Grand Designs - the child's name is Beaver???

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Apologies to anyone who has a daughter called Beaver that I have offended...

I agree with you icod - they have ruined a lovely old thatched New Forest cottage. It smacks totally of outsiders moving in and taking over! Not that I have a problem as most are really quite nice and not jumped up so and so's I know that the property had burnt down, but still!

I wonder whether a local would have gotten away with using a different roofing substance. My dad came up against all sorts of problems when he wanted to extend our property and we only live just down the road.

Everyone laughed in the beginning when it became common knowledge that there was no insurance, although I had better not go into that on here.

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Actually - I think you'll find I said it first Livinginthecountry

An awful fusion of old and new - total yuckdom. That kitchen, dear god it was the stuff of nightmares. And the dolls house sized woodburner in the bedroom with the wonky tiled chimney breast. And the lamps in the middle of the fireplace in the living room - a mess, total and utter mess!

she is a record producer

sorry soapbox

i was embarrassed for kev

They're in the music business I think.
I liked the kitchen ,except for the white table thing.
The dining room was a waste of space imo.

I liked the upstairs,the chimney was gross though.

Oh it was only a joke

You didn't think Cod had come up with that idea all by herself - starts running away...

What's wrong with Sanchez--somebody please enlighten me?

OMG - they've got their own website! You can see photos of what the cottage used to look like before it was ruined:

www.dairycottage.info

So was the child beaver or Biba in the end? (I haven't seen the programme). Someone told me they named their daughter Santa, turned out to be Xanthe. Felt like a right idiot, I'd just never heard of it before.

Tara Palmer Tomkinson's sister is called Santa.

Just looked on Grand Designs website and it was Biba.

Can someone please explain Sanchez?

I still think it was Beaver......after all Biba and Beaver have very different middle sounds.

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I had subtitles on and it was definitely Biba - although initially I thought it was Beaver before I put them on!!!

I loved the thatched roof.

They could have done better with the tiled chimney breast but its their home and they live with it.

I think it's so odd to have a bath in your bedroom, you'd have to have the heating blaring out for as soon as you stepped out into such a big room. Am disappointed her name isn't Beaver, it really made me titter. After mocking them for letting their insurance lapse, dh and I had crisis of confidence and had to search for ours LOL

Dp was sitting there smugly saying 'how do you let your buildings insurance expire? Next to the mortgage it's the most important thing!' 15 minutes later - 'We do have buildings insurance, don't we?'. Poor chap.

youd haev VERY bad condenstion on your windows

( spekas s one whose dh leaves the door open bewtween the en suit sand oour oroom}

ooh get you with your ensuite

did anyone else gape open mouthed at the telly at the beginning when they were all standing inside the ruined shell of their cottage? They were talking about how structurally unsafe it was, with beams about to collapse etc and all three adults(and film crew no doubt) had their hard hats on but the woman had their tiny baby IN HER ARMS!

So if the building suddenly collapsed around their ears, at least their own heads were protected?

I noticed that too.
Still witha name like Beaver, might have been a blessing in disguise...

I was extremely sorry that they didn't come a cropper with the crane that the bloke hired himself against the advice of the people who had built the timber frame. I would have loved to see it all fall over . Kev said that they saved "a few hundred" pounds by doing it that way.

I sat there thinking he was an arrogant twat (bloke, not Kevin)for thinking that he knew better than the experts; wanted the consevation woman to throw a strop and get the thatching taken off again, as well!

And those windows...setting thick glass right into a new timber frame, without any apparent margin around it...when the wood dries out and warps in the sunlight, that glass is surely going to crack!

And they had those fake leaded doubled glazed windows downstairs...why did the conservation officer let them get away with that?

Didn't like the decor inside, and agree a bath sitting in the middle of your bedroom...yuck

DH said that too..... 'Jeez, look at them in their I'm-alright-jack hard hats and baby with the invisible cloak of steel'.