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Alexia
| Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 10:56 am
Ugh, I want that team to stop winning! Its getting ridiculous! At its America who decides who the ultimate winner is and I sure am not picking them!
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Demeter
| Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 12:17 pm
I actually like all the teams and I like the work that Rebecca and ? do. His Mom sure had a lot of energy. I really enjoy this show. I liked House Wars as well.
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Fanny
| Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 12:23 pm
I might be confused. I THOUGHT I was watching House Rules! I tuned into it this morning and was surprised to see a whole 'nother show. In the House Rules I was watching, there were about 6 families and the homes were somewhere in like Arizona and brand new. The contestants started out painting the exteriors. One team comprised 3 identical blonde triplets and their dad. Another team was Harold Hasselback & his wife Andrea and they were who I wanted to win because Harold is a former DENVER BRONCO and thus is one of My Boys. Does anyone know what happened to MY House Rules?? Thanks.
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Texannie
| Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 2:42 pm
One is House Rules and one is House Wars.
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Kappy
| Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 5:38 pm
I keep getting home from work too late to see this show in it's entirety but I did see the last entry they judged and I have to say that I love what they did with the floor in the entry. I think the border won it for them. But I didn't care at all for the fabric on the chairs - way too much white. And what confuses me is their reference to his mom as if she was there sewing . . . Is that true? And how come they got to have extra help? Did they win that priviledge? I liked the female judges's comments about getting a marriage proposal out of that guy, lol. But no, I won't vote for that couple. She's very likeable and I commend her for being able to work and live with the guy. But I won't vote for him.
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Wilsonatmd
| Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 6:37 pm
Fanny, that was House Wars on USA, which ended this week...The Dahms (the triplets and their dad) won their house in the final viewer vote. Kappy-every week they have a challenge before they start work on a room. Usually it's for budgets (winner gets the most money to work with, 2nd gets more money to work with than 3rd place: For example, the bathroom budgets were $17,500 for 1st, $13,500 for 2nd, $10,000 for 3rd...each budget is use it or lose it, and they can't go over), but this week, it was different. They all got the same amount of money ($5,000), but they competed for extra help: Winner got 3 days of help, 2nd got 2 days, 3rd got one....and they didn't know until AFTER the challenge the help would be their mothers.
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Ginger1218
| Monday, November 24, 2003 - 9:50 am
I really like this show. I just happened to catch it once by accident, and I really like it.
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March
| Monday, November 24, 2003 - 12:29 pm
Kappy, I didn't like what the mother did with the chairs either. I thought all their entry ways looked a lot better than they did before. I agree that the border tiles is what won it for Rebecca and Joey. Can hardly wait for the kitchens next week, that is going to be a good show.
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Kappy
| Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 12:40 am
Thanks, Wilson, for the explanation of where the 'mothers' came in last week. Did I hear Rebecca say "no fair" when the older married couple won for their kitchen tonight? My my . . is this the first time Rebecca and Joey haven't come in first place? I also agreed with the young husband who said it was the most annoying dinner when Rebecca or Joey made the comment about renting a dog for the last week. I know they're all tired and very competitive to boot but geez, it's one thing to be disappointed at losing a reward and another to make statements about how you should've won certain prizes over others. I think the young couple have been working very hard considering they always seem to have the lowest budget to work with. If the older folks don't stop whining, I'm going to be changing my vote over to the younguns.
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March
| Monday, December 01, 2003 - 1:09 pm
Loved the kitchens. Except for "Greenland", I didn't really like it either. It did look out of place and didn't end up doing for them what they wanted. And the dinner, whoa. They were getting a bit scarstic there. Neither of the other two couples were happy about the young couple getting the massage but Rebecca snide remark and the look was not needed. I am glad that Rebecca and Joey did not win the kitchen reward. I don't what it is about that couple but I don't care for them. Might have something to do with the fact that they never have anything nice to say about the other couples and seem to think they are above them.
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Djgirl
| Monday, December 01, 2003 - 2:41 pm
I am so happy to learn that we're not behind in the viewing schedule on this show!!! I loved the kitchens, but I feel so bad for the newlyweds. Rebecca & Joey feel that they are the best and should win no matter what... Just once I would like the young couple to win SOMETHING!!!! I only wish that I could vote (not eligible in Canada) then I would throw all my votes to them, and none to Joey & Rebecca...
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Amchess
| Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 8:37 am
The youngun's will have my vote too - at this point anyway!
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Kappy
| Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 2:30 pm
March ~ Glad to hear that I am not the only one who was getting a slightly negative vibe from the Joey and Rebecca duet. I don't know what it is, because I'm sure they are great people, but from the first episode, I just could not get behind these two. And then after watching last night's editing, with the "engagement" that just happened to come right before the viewing audience voting . . . I couldn't help but think of her snide remarks about "renting a puppy" to influence the tv audience as if that was the only reason Adam & Katie did it. And the editing of Adam always being seen sitting on the couch eating and appearing to do nothing ~ I was shocked when the 3 judges went through their backyard and you saw this beautiful stone wall around the hot tub because I don't remember them ever showing much of that. While they did show the "fab Joey & Rebecca" cleaning out their garage and putting in pre-manufactured cabinets as if that took so much skill! Talk about editing to influence the masses! Argh ~ I so dislike networks and producers who think the audience is too stupid to see through their editing. I was going to vote for Bill and Cindy as I think they really deserve it but now I am thinking of switching my gears to the youngun's, just to get back at the "fab Joey & Rebbeca" editing. Does that make me a bad person? 
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Chieko
| Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 2:52 pm
No, Kappy. I totally agree with you.
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Kappy
| Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 4:33 pm
Thanks, Chieko, lol! Having visited the TBS website and looking over the before and afters . . . I'm again leaning towards Bill & Cindy. Guess I'll just have to watch the final episode next week, before voting, to make a final decision. Does anyone know what the other two couples get outside of the extra prizes they competed for?
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March
| Monday, December 08, 2003 - 10:39 am
Kappy, I am so mad at myself. I missed the show Friday night, damm. Doesn't surprise me about the engagement, must have thought they were losing or something (lol). Anything else excitinghappen? Who won the backyard show and what did they win? So what are they working on next week? I know I am too full of questions but hoping someone can help me here. Thanks
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Kappy
| Monday, December 08, 2003 - 9:42 pm
Hi March . . . I don't have the best memory these days but I'll try my best at your questions. There were actually two episodes on last Friday. Backyard competition . . . The young couple needed to redo a patio area with a hot tub which had nothing around it. Adam built a beautiful wall and steps out of stone. But they ran into a problem out in the lawn area when they tried to dig out a spot for a pond. It rained and rained and the hole filled up with water so they couldn't put in the black plastic form of the pond into the hole (can't remember the term for it). When they tried to get the water out of the large hole, it just made the rest of the lawn soggier and soggier. Lol, when the decorator judge tried to cross the lawn into the yard, she wasn't too happy. Bill built a standing water feature covered in black tile as a central focus for one area. The backyard looked great but the judges knocked them down for not having gone around and done the side of the house (which looked all of 4 feet wide at the most) as well. Bill didn't think that qualified as being part of the backyard (and I agree) but they said because they had windows where they see out the side, then they should have done the side as well. And last but not least, Joey and Rebecca had a beautiful pool to work with and added an area off in the back with a small deck and a bar-b-que for entertaining. I believe they won or else Adam and Katie did. Bill couldn't believe they came in third and I had to agree with him again, lol. I think the winner won one of those lawn mowers that you drive. Then in the second episode, they each had a different room to do - I think the producers picked which one for each couple. Joey and Rebecca organized their garage. Adam and Katie did a spare bedroom/den. And Bill and Cindy did their living area off of the kitchen. And I completely forget now what the last thing is they have to do next week. But after the show next week, that is when you can go online to vote.
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March
| Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 9:34 am
Thanks so much Kappy. I am going to have to leave myself an extra large note so I don't forget it this week.
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Kappy
| Friday, December 12, 2003 - 7:24 pm
Shoot ~ Didn't get home until the last five minutes tonight,just in time to see a quick over view of each house. They all did a really great job. I honestly feel for the two losing teams already! Off to vote . . . .
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Amchess
| Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 9:39 am
I voted both online and by phone. Wasn't sure the online vote counted so went ahead and called it in. Took about 10 tries.
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Lyn
| Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 10:13 am
Hubby voted for Joey and Rebecca last night, and I voted Bill and Cindy today
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Kappy
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 7:13 pm
Amchess ~ I too tried to vote online but it then went to a page that didn't exist or something so I'm not sure if it got counted. I have a feeling their site was deluged with people trying to vote. Just hope I remember to even watch on Friday and see who wins. 
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Dipo
| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 7:26 pm
I voted several times for Bill and Cindy online. It was slow, but I got a few votes in before the deadline.
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Kappy
| Friday, December 19, 2003 - 7:49 pm
Spoiler ~ If you don't want to know who won yet, then don't look below ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Bill and Cindy were the winners with Katie and Adam in 2nd place. I honestly felt bad for Joey & Rebecca when they were told they came in third. The judges and everyone had so often told them how superior they were in their work, with the contractor again repeating tonight that they were the superior team (well, maybe not in quite those words) that I don't think it ever occurred to them that they would not at least come in second place. So Rebecca was extremely disappointed and trying not to cry and I can't blame her. All three couples put their heart into this for three months and from what I see, there were no consolation prizes of any kind for 2nd and 3rd place. The first place winners, besides winning the house, also get to keep the furniture used to decorate it as well as receive $50,000 cash presented to them live on the show. Bill looked really excited but Cindy didn't seem to be as much. She said they honestly never expected to win so maybe she was just in shock. Anyways ~ There's the winner folks! If they do this again . . . I wonder if they'd let a single mom and her teenage son compete? Lol! 
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Prisonerno6
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 2:13 am
I'm glad Bill and CIndy won; I thought they showed the best combination of good workmanship and good sportsmanship. If Joey hadn't acted so cocky all the time (IMO), then I think they would have stood a better chance. Katie and Adam just didn't have the skills at the beginning to do this sort of thing, although they were much improved by the end.
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Willwillbee
| Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 2:39 am
I couldn't get through (or was too dense) to vote, but I wanted Bill and Cindy to win. When someone needed help they always were there. They had so precious little time to give, but did willingly and graciously. Joey & Rebecca are strong goal oriented people and I have no doubt they will accumulate all these material goods without it being given to them on a TV program.
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March
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 9:37 am
Glad Bill and Cindy won. So what happens to the two houses that were not won. Are they just put on the market and they sell them? They could give the couples first shot at buying them.
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Texannie
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 10:20 am
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2310384 Dec. 20, 2003, 12:50AM Knowing House Rules pays off for Katy couple By MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle KATY -- With family, friends and a nationwide audience looking on, Bill and Cindy Fernandez were handed the keys to a new home and a cash prize of $50,000 Friday night as winners of the TBS reality series House Rules. The finale of the 13-episode series took place live Friday evening in a quiet neighborhood just south of Interstate 10. On this particular evening, though, it wasn't so quiet -- not with so much on the line. For 12 weeks, the Fernandezes competed with two other couples, newlyweds Adam and Katie Wells and Joey Smith and Rebecca Stephens, trying to win the houses they had been matched with in Week 1 of the competition. As the finale played out and 1.5 million votes by an American viewing audience were tabulated, the Fernandezes narrowly beat out the newlyweds, who, in turn, narrowly defeated Couple No. 3. How the vote broke down was not revealed, but House Rules' host Mark L. Walberg said it was "very close." "I had no idea we would win, and I knew it would be close," said Bill Fernandez, who took a leave from his job at Kellogg Brown & Root to be on the show. Wife Cindy, a jazz singer, agreed. "I figured Adam and Katie were America's sweethearts, America's couple, and they would win," she said. Midway through the finale, the competition was narrowed to two couples, who were blindfolded and escorted by limousine to the winning home. When the blindfolds came off, a crowd of 50 to 60 friends and relatives, standing in the cold, roared their approval. After being handed a steel attaché case containing $50,000, Bill raised a fist into the air. The winning couple, married for 11 years, plan to live in the house in the near term. They also own a place in the Heights that they will use the 50 grand to remodel. Then they'll decide where they will set up permanent residence. Before the show began, it was known that each of the three houses was valued at more than $200,000. With remodeling, the value will go up. TBS and Lowe's own the two losing houses. The contest, sponsored by Lowe's, involved weekly contests -- including "Riding-Lawnmower Polo" and "Toss the Steaks Onto the Grill" -- to determine how much money each couple would have each week for remodeling individual rooms. Each week, the remodeled area was inspected by design and building experts, who judged winners on a week-to-week basis. Couples won weekly prizes, such as tools, cooking grills and the like. Those were all the prizes that the two losing couples would win. After congratulating the winners, Katie, who is from The Woodlands, said she wanted to be with her family. "Can we go right now?" she asked her husband, fighting back tears. Katie and Adam are recent Texas A&M graduates. For Rebecca Stevens, a Houstonian, the loss was bittersweet. Though she and Joey, who is from North Carolina, didn't win the house, they did become engaged on the show. The two were classmates at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Lowe's gave the couples more than $200,000 in merchandise to help them with their tasks. The houses were transformed inside and out, with clawfoot bathtubs, new flooring, complete new kitchens and new landscaping just part of the mammoth job they did. After 12 weeks of remodeling, TBS turned the show over to viewers, who voted by phone, online and via text messaging for the couple they wanted to win. For their weeks of work and via the kindness of friends and strangers, the Fernandezes now can call the 3,200-square-foot contemporary home their own. "I'm so emotional, I don't know what to say," said Cindy Fernandez.
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Kappy
| Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 12:37 am
Thanks for sharing the article, Texannie. I too wonder what happens to the other two houses and the fact that these people took 3 months out of their lives and then receive nothing if they lose? They must have been compensated in some way, don't you all think? At least for their time?
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Texannie
| Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 8:39 am
I wonder too.
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