An episode of "Dream of a Home" has recently caused a stir.
In this episode, titled "Gansu Rural Earthen Houses Become Dreamy Pastoral Homes After Reconstruction", the farmers hope to transform their earthen houses into small Western-style buildings, which can not only resist the cold of the northwest winter, but also allow their children to return to the countryside after retirement.
But in the end, the designer transformed the house into a red brick house, so it was complained by netizens that "the worst design of the dream remodeled home appeared".
The highest voices of doubt include, "Red brick ventilation in winter is definitely colder", "the countryside is a square yard, not happy round", "designers disregard the needs of the elderly, only follow their own aesthetics", etc., the most criticized is the decoration cost of this program as high as 1.32 million, in the eyes of onlookers, this is completely pit the life savings of the rural elderly.
In the face of controversy, the official response of "Dream Renovation Home" said that the house presented in the program is not yet completed, which will continue to be improved in the spring of next year, and the decoration cost will also be borne by the program team and the children of the client. The renovation client also said that it is necessary to wait until after moving in to objectively evaluate the quality of the house. The designer himself has been in silence.
This is not the first time that "Dream of Transforming a Home" has fallen into controversy, this home improvement show, known as the "treasure variety show", has inevitably become the spearhead of public opinion while bringing home improvement dreams to many people.
The last time "Dream Of Transforming a Home" fell into such a huge public controversy was a few years ago, but last time almost most netizens were on the side of designers.
What has sparked heated discussion is the transformation of a 35-square-meter cottage in a Beijing hutong by Japanese designer Shuhei Aoyama. This small house is inhabited by a family of five, miscellaneous daily necessities are crowded with space that is not spacious, and the daily life of the family is extremely inconvenient, and the client couple can only sleep in separate rooms.
In order to better renovate the house for the client's family, Shuhei Aoyama ate and lived with the family for 24 hours in advance.
Finally, the house was designed to amaze the audience, and with a magic-like hand, the opaque and uninhabitable old house was transformed into a dream home that people wanted to immediately carry their bags to move in, and the design was extremely ingenious and beautiful.
At the same time of renovation, in order to solve the lighting problem, Aoyama Shuhei also changed the neighbor's 3.1 square meter cottage together, and the cottage outside the courtyard became able to stretch and contract, which made people really sigh the power of design.
Some time after the show aired, a return visit was made to the family to try to understand whether life could really be improved when the family really moved into the new house. However, to the astonishment of the audience, the original perfect place of residence has been completely transformed and has become crowded again.
All kinds of debris once again occupy the space that was not abundant. The owner of the house hung a pole to dry his clothes, making the lighting design of Aoyama Shuhei useless.
And the amazing kitchen design is also similar in fate, and the door is piled with debris, which makes people feel sorry.
If the public opinion controversy of this episode of the program mainly focuses on the client's waste of Aoyama Shuhei's good intentions, then the controversial "Dream Of Transforming Home" in another issue is more due to the client's dissatisfaction with the designer's transformation.
In January 2017, a netizen posted "Transformation Dreamers Are Full of Routines" in Tianya, and this netizen said that he participated in the third season of "Dream Transformation Home", although the effect was very good after the program was broadcast, but the client's family that really needed to live in the renovated house was very disappointed.
According to the whistleblower, although the house is very good-looking, the livability is very poor, "the house is like a photo studio, everything is a decoration, not in line with the needs of normal life." ”
He mentioned that after checking in, he found that the grass on the roof was designed and had all died; the skirting board was not installed well, and the floor was bulging; the quality of the cabinet and door was very poor, and it had been cracked; a row of skylights was dug into the wall of the bathroom, not considering the warmth of the winter bath; the bed designed for the sick client's mother was a bed cabinet with panels, and only a layer of cushions was laid on it...
Finally, he concluded that in fact, no one in the "Dream Home" program group will be responsible for quality, "design only design, construction only construction."
Objectively speaking, the effect of most of the programs of "Dream Transformation Home" is still good, and the Douban score of each season is above 8.8 points, which also shows the audience's love for this show.
However, if you think of the various problems that ordinary people will encounter when renovating, it is not difficult to understand why "Dream Of Home" as a program with the theme of home improvement transformation, even if it is careful, it is inevitable to fall into various disputes caused by design details, concepts, and living experiences.
In fact, this is also the dilemma that most domestic home improvement programs need to face.
If you want to trace back to the earlier home improvement programs in China, "Exchange Space" is definitely the first name that jumps into the minds of many people. This decoration program, which was launched in 2005, has become the enlightenment of many Chinese people for the aesthetics of home decoration.
Around 2014-2015, there was a wave of home improvement programs in China, the most influential of which was "Dream Of Transforming Home" on July 30, 2014, which premiered on Oriental Satellite TV. At that time, there was even a saying circulating on the Internet, "There is "Warm New Home" in the north and "Dream Transformation Home" in the south."
In addition to these two programs, the domestic home improvement programs that can be named also include "Changeable Bar Star Residence", "Wuli House Change", "Beautiful House", "Craftsman Change New Home", "Big Dream Small Home", "Design Ideal Home", "WOW New Home", "Hi My New Home", "Good Life Home"...
Transforming home decoration sounds like a very good idea, but in the specific implementation process, it is inevitable to encounter large and small implementation problems, which will lead to various irreconcilable contradictions.
Perhaps the most common of these is the conflict between the designer's style and the owner's personal aesthetic, and even the veteran program "Exchange Space" has repeatedly fallen into similar controversies, such as a small couple who want to renovate the marriage room, the home has been transformed into an all-black and white room like a spiritual hall, and the hostess shed tears on the spot.
A few years later, when you look back at "Exchange Space", it is not difficult to find many designs that seemed to be very envious of today.
For example, install a tent-like device in the wedding room, install a faucet on the background wall of the living room, and paste a slightly eerie Guangxi stickman dancing wallpaper on the wall. Some owners are more straightforward and will directly evaluate "too earthy", and some owners are inconvenient to get angry in the program, but they have been blue in the process of looking at the house.
If the decoration style does not meet expectations, it can also be explained that everyone has their own aesthetics, but there are also many home improvement programs that only consider the stunning program effect, but do not really consider the owner's stay experience.
A netizen named "Warm New Home Is Not Warm Heart" once posted on Douban that she was selected to participate in the "Warm New Home" program in 2016, but she did not expect that this home improvement experience brought endless troubles to their family.
In the process of decoration, "because of the problems such as the brutal construction of the construction personnel found by the program team, the noise disturbing the people, the random piling of building materials, and the random discarding of construction waste, the family had to run to the construction site every day, communicate and coordinate with neighbors, neighborhood committees, and urban management, and pay the urban management fines out of their own pockets." ”
Not only that, the program group also designated the client to go to some stores to buy furniture, electrical appliances and lamps, although the client himself found a more cost-effective, more practical, and designed and program group specified similar styles of products, but was rejected by the program group for various reasons, "TV station personnel became very impatient, and finally directly replied that they must buy according to the list, and if they do not buy, they will withhold the deposit." ”
When the house was finally closed, the owner's family found many problems, "all furniture does not do edge sealing treatment; formaldehyde exceeds the standard seriously, standing in the yard can choke dizzy; the cabinet does not make partitions; there is a gap between the door frame and the window frame and the wall that is enough to put down the fingers; the ground is uneven so that the door cannot be opened and closed; the ground tiles are hollow drums; the wall between the main door and the roof is double-layer hollow gypsum board; the frame under the door frame is suspended; there are many nail heads inside and on the top of the cabinet; the edge of the kitchen stone countertop is not polished, and the rough hand is cut." Wardrobe door leaf is difficult to open and close..."
The netizen posted the problem of water leakage from the wall of his home
Despite this, in order to get the deposit refunded by the program team, the family still had to perform a happy closing paragraph in front of the camera.
Despite repeated controversies, these home improvement shows are still popular with young people. "Dream Of Transforming Home" as an evergreen home improvement program, has also been popular until the eighth year, several warm and touching cases such as "can't forget the home", "afraid of the future home" in the social level of the response is very strong, Honma Takashi, Shi Nanqiao and other designers have also captured a number of fans with superb skills.
In addition to domestic home improvement programs, some Japanese renovation programs such as "Almighty Home Renovation King" have also received very high clicks on short video platforms, and these home renovation videos have become one of the favorite next meal variety shows of contemporary young people.
Why do we like to watch home improvement shows so much?
On the surface, we like to watch the design of the house in the home renovation video, but in fact, everyone may be looking for a kind of stress cure and hope for the future life.
Everyone can more or less see a part of themselves in the protagonist of "Dream Home", trapped in various realistic factors, unable to live the ideal life in their hearts; but with the help of designers, at least live in the ideal place, and begin to explore the possibility of making life better step by step.
Home improvement shows will also give viewers a hint: even if the current life is not going well, maybe in two months life will change dramatically.
In the process of watching the video, the audience's living dignity in the space has also been put in the shoes of the audience. This kind of healing from watching home renovation videos can also be glimpsed from the video reviews. Many viewers have said that "I also live in the old and broken, I never expected it to be so open" and "when I buy a house, I will design it this way".
Young people love to see beautiful spaces, and they also have their own inner yearning for life. In addition to home renovation variety shows such as "Dream Of Transforming Homes", netizens have also made videos such as renovating rental houses and renovating houses that have also made this young person very "on top".
One hundred yuan to transform a small desk, five hundred yuan to transform a small balcony, a thousand yuan to transform a rental house... These topics have a huge audience on social platforms, not only because they are real enough and have a sense of substitution, but also because they are adhering to a logic that contemporary young people recognize: whether the house is rented or not, in this stressful society, we must at least have a place where we can relax completely - since we want to lie flat, there must be a place where you can be comfortable and paralyzed
Balcony remodeling
Desk renovation (Source: Oda, a girl who loves family)
Living in your own beautiful house may be the collective consciousness of all (our) workers for a better life.
Especially for Chinese, the house is a symbol of security and belonging; but in today's society, whether renting or buying, it is almost impossible to find a house that is 100% satisfactory, compared to the relatively simple renovation of the room. After all, people's successes are difficult to replicate, and how easy it is to learn from decoration in comparison.
Another reason for the popularity of the home is that the easy-to-replicate explosion action is not only low cost, but also brings a sense of accomplishment: at least there is one place in life that we can get better by working hard.
Rental house renovation (Source: Big Face Monster Ah Li)
Especially after the epidemic, more and more people are aware of the importance of living at home.
Contemporary young people not only in the Douban group "Please come to visit my room", netizens share their rooms with each other, record their decoration process, when observing different beautiful spaces, you can also piece together your imagination about home in different details. Being able to create a home that is completely your own, the design style is the greatest possible to follow your own ideas and meet your own living habits, which is a higher level of home demand.
Bathroom renovation (Source: Mu Keke)
In the same well-decorated room, living a life of the same rhythm of "home-company" two points and one line is indeed difficult to call life.
However, at least when watching the transformation video, it awakens your desire for dream house, makes you look forward to the future life, and at least plays a positive role in the spirit; if it can continue to motivate you to work hard for your ideal life, it is even better.
Resources:
Southern Metropolis Daily: Dream of renovating the home has attracted controversy again, and the owner said that he could not live at all by hitting 300,000
Really called Lu Jun: "Exchange Space" those decoration rollover scenes...
Source: Scarlett & Shi Lingna
Written by: Leslie & Tt
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