Location location location/and or other U.K. property programmes...secrets

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Sorry if there’s already a thread been reading the CDWM thread with interest...but would to know any secrets about locationx3
I would love to have a budget big enough to go on it one day but they all seem to have 500k at the age of 21 these days 🤔
Any secrets kirsty and Phil seem lovely I hope they are as nice in RL

This Grand Designs. Plastering a house that isn’t watertight?! Trying to build a high spec industrial sized building on 400k. Baffling

I really liked ‘the house that £100k built’

On GD they build huge houses but the kids are always squeezed into bunk beds in a tiny room.

I liked Piers Taylor’s comment on the Extraordinary Houses programme that if you have children you need big rooms so they can get some speed up.

Hated Caroline Quentin on those programmes though - far too much squealing and spouting of pretentious bollocks.

Actually, I really liked this house on GD. Seems like a family home, despite the massive scale.

I was on LLL 5 years ago paired with Kirsty and she was amazing, so helpful during and after the process. They even came back to do a revisit when I moved in. Really felt well looked after throughout the whole process

Does anyone remember the one where a whole street got together to work on improving their street. They all had to agree to the work to be done and all had to pitch in too at weekends etc. I think it was Sarah Beeney who presented it. It only ran for one or two series which was a shame because it was good - and a little different

Anybody remember 'I Own Britain's Best Home'?

3 presenters nominated a house each episode and stayed the night. I think they only made one series but the houses were fantastic. I vaguely remember a seaside home with huge bifold glass doors.

I remember that programme Tami the street looked amazing afterwards apart from one house that spoilt it, the owners completely refused to join in and did completely their own thing which jarred with the rest of the street, I think if I recall all the other houses were carefully planned with Sarah to compliment the style of the road and each other’s properties, made for good viewing!

Tami, the programme was called Streets Ahead. I loved watching it. Some of the residents did put a spanner in the works.

Yes I seem to remember a set of neighbours insisting on wrought iron fencing or gates or something - totally over the top and totally out of keeping with what everyone else was doing, but they wouldn’t listen.

I wonder how long it took for them to find a street of willing people with almost everyone on board! I loved how it helped create community, particularly when people didn’t know one another before. It would never work on my street - too many people who would hate to have anyone else involved in their lives/houses and who would refuse to take part.

Here in Ireland we have a tv series called 'Home of the Year' - in each episode 3 homes compete against each other to go forward for to the final.
Two architects and an interior designer ( I think) are the judges.
I don't always agree with their choices.
Many of the homes are fantastic.
There is also a Celebrity Home of the Year programme ( once a year) for charity.

Another very popular programme is Room to Improve where an architect tells assists people building / renovating their home.
He can be controversial. There's usually an argument but usually things are worked out in the end..... but I think there may be ongoing, or have been court cases where clients and the architect have fallen out on or after the show.
Another of these programmes is called Nevilles Doorstep Challenge - Neville Knott an interior designer and his team turn up unexpectedly and refurbish a room in a house over a couple of days.

On GD they build huge houses but the kids are always squeezed into bunk beds in a tiny room.

YES! This always really annoys me - your kids will get bigger you know! Or might like their own space, since you're splashing out? And it's the same in magazines like Ideal Home etc where they do a fabulous photoshoot of someone's expensively renovated large house, there is always the kids' small, shared room (always with white bunk beds, fairly lights and names on the wall, and artfully placed wooden toy train) and several other rooms that are just beautifully done up spares. If I was a child in one of these scenarios I'd be v. put out!

A lot of the ‘magazine shoot’ houses are styled for the shoots by the magazine teams. Yes, the houses will have a certain ‘look’ to begin with but that is embellished and built on by the stylists (eg, all the plastic kiddy tatt is put in the garage/car/out of shot and out come the pastel coloured wooden handicraft toys). Same with extra lamps, ornaments, throws, plumpy cushions and swanky coffee table books. They also move furniture around (and hide big TVs).

Yes, I can imagine that Coffee - they never look lived in or have any ugly crap lying around. But why is it aspirational that your DC have to share a room? Maybe the idea is that you're smug because they get on so well (may be projecting ...)

I have architect friends who do actually have very styled houses including the tasteful toys and art in the kids rooms and minimal clutter but they are in a minority most of us just shove it in a room when someone's coming and shut the door.
Our playroom looked tasteful, minimal and tidy for one set of photos ever since it's looked like a hurricane mated with a tornado in there and plastic shit, Lego, toy cars and bloody match attax adorn every surface!

I really like GD and LLL, the building for the 100th GD episode is currently up for sale again (the water tower).

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72497693.html

I love them all but quite miffed about whoever said the property brothers were actors....

@ankasi. If I had the money I honestly think I would buy it

Does anyone remember the House Doctor episode with the woman who had loads of poodles (and looked like a poodle too) who had her house staged to sell by Anne Maurice. They painted all the woman's fushia pink decor a neutral pale colour and then the woman had a hissy fit and the whole lot had to be changed back. I wonder if she ever sold her house...

There's an Australian Best Home program. the architecture is very different, but nearly all of them are incredibly wealthy people with huge places to live in.

I like when you see what's been done in a normal home by someone with an average income but a lot of inspiration and hard work.

@flirtygirl

It was me that said the Property Brothers were actors, I know how upsetting this news is, but did you read the good news at the end of my post, that there is a third brother

A third brother!!!! Surely that cheered you up?

reedy voiced mate Will and his stupid jaunty angled hats.

Yes!!! That voice, and those stupid hipster hats!
I’m so glad I’m not the only George-hater, too. DP and I pull vom faces at the obligatory George-ripples-his-muscles-with-a-sledgehammer shot.

I love the Property Brothers too, but they must be actors. I told this to DH but he kept shaking his head, he didn't speak for ages afterwards. Anytime I mention it, he goes quiet. I think I ruined it on him.

Genuinely believed they were really property people. Jonathan is my fave and I am sure he has spoken about building with his dad

Will usually wears dungarees to go with his hats.

I remember someone on here describing George's voice sounding as though he had a scone stuck in his throat. I'm laughing just typing that out. Think of that every time.

Thanks 3luckystars I have googled him.