Joan Steffend on the Viral Resurrection of 'Decorating Cents'
I talked with the host of this '90s-era HGTV show, which has gone viral for offering some of the most unhinged decor advice anyone's ever seen.
Earlier this summer, clips of Decorating Cents — a Y2K-era HGTV show — started making the rounds online after comedian Rob Anderson posted them to Instagram. He summed it up as a series about “taking a perfectly normal room, and on a tiny budget, making it worse.”
That may be how we view the transformations now, but when Decorating Cents debuted in 1998 …