The Georgian house one I was talking about is not a refurbishment of a real Georgian house, but a mock-Georgian pile built in Farnham, by a couple who couldn't afford to buy the sort of Georgian pile they wanted, so decided to build it instead.
The woman had the most massively expensive tastes, and wanted the best of everything (the windows for the house cost £50,000), and her dh was just trying to keep,up with her spending. She bought hand painted wallpaper when they barely had walls to,put it on - and I think they ended up selling it to cover the huge construction costs (£1.4 million is the figure in my head).
Pictures here
Here's a plot summary:
"Helen and Mark had always dreamed of owning a Georgian house but knew they couldn't afford the genuine article. So they decided to build their own. They bought a large plot of land in Surrey, surrounded by trees, and commissioned an architect who specialised in conservation architecture to design it.
Modelled on the Regency villas of the 1820s, their design had five reception rooms on the ground floor, a sweeping central staircase, four large bedrooms upstairs and a guest wing designed to look like a coach-house. Grand Regency features included a great bow window in the dining room, an oval orangery, a square portico (columned porch) and a terrace with a classical balustrade."