Your Home Made Perfect

[Halsall]

Anyone watching? Bench Seat Man has gone!

I think they'll regret not having the option of closing off the snug.

I think they'll regret not having the option of closing off the snug.

Me too. Teens can be bloody noisy.

I love the breakfast bar, gives an extra worktop so someone can sit and do some prep without getting in the way of the main cook.

I think the snug works whilst the kids are small but as they grow it would be nice to have a closed off area for them.

I love the pink and greens!

@Halsall

TheSpottedZebra your predictions win

(Any idea what the lottery numbers are for Saturday? )

There will be an odd number, an even one, a more rounded one...

I love it, but the decor is so now that it will date fast.

And they've chucked out all their stuff and bought new, so the 'incidentals' spend must be quite high.

That decking is awful though. Why the lattice? So the rats get lots of light too?

So almost doubled the budget.

£26,500 just for the build.......

@TheSpottedZebra

That decking is awful though. Why the lattice? So the rats get lots of light too?

😆 I thought it looked like a giant wine rack

£26k just for the build. No kitchen, no floors, no finishing... I did think that this might be the one to stick to the budget, but no....

Where do they magic up extra money? The £25k was the top end already!

@OwBist

£26k just for the build. No kitchen, no floors, no finishing... I did think that this might be the one to stick to the budget, but no....

Exactly - how can the architects get the budgets SO wrong ?

So how much would it have been for the fancier hinge doors etc..

@covetingthepreciousthings

Where do they magic up extra money? The £25k was the top end already!

I think they said he did extra hours at work.

Pity they didn’t bring back Laura and ask her why it couldn’t be done for the budget!!

They were so obviously were going to choose Laura, I thought they really weren't keen on the other guys, and no way would his have been on budget with all that moving of plumbing etc surely?

I thought it looked like a giant wine rack Me too! Freudian error though.

The dining nook was certainly cramped before but there was no need for the mother to climb over to the seat in the corner.

Now it's much lighter but there are just four seats round the table for the family of five. I'd like to see it when all their stuff is back in.

That was the first thing I noticed too! So much more space around the table and yet still only 4 seats?! Why? Is someone supposed to sit on a bar stool? I'm not hugely impressed with this series, everyone seems a bit jaded and it seems to be accepted that whatever the budget it is never going to be enough. They may have been happy with the finished product but it looked quite different from how the designer envisaged it. The sliding doors looked far more ordinary than her design and the roof lights didn't turn out as the uninterrupted vista of glass either, rather a couple of veluxes in the roof?

The polycarbonate was AWFUL! What was he thinking?? Glad they went with Laura’s design but hated the decking. Agree that the space underneath will attract animals.

For what they wanted I thought their budget was far too low.
It certainly would be in Dublin.
I thought they did well coming in at £36,000.
I would always put in a door if possible.

Some architects have their own set ideas re the design required, I'm looking at you Dermot Bannon- Irish posters will know what I'm talking about.

Laura is practical. She really listens to the client.

Decking is out for me because of rodents.

The sand bit was funny, considering the man on last week's episode who hated sand. It would have been torture for him to have to stand in the sandpit.

The recycling the kitchen and floor man, I'd love to see him solve a small problem, like they do on the garden version.
Some of his ideas were mad but both his designs so far have tried to reuse materials creatively, so it would be nice to see that actually in action for someone on a real budget.

Laura’s ticked all the boxes for a family. I don’t understand how the other design related to the beach in any way… unless it’s a comment on how much plastic is in the sea… or that terrazzo is what they use in public buildings in hot countries and you go to hot countries to visit the beach? Or that it was the grey of a British port town in November. Underwhelming to say the least.