Grand Designs anyone?

[SlantyBaws]

Anyone else watching?

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

My dc would climb over those rails on the landing, it’s a nice home for an older family but would need eyes in the back of your head with a toddler. Glad the DPs had a nice home, a bit close for my liking though.

@DobbyTheHouseElk

Great staircase for toddlers.

I thought that too.

And I just thought the house was too big - I preferred the "annex" for the parents. I think it would have been fine on a smaller scale.

They didn't explain how the crane lost all that hydraulic fluid but still worked once they got it out of the quagmire.

Does Grand Designs put it in the contract that you have to get pregnant during the build unless you are (a) too old (b) gay (c) have a serious illness like last week?

They didn't explain how the crane lost all that hydraulic fluid but still worked once they got it out of the quagmire.

I assume they fixed/reconnected the hose and filled it back up whilst waiting for assorted tow trucks and farmers.

I don’t think they meant it to be that big. It looked like a barn, but the rooms were small. I didn’t like it at all. Much preferred the annex and the parents were so happy to have been built a house.

I agree - I think it turned out much bigger than they thought with what looked like a lot of wasted space. The baby's room seemed particularly small.

The house in last nights episode was the most hideous looking house I’ve ever seen.

Also prefer the annex,the barn was too grey and who wants a open plan bedroom with huge window and half a wall bathroom behind .
I did like how he causally said " oh i found the extra £100k from another property " how many houses does he have ?
The barn did not even have a swimming pool,nor a large shed for a weekend biz selling clay pots .

I did like how he causally said " oh i found the extra £100k from another property " how many houses does he have ?
It was mentioned at the end that his parents had been living in a caravan - maybe it was their house.

I’m not obsessed with this programme, honest. However, the article says he’s 50, and he was in the army for eight years. I presume that was after uni (presuming he went) or straight from school. That means he’s not been in the army for nearly twenty years (from start of project). It seems to still have a huge influence on him still. I’m not sure eight years in the army twenty years ago renders him an army man. Obviously he could have left more recently.

I've worked with some people who are posho ex military in their 40s and 50s who are 20+ years out of it, and it's still all they go on about and define themselves as. Gets tiresome to be honest

I just watched Greg and Georgie. Wow that goes down as a classic Grand Designs. I can't believe their energy and resilience – it made me ashamed at my lethargy. Inspiring. I wish them both long life and happiness.

I didn't like last nights house - Amy didn't seem engaged with it at all, it looked like a warehouse from the outside, the bedrooms all seemed boxy apart from the master which as others have said would be spoiled for me by no door on the ensuite and being in full view of the main road.

As for toddler safety, that staircase looked impossible to keep safe and the little balcony Kevin was on at the end looked like an invitation to climb over.

There seems to have been universal dislike for this house on this thread!

It's odd - usually I can see the merits of a house even when it isn't to my taste. This one just left me cold.

A relative of mine knew Nathan the star of this weeks show from school. Let's just say he wasnt particularly well behaved back then.

Really strange episode, I felt weirdly uncomfortable watching it.

I really would not want to spent that much money on a house on that particular road. That kind of money, in that area could buy something truly magnificent, but instead went for that pile of shit. The nursery looked impractically small. Might be ok for a kid in a cot, but not sure where they'll sleep when older (if they survive toddlerhood on those stairs).

I liked the outside of this weeks build but have to confess I hate fully open plan houses like the downstairs. I was craving doors and a bit of carpet somewhere! Loved the fireplace, but then the huge empty spaces felt cold and unhomely. But I guess it's their house and if they're happy...

Plus a hell no to the open toilet. 😂

DH thinks that Amy was definitely The Other Woman and that the guy built the annexe for his parents to get them back onside after a big family bust up over the affair

I quite liked the house though.

Was that the London Road or near to Boston

Quite large spaces to heat and so unsuitable for a baby

I agree with the dislike of this week's house. Ostentatious on the outside and cold and badly designed inside. I have to say I didn't like to couple particularly though, and it's always harder to like the house when you don't like the people!

Nathan seemed very arrogant and I didn't like his attitude to his job houses. Amy seemed like a pushy nightmare!

@Wearywithteens

Cute baby though!

I thought so too! I saw Amy’s amazing eyes and assumed contact lenses, but the baby had the same startling blue peepers!

DH thinks that Amy was definitely The Other Woman and that the guy built the annexe for his parents to get them back onside after a big family bust up over the affair

I've just watched it and that was my thoughts exactly, I thought Kevin alluded to that at the start, he made some kind of comment about the guy's life being turned upside down when he met her.

I thought there was a really weird dynamic between them all, the couple, and the parents. I wondered if the parents had to dig him out of a financial hole and that's how they ended up living in a caravan.

Not keen on the house, looked huge from the outside but a really strange use of space inside. It should have seemed really spacious but felt quite boxy and each area felt small.

Plenty of hazards for a toddler, those stairs, the baby gates on the stairs had gaps wide enough for a small head to get through and then get stuck, that little balcony thing that Kevin was looking over, that pond in the front garden unfenced .

And that bath in the main front window that everyone can see from the road - what were they thinking?

Ghastly, impractical house. I was surprised Kevin endorsed it. He’s normally very negative about houses designed without an architect.

Everyone would see them in the bath.

A friend did a similar thing with a build. Whole side of the house was glazed. Like looking into a dolls house. My friend two streets away commented that he could see my friends partner walking around in just a towel and pottering about at night. Lights on. Curtains not closed. Bath there for all to see.....and they did.

Did anyone see the building of Two Cocks Farm? It's an old programme, 2011, I think, where the guys had their own brewery, and they built a super-modern eco farmhouse for 400k. They sold it a couple of years later for 2.45 million. It was an amazing build.