To hate everyone on Location, location....

[NormanTebbit]

I know this has been done before but...beautiful £800,000 house in Marlow, stunning but y'know -just not quite good enough for them.

Why is everyone on that programme so up themselves? It's lovely house, you are very, very fortunate, buy it and piss off.

Terrifying sight (1) Kirstie standing on a trampoline
Terrifying sight (2) Kirstie sitting on the arm of a Chesterfield sofa

Ooh, my heart was in my mouth! I'm not being sizist - I am the same size as Kirstie and I wouldn't dare do either of the above

Well, imo, you are being sizist actually Mandy and quite unnecessarily rude.

I think half the people that go on there are just pretending to be house hunting just to get on TV and probably have no money to spend at all!

The Forever Home thing is an abomination

Why? What on earth is wrong with a forever home? We stepped into our house in 1994 and said "it's perfect, we can live here forever". Rethinking it now though - four floors and we're getting on a bit.

Mandy2003, Kirstie looks great, and has a normal, healthy, fabulous figure so why would you say that? No wonder women have false unrealistic expectations made on them about how to look? I just don't see why that comment was needed as has no relevance to the topic?

It's the really old repeats from 10+ years ago that make me .

People fretting over paying an extra £5k on a £70k flat when it must be worth £220k now.

Ok but you don't hate Phil right...right??? Because surely every right thinking woman wants to sex him?

(but also just because you have a bit of money and can afford an £800k house doesn't mean you aren't allowed to be choosy. You don't go 'Oh I'm a bit rich, I'll just take any old house for £800k, else I'm being spoilt'. It's the same process as anyone buying a house - some are right some aren't - so YABU)

Think you're right, PirateGirl.

We had our 3 bed terrace on as the 'extra' place a couple of years ago, and the apparently nice couple ended up making an offer which we accepted. SP we get on with house hunting, find a place we love in a few weeks, and then they say, oooh, actually, we decided not to buy after all. Twats.

YANBU I am eaten up with jealousy - 800k CASH????????????? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!!

Probably the people who used to live round the corner or just along the road from me, where £800,000 buys a small three bed terrace (probably 2.5 beds really) with a hankie for a garden and the opportunity to park a street or two away if there's a space.

Nope, I love Phil. And Kirsty (apart from that hat), she looks great.

The house we're buying has the potential to be a forever home. Not because it is huge and ridiculously expensive, but because it is detached and has scope to extend should we need to, so we never need to move for space. Location means good schools at all ages, nice area, good amenities, garden etc. Given the cost of moving now it was important to us to get something that could grow with us, which is what I always think when I hear forever home.

Of course we may want to move further down the line, which is different to having to.

The programme did say that they had bought and sold and the right time, which was fairly easy to do a few years back. Unfair, annoying as hell or whatever, tis how the cookie crumbles. I try not to think of other people too much.

I love LLL, but do get irked by the smug people that go on that show. They're not all smug - but the ones that are think so much of themselves it's cringeworthy.

I did balk at Kirsty on the arm of the sofa - but only because she had her shoes on the throw! I think she's flippin gorgeous.

I don't particularly like Kevin McCloud. I hate the way he constantly undresses people with his eyes, and makes snide remarks about their taste in furniture and decor. I remember one eco-house which was furnished with the couple's old furniture - KMcC was so scathing about their decision not to buy new!

I find they ALWAYS moan that the kitchen isn't big enough. The WHOLE bottom floor could be a bloody kitchen and it still wouldn't be big enough.

YABU....yes they are a bit show-offy and exhibitionist for going on the programme

but YABU for being so jeolous and bitter that they have more than you do

It's the way people regularly manage to find an extra £100k or so for the dream house that gets me. How?!? I reckon they're all dealers.

There was an interesting contrast last week when Restoration Man was on immediately afterwards with the loveliest couple renovating a windmill. She was in remission from cancer which came back terminally and her husband finished the project himself as a tribute to her. I was a snivelling wreck by the end.

Kitchens, oh yes. They would fall about laughing if they saw the size of my kitchen!

In defence of Kevin McCloud though, I think the projects he really admires are the ones where the owners get their hands dirty - like the 2-bed cottage in the Welsh borders, or the one in Cheshire (was it a power station or something) where the owners put a vintage car or something in their living room. It wasn't the size of the latter that impressed him, it was the many hours spent grafting away on the building.

I'm not bitter. Have I come across as bitter? Am certainly jealous. And at damien's hat and indiscriminate use of the word 'wicked'

I think LLL is very good at defining expectations, one of them being a 'forever home,' some bourgeois ideal which most in this country cannot hope to achieve.

The forever home is defined in a certain way - huge kitchen, many bedrooms, large garden, rural setting usually.

Most people I know are gradually fighting their way up the ladder. And when some rejects a beautiful home because the upstairs isn't as 'wicked' as the downstairs, it grates a bit. It's a bit different to saying 'well we'd like an extra room, or not by a busy road, or we need a bigger garden for our three children and dog.

TimorousBeastie - I think it was an old waterworks, but I thought the car turned into a table was weird.

I was cringing at the massive knob that is Damian last night . . . can't believe nobody has mentioned his "ironic" 70's porn star moustache.

"This house is dope" I bet his DW wanted to shrivel up and die at that statement

Devils yes - I was in pieces.

Vicky "That Child Damien" grin. He really was a Hoxton Cretin of the highest order. DP and I were wondering if he was going to use the wendyhouse in the garden to garage his tricycle.

AppleMartini Do you mean the Corkellis House one in Cornwall with Kathryn Tyler? I can't blame Kevin - I was a little bit in love with her after that too.

*Yes I watch muchos property TV.

YY. Why are they always called Damien? He was an utter arse.

Kirsty is a little larger this series and she's lost all of her coats. Still, at least she's binned that godawful paisley jacket. She's hardly a heifer though.