"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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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/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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.




