Your Home Made Perfect

[covetingthepreciousthings]

Anyone watch the start of series 2 tonight? It's in Wednesdays at 8pm on BBC2, so will be available on iplayer.

I thought this whole concept sounded awful and cheesy when I first heard of it, but I loved s1.

I'm glad they've kept the two architects the same.

Has she just said people can come to her for grief counselling and feel calm and safe - while he play the drums next door?!!

Meanwhile the kid has the house to himself bring resoundingly ignored without enough room for a PlayStation.

Did they say he couldn't have a PlayStation? (I only watched the reveal at the end).
So everyone gets a hobby room not him?

In the two minutes they were talking to the boy he said that he didn’t have room for a PlayStation.
He didn’t want A room, just some room.

Had another look at it on iPlayer, poor kid, he was quite young and his parents have just built over the whole garden with their horrible plastic shed and didn't consider him at all in the design. Where is he going to have room to play? Dad has the biggest playroom in the house with all his man-toys.

Dear God, their neighbours must absolutely hate them! And fancy leaving that poor lad no garden.

Some people really shouldn't be parents

I felt that they had mentally moved on to a life of not being parents and found it hard to adjust.

Speaking personally me and dh don’t have children and have made our peace with that. If we had a baby now it would be really hard.

Dh and I love having our own spaces but we wouldn't sort ourselves out without making sure the dc had what they needed too. Presumably there will be more room in their house now for the dc!
If we had a garden room like that I could see ds1 moving in and staying there till he's 40

What a waste of 45 grand.
They could've sorted the garage and got a posh shed for 10k.
Or just moved house.

Quite. They could have just bought a regular garden office.

oh I didn't get to see the full reveal as DC wanted to check score on another channel.

I did think the front room looked smaller than it should have been, had the bloke nicked some to add to his garage? and didn't see the son at all, how old was he? I got the impression at the beginning he was late teens.

I don't know but he looked about 13 to me?

Very young 13.

aww poor lad, they seem very disconnected from him then, that's why I assumed he was a lot older, they came across as that time in their lives were the DC are grown and you have time to focus more on yourselves again.

Think he was 10

He was 10. It took them a year to complete the build so 11 by the time they finished.

Still young enough to want to run about in a garden I would think.

The man aged a lot in the year.
I think the wife insisted on her space because otherwise she'd never see her husband, he'd always be off with his 50 million bikes and drums.

Agree they should have just moved.

The man's design was ridiculous. He had his trademark wood-burning stove somewhere at the back, miles from where you'd feel the benefit. Unless he assumed that the female client wanted to be gently fried whilst saluting the sun.

Should have had a trampoline then instead of a mememe-hut

I don’t understand how Robert’s designs get picked? They are just so impractical. And honestly what a way to piss off the neighbours by building that stupid temple idea. In. A. Built. Up. Area.

Mad!

Laughing at Laura saying how the building has brought them together as a family... Two adults have each got a separate room and the son is left on his own in the house!

I really laughed when he raised the garden up to the top of the fence then stuck a "temple" on it. It was really telling when the presenter asked if Robert is going to build his own temple and he admitted that he's doing something similar for himself.

I know architects are meant to know about what might and definitely won't pass planning, but would any council allow someone to build a temple on a hill in their long skinny terrace back garden?
Mind you I can't imagine the neighbours were too happy with the final big black burnt box built 3 inches from the boundary!

I know architects are meant to know about what might and definitely won't pass planning, but would any council allow someone to build a temple on a hill in their long skinny terrace back garden?*

I was wondering this too, I've put this to my friends OH who works in the council planner dept & sent a picture , will let you know what the outcome is..

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