Henderson, Nevada - looks hot & boring

Last night's episode featured a single guy looking to move out of his parents house and into something in soulless Henderson, Nevada, which is apparently between Las Vegas and the Arizona boarder. When I say 'soulless' I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, since I've never been there, but looked awfully boring on TV.

So this young guy runs some sort of business, which is apparently doing well since he's got enough money to put +$300K on a house. I didn't get the impression that his parents were loaded, so most of this seems to be on him. But the strangest thing about this fine fellow is that he is apparently obsessed with wood floors. Every house he goes into, there is a long discussion about the floors. "Are these wood?"...."no they are laminate, BUT A HIGH QUALITY LAMINATE!" We basically got treated to three different conversations around this. Uh, you are aware that floors can be changed, right?

There really is nothing special about any of these houses and they all needed some real freshening up. The first house had a back yard that looked like a prison yard - really hot and uninviting.

The most amusing thing in the episode was the fact that this guy didn't bother ironing his shirt before looking at the second house. It wasn't like he pulled it out of the hamper or anything. It was a brand new shirt that he just took out of the package with the wrinkle lines and all. Smooth, especially when you're going to be on TV.

During the episode I didn't get a good sense at all that he was going to do much renovation or that he was much of a decorator (he scoffed at the stylish red wall in one home). However in the home that he picked, he did an excellent job fixing the place up. Basically replaced the whole kitchen and the bathroom. Everything was quite stylish and nice. Certainly wasn't expecting that given the jacked up shirt he was wearing earlier.

I like to hear others comments on this episode