Grand Designs anyone?

[SlantyBaws]

Anyone else watching?

New series started tonight. Bonkers toff from SW London wants to convert a building in a cemetery.

It's heartbreaking when you see the dates and know what's coming.

@SoupDragon

It's heartbreaking when you see the dates and know what's coming.

Yes every episode they seem to have visited people in January 20 and it's so sad knowing what's just around the corner.

Yes. Something nobody could have planned for.

They skipped the whole year on this one.

Lockdown in that tiny caravan in the shed!

Dear god - they did lockdown in the caravan!!

😂

I hate the front door and I'm not keen on the interior.

It does look a bit sterile but quite liveable.

I understand that the old timbers weren't salvageable but... but... 🙁

The door looks a bit like the entrance to a museum or public building but I suppose they didn't want it to look fake old.

I loved the dining room table but it's such a shame they couldn't have kept that beautiful stone floor, I'm definitely with Kevin in that it's a shame they didn't keep more original features.

At the start, I thought they might re-lay the floor.

I thought the internals looked really bland, the windows are tiny so must be very dark, hence all the spotlights. Outside just looked like a non-descript old building. I would have loved to see the water wheels restored and much more of the original internals kept.

The stair case was lovely but look up massive amounts of floor space, it was hard to tell where furniture would be placed. Very little usable space for such a big building.

I would have liked to keep the millstones in the floor and just level them up. I don't think they really work as a table, you'd lose things down the hole in the middle.

The programme that has followed it is on an entirely different scale!!

@SoupDragon

The programme that has followed it is on an entirely different scale!!

I'm hating it already.

I felt for them but they were well out of their depth. Never seen Kevin as unhappy

I'm hating it already.

Yes.

I felt for them but they were well out of their depth. Never seen Kevin as unhappy

He was happy up in the roof :)

I meant I'm hating the billionaire's house in the following programme.

The mill house in Grand Designs was quite nice but not as good as it could have been. Probably with even more money thrown at it.

Was that the last episode?

Were the cracker/rotting supporting beams in the water ever repaired?

They were very out of their depth and all that old wood ripped out? And the staircase! I think they bought the wrong building. £500k would have been needed to do it justice and restore it properly.
The millstones look stupid as table, why didn't they dig the floor down and put the millstones back? I've never seen Kevin so scathing. But I do agree with him.
Also - where's the garden?

CrumpetandSausage no, they left it.

I meant I'm hating the billionaire's house in the following programme.

I know.