Home Improvement

While waiting for DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to come on last night, I had EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION playing on my TV set & the makeover was being done at a house in Maine that the owners said was haunted! This got me thinking - what would happen of one of those home makeover shows actually did come to Collinsport & do work at Collinwood or the Old House? Can you imagine Willie calling those EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION people to come do work on the Old House? Or the TRADING SPACES people working on both Collinwood and the Old House?

There's an episode in 1995 in which Julia pretends to someone that she's only just discovered the secret room in the mausoleum, and isn't it interesting, and so on and forth.  I like to think of her continuing on in this theme, suggesting chintz curtains and throw rugs and a comfy chair and who knows what little other homey touches. 

if any house needed a makeover it was the old house love that
tacky couch

jennifer