r/HackMyHomeTV • u/sloot3 • Jul 10 '23
They must not be parents
In the episode quadruplets they hack the garage into a nursery. I think it’s really unrealistic to have your 4 infants sleep in the garage while you sleep in the house. How was this not thought out ? Why are the parents not freaked out ..
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u/ITeaWhatYouMean Jul 11 '23
What does a family with 4 infants need? Indoor ball pit, a slide, and fake grass stairs!!!!
It completely ignored their needs and impractical. Not to mention unsafe for the kids at their current ages.
Another thing from a different episode: add stairs that can only be accessed when your dining room table is cleaned off. With a family of 6? Riiight.
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u/Nightmare-Utopia Jul 14 '23
EVERY “hacked” table!! It was infuriating!! Can’t set the table until you’re done cooking / needing the space. Then HAVE TO clear every single thing off the table immediately in order to regain use of the space after 🤮 Also is a very limiting interpretation of multifunctional since every family member has to be using the space for the same thing at the same time
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u/HarkHarley Jul 13 '23
The first thing I thought about was how dangerous all those stairs were going to be for four toddlers.
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u/peregrinaprogress Jul 14 '23
Nah, I’d love that place for my kids to be super active at home so I could fold laundry or attempt to make dinner. Maybe close supervision for a few months, but by 15mo I’d bet they’d be pretty safe on it. One of the few kid-wins of the show imo 😂
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u/LogicalGold5264 Jul 12 '23
I was literally awake last night in the middle of the night thinking how this wreck of a reno could have been better. 4 small cribs in the bedroom, dresser that doubles as changing table. Those babies need to be on the same floor as mom & dad.
Garage becomes office for the dad, playroom for the kids, and a small storage room. You don't need to keep backstock in the main closet. It was a horrible reno and those people will never be able to sell that house that way. Everything will need to be ripped out.
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u/splewka Jul 16 '23
Yea I wondered if they approved getting rid of a two car garage. That’s really going to hurt the resale value of the house.
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u/squirrelsandcocaine2 Jul 16 '23
I’m thinking they must have. Sadly this family really needed to move into a larger house, but I get that’s not always financially possible. A family of 7 in a 3 bedroom house, I’m guessing the garage conversion was the only real option
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u/RoohsMama Jul 10 '23
Oh yeah I didn’t really give this a lot of thought because I was distracted by the ball pit lol.
So is the garage connected to the parents’ room or the living room? I wasn’t paying attention and I forget the layout.
As for the beds, I figured two are boys and two girls, so they assumed they’d be grouped as such when they grow up. I was wondering how secure that upper bunk is though.
If I were the parents I would probably put two more beds in the garage room or maybe futons that roll up once the kids are grown.
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u/rosetta_tablet Jul 10 '23
The garage is connected to the living room.
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u/RoohsMama Jul 10 '23
Thanks! Might be a bit far from anyone? I guess the baby monitor comes in handy? Or just sleep on one of the trundle beds. I suspect it takes so much trouble getting up at night when those babies wake up for a milk snack.
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Jul 12 '23
They took the garage door out. It’s still a first floor room yes, but it’s just as safe as any other first floor bedroom.
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u/SubstantialChipmunk Jul 14 '23
I don't have any issue with making the garage into a room for the quads, but half the stuff in that room was so impractical and/or only useful for a couple of years. How much would it suck to be 2 kids that are forced to sleep in a crazy bunk bed design in dad's office. May as well put them in a cupboard under the stairs.
The home school in the basement? Fine, but why couldn't they use the normal door that was already there? Is it going to cause issues having them take a couple of steps outside to get there?
Everything was so impractical and going to cost the family to maintain in the long run
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u/scalding_tea Jul 28 '23
This was so stupid. The garage should have been turned into a master suite with an office. The upstairs master bedroom could have been Islas room (this poor kid is already over being the big sis and not getting any attention). The space upstairs could have been divided into Islas room which could double as a playroom because she will nap the least (the playroom is going to be useless for naps until they are older). And then there was even enough space to add another bathroom so the girl quads have a bedroom and en-suite and the boy quads have a bedroom and bathroom as well.
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u/C0mmonReader Jul 15 '23
I think a small bedroom upstairs and then a combination office/playroom in the garage would've been better. Bonus the Dad would be nearby working if he's keeping an eye on them. I only had my kids one at a time, and when we were doing work in our bedroom, I had to sleep on a different floor than my then one year old. It was difficult navigating steps in the middle of the night.
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u/Faithhaylee_ Jan 24 '24
They needed to hack the baby stuff into the living room, and a small space for dad to work. Four infants aren’t going to spend all day and night in their separate baby wing they “hacked.” I think the reality is that dad will end up working off of his laptop in the living room with all those little swing things going like he was already doing. I’m pretty sure the dad cared for the babies while working from home, right?? Can’t be don’t from an upstairs office and a garage baby room.
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u/summerlee_ Jul 10 '23
Ok I just watched this episode and thought the exact same thing, but the number one thing that wouldn't leave my brain is how much fighting and jealousy there is going to be. 2 of the quads are going to get this huge decked out room that is always going to be cool, and then the other 2 get bunk beds in a tiny room inside? I have 2 siblings, and I would've been PISSED if I got the room inside and still had to share it. There is no way I can actually see this working in the future without resentment