Your Home Made Perfect

[Brillig]

Apologies if there's already a thread, but I couldn't see one. Anyone watching? Apparently this is a new series.

I'm waiting for the bench seats to make their inevitable appearance......

Anyone recognise the area? Looks similar to where I live but I am not quite in Surrey.... I was thinking maybe Epsom?

I noticed the presenter, Angela Scanlon plonking herself on the counter top too. I just wondered how she whooshed herself up- I'd need a chair or a ladder

I'm always surprised how cheap building/ extension work is in the UK compared to Ireland.
You could double or triple prices quoted on tv shows if they were filming in Ireland.
I've heard recently of someone who is putting a house they bought back on the market ( all pre Covid19 ) because the quotes they got to renovate the house - It's not a wreck - just needs modernisation - were so high. 😮

I love the presenter, she has such a great rapport with the architects, joshing with Robert about it being an "Irish thing".

It was very ordinary. It was annoying they missed the office and laundry room out on the final tour.

I agree Crickets
And we got no view of the rest of the house in last weeks house

Where was the wardrobe space for the couple with the bath in the kitchen?? So way out, cool and groovy, but it's not practical!

I wonder if they use one of the upstairs bedrooms as a dressing room @wehaveafloater. We use one bedroom as a dressing room.

On to this weeks; imagine if they had gone for his design with three staircases and then had a baby crawling around in the kitchen! And why so many shower rooms?
The design they went for was much more sensible.

I liked this one. The end result was practical and sensible if somewhat predictable. I wish they'd been a bit more adventurous with the décor though. The teal bedroom was fab.

I too was wondering why they'd bought such an impractical house in the first place.

I too was wondering why they'd bought such an impractical house in the first place

Maybe it was a good price and could see it had potential. I would always go for location, that's the one thing you can't change.

Talking about overspending. I’m watching 100k house tricks of the trade at the moment and that’s far more realistic. Houses never get finished because they run out of budget!

100k house tricks of the trade oh, a renovation programe I haven't seen!
rushes off to iplayer

I liked the colour of the bedroom but they should have gone for either the yellow or the copper accents as they totally clashed. Otherwise, very livable :)

Loved the finished transformation of this house. Practical and what the family wanted. The first upside-down option just didn’t fit what the family needed.

Or what’s practical for a growing family. My heart would be forever in my mouth with 3 staircases to deal with. One is bad enough.

I loved this week’s transformation! I too would have liked the decor to be a bit bolder, but they seemed like quite a conservative couple, so suited them. Loved the idea of the snug. We are considering a similar extension for our house, would think about the snug idea now rather than fully open plan...

Does anyone watch sarah beeney renovate don't relocate. It's also good.

Just caught up with this weeks episode. Robert’s design could have worked for a one off build in a unique location, it just did not suit a suburban family area at all, and if they came to sell it their market would be very limited, a family are looking for a family house so it would not attract those potential purchasers, somebody looking for a unique, off the wall architect designed house generally would not choose is to be in suburbia, stunning design but totally wrong for the area.

Laura’s design was a perfect family house, perfectly pleasant.....but my god I found it so ubiquitous, it looks like a carbon copy of every house extension across the country, there was no soul or character in it for me at all. I think it should have been a fusion between the two, Robert and Laura need to join forces, together they would produce something epic!.

As for the budget, I am really glad that this programme appears to tell the truth on how much the build actually costs. One of my bugbears of most property renovation shows is you see a whole house remodelled, extended, top of the range kitchen and bathrooms, garden landscaped, brand new furniture etc and it’s all done for 20k, I have lost count the amount of times I have shouted at the tv when this happens (I’m in the trade) this is why so many people are shocked when they get quotes for work to their house. Looking forward to next weeks episode and no doubt lots of brown bench seating!

I’ve just caught up too, Robert’s idea was completely mad, apart from liking the internal courtyard it was horrible and impractical.
Laura’s ideas are people pleasers, kitchen/diner overlooking garden, two sitting rooms, it’s what most families want. It is good to keep in mind the resell value too, especially when they are overspending. I liked too how the family didn’t follow her plan completely and tweaked with regards to the ceiling void, which is totally what a client would do in the real world.

BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo
You say "Laura's design was a perfect family house......"

That's why they are "ubiquitous" as you write, because they are perfect for families.

You can't better perfection.

Robert’s design could have worked for a one off build in a unique location

Exactly. In a lovely freshly built house on a site with an amazing view it would have been fantastic. Having the living space upstairs to make the most of a view makes sense, less so when your view is just other peoples houses.
One other thing I didn’t understand about his design was what went on behind the false wall where the kitchen was. It seemed to cover the bay window.

Is that the utility room behind the false wall.

Nope. Not the utility because that is down stairs.
And looking at the plan it would seem that to get to the downstairs spaces at the back of the house you have to go upstairs first and then bs m downstairs again!

That's why they are "ubiquitous" as you write, because they are perfect for families

But are they? How can one big room possibly be practical for families when you have one person doing homework quietly, one person cooking, one person watching tv and another doing music practice??

I wondered the same about that wall Flamingo - didn’t understand it