Saturday, February 14, 2009

Glue Guns and Mirrors

I love HGTV. My fingers go automatically to channel 59 whenever holding the remote. My favorite shows are the ones where people are searching for a new house - first home, or just a new house or especially an international house hunt. But I always get sucked in and am particularly fascinated by the speedy make-overs, most of which include professionals making wall art out of aluminum and hot glue. If the room is small, they create magical illusions with lots of mirrors. An entire renovation only takes two hours and most of the time is spent cracking silly jokes about how one guy holds his paintbrush. It's just good clean fun. Then, the owners are always super excited during the big reveal. If only they could hear me screaming that it's all just super glue and mirrors.