Oh my gosh, the designer claims to have a passion for getting to know who the client is and what they like, yet she puts a cow rug on the bedroom floor for a vegetarian. Winning.
This is the most horrible interior decorator/designer! Bullying paying clients into agreeing to what SHE wants in their homes! And then her tastes are SO terrible, and its all the same ideas/concepts! DARK! and finished off untidely! But SHE thinks she's brilliant!
Instead of asking her to choose random clothing items to keep, they should have had a style expert help and teach her how to put together a capsule wardrobe of mix and match items out of what she had.
The design of the first house is just horrible, dingy, dirty looking, claustrophobic and dark. I would have been gutted! How on earth can she describe herself as 'a designer'?
The design is just wrong , you don't put swanky new york gentleman's club into cottage!!!! Is she really designer , I find this is error...She should go with different theme , something close to cottage ...not dark dingy small celling, claustrophobic, uneven walls , that dinning furniture is just insult to this cottage... I personally hate it , is not execute to standard...
It is a disaster. U hope he got ile to at least go and buy 10 kilos of white paint before she bought clothing and shoes again...unless she could wear the ones on the fireplace🤣
This "designer" and "expert dealer" show zero compassion when dealing with these people. Why even ask someone what their style is or what they like if you don't even listen to a thing they say. These people need some psychiatric help to find out WHY they hoard, not to just be bullied into selling all their possessions and into bad design.
I think I would sue the designer on the first house. She turned that house into a depressing dungeon. I don't think any of those people have ever painted before either. 🤦🏼♀️
In the first one, the "designer" forced them. She didn't listen to anything they said they didn't like. Someone (a hoarder) dealing with depression shouldn't have to live in gray rooms. The rooms all look half the size as they did in white paint. It all looked very community college interior designer class project at the reveal. The painted shoes and rug at the end were insulting. Where is the first couple 10 years later? Is she living alone in her hoard with 12 cats?
I saw that, too. No good idea to make a goth cave out of the house especially with such small rooms and low ceilings.... if she's having depressions causing the hoarding disorder this will make matters just worst!
@@oulibemusic1257 Exactly adding colours she likes and her style 🙄 I said this before there was a Barbie on the floor I mean you get the idea what the hoarder would like.
I was so angry with the designer on the first house. She's a vegetarian!!! I would literally be sick if someone put a cow skin on my floor, house still looked cluttered but with stuff that didn't reflect the personalities of the young couple! How did that help? And the painted shoes looked beyond awful.
I agree about the Cow rug. That was completely insensitive and shows how little research they did about this couple. I hope she took it out of there and apologized.
Yes,it was dark except in the one room that needs to be dark…the bedroom! What’s up with that? I would need a different interior designer. Do not like dark colours in anything but the bedroom. Even there I don’t like a dark colour but I do need it dark. She also seems to make a lot of business going on which I don’t like. Designers need to take into consideration what the home owners tastes are.
Yall. It was 12 years ago. And it's a different vernacular of house. And British tastes are very different to American tastes. It's not my taste either, but that wasn't alot of money when the British pound was stronger long before Brexit.
I'm really shocked that no mental health provider was helping Amy. That poor woman. I hope she's okay now. She totally was railroaded into getting rid of all her stuff with no process to work through her issue to heal and move forward.
I agree, also why would* her fiancé would set a date for a wedding when he had one foot out the door?? That blew my mind. I'd never tell anyone I was engaged (or get engaged in the first place) to a man who was laying down ultimatums and was fully ready to walk away from our entire relationship. Hoarding is usually caused by trauma and mental illness. It's not that they just like pretty things. They have a serious problem interfering in their ability to function. They need real help.
Yeah, the show glosses over the extreme anguish Amy would experience throughout the cleanout/ sell-off. Im shocked they didnt have a psychologist that specialises in hoarding or addiction to help her. I feel she was neglected. The money raised would have been better spent on therapy for permanent change.
The first house design was truly awful, the designer really didn’t listen to the brief and did what she wanted, it was a hotch potch of colour and design and everything fought everything else; I would have been absolutely miserable in that home. The second one was marginally better but again looked as though the designer had picked up random items from the curb side and painted them with whatever colour she had on hand. The feature (half) wall was too busy and the print was blurry, not relaxing at all. I feel this home owner will be less enthusiastic as time goes on and I think some of the items will find themselves back on the curb. Design is very personal but when you design for someone else you have to leave personal preferences behind and create something they would be happy living in, I don’t think she achieved that.
I only made it half way through the first "make-over" and I am disgusted with the arrogance of the sales guy, as well as the "interior designer" and even Amy's fiance. They all barked at her without an ounce of understanding for what she's going through. They all acted as if hoarding or shopping addiction is something you can just snap out of. Amy was so kind and graceful... unbelievably so. How would they feel if someone took all of their stuff, told them that it's not okay to have that much and then to make them stand and watch strangers going through their stuff and taking it away for peanuts of money. Poor Amy. I wish she becomes able and willing to reduce acquiring and holding on to stuff and continues to live happy and healthy. 💖
I haven't even seen what this awful designer has done to the 2nd place and I am already heartbroken that the woman is giving up her bespoke ring that her husband designed. Why should she give up valuable items she likes in exchange for cheap junk and bad colors selected by someone who doesn't even treat the homeowners like clients?
I feel that man that is "helping" them is "NOT" he is not getting them a bang for their buck (sell $200.00 items for $10 - $20. The lady with the purple blouse has 2 pieces of furniture with the mouse on it worth millions and he knows that. Just two pieces of those furniture which she owns meets her goal alone. They need to bring ALL of her expensive furniture back in her house. And that lady needs to listen to her customer and fulfill "Their" wishes, NOT Hers.
Being a hoarder is a mental health problem. Decluttering is a good way but probably the woman needs to seek a therapist first. I’m pretty sure sooner or later she’ll be doing the same thing.
I feel sorry for the first woman. First for being pressured to sell most of her clothes and even can’t keep her hair styler. And for what, dungeon rooms and non-vegan cow skin 😂
Never never marry a hoarder unless they get counseling first to help them deal with what's making them hoard in the first place. They will just start all over again. Don't do it You are going to end up miserable. She seems very sweet and she's very beautiful but it's not worth it.
I am wondering where they are now; it seems that was about 12 years ago! Beauty will fade but hoarders will hoard their entire life if they don't get stopped. She needs a therapy and her credit cards should be blocked. What if they want kids? Will there be enough money for a family left?
I think the first designer is designing a home for herself, not the client! This girl was bullied from all sides into getting rid of possessions, disgraceful !
In 30+ years of watching home makeover shows that first house has always stood out to me as the most horrific re-do, I felt so bad for the couple who were clearly trying to be polite about the disaster the designer made of their home. The house could have been done up so simple and fresh but instead looked like a poorly-executed Hallowe'en horror house. I always wondered how fast the couple repainted everything and ripped out those ghastly shoes on the mantle...
Everyone's comments are spot on... listen to your clients and what they want or need not what you want/like. The design should make them happy and serene, not on edge and regretful. Each client should have therapy to deal with why they hoard.
Oh No not the same designer. I like the house the way it is empty, open , light, airy . The homeowner said she is picky. I am too. That designer would be a nightmare for me. She should be doing the house according to the homeowners tastes Not hers ! I wouldn't use a designer and especially not that one. I didn't like the redo of either house.
This has got to be one of the judgement programs I have ever watched in my life. People end up hoarding for a reason. 9 out of 10 times it to do with trauma, hoarding is a coping mechanism to it. This isn't dealing with that trauma 😕
@@Laura55sere very true but I also think it's much more deeper then just unhappiness. It not just one thing it a combination of all different things. Thing that even hoarders might not even realise.
This interior design is a nasty woman. ‘I want to paint your house lilac’ ‘I don’t like lilac’ well we’re gonna paint it lilac anyway even though it’s your house and you don’t like it 😂
Yes...and gray/white/black is so depressing. I am only 5'2" and I would not like dark walls and ceilings, but my walls are peach and my kitchen is aqua...so what do I know? (I know I love my happy, colorful home....and that is enough for me.)
Giving someone a great interior is NO replacement for mental health care!! As someone who spent several years studying counseling, I can’t believe this young woman wasn’t offered any mental health support 😢
When I married my husband, he was a collector. I was unaware of this but he had things stored at all of his friend homes and barns. When we moved to the country to a home with a ranch house and a pole barn he drove to all of his friends homes and retrieved his belongings. I was in shock because i had no idea of how much stuff he had. He had hid all of this from me. It only got worse. Over rhe next 20 years he continued to collect and often hid the items from me. He did not get better, he got worse....think twice about marrying this person....
Seeing all those women buying the clothes, I'm thinking they're helping one lady cleans her house, but turn 10 others into hoarders with bargain clothes .
I remember as a kid, I'd ask my mum to get me something and she always answer with "where are we going to put it?" Unlike me, she's a neat freak, but now, I can see her point!
they should have used the money for their wedding, not a re-do... and I don't really believe these people are real hoarders, because none of the stuff is dirty ... it all looks almost new, no dust or dirt..... check out "Hoarders" , now that is real hoard.
This show really isn't about hoarding, it's about a home makeover, and not a great one. They didn't even touch on the fact that she has a serious issue to overcome, something that does need therapy, and that simply tossing things out isn't enough. Without help, she'll keep doing this, and they'll never be free of the hoard.
what i really don't like is, when the designer forces designs on people and colors, they do not enjoy. Imagine living in a home looking at colors and schemes that you do not enjoy. Maybe it is interesting to look at at first, because it is new, but if someone tells you, they like harmony in colors, cause harmony is something that is the thriving force behind their issue...maybe do not force "clushing colors" on them and walk over their wishes like the abusive husband did. It is the same thing: she is not heard. I hate that moment at 1:33:39
you can't expect her to change without major therapy and change in her brain! and don't marry a shopoholic until she has changed. you are asking for trouble.
The fiance is doing this for himself . He has no comprehension of her problems. Note the comment when he saw the office, "and only my stuff can come in here." It has to be the Hoarder's decision to get rid of the things. As a reformed hoarder, every piece has a story, an emotional attachment.
Hoarders are some of the most selfish, disgusting people on the planet. Right up there with 350lb gluttonous “body positivity” freaks who demand respect. Totally self-centered and narcissistic.😊
I am appalled that Amy was bullied and belittled, by her partner who should be her support, and blamed and made the fool without any support. She needs a mental health supporter with her right through the process. Even the designer chose colours that are masculine, before looking at the dominant colours in the clothing hoard, none of which she was offered. This is a case of the sensational being prioritised over the individual health and wellbeing of the hoarder, in order to make "good" (read exploitative) television.
The first woman scared me a little in that when she looked at her clothes, her eyes glazed over & she zoned everyone out. I do hope she & her guy have been married happily till now.
Did anyone even consider consulting a mental health professional or getting one for this poor woman before attempting to "cure" this poor woman of a serious addictive tendency,
The young lady was hesitant about the grey but went along with it b/c that is what the designer suggested. Not a good choice in such a small space w/ low ceilings.
@@sapphirexwind Well it is supposedly out of style now, but my husband who is an interior home painter still gets requests for depressing gray. I would be suicidal if I had to live in such a place. Gross!
In the first house, He got his own room but she didn't. That was so unfair. She gave up all of that stuff! In my opinion they could have made that extra room into a closet for her. That would make much more practical sense. Then tell her, if she buys something new then something old must go. Because telling her she can never buy anything again won't work.
She put fake shelf wallpaper up instead of an actual bookshelf? And then puts a stupid looking single shelf below it for “much needed storage”? How about a real bookshelf?
What a shame they didn't help her more, the designer was a bit of a bully and was also part of the grey brigade and decided to turn their house into some kind of grey limbo, not helpful! She needs a new career path.
So did they get married ? Don't care for the design, the painted shoes were so tacky, not impressed by anything other than the fact they kept the downstairs fireplace!
I'm sorry but Abbys design skills make it look cheep n Tacky. I think 🤔 it's better to keep some of the clients quality pieces to incorporate into their space
It’s a 3 bed house and she lives with her fiancé - first story. The second one did say 7 bedrooms the lady living alone. Wow I’d like to have the money they spent on their hoards, I sure wouldn’t use it to hoard.
Gosh the color scheme the decorator has chosen sound abysmal and depressing. All that gray, black, and darkness....how horrid. Yes it will look like a bunker or jail. It is obvious that they like light and colorful, cheerful colors to bring the mood up, not drowning in the sewer. The light is sparkling and pretty...I'm with Amy on that. I would immediately have that house repainted if that was forced on me! Yuk!
Even though this was made a long time ago and just watching it now . I feel so sorry for her . In one day the poor girl had to sell all that she had own . And there was never no one before hand asking how she felt or a professional along the journey with her to make sure she wasn't feeling some sort of way towards this. It must of cost so much depression and anxiety on this part . I understand they needed money for their wedding . Her fiance wasn't so supportive ... he seemed very blunt and naraassistic had all the say in what happened . You can tell he was by when he was asking 'do you want to get married or not '. And didn't seem to want any of her stuff or opinions on anything to do with the house... and he need his own " man cave" ?. This was all so wrong . They also made the house interior look horrendous . All dark and dusty . You have a house like that needs light colours .
Oh man! I need this kind of help!! I cannot touch any of the items I have acquired after my parents died and I am drowning in 45years worth of their possessions and am unable to deal with it all. I know I can’t keep it, nor will I use 90% of it! HELP😢
You could apply for a Stacey Solomon's sort your life out. It's a BBC show where they take everything to a warehouse and you sort it into piles sell, recycle and keep then they clean and organise your house and give you the cash.
The designer is awful and there so cold toward the hoarder/collectors if I were the first girl i wouldn’t of married that bloke of hers not supporting at all
39 pairs of shoes ? So for my family of 5 that would have been 195 pairs ??? People are crazy . I own 4 pairs ...one pair of sneakers , a pair of boots , a pair of sandals and a pair of shoes ...and I'm a woman and I' am not poor .
I am a teacher, I own 1&2 Two pairs of sneakers 3 a pair of winter boots 4 Hiking boots 5 A pair of ballet flats 6 a pair of carpet slippers... I am coming along really well with this shoes... I would only buy one pair of evening/event shoes if I would get an invitation to a wedding or something like that.
I love shoes . High heel shoes . I have over 200 pairs. I run I have 9 pairs of running shoes and 3 pairs of trainers to wear if walking or going on holiday at the airport
Redoing their house will not stop her from her compulsive shopping. They should educate these people on minimalism and capsule wardrobes and the danger of overconsumption on our environment. They should get them some therapy to learn other coping skills and some hobbies to pursue in exchange for shopping. I mean, this really isn’t going to do anything but throw a band aid on the problem, I wish Amy all the best.
This is not how you fix hoarding problems .. there is always a root of problem where it comes from this girl needs therapy or hypnotherapy .. it’s works like an addiction .. tell you now this girl probably filled up her home again within 6 months after program started..
That carpet kind of seems cheap and ugly and the shoes on the fireplace is just weird, and I agree with others that the spaces should have been brighter. Now it looks like a little cave
This designer is only interested in what she wants not want the people who have to live with her design. If you can’t think about your clients wants then stick to changing only your own house.
