Episode Outline:
The boxes are unpacked and now Brigitte wants to make her house feel like home. The best way to do that? Have friends over!
Reality Check:
Of course Brigitta (that'd be me) wants only the best. All those years of travelling to Spas and staying at the best resorts and hotels money can buy has tainted my idea of achievable domestic bliss. WHAT??? What do you mean I can't have that because it costs too much?!!
Tim and I go to Arevco Lighting in Ottawa - and of course I gravitate to the most expensive chandelier in the place. It's beyond glorious. It's exquisite Germanic perfection. It's $1,200 dollars - about 600 more than the budget will allow.
I argue that I don't need to eat. I want that chandelier! I throw myself to the floor in a very definite unladylike display of stunted emotional growth. Tim and the owner watch as I pound my heels and fists on the floor. I get up, excuse myself, and go outside to chain smoke like a crazy lady.
They decide that I should have the chandelier. I offer to make cash donations to the Goddess of chandeliers in their honour.
Back at the house, on camera, I attempt to hang a 60-pound piece of art from a lathe and plaster ceiling. Attempt being the operative word. Oh sure, on the show it all looks easy - but there were a fair number of unusable cuss words bandied about before the job was done.
After a pinched wire blows the ballast in the chandelier, and several broken nails later - the chandelier looks stunningly, beautifully… out of place.
The snot green carpet in the dinning room has got to go!!!
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Reality Check:
Of course Brigitta (that'd be me) wants only the best. All those years of travelling to Spas and staying at the best resorts and hotels money can buy has tainted my idea of achievable domestic bliss. WHAT??? What do you mean I can't have that because it costs too much?!!
Tim and I go to Arevco Lighting in Ottawa - and of course I gravitate to the most expensive chandelier in the place. It's beyond glorious. It's exquisite Germanic perfection. It's $1,200 dollars - about 600 more than the budget will allow.
After a pinched wire blows the ballast in the chandelier, and several broken nails later - the chandelier looks stunningly, beautifully… out of place.
