A deferential Hong Kong husband has denied he’s at all abashed by a TV show home makeover directed by his wife that turned their living room disconcertingly pink.
Described by netizens as resembling a brightly colored brothel, the renovations were done on TVB’s DIY show, Nano Abode, for a recent episode featuring the newlywed couple, whose power dynamics were on full display in clips of the show released online.
Clearly wearing both material and metaphoric pants, wife Wing tells the show’s host Queenie Chan she has just one condition when it comes to redesigning their 420-square-foot Kowloon apartment, which was gifted to the couple by her grandmother — pink.
“So does your husband have any objections to that?” asks Chan. “My husband loves me and he often gives way to me,” she responds.
So it was with clear authority that Wing and Chan then set about decorating the love nest with sequined pink lips, pink paper fans, a side table made up of two pink tires, and some strange glitter shaky bottle thing with a doll’s head on the top.
Chan described the decor as a “pink flaming lips museum,” though commenters online thought it looked more like brothel with bad Feng Shui that may bring about headaches.
Others felt a twinge of sympathy for husband Diaona Sing Wong, who later took to Facebook to call the makeover “no big deal” and assure viewers that his collection of Japanese action figurines — visible in the “before” footage but absent from the “after” — had not been thrown out and that his wife respected his hobbies.
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And though the full episode is not available online yet, netizens have already started redesigns of their own, editing the clips to insert captions and subtext — like the “sweat drop” that drips from Wong’s forehead upon seeing his new hot pink palace.
The “reveal” scene, if you’re wondering, goes down like this:
“Whoa…” he says initially, likely bewildered by the power of the pinkness. “It’s so over the top.”
But, after a brief tour, it appears that any resistance to the rosiness quickly recedes.
“Do you like it?” Chan asks.
“Of course I like it,” he responds, seeming later to slyly acknowledge and even celebrate the love hotel look of his home, in responding to a question about having kids.
“With an apartment that looks like this then, that might happen quite soon.”
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