To find these episodes of Location Location Location very funny

[Summerbreezing]

The ones where the couple want a house 'full of character', so Kirstie shows them a quirky cottage, a cleverly restored barn, and an old mellow farmhouse; which are all rejected on the grounds of 'too near the road', 'not enough garden', 'nowhere to store our six racing bikes' etc.

The couple then go off and 'discover' a three bedroom semi in a gated development at the edge of the village, put in a 'cheeky offer' and buy it. A few months later Kirstie has to go around for a visit and ooh and aah at their John Lewis sofa and homebase cushions and decking out the back and tell them how 'clever' they've been and how the made 'the decision that was right for them', and all the time you can almost see the bubble over her head thinking "WTF? . That lovely cottage was twenty grand less that this boring box".

Disclaimer: Can't afford to live in beautiful old farmhouse with antique furniture myself so not mocking semis and homebase. But I just saw a repeat of one of those programmes and it made me smile.

I find it very confusing and embarrassing, the same with Escape to the Country. They go on about how tiny a house is yet it's at least twice the size of what I'm used to.

I remember an episode of one of them where the woman was going on about how "horribly overlooked" the property was. The camera panned round and the only other property you could see was a couple of specks on the other side of the loch, over a mile away. I was horribly confused.

oh, it did go bust. . Shame as it was lovely and he seemed like a really lovely bloke.

I used to love this type of show, especially LLL. But I do agree about getting infuriated with the greedy entitled people who are often featured on the show and have ridiculously unrealistic expectations. Oh dear, not enough room for my grand piano, pack of llamas, etc. Don't they realise how lucky they are compared to about 95% of the population? Sometimes I just want to give them a good slap.

Yes, why don't they feature more people on normal budgets looking at three bed semis, etc? I would have watched that. However recently I have discovered that for various reasons I might never own my own place again, so I can't bring myself to watch this type of programme any more. Surely with more and more people only able to rent their whole lives, particularly in the South East, these shows will become less popular?

Dh's friend has been on LLL.

He was really looking for a flat, kirsty and phil were nice and helpful and he did buy the flat he was shown.

We still give him grief whenever the repeat comes on again. And again. And again

Move to the country gives me the rage. All those people claiming to want to grow their own veg and be self sufficient but seem to have no previous experience of gardening at all.

GD gets me when they say about the over budget.

And it's more than my house is worth!

The thing that gets me is the episodes I enjoyed the most were the charcoal burners and the HA tenants who went shared ownership to learn skills and be paid in equity ie the cheap houses!

You can only go on Escape to the C if you have freshly highlighted hair. It's the LAW.

I like homes under the hammer the blonde woman Lucy? How she will find a poky little shit hole of a flat In London and start saying how amazing it is for its (ridiculous) price and its got loads of potential but will then slag off a nice ordinary three bed semi in say Derby that probably needs just a bit of modernising.

My favorite ever episode of Grand Designs was the guy who bought a castle and just did not give a shit. He wanted everything ripped out, hot tubs on the roof, he kept sneaking in in the night and re doing the builders work completely ignoring the architects plans.

Kevin was deeply unimpressed.

He's spun off the Adaptahaus brand, though.

"What I don't understand about some of these programmes, is they have all this professional advice, completely free of charge, and then they completely bloody ignore it..."

I once had a chat with a property developer who was approached by the people making that Sarah Beany show. He declined to go on it because, (IIRC) although they would pay for the work, part of the deal was that he should ignore the advice given. Makes good TV you see. He decided he really didn't want to look like an arsehole so declined to take part. Things aren't necessarily how they seem it appears.

Anyone remember the grand designs with the boat? It's now a wreck and not lived in.

Why is it on every grand designs they need to have some massive component of the house (wall of glass, bespoke titanium staircase, that type of thing) made up in Germany or similar, then there's all sorts of fretting: will it be ready in time, did they get the measurements right as it has to be accurate to 0.0001mm.

And why do they always want to be in for Christmas?

Love the GD feem toon though.

I love, on GD, where the couple always run out of money. Sad faces, rain & talk of leaving the project.
KM returns to 'revisit' and the whole lots been done with surround sound & top of the range everything.
Where did that £250K appear from?

"Love the GD feem toon though." Me too Citron. Actually, I weeble around while the 'feem toon' is on whilst DP waits for me to do the final DRIIINNGG^ at the end

Ooops - why was that all in italics?

Pobble, was that the mad bloke with the canal boat thing that was a pig ugly disaster from start to finish? Looked like a floating Steptoe & Son even when it had been finished ?

These shows are all steaming piles of wank.

Weirdly, I know two separate people who have sold their houses via these shows, one on LLL and one on Escape to the Country. Both of them gave me the DVD of the show too!

its the bit where their budget is 500k and then they show them round the 1.3 million one that gets me 'yes see this is the property you could've had if only you'd worked harder in life. shame. now back to the ones you can afford which are all going to look shit in comparison'
so mean!
also the people who want to downsize who spend the entire time complaining about properties being smaller than they're used to. erm, define downsize for me...
mostly i'm just

Don't they do that because the people have really ridiculously high expectations so they have to say "Ok well this is was you want but it's 3 times your budget so you're going to have to compromise"

I'd forgotten about the lifeboat house couple. Am all worried now in case last winter's storms wrecked their dream house. They were in Tenby, weren't they?

Or there was a lady who completely revamped a castle in Scotland. It was perfect but she never moved it.

Pobble, was that the mad bloke with the canal boat thing that was a pig ugly disaster from start to finish? Looked like a floating Steptoe & Son even when it had been finished

Apologies for the DM link, but it's this one.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352749/Grand-Designs--80k-Channel-4-makeover-barge-turns-Essex-beach-vandalised.html

Was the nuts lady with only the one rd leading to the property the same one where they eventually deigned to make an offer on a barn conversion but their offer was rejected? If so, for the record,I did pmsl.