up in an OMG clip online!!!

Dennis ... I go back and forth between watching and not watching.  Sometimes I think that transformational TV can be inspirational, it also reminds me that I should be grateful (not envious) for what I have!!!

Jul 09, 2011 02:57 AM
Janet Jones
Just Your Style Interiors, LLC - Kihei, HI
Home Staging, Interior Redesign Kihei, Maui, Hawaii

Hi Stephen--who wouldn't want their house made over by a professional who has his/her own TV show?  Even someone in the trade would admire the expertise.  I once submitted my yard for a makeover, but they were full for the season.  Then we sold the house. 

Jul 10, 2011 02:04 AM
Stephen Howell
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Annapolis, MD
Annapolis MD Homes For Sale 443-994-8043

Janet ... that's cool ... I worked with a buyer that wanted to be on Property Virgins, but, unfortunately it didn't work out.

Jul 10, 2011 02:58 AM
Barbara-Jo Roberts Berberi, MA, PSA, TRC - Greater Clearwater Florida Residential Real Estate Professional
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Safety Harbor

I can think of several homes I have seen over the years that could really use a television makeover!

Jul 11, 2011 09:31 AM