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"I grew up remodeling houses with my parents, and I've started to do it again with some of my friends. So, I like to watch HGTV - 'Love It or List It,' 'Property Brothers,' 'Flip or Flop.'"

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Sydney Sweeney’s name usually arrives wrapped in spectacle: red carpets, internet discourse, the exhausting meta-narratives imposed on young actresses. This quote quietly swerves away from all that, not by insisting on depth, but by choosing specificity. Remodeling houses with her parents is not an abstract “humble beginnings” flex; it’s tactile labor, learned competence, a family routine that implies patience, mess, and long-term thinking. She’s not selling inspiration. She’s signaling muscle memory.

The HGTV roll call matters because it’s aggressively mainstream. “Love It or List It,” “Property Brothers,” “Flip or Flop” are comfort-TV franchises built on controlled chaos: budgets, timelines, surprise damage behind the drywall, a tidy resolution in 42 minutes. Dropping those titles reads like a deliberate alignment with a kind of middle-class ritual viewing that cuts across celebrity and non-celebrity life. It’s a small act of cultural camouflage: she’s famous, but she’s also the person you’d chat with at a friend’s half-painted kitchen while someone runs to Home Depot again.

There’s also a subtle reclaiming of agency. In an industry where her image is endlessly “finished” by stylists, photographers, and studios, home renovation is about making something functional with your own hands and your own taste. The subtext: I’m not just a product. I know how to build, fix, and start over. HGTV isn’t escapism here; it’s a language for control.

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Sweeney, Sydney. (2026, January 11). I grew up remodeling houses with my parents, and I've started to do it again with some of my friends. So, I like to watch HGTV - 'Love It or List It,' 'Property Brothers,' 'Flip or Flop.'. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-grew-up-remodeling-houses-with-my-parents-and-183773/

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Sweeney, Sydney. "I grew up remodeling houses with my parents, and I've started to do it again with some of my friends. So, I like to watch HGTV - 'Love It or List It,' 'Property Brothers,' 'Flip or Flop.'." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-grew-up-remodeling-houses-with-my-parents-and-183773/.

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"I grew up remodeling houses with my parents, and I've started to do it again with some of my friends. So, I like to watch HGTV - 'Love It or List It,' 'Property Brothers,' 'Flip or Flop.'." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-grew-up-remodeling-houses-with-my-parents-and-183773/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney (born September 12, 1997) is a Actress from USA.

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