AIBU to think that Kirstie Allsop has completely lost the plot!

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Watching "Fill your house for free" and can't help wondering, not only, who has the time but who really wants a washing machine drum coffee table?

Tsk. It's so bloody obvious. Husband and cat = two three legged stools with fur seats.

thenightsky has it...

I have no friends cos I spend my days correcting them...

I hate crap from John Lewis that thousands of other houses have in them. Pure identikit shit.

What can I make out of one old husband and a scruffy cat ?

A rather nice patio with a large lump in the middle.

Oh ok thanks nightsky
The original title still sounds fine to me though

Lauriefairycake - i know just what you mean. It's like when folk ripped out heavy panelled doors in the 40s / 50s and replaced them with thin scrappy shite because it was modern.

I've recently moved into a house with very 1980s decor - yes some of it is dated but the kitchen and fitted wardrobes are top quality (back in the day) Schreiber. Almost everyone to a man has said you must replace ASAP - even the surveyor said it was dated.

But

All i could afford is some shitty Argos / Ikea type flat pack cupboards which it makes no sense to me to replace them with.

I also have some dodgy 1990s looking oak nest of tables that a friend gave to me after replacing them with veh veh modern but veh veh wobbly flat pack crapola . Surely most things will go out of fashion eventually....proper decent materials keep.

are you calling the DH or the cat the lump ?

< sharpens knives>

My Mum and Dad used to swear by a bit of G Plan.

If Phil was involved his head would explode with all that shite!

Tractor bales, tractor seats in that ladies kitchen ??? At that point I just turned it off because frankly what percentage of the population has access to that kind of thing?

Also for £400.... Get yourself to Ikea! You could get loads for that.

As others have said it's not free and Kirsty and her doing stuff is just so annoying. Why do I watch this rubbish?

Oh poor Phil - he can lay his bald head on my ample bosom

Hiring angle grinders/sanders and all the other steampunk equipment is not free Kirsty my love. Not for the great unwashed, anyway.

And washing machine drum tables are old hat. They were all over Elle Decoration/Wallpaper magazine about seven years ago.

Oh lordy sparkling i have a gplan expanding table and a gplan display cabinet too (with light). I'm not modern enough for today and not vintage old fashioned enough for Kirsty

...i am Alison Steadman in Abigails Party ...

Have you got a hostess trolley Port?

... um it's not a trolley on wheels but it has four heated glass dishes with lids on no, no of course not.

I'm so sad I'm not in the UK. I'd love to see this.

I often wonder about the little deluded media bubble these things are created in, there must have been loads of meetings about this show and no-one ever said "What!?"

G-plan will be the dogs' bollux in a few years, you mark my words. In 5 or 10 years Kirsty will dream of finding G-Plan 'for free'

Port.

Mum and Dad also liked a bit of Ercol Comfy

Vintage G Plan and Ercol have been fashionable for a good 5 years!

Agree leftylucy - the same media types who now say a Staycation means not going abroad rather than, as it was originally intended, staying at home and going out on day trips.

Shockingly awful program! That awful dressing table made me feel shabby.

Also, if they have sourced stuff from up and down the country on free cycle,it's not going to be 'free'. The cost of collecting the crap would probably been outweighed by buying new. Stupid.

i am considering presenting my own show now after discovering that my gplan stuff is on the up and that my delightful nest of 1990s tables (green baize glass topped) was genuinely free.

I also got brand new loo and corner sink for the cloakroom free last year because it was a dark grey colour.

i am the queen of the freebie - KA - in your face!! so long as you don't mind things being remotely attractive or proper vintage

I love Kirstie Allsopp programmes normally and even I think this series is a bit well, odd .

The premise is a good one but not when "free" becomes very expensive - like others have said, sourcing free stuff from all ends of the UK, having to pay a professional to make the free stuff into something etc. etc. is all more costly than buying budget new stuff. I totally get that many people would prefer to spend their money on retro/pre-loved/upcycled stuff and that is great - but it's not free.

To call the programme Kirstie Upcycles Stuff would be more accurate - albeit less catchy!

Oh, and I couldn't care less what she's wearing. She's not promoting herself as a style icon is she?