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Isn't that the whole fun of grand designs?
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Isn't that the whole fun of grand designs?
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
In the process of looking for that video I came across an interview with him from 2009 and it made me like him a bit more despite it leading with "my biggest fear is being poor." 
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I agree. It's more that coming from the mouth of someone who is incredibly posh and rolling in it doesn't seem to have the same effect as coming from someone who is or has a very real chance of experiencing it.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
From the opening minutes, when you were shown into these rich kids office hidden inside a junk food place in Leicester Square, you know you were going to hate them. They bought a beautiful 19c cottage in a beautiful part of the Sussex countryside worthy of a Constable painting. So what did they do, they ignored it and built a huge box that totally overshadowed it next door. The crowning glory was when the bloke disapeared into a cavity behind the fireplace, the woman threw a switch and you could then see him from behind a mirror.
It's time rich architects Etc. were banned.
It was monsterous, there was nothing to like!
It's time rich architects Etc. were banned.
It was monsterous, there was nothing to like!
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
They apparently fell out because at a dinner party he threw in his rooms, he served a sweet sherry with a brown soup, when he should have served dry sherry.
Septimus Rufiji
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He was lucky it was just a falling out, worse than Hitler etc. ffs sweet sherry, the man's an animal.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I knew I'd hate them the moment the programme started. Vile people. Utterly vile.
The house was ugly as sin. However, I can't fault them for wanting to have a fun place for the kids, and a fun place for them. I just wish they weren't such massive fucking wankers about it all. And I did approve that they didn't much care if their kids broke all the bones in their bodies while exploring the house
The house was ugly as sin. However, I can't fault them for wanting to have a fun place for the kids, and a fun place for them. I just wish they weren't such massive fucking wankers about it all. And I did approve that they didn't much care if their kids broke all the bones in their bodies while exploring the house
The only things that counted against them were calling their sons Bo and Bear (I think I heard that right). There was no mention of where baby was going to sleep either.
I liked them though and I definitely liked the house.
pocketscience
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lovely house no doubt, but when he said it was the first time he'd ever lived in a house with heating I got he feeling they were playing a game of "lets not let-on how rich we are, and appear to be like a poor couple, grown up on a council estate, happened on this great opportunity" number... their dialects didn't fit at all to that spiel.
My guess, they both came from money.
Yeah right, she struggled so hard during pregnancy etc and what a stroke of luck having a coincidental windfall at an exhibition in a major Oxford st reatil store just when they were about to do all the work... and that very windfall happened to pay a few builders to do that very work...
Cynic I am - the thing looked fake from start to finish.
rich kids doing rich kid things trying to look poor cool
and he looked liked Frank Lampard
My guess, they both came from money.
Yeah right, she struggled so hard during pregnancy etc and what a stroke of luck having a coincidental windfall at an exhibition in a major Oxford st reatil store just when they were about to do all the work... and that very windfall happened to pay a few builders to do that very work...
Cynic I am - the thing looked fake from start to finish.
rich kids doing rich kid things trying to look poor cool
and he looked liked Frank Lampard
pocketscience
Well-Known Member
I call Bullshit!
pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
Haven't watched any of this new series. With the housing crisis as it is in the UK, progressively getting worse year on year, programs such as this seem increasingly obscene "hey proles, sit in your bedsit, watch Grand Designs and dream" soma for the working poor.
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Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Aspirational innit. Fuck em.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
I hated it!
Leafster
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Yes, I liked their commitment to the low-impact approach to construction but I can't help but think they'll be spending the rest of their lives there maintaining the structure. Not so much of a problem while they're young but as they get older it could be a problem.
And the twee windows by the front door can do one.
And the twee windows by the front door can do one.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I saw it last night, or at least i think I was watching it live on C4. Bungalow converted into a big wooden thing. Started off looking like a dogs dinner but turned out pretty good.
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