Grand Designs

[covetingthepreciousthings]

I couldn't find a Grand Designs thread for this new series...

Did anyone watch this weeks?!

These properties must be so hard to sell, they're so personal. There's def only a few over the years we'd buy. And def not one made out of bloody containers!!

tbf - last week's was at least a practical blank canvas type of place.

Omg 2013 thry started!! DH and I are placing bets on how many kids they'll have by the end

Wow 6 years

I'm not impressed with the house but gosh thry deserve the house of their dreams after all that! The only thing I didn't get was why she didn't work when they'd run out of cash

Just found this thread, i loved the scottish one but agree the rocks were hideous!
The big flash one was brilliant!
Agree the accessible house was a really sad episode, we actually only watched it last night followed by the water bunker one.
I also had so many questions about why they lived in that house with newborn babies/toddlers when it was so unpractical, i wondered if it had been a childhood home as a pp said. It just seemed such a terrible shame!
The one last night was incredible! What a show of determination and endurance, they were wonderful and I loved the house

So, an enormous concrete hole in the ground in the bleak arse end of nowhere? Let’s see what they do with this.

I really didn't like the water bunker one. I just felt sad all round really. Sad for the man being so ill and then having to do it himself to save money. Sad that 6 years of that girls life has gone living in that flat, she'll soon be in her teenage years and then out.
(Don't get me wrong nothing wrong with living in a flat at all, I do myself. But to have this build as a massive family home for happy childhood memories and at such cost and effort - just felt like it wasn't really worth it in the end)

It was sad that it was delayed due to poor health but I thought the house was nice in the end, they all seemed happy and he seemed to have come out the other side of his health worries. The daughter was 9 when they’d finished (well, almost), so plenty of years left to enjoy it as a family.

Yes, 9 is hardly grown up and surely she will have amazing childhood memories of building the family home?

Gorgeous house. The daughter looked genuinely happy. Imagine what role models they are to her. Rather than being sat at home watching youtube all day lol.

Thought it was lovely they showed the photos of the build at the end.Some stunning ones of the daughter getting stuck in with her parents on site.And yes due to dad's illness it was an incredibly long project.But good for them sticking it out, and what a lovely family.

I loved the photos.
the house was ok, but it seems a good place for them (once they don't need to share a bedroom anymore)

I’m just catching up. The one on the Galway coast was a lovely location, but that part of the country is so, so remote. I liked the views but I wasn’t wowed by the house.

Week 2 - the round house! Not my taste at all (those sofas, and that wooden Kevin!) but they seemed like a lovely couple. I’ll watch the next two episodes tomorrow.

Just seen the water bunker. I loved it.
The house was just to my taste but much more importantly was that he made it all himself.

Galloway - I do know my geography, honest!

Last few episodes have been really difficult to watch. Really felt for Toby in the last episode, so ill, so young. I really felt for his wife who was trying to balance being understanding, supportive and yet needing a house that met the family's needs. Think he could have been more considerate of her feelings too. I do wonder if the builders would have been so patient and understanding if they weren't on TV!

Wasn't keen on the look from the outside but inside it was stunning, I loved it.
Yeah last week's its been all illness, I kept waiting for him to end up back in hosptkal6

I was surprised by how much I liked the interior of this week's build given how much I didn't like the concept of the separate buildings. I also felt a little irked by how controlling he came across in the process- especially given that it was his wife's inheritance that was funding his dream. Yes it was important to meet his health needs but his wife and daughter's needs seemed to be completely ignored with zilcho room for compromise. I was pleased that she liked the end result though.

Bloody hell, tonight’s episode made for joyless viewing

Has there ever been a series of GD with such relentless misery and jeopardy? My nerves can’t take it!

I know. I’m still watching it, as paused a couple of times.

Ah, his wife has left.

How can anyone piss away £4 million on this .... craziness?

And his daughter doesn’t understand the sunk costs fallacy.

As Kevin says, she is definitely his daughter.

And her father’s still borrowing, and borrowing, and borrowing ....

Wow!

Just watched tonight's episode open mouthed. What he put his family through, he was too ambitious.

Can't believe the original house cost 1.4 million as in a few years it would be in the sea!

Just came on here to see if anyone else had watched. Just watched the whole thing through my hands tonight. What a colossal fuck up. Kudos to the guy for coming on at the end but my goodness.

I bet he wishes he’d just built something like the second place he built. To have lost his marriage and all that money

Wow. Just wow. That was a sad story littered with disaster after disaster. As soon as he said he'd be borrowing £2.5million I thought they'd lost all common sense... Clearly ambitions and dreams far outweighing their means. To then build another house just to borrow more money... Madness.