grand designs

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a bonkers project.
but kinda cool.

she looks 'conventional' without her red lippy.

I like it much more than I thought I would, but it looks like it would be so COLD. Those concrete floors in winter, shudder.

£850000?!!!!!! Bloody hell! Given they didn't have to buy their land, or even the barn, that's unbelievable!

I'm just getting to the end of a 5 year never ending toil rebuild and extend of a Grade 2 listed house - doubling the size of the house and adding things like a ground source heat pump and a giant hand-made oak staircase. We have also built a garage, annex, stables and done a lot of paddock-work along the way (drainage and fencing over 6 acres.) The house is deep in a forest in a fairly exclusive area (we have several celebrities among our neighbours.) I reckon we have not spent much more than they spent on their build! And I'd rather live in my house.

Too tryhard imo

watching on +4 now.... why would you jam your bathroom into a cubby hole when you had all that space to play with? Fools.

I didn't like it. Think they may regret only haveing two bedrooms.

That could have been stunning - all that space and all that money wasted. Don't like their tacky blackpool fun fair style collection either.

That was a weird one. Lovely building but she was awful. All that pretentious bollocks about wanting to be different for the sake of being different.

Yuck.

Did think it was interesting that she looked hugely more conventional by the end of the process

Sorry but it looks like it would be freeeezing in winter! And how much would that amount of underfloor heating cost to run!? Even with insulation the walls were still very thin and the roof had glassy gaps in. Brrrrrr...

'Their collections' = mountains of knitted teddies and old tat...

Bonkers as conkers. And I agree with thenightsky about the bathrooms - why have all that space and stick the bathroom into a concrete silo? Though I did like the other silo-as-spiral-staircase more. And only two bedrooms was madness too, imo - though maybe guests can stay with MIL and FIL in a proper house?

I cannot imagine living with all those objects from their 'collections' in those museum style cases either - some of them gave me the heebie jeebies. And I wouldn't want to have my young dd on the ground floor and me on the next floor up - just feels wrong. There's going to be little or no privacy either - just imagine if you have a mammoth poo or fart in that concrete bathroom - the sound is going to echo round the living space, and it will funnel the smell upwards too.

Very, very strange,

Weird. That is all I can say! Could've been amazing!

Kev was struggling to say nice things, poor geezer.

I watched this too and said to DH that she'd have to tone down that look if she wanted the school gate mums to let their DDs play with hers . Like Alibaba said, her look was massively toned down by the end. Maybe it was OK for the London School of Art, but not for rural Braintree?

How on earth could you afford to heat the place? We're paying £150/month for gas and electric for our 4 bed newbuild and it's insulated to the nth degree.

What a different couple to last week!

another bonkers one tonight.
whay dedication!

Fabulous views though!

I'm enjoying this series immensly.

Me too, it's my favourite programme, this and Autumnwatch.

The view is spectacular but it looks a big tent from outside.

Did they say its took 4 years and its still not finished.

Yes - started in 2007

I do think it will never be finished.

the house in bath is for sale

it is now officially the season of bonkers projects.
the setting looks like it is straight from the famous five films...