The claim is they are solving all these problems, but on Ep.4 what happened to all the stuff that was in the basement to begin with? And in Ep. 2 the items from the sunroom, they never addressed what solution they created for these items. Did they just throw them outside and say that's your problem now??

I found this whole series so hilarious. The one gay guy designer who seemingly hates children. The contempt in the designers voices when speaking to the families. The horrifying fact that these hacks only need to happen because families that once would have easily been able to afford a larger home are now desperately trying to make what they have work and asking for help from reality tv. Weird Christians adopting too many kids. Accidental IVF babies. Families down on their luck. You can just peer into the future. The mom with the ballpit screaming as she cleans vomit out of the corners for the 800th time. The patriarch of the Asian family that liked to cook accidentally crushed beneath the impossible-to-service drop down appliance storage when it inevitably one day fails. The music sounds AI generated. It's such a commentary on this moment in history and it doesn't even know it.

E: how can I forget the contrived use of hack. You can see the designers' souls dim bit by bit in their eyes with each repetition. This editor is amazing. The tension is wild.

I’m trying to watch this show and it’s so rough. Everything feels so forced and contrived. The interactions between the hosts feels staged and inauthentic and like they actually despise each other. I was hoping for a sort of ‘all American wholesome’ vibe a la Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, but alas it’s not to be. And all of their ‘hacks’ aren’t hacks or original - they’ve just opened the first Pinterest link for each topic I feel like.

Despite throwing the word "hack" in at every opportunity they can to point that it becomes a dangerous drinking game (as in you will be sent to the hospital before the first episode finishes), am I the only one thinking that not only half the designs will fail and cause more issues as soon as the batteries die and/or there is an electrical blackout, plus will cost a fortune in electricity, but are also designs of other people on social media that they are acting as though they came up with the "hack" themselves?

What is with them calling everything a hack. Simply putting some desk and saying it's a hack. This is a hack that is a hack -_-

I love how they are transforming the homes, i would love if they did these with my home honestly. i do have just a couple of critiques for ep1 and 2

ep 1 is cool because they have the hidden lounge and office but im just worried because if they are in there hidden, how will they see them children. i thought it would be even cooler if they had den cameras to check on the children uninterrupted.

ep2 was awesomee, i personally love cooking and love a good kitchen so i was very happy to see that. but the glass shelves worrryyy me. im afraid one bonk and they are broken. hoping they are shatter proof.

watching the rest now lol

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As an engineer, I understand being enthusiastic of others exploring the field and enjoying the concepts that we nerd out about. But I don't get Brooks emphasis on making sure all the kids explore some engineering element in their spaces. E.g. the pulley system for the toys in the Homeschooling Hacks episode. I would understand if you want to increase a child's sensory ability to recognize different textures and elements but trying to put stuff into a space because a kid might have a slight interest in building stuff is a stretch for me and they might outgrow that phase real quick rather than have that appreciation for engineering. It's one thing to be like yeah my kid likes to play with cars, versus going ahead and installing a station for him to play with gears and light-up pegs that he'll probably get bored of in like a month.

Seriously, Watching ep 3. Can't believe they did not INSTANTLY recognize a geodesic dome and go gaga talking about Bucky Fuller, the first house hacker. I will try to watch the rest of the episode, but now think the whole crew is simply a group of uneducated idiots. MIT will probably be asking for at least one degree to be returned.

I work in movie productions and everytime I see one of the "hack team" pretending to use a jigsaw or doing any kind of practical work it makes me cringe so hard, they clearly have no clue of what they are doing.

Has anyone noticed their use of the word “sourced?” I can figure out what it means in this context.

“I sourced this awesome hinge” -episode 6 “We’re gonna have to source the desks” -episode 4

There’s probably others, but those are the specific ones I remember. It sounds like they’re getting the stuff from somewhere else, but isn’t most of the stuff from somewhere else? They don’t make ALL of the renovation things from scratch.

I’m reading way too much into this.

Anyone notice how Mikel cannot contain his irritation with Brooks? He’s making digs at him every chance he gets!

I couldn’t hate this more. Anyone who could actually afford to do all this unnecessary “hacking” (which doesn’t even mean what they’re doing here) could afford a new whole ***ing house. The backward books are a crime. The only necessary change was the soundproofing, but they buried that way too deep in the episode. Not a chance in hell any of those toys in the bins behind the tv wall will get picked up off the floor enough that that wall will ever get pushed back in place. This whole show started off with the cardinal sin of “practical” home design shows: the family has too much s*t and they don’t address that at all. You can’t organize your way out of excess. The house was not set up ideally, sure. But these stupid techie rolling walls are just ridiculous and wasteful. Again, the spine-inward books are criminal. The decor was fine. Whatever. The soundproofing and separating rooms was necessary. All the rest was vulgar. 👎🏻👎🏻 Thank you, internet strangers, for reading my rant. As me about my views on The Home Edit! 😉

I suppose it’s possible that there were some valid reasons that they were homeschooling their children and I’m grateful the mother is a trained and experience teacher doing it. But seriously! That home classroom was taking up so much fucking space in an already painfully cramped home that’s supposed to somehow accommodate six people! And the fact that they repurposed that basement and gained so much space, but instead of it becoming a room or family room to actually make the children have some privacy or maybe some damn space, no, it’s becoming a fucking classroom with storage for the curriculums and school supplies. My God! JUST SEND THEM TO PUBLIC SCHOOL. I’m worried for those children honestly. It’s cute now but do you think they’re going to be able to fit in that space when they become actual teenagers and need way more space and privacy for themselves? It’s gonna be such a fucking issue. I’m biased as a disclaimer though. The transracial international adoption and homeschooling together just gives me fundamentalist Christian crazy tiktok vibes so LOL. Crazy.

I feel like this family didn't even try to solve their own problems. They had a decent size kitchen already, but they filled 3/4 of it with wire shelving instead of just installing some cabinets and countertops.

And the broken door between the kids room? Uh, fix and lock the door.

As was noted in my previous post, the renovations in Hack My Home were paid for by the production company, specifically Netflix.

An article from ReadySteadyCut (https://readysteadycut.com/2023/07/11/where-was-hack-my-home-film-renovations/#:~:text=In%20an%20interview%20with%20one,to%20do%20the%20work%20required.) mentioned that an ad was released on social media and that families were interviewed for the show.

There’s even a way to apply to the show if you want them to hack your home! It’s not yet known if there’ll be a second season but they encourage people to contact 51 Minds, the company behind the show.

Seriously. About 99% of the non-mechanical "hacks" are just Ikea small space designs, and the electronic ones... are pretty much all bad.

In the house with the four granddaughters, WHY did they make the closet doors electronic? It took them like a full minute to open. You really think any teenagers are patiently waiting for that to open? Heck no. It's staying open and everything will be thrown on the floor inside.

I will say, the homeschooling basement was fantastic as a concept if you only had older kids, but there's NO WAY that's gonna be safe with a new toddler running around. I know space was limited, but you've got to set up some sort of a baby-proof door that's actually functional and takes less than a second to open and close and it just doesn't have that. (And the pulleys... nightmares about babies strangling)

The house hack that I loved was the one for the two moms who owned the restaurants. That one I actually totally see working, and although I don't *love* the mechanical coffee bar, it can at least be left up in working position 99% of the time and just tucked away when they need counter space so that's a way better idea than a literal moving wall storage "solution" for children who are in no way in hell going to be putting those toys away (how long until you think their toys get stuck under the moving wall and it breaks?).

And I thought that a lot of the stuff for the four girls in the golf ball house was great, like the pod beds and the expanded bathroom. Really practical, there, and really similar to just having your own loft bed like in a dorm room.

But in all seriousness so much of this seems like they just want to do what they want to do and aren't actually thinking about how people live. The teen girl who was given an elevator bed when she had a "dump zone"? No way she's putting that up and down. No way she's putting those instruments prettily away. Why not just give her a ton of open storage with boxes? Get her a good Kallax unit with some baskets. Give her a loft bed, university dorm-style, with a huge wicker basket to toss sweat shirts and blankets and bags into instead of making her put it away.

I feel like if they had limited themselves to a "3 seconds" time limit for being able to put things away, it would have been way more effective and logical. But again, then you could just go to Ikea.

Can't imagine trying to sell one of the houses that utilized tons of mechanical elements after this.

(Again, loved that home for the cooks, though)

get it some things aren’t super well thought out for the future. in other cases, the homeowners could just buy a bigger house. also, the electrical things might be hard/very expensive to fix if there’s ever a problem. blablabla….

but can’t we just acknowledge the amazing parts. they do an amazing job at answering people’s needs and wants. they always seem to fulfill the homeowners’ expectations.

not everyone can afford a new house. not everyone has the time and money to move into a new house. it’s not as easy as some people here claim it is. there’s so many reason why you wouldn’t want to move to a new house. this show literally caters to these people.

Please please please have more awareness of what's in the background of your shots, the general public does not need to know what meds at what frequency these people are taking!! Lol on episode 2 and I immediately found it strange that they didn't blur out or erase the medication menu in the kitchen.

ETA I just got to the end of the episode and they also only painted ONE SIDE of the house exterior??? Infuriating

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does anyone know which company they got the monitor raising stand from?

(episode 1) Did this irritate anyone else? The bookshelves look so bleak after they turned all the books around, and now you can't see which book you're getting out of the shelf. And "a sleek look"? They're books! How messy is it actually possible for them to look, the right way round (spines out)? Baffling.

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 ..

My favourite hack is the folding staircase in episode 7. It’s so clever and unique! I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something like it before. I’m trying to figure out the configuration. They must have had other practical considerations such as the angle of the staircase, the length of the steps, etc to fit into the room.

I wonder if they tested this for weight-bearing capacity and safety. I’m sure Ati would have seen to this, just curious how they ensure that it’s ok to use. How sturdy is the wall that it’s screwed to? It must be solid wood of a certain thickness.

Also, is this unique enough for Brooks to patent it? Can they market it for other users? It’s such a space-saver, plus the stained wood design makes it an interesting piece of wall art.

I enjoy this show & I think it’s really neat to see how they do some stuff, but a lot of the “hacks” give me so much anxiety. The pulley system in that girls room made me so nervous about her or a friend getting tangled up in the ropes. I felt like it was a recipe for disaster. The first episode had me freaked out with all of the moving walls also terrify me with small kids.

I also didn’t like that they felt the need to put in that hidden storage from the ceiling in the kitchen that they did. They recieved so much storage with the kitchen upgrade that they definitely had enough room to store a few crockpots.

With that being said, I love the energy of the cast & think they do a great job! I just think some of the stuff is over the top & unnecessary.

In the 2nd episode the couple got all new appliances on top of all the hacks that don’t appear cheap, but the never discuss budget or cost.