Who pays for it??


Candice's designs seem to me to be "spare no expense". Who pays for all of it? The homeowner? The network?

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I've been wondering the same thing. Sometimes the owners seem affluent enough to afford her services. Other times, the owners (usually families) seem incredibly grateful as if they never, not in their wildest dreams, could have hoped to pay for something like it. Maybe half the time it's done pro bono.

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Not sure... it could be half and half, which would allow the homeowners to get a better design than they could have hoped for otherwise.

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I think that the owner pays because since its a cable show and those redo's are over 50k for sure i bet they just end up getting a discount of some sort and they get candace's services for free.
But I have not seen a room that i haven't fallen in love with when she was done!

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world"

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I completely agree. I've never seen her do a room that I wouldn't want in my own home (if I had a home). I wonder if she'd do a 900 sq. ft apartment ? :)

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Just that "princess-y" room, with the Santa Claus canopy. That was kind of dreadful.

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kind of? it was 3,000 kinds of dreadful!

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"Rue the day?" Who talks like that?

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Here is a line from Candice's bio page at the HGTV website:

Divine Design details:
Candice spends 10 hours a day filming the TV show's 26 episodes a year.
Budgets range from $2,500 to $120,000 for renovations. All labor is free.




I asked the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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I think the homeowner pays what they can and maybe HGTV gives a budget. I dunno but on Dear Gen. homeowners def pay

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