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''Love It or List It'' is a Canadian home design TV show currently airing on the W Network and on OWN Canada. The show is produced by Big Coat Productions and is based in Toronto and other surrounding areas in Ontario, Canada. The show premiered as a primetime program on W Network on September 8, 2008, and has since aired on OWN Canada as well as HGTV in the United States. In September 2014, the show began filming in the United States in North Carolina.〔http://www.bigcoatproductions.com/blog/post/love-it-or-list-it-is-on-the-move-to-the-us. Big Coat Productions. Retrieved 12 December 2014〕 ==Format== In ''Love It or List It'', a homeowning couple or family has to decide between keeping their newly renovated current home ("Love It") or to buy a new home and sell their current one ("List It"). This is done with the help of hosts Hilary Farr, designer, and David Visentin, realtor. Hilary handles design and renovation on the current home, and David finds new possible homes. To begin each episode, there is an overview of the family, their history in ownership of the home, their current use of the home, and the problems they are encountering which necessitate the need for change. The couple or family present Hilary with a list of things they wish to change in their current home, and the amount of money they are providing her as the renovation budget (it is unclear if this amount includes a supplement from the television show). The couple or family then present David with a list of things that they would need in a new home, and a maximum purchase price they wish to consider. Hilary then tries to meet the couple's current home requirements by, with the help of her assistant Desta along with myriad (usually unnamed) contractors, redesigning and renovating the current home, handling all construction, as well as finishing, furnishing, and decorating (often including the family's own prior decorative items). During the renovation the family lives outside of the home, so that there can be a big "reveal" at the finish. During this time, David finds and shows the family for-sale homes which increasingly target the family's desires as refined by their feedback to David during each showing. Often the couple or family is divided as to staying or finding new, with one or more wishing to remain in their current home and the other side wishing to move. Sometimes, all of the family members are open-minded as to what the results may bring, and don't seem to have overtly preset views on which choice will be better. But in most cases, the family or couple disagrees, with each side seemingly intransigent: one side insistent on moving, the other insistent on staying. Thus, Hilary and David will each have a "side" that is predisposed to their view, and work to win over the other partner, without losing the support of their natural ally. While the series win-total favors Hilary by slightly higher odds, it is not clear that this is due to any specific ability she has over David, since many factors tend to make "Love It" the easier and more emotional choice, e.g., not needing to move with its associated costs, not worrying about buying one home and selling another simultaneously (often requiring "bridge" loans if purchase of new precedes sale of old), not needing to change schools or routes to workplaces, the emotional power of a big-reveal of the renovation having just occurred, and the simple, inertial comfort of the human desire to resist movement or change. Common themes and issues include, for Hilary, an inadequate budget to complete the entire request list from the homeowners. This is often caused, according to the show, by the construction crew discovery of unforeseen costs after renovation has started. Hilary and crew, led by Eddie Richardson, must pull out all the stops to give the home owners a better arranged home than before the episode to free up space, and that often causes (or exposes) other problems (if the wall is load bearing, or if there are code or safety violations, for example). This extra expense soaks up more of the couple's budget, forcing reductions from their request list, with Hilary showing the couple the problem and describing what will be cut in scenes that are typically confrontational. Follow-on shots often show the couple or family being upset with Hilary over problems which arose from their own house's inadequacies. What is not clear in the show is whether Hilary has over-promised at the show's beginning, without doing her due diligence to see if what she thinks can be done, indeed can be done, or might be fraught with extra costs. Common themes and issues for David, meanwhile, include the problem of keeping the couple or family in the same area. Living in the same area is almost always of importance to the homeowners, who almost always have children already in local schools. Since most homeowners on the show are living in somewhat sub-par interior homes (frequently starter-type homes), they have a toehold in a much more expensive neighborhood than they realize, and David is rarely able to find a nicely renovated or newly built home for sale in their existing neighborhood, and must show the homeowners houses farther and farther away from their preferred neighborhood in order to give them a home with more updated square-footage at what is often a budget that is little more than the value of their current home. The above two elements - Hilary unable to grant all renovations, and David unable to find a house in the same area are the series' most frequent sources of dramatic tension. At the end of the show, the homeowners are shown the result of Hilary's renovation work, albeit usually not meeting the complete list, but almost always eliciting the oohs and aahs of the newly wowed homeowners who almost universally express that they can hardly believe it's the same place. After seeing their renovated home, David gets his turn to show the homeowners the new value of their newly renovated home. David then demonstrates how their newly renovated home "value" places the family that much closer to affording the new home he has shown them, and he takes time to remind them of what, inevitably, Hilary was unable to accomplish, despite her having done wonderful work on what she did get done. The homeowners then face the catchphrase questions from Hilary "Are you going to love it..." and David, "...or are you going to list it?", the couple then proceeds with their decision. Before the couple proceeds with their decision, the camera always pans between Hilary and David and goes into slow motion to increase the dramatic effect of the decision. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love It or List It」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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