Grand Designs
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*rubs knees* 
Gromit
International Man of Misery
There's no way you could get a house like that in Falmouth for less than 350-400k I reckon. The girl done good.
It was verging on boring as there were no dramas, no running out of money.....
Interesting that the perfect build show followed the absolute fuck up that was last week's. Deliberate? I think so.
I liked the house. It wasn't the structure that made it interesting but the fact she'd deliberately built a canvas that she could use to show how her interior design could make the place not the architecture.
That staircase was so good.
My only reservations....
I thought the bedrooms looked tiny on the plan and was proved wrong.
I thought that bbq chimney thing would look horrid and was proved right.
No wardrobes anywhere?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I used to love Kevin, but now I just find him annoying
He always looks alternately at people's chests and eyes when he speaks to them.
Don't know him in person, but I used to subedit his articles for Grand Designs magazine and exchanged emails a few times. He's alright – not a great writer, but not precious about his work either.
trashpony
Hag
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Really i know a few people at work that have children that age living with them and i have one too...........
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
A fulsome reply and one that completely satisfies my curiosity, you're so there for me!
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Wacted this one: You live in the rural north west in a house worth several hundred thousand and the kids won't be able to afford to move out? Felt like another one-dimensional, cock-waving exercise again.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
In the mean you'll need the several thousand extra sq.f for when the in-laws come over for Christmas.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
LOL - exactly. It reminded me of the one a few years ago when the couple took on a derelict castle from English Heritage and weeks after it was on this programme . . . It was good they rebuilt the castle but the whole Grand Design pretext was bogus and a smart business promo thing.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
He was an idiot.
A brave and creatively talented idiot but an idiot nevertheless who put his wife through hell and his kids at risk for an ego project.
1. Starting a project when not all the funding is in place? Ever heard of the phrase don't count your chickens? Criminal enough on a build that isn't your home but when you are going to have to live in the unfinished result should it go pear shaped! Idiot.
2. His project management didn't have a critical path to limit distruption to him and his family. Instead he tried to do it all at once and fixated on the ego nicey new things like the roof and the extention.
The sensible thing to do would to have concentrated on the main part of the house first and tack the extention on after (money permitting). Get the kitchen storted as soon as possible before anything else.
3. From the inside that roof was horendous with all those ugly bolts and things. That was without being able to see the rust and stuff he was on about.
Good design. Crap project management.
It was a project that should never have been started.
He probably was hoping to let the extention out as holiday accomodation. That didn't work out so well afterwards did it?
A brave and creatively talented idiot but an idiot nevertheless who put his wife through hell and his kids at risk for an ego project.
1. Starting a project when not all the funding is in place? Ever heard of the phrase don't count your chickens? Criminal enough on a build that isn't your home but when you are going to have to live in the unfinished result should it go pear shaped! Idiot.
2. His project management didn't have a critical path to limit distruption to him and his family. Instead he tried to do it all at once and fixated on the ego nicey new things like the roof and the extention.
The sensible thing to do would to have concentrated on the main part of the house first and tack the extention on after (money permitting). Get the kitchen storted as soon as possible before anything else.
3. From the inside that roof was horendous with all those ugly bolts and things. That was without being able to see the rust and stuff he was on about.
Good design. Crap project management.
It was a project that should never have been started.
He probably was hoping to let the extention out as holiday accomodation. That didn't work out so well afterwards did it?
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Cloo
Banana for scale
Saw bits of a repeated, I think, one this week with a couple building a sort of penthouse in Bournemouth, and they came over as right tits, especially as regards wildly inconveniencing the people who lived in the flats below and then being all 'Well, they knew there'd be some disruption' and then not, as far as we could tell, doing anything like inviting them over for a big party to see the view and apologise for all the disruption and leaks and so on, which would seem to me to be the damn obvious response once you were done.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Earthship type thing, built in same aesthetic as usual with these people, and with slave labour. They just can't help themselves with the niches and bottle walls. Personally I'd rather not feel like I'm living in a Moroccan theme restaurant. It would be nice to see someone do something self-build, off-grid and using recycled materials that didn't look like that. There's no particular reason it has to.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Revisit of a project I'd never saw before.
I liked it. Best eco house of this series.
But...
God didn't they go overboard with bottlewall features. Seemed like every door frame in the place had one.
Felt the water heater panels spoilt the line of the house but hey they had to have them i guess.
I liked it. Best eco house of this series.
But...
God didn't they go overboard with bottlewall features. Seemed like every door frame in the place had one.
Felt the water heater panels spoilt the line of the house but hey they had to have them i guess.
Idaho
blah blah blah
The bottle walls were overdone, but the general shape of it was nice. I liked the big round yurt room. There veg patch was a mess though! My allotment looks better than that and I don't wake up looking at it every morning.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
They didn't play up to too many Brighton stereotypes either.
heh
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Got a taste now: This guy set off several alarm bells but in the end I didn't mind he reminded me at every turn that he knew one side of a pound coin from the other; wouldn't be surprised if he's now set up as a professional 'eco-building consultant'. Good luck.
Kev's "entirey recycled materials" was obviously nonsense and sat interestingly alongside our eco-capitalist's "about £200,000 <pause> we included something for our time [but not that of the mug volunteers]"
Be interested on the net yield of the investment vs. 5 euro a day on the solar stuff. Missed the start, where did the kids go to school, obviously on the electricity grid, but not mains water? Did that veg plot look a bit token?
/peace, man
Kev's "entirey recycled materials" was obviously nonsense and sat interestingly alongside our eco-capitalist's "about £200,000 <pause> we included something for our time [but not that of the mug volunteers]"
Be interested on the net yield of the investment vs. 5 euro a day on the solar stuff. Missed the start, where did the kids go to school, obviously on the electricity grid, but not mains water? Did that veg plot look a bit token?
/peace, man
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