Even if I watch a show like this, I'm easily disappointed. It takes more than Kevin's architectural lyricism, goggle-eyed George's excitement and Kirsty and Phil's stiff upper lips to survive the edit's renovation hell. At the end of the day, all I need is Stacey Solomon.
I'm sure I've written about Stacey before, but she just hasn't disappeared from our screens lately. She's become the queen of tidying up, dubious country crafts, housekeeping, and overall bubbly modern housewifery. She also stocks her own homewares at Asda. But even if you're generous, you can't tell she has any impressive practical skills beyond making a so-so pine cone wreath or Christmas ornament with a coat hanger. think. In fact, it's easy to imagine that on the second day of her home renovation she fell completely ill and booked into her Travelodge.
But the problem is, Stacey has something that the big names in the renovation industry don't.in Stacey Solomon's Renovation Rescue She makes Kevin look like a melancholy sixth form poet and George like a gritted naysayer. She offers her own positive take on various depressing architectural projects that have gone awry. She almost made me believe that I could renovate my home. I once cried when trying to put in a Raul plug.
How does she do it? Well, since I last saw her on BBC One, she seems to have picked up some great knowledge about tracking drains and cables, but that's mainly because humans can't do it themselves. The fact that she truly believes she can do it. Nothing can upset her. There's nothing in the world she won't tackle, like a hole in the ceiling or a damp spot.
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She comes in wearing a fluffy lavender cardigan, tears up the carpet, and then leaves again, but somehow she makes you feel like you can do anything. She is red wine and a picture on the back of an envelope in human form. And when she shows up, all the walls come down, both literally and figuratively.
In the first episode, she helped a woman who had never done DIY before put grout on her kitchen tiles. And somehow it felt like an important feminist victory, and dare I say it…a no-brainer.? I have never experienced this feeling in my life. “You can use an angle grinder!” I found myself saying to the dent in the wall. “I can grout tiles!'' I mean, I can't, and I don't plan on doing it, but I probably can. And let’s face it – how difficult is it really?
Stacey Solomon's Home Improvement Rescue airs Wednesdays on Channel 4.
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