Grand Designs in Brixton, Channel 4

[mrsfran]

On Channel 4 right now. Pair of utter twats building a minimalist house in Brixton.

 

[teuchter]

grand designs thread here

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/grand-designs.259734/page-6#post-11552368

why do you say "utter twats" (I missed first five mins)?

 

[mrsfran]

Because they were going on about the house being a "shining beacon of light". And they're clearly twats.

 

[mrsfran]

Also, look at the last house they built. It's hideous. HIDEOUS.

 

[teuchter]

The Norfolk barn place? Looks pretty nice to me

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Rich bastards bashing our trees

 

[qosno1]

He just caller the location 'gritty'. wanker

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The other house is awful

 

[quimcunx]

Is this the glass box type house next to the pretty, shapely woodeny bits house?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I like the eco idea of the house, low energy, lots of light etc - could be good.

Their budget is a "ridiculously small" £300,000.

 

[mrsfran]

Oh my god I want to punch her in her face. JUST DO SOME DECORATING AND BUY A DOG.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Is this the glass box type house next to the pretty, shapely woodeny bits house?

Lyham Road, between Mauleverer Road and Margate Road.

 

[editor]

I wish I could afford to jet off to Latvia to go shopping for fancy windows.

 

[qosno1]

Was horrified when they started redrilling the base for the steel frame. Hope they at least did a back of the fag packet calc before they went with that. The crane v tree was terrible too. Where was the banksman. I'd have shut that site down.

Also, the guy looks like George Galloway

 

[quimcunx]

It is the one I thought. Saw it the other week. Not the inside like. I like the neighbouring one best.

 

[quimcunx]

I wish I could afford to jet off to Latvia to go shopping for fancy windows.

I was speaking to a Latvian the same day I saw this house. He gets plenty of cheap flights to see his family.

 

[editor]

Does he buy expensive windows when he's there?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It is the one I thought. Saw it the other week. Not the inside like. I like the neighbouring one best.

this one?

 

[quimcunx]

Only if he can't get the same cheaper here.

 

[Firky]

I'd love to see a Grand Designs where the pressure of the build and financial strain is all too much and the house is repossessed by the bank. This tears the smug couple apart, ruining their superficial relationship and catapulting one of them into alcoholism, and eventually losing their job and falling down the ladder into a damp council flat in a 'gritty' part of city.

OK maybe that's a bit extreme but the people on GD's are like the people in Country Life magazine - on a total fucking different planet to the majority of the populace.

I like architecture (it's what I wrote my dissertation on) but I *really* can't stand some of the materialistic, shallow, ostentatious cnuts that appear on that show.

 

[teuchter]

Does he buy expensive windows when he's there?

I wonder how much he spends on his camera lenses.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mothership my arse

More like cargo container

 

[magneze]

Shame how it's ended up like a load of containers badly stacked together. For £300K.

 

[stuff_it]

I'd love to see a Grand Designs where the pressure of the build and financial strain is all too much and the house is repossessed by the bank. This tears the smug couple apart, ruining their superficial relationship and catapulting one of them into alcoholism, and eventually losing their job and falling down the ladder into a damp council flat in a 'gritty' part of city.

OK maybe that's a bit extreme but the people on GD's are like the people in Country Life magazine - on a total fucking different planet to the majority of the populace.

I like architecture (it's what I wrote my dissertation on) but I *really* can't stand some of the materialistic, shallow, ostentatious cnuts that appear on that show.

They don't show those ones.

 

[mrsfran]

Oh god. It's horrible.

 

[qosno1]

I love the big fuck of security gate.

 

[qosno1]

It's so bloody soulless. Looks like it'd be great for people who don't live. People who clean the whole bathroom every time they take a shit.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Shame how it's ended up like a load of containers badly stacked together. For £300K.

Indeed. Horrible anal interior too.

 

[editor]

I wonder how much he spends on his camera lenses.

Who me? A lot, lot, lot less than those fancy windows and flights, And a bespoke house, of course.
HTH.

 

[editor]

I love the big fuck of security gate.

Sets the tone.