To be jealous of couples on Grand Designs...

[MrsKittyFane]

Who build their homes, borrow zillions, take a risk.
DH and I struggle to change a lightbulb.
(watching repeats on More4!!)

I doubt my backyard bungalow would make it on to Grand Designs. Can you imagine Kevins face

They could have a sort of Jeremy Kyle spin off.... Shite Designs

I have a Grand Design.
At the bottom of our garden there is a hill. On top of the hill sits a castle ruin...four walls intact. The view from the castle sweeps across the Pentland Hills. It's amazing.
That.

The couple with the crazy curios were at art school with me! They are lovely and the house (bonkers though it is) is really THEM iykwim. i was a bit jealous until I realised how much money they had spent, and also had a bot of a clearout after seeing their stuff in storage!

Love the idea of beefcake marble-hewing nuns Mrs De V!! RARGH!!

Anyway...

Was the huf haus the one with the tree in the foyer?

What you don't know mrs fb is that the shit bungalow is actually a three short house but built underground to take advantage of natures natural
Insulation yadda yadda eyes gloss over

I liked the elderly couple who built a Huf house and filled it with amazing art projects. If I ever build a house it will be Huf.

... I felt a namechange coming on.

said the erstwhile doctordwt

loving the name change.

I liked that Huf house too but wd need groovy furniture and some graphic art to go in it. Also it would need to be in a woodland like theirs was, rather than on a grimy London street.

ah yes ....the pretentiousness.

building immense glass and steel things that Kevin drools over, which they are only ever going to get time to sleep in, whislt they earn the money to pay for them...

disco downstairs woman was priceless.

their sofa was like my daughter would want a sofa.

I also like the artist guy in... Tuscany was it? Did it all themselves

And the mud place where they used the heat from the chimney to heat the stairs and just built extra bits such as a pizza oven when they felt like it

Remember the format though - there has to be a major disaster, the project is over budget, takes far longer than anticipated etc........and the film crew turn up with the main intention of reducing the wife to tears.

I have been there and would not for one moment consider having a film crew in attendance, and living in a mobile home is hell on earth.

oh yes and I liked the water tower one too. I would absolutely have ripped the bugger down and built something new there but they made it rather lovely and they had a lovely vibe to them I think I was mainly taken by her fetching bob

I can't find the cob one on the list of programs. Beginning to wonder if it was on grand designs I saw it or whether it was a Strawbridge program or something

But didnt you worry about how they were going to get up all those stairs in a few years time?

margo yes there are some Huf houses near me, and as nice as they are (& in a v posh location) they are squeezed onto a tiny plot and overlook a car park...still sell for £2m though!...but seeing them on such small plots is like seeing elephants in the zoo

I was envious of the house lovingly, and almost entirely, crafted from wood. Self-sustaining, solar power etc
It was probably a lot of work to maintain in reality.

Maryz, you and I share the same favourite. Monty's house is the most inventive Grand Design ever. Monty invented the construction method, the style of mezzanine and the moveable glass ceiling. He made it up on the fly and made it not only work but look amazing too.

I am addicted to Grand Designs, but have never seen a Huf Haus, or the twats in the violin factory. :( However, we've only had Channel 4 for a few months (live abroad and just got a dish a few months back), so obviously got some serious catching up to do!

I did fall in love with Ben Law's house though, and was shrieking with delight as I grew up near woods like those. Just Googled - and it was those woods! Do you think he would come and build me one here? I love the smell of wood.

Have any of you seen the Australian one where they built a huge house with no external walls?

Oh yes, I think the sewage system was water reeds or some such

Just googled Huf Haus. Very disappointing. Every bloody house round here looks like that except ours. Live on the Dutch/ German border though, so maybe not surprising.