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Anyone watching? Bench Seat Man has gone!

It’s bizzare!
Glad they didn’t keep the sink.

It looks like someone has put kitchen units and an extra couple of windows in a garage.

I can’t believe that they’ve spent all of that money on a house and still have a downstairs bathroom!

Bathroom downstairs and pretty small bedrooms.
They have made some interesting decisions.

The only time I had a downstairs bathroom was in my shitty student houses!!
Was a right PIta!

It looks like a pub, and it looks like they haven't finished the extension outside. There doesn't look like there's a patio or deck to step out to from the kitchen.

@PanicBuyingSprouts

It looks like someone has put kitchen units and an extra couple of windows in a garage.

I can’t believe that they’ve spent all of that money on a house and still have a downstairs bathroom!

That's exactly what we said, Panic - re the garage

Aaaaaaand £225k. Sheesh.

£220 wow, just wow.

£225,000! I am just speechless. Our whole house didn’t cost that and our bathroom is upstairs...

£225,000!!!!!! Fucks sake you could buy a new house for that!

I actually liked the end result (although downstairs bathrooms are a pain) but I felt the programme-makers had let this couple down. I'd assumed they would have done some kind of structural survey to check whether the architectural designs they were putting forward were achievable or not. It feels wrong that this couple had to overspend by so much because potential problems hadn't been investigated.

£225,000!!!!!! Fucks sake you could buy a new house for that

Can anyone remember where the house is? I now what to look at house prices on Rightmove (and I bet that none of the 4 beds have a downstairs bathroom).

Somewhere in Herts, but they didn't narrow it down any further iirc, Panic.

I loved it, but agree that it didn’t appear that any surveys or ground investigations had been carried out prior to the VR which is disappointing. Robert fan here though, find Laura’s designs a teeny bit dull.

I didn't like Roberts design at all, and thought it was very dark. But, I loved the colours the owners used, especially in the 'retiring room' (living room) with the teal and brass/gold fittings and the mustard sofa.
The tiles in the bathroom were lovely, but the shower looked very cramped. Actually, the whole room looked cramped.
So much money, not the eco build he promised, and three years (and an extra kid) in the making but they seemed happy with it which is the important thing I guess.

They shouln't have moved the bathroom. Small bedroom downstairs- for when kids are older- and 2 girls sharing in the meantime would have been better.

I could be wrong because I know next to nothing about property but I thought that they may have over spent and would never see that money back if they had to sell.
The house and surrounding area looked a little shabby so to put that amount of money on top of their mortgage seemed a bit daft.
Dh said that the couple said it was there forever home but neighbourhoods change and sometimes go worse instead of better.
In their shoes I would have moved!

However I could be talking rubbish, that was my take on it.

Before the family moved back into the house the husband blessed the house and put something on the door frame. What was it? I'm not familiar with Jewish customs.

Someone phoned me half way through the programme. Now that I've seen how much over budget they were, I don't know if I can watch the rest, I'll cringe so much!

I was also thinking that it wasn't a great house to start with so investing all that money in it is risky. Let's hope it is their forever home.

I think I would have moved too. Especially as their family was expanding and looking with a cold eye all of the rooms were quite small and not much room for growth. Considering how much they spend, apart from the kitchen, living room and tiny bathroom nothing seemed finished off.

In 5 years time they'll have the same problem but no budget.

More money than sense as my dear old granny would have said.
£225,000 and no upstairs bathroom.
What if you need the loo during the night- traipse all the way downstairs ?
I thought the house still looked shabby on the outside, particularly the wall to the left of the door and the back garden.?
If I knew the cameras were coming to film I'd have tidied up a little and spruced up the front wall by the door and the back garden and that's before the refurb !!!

Where did they live while the work was going on - so disruptive - and for that !!!!

@notacooldad

Before the family moved back into the house the husband blessed the house and put something on the door frame. What was it? I'm not familiar with Jewish customs.

Just looked it up and it's a mezuzah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah

Just looked it up and it's a mezuzah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah
I looked it up too but before you posted and google took me to a Jewish customs webpage. I thought it was interesting why the blessing isn't hung straight.

Didn’t like it. I’m not so sure they loved it tbh. His face when he was talking about the spend. Feel sorry for them. Definitely program makers should have investigated pitfalls imo. I’d have moved & they won’t get their money back. I also loath downstairs bathrooms.

I can’t help but feel a bit sorry for them, a lovely couple but a much more basic extension would have given them the space they needed for much less money. It actually looked horrible, the wood beams and door frames looked rough and the grey breeze blocks sucked out all the light they wanted to enjoy. Presumably the original house was non-standard construction so will always be limited in value. Plus I bet the neighbours were pretty pissed off with having the view of that massive ugly extension backing onto their boundary.
I don’t think it helped this week that Laura’s design had no wow factor, otherwise they would probably have chosen her more practical design.

The bathroom tiles were nice. Otherwise not keen and the cost!!!!