We sent a response to a casting call for HGTV's Curb Appeal: The Block makeover show a couple weeks ago. We're still anxiously awaiting a response but I think our argument why our house is the biggest eyesore on the block is totally compelling:
Dear HGTV:
We would like to be considered for an HGTV Curb Appeal Makeover in the SF Bay Area! After seeing our home and learning about our young, fun little family, we know you won't be able to resist picking us!
Before we even closed on the house, the first thing one neighbor, who happens to be a realtor, said to us about the house when we met was "It really lacks curb appeal."
We bought our 1947 California Ranch-style home as a foreclosure three and a half years ago to get into a great school district as we were getting ready to start our family. We knew the whole property needed a ton of work -- cracked paint (blah blue/gray color), piles of dirt sitting in the front yard, completely overrun with weeds, cracked driveway... If there's something that would make a house an eyesore, you name it, ours is probably a victim. And with several additions that obviously took place in different decades, everything is piecemeal. We like to say our house is having an identity crisis. It desperately needs to get some help!
Not only that, but we replaced most of the windows throughout the house with double-paned ones to help with our insane electric bill, but then never finished the exterior window trims! And when we tried to install a doorbell, we cut the wrong piece, and it's still a drippy glue-DIY-gone-wrong mess!
It's not just that every other home around us is perfectly manicured, but with a huge blind spot to traffic around a bend in front of our house, it's not even safe now that our daughter is running around making mischief.
We have a lot of family in the Bay Area and our place is usually the meeting point. We've already hosted several bridal showers, baby showers, neighborhood mixers, and birthday parties at our home, and we almost want to blindfold people until they walk in the front door.
We completely remodeled most of the downstairs already (mostly ourselves and on a pretty tight budget) but after taking a break to have a baby and then focus on our careers, we've been so overwhelmed when it comes to the landscaping and the rest of the exterior that we don't even know where to start! That's where your team and this awesome project come in, so please help us stage an intervention for our home!
Thanks for considering us!
Sincerely,
Alex, LJ, and Ava
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