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

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Wishfulmakeupping · 02/08/2018 07:16

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

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ISendNoComplimentsToYourMother · 23/09/2018 09:24

Friends neighbour was on one of these make over programmes. Not LLB but can’t remember which one. Anyway they had to refilm the big reveal as she burst out crying!

notdaddycool · 23/09/2018 09:26

Liked love it or list it until I got bored of, make the kitchen open plan most weeks. As said George Clarke, hate that it’s never close to budget and feels like you get lots of freebies, garden, furnishing - can’t believe they can get them even in inflated budgets.
Really hoping someone picks up buying blind which is an Aussie programme, basically say your budget and what you want and the big reveal is your new renovated house.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/09/2018 09:26

They all pale into insignificance compared to the delights that are "Colin and Justin".

On the Million Pound Property Experiment they took a fairly average detatched family home , ignored all the advice from their long suffering Project Manager (they managed to piss off two PM over the series they did) and whittered on about people with children deserving "A Lifestyle"

So, an open fire in a dividing wall
A cooker hob that you could access on 3 sides
A garage that you could get a Ford Fiesta in, provided you didn't want to open the doors and get out ............

They were offended by the offers but eventually sold it for less than their costs.
Whittering on about how people were so ungrateful, not how they got it So Wrong Hmm

sunshineNdaisies · 23/09/2018 09:27

I wish they'd bring back 'changing rooms' and 'house doctor'. I love the house doctors brutal honesty and in changing rooms when the house was decorated in a god awful style, it made me feel rather smug that they'd taken that chance and it had gone tits up. LLB was a really shit designer though.

I love LLL but yes, who has that kind of budget and can't get a house??

Phil was looking at house in the next street to me a few years back for one of his other shows, the one where he improves houses for buying, can't remember it's name. Anyway, this house had awful interior and the garden was even worse. All decking and wierd old fashioned lamp posts in it. He did a great job of improving the interior but not much could be done for the garden, plus it was next to a busy path so no privacy. It still took ages to sell, and then 6 months later was up for sale again!

BestIsWest · 23/09/2018 09:29

I’d completely forgtten Colin and Justin. They were hilarious. Whatever happened to them?

beanaseireann · 23/09/2018 09:29

I love LLL and A Place in the Sun and Coast v Country. Coast would always win out- no contest.
Pure escapism.
I'd love a place in Florida, the Gulf Coast or Florida Keys.
A girl can dream.
Not getting the love for Phil. Balding men are not for me.

MrsBobDylan · 23/09/2018 09:38

Not LLL but we tried to hire Kevin McCloud for a conference and his fee worked out at 60k for a few hours. I think I worked it out as £100 per minute.

He must be obscenely loaded.

PiperPublickOccurrences · 23/09/2018 09:41

I’d completely forgtten Colin and Justin. They were hilarious. Whatever happened to them?

They used to live fairly near me and you'd see them in hipster coffee shops in Glasgow's west end. Then the TV work dried up here and they upped sticks to Toronto. Sorry, Canada.

ProseccoThyme · 23/09/2018 09:44

Ah, Changing Rooms & House Doctor - I remember them well! I also loved Property Ladder. I wonder what Carol Smillie, Ann-what's-her-name & Sarah Beaney are doing nowadays?

BestIsWest · 23/09/2018 09:48

I’ll never forget watching the first episode of changing rooms with our omouths open in shock for most of the episode. We’d never seen anything like it. DD wanted to be Laurence Llewellyn Bowen when she grew up (she was 7).

Hanyu · 23/09/2018 09:48

It’s grand designs where they say, “I’m a professional basket weaver and my wife is a stay at home Mum and our budget is £900,000...”

I always think on Grand Designs they often end up going massively over-budget and running out of money part way. They then end up over leveraging themselves to get it finished, but have to sell a year later because they can't afford the mortgage. The new buyers end up having to pay a fortune to sort out the bodge job.

bridgetreilly · 23/09/2018 09:48

Oh, I do love Kevin McCloud, though. I think he's worth every penny. I really enjoyed the series about the housing estate he built and I love Grand Designs. I think he actually does know what he's talking about. My very favourite was the house in the woods, built practically by hand by the woodsman and his friends, with straw bales for walls. And then when they went back he was married with a baby, which would not have happened if he'd still been in his tent!

bridgetreilly · 23/09/2018 09:49

I always think on Grand Designs they often end up going massively over-budget and running out of money part way.

They do, but it's not Kevin's fault! He always warns them they are being over-optimistic, especially re. time and labour costs.

LakieLady · 23/09/2018 09:58

£100 a minute! I like Kevin McCloud, but not that much. Grin

GD is still my all-time fave property show though. The owners are nearly always deluded, a lot of what they do is horrendous, it's often a near disaster and the windows/glass walls invariably cause problems.

There's a house that was on GD not far from me. It looks utterly hideous from the road (locals joke that the electricity sub-station that was there before had more architectural merit) and all the people walking their dogs on the other side of the river gawp into their living room because it's like a fucking fish tank.

Saddest of all, it's on the edge of a town and is the first house you see as you arrive from one direction. It completely obscures the house next door, which is a beautiful Queen Anne house with a fabulous garden. The sight of the older house really used to lift my spirits as I drove into the town, and I think it's really sad that the first building people see as they arrive now looks like a rusty shed, instead of a wonderful listed building.

Bloobs · 23/09/2018 09:59

I miss grand designs too! Once Kevin was on the scene, the woman always got pregnant Hmm Then their project would overrun (there was always an unexpectedly awful winter which set in while they still didn't have the roof on) so the baby would be born before it was finished and they would always have it on site. Everyone would be wearing a hard hat, except the poor baby!

Also, once they had gone massively over budget and finally finished the job, they'd be fitting the kitchen or bathroom and they's always have "sourced" some incredibly fancy £16,000 lampshades or taps which they "just had to have" :o

IamReginaFalange · 23/09/2018 09:59

I read on the thread slagging off Kirsty’s iPad breaking situation that Phil and Kirsty hate each other Confused

Hanyu · 23/09/2018 10:00

They do, but it's not Kevin's fault! He always warns them they are being over-optimistic, especially re. time and labour costs.

For sure!

They often end up living in a caravan for years and the wife always ends up pregnant.

I love Kevin, too!

Arthur2shedsJackson · 23/09/2018 10:01

Someone local went on Escape to the Country. They had no intention of moving house and just wanted to be on telly
Considering the contact address for would-be participants is ‘be on a show’ I’m sure lots of people do this.

LakieLady · 23/09/2018 10:02

My very favourite was the house in the woods, built practically by hand by the woodsman and his friends, with straw bales for walls. And then when they went back he was married with a baby, which would not have happened if he'd still been in his tent!

I've been there. Someone I know did an eco-building and woodland management apprenticeship with that guy, and we went over to visit. It's an amazing place.

Hanyu · 23/09/2018 10:02

Crossed posts with Bloobs. 😂

Bloobs · 23/09/2018 10:02

And after Kevin had warned them against their appalling naff-ola ideas and they'd gone ahead anyway, he'd always do that speech at the end and you could see him struggling to sound admiring that they'd "followed their dreams" and "done something unique".

PiperPublickOccurrences · 23/09/2018 10:03

Kevin McCloud does my head in with his pretentious twaddle voiceovers.

"Maureen and Derek's converted pig sty chimes perfectly with the local agricultural narrative. Using medieval wattle and daub speaks volumes about the couple's desire to embrace the past which simultaneously meshing that with a futuristic concept which is innovative yet superfluous in this most British of scenic vistas".

Bloobs · 23/09/2018 10:04

Hanyu :o

Piper - perfect!

Hanyu · 23/09/2018 10:04

I think it's bollocks that Kirsty and Phil don't get on.

IamReginaFalange · 23/09/2018 10:07

Yeah I always thought they had some chemistry between them

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