Do you know someone whose house was featured on Grand Designs?

[Cocogreen]

I'd love to know how they found the experience, given the fact that building and renovating is so stressful - plus they have tv crews appearing every few months.
Were they REALLY happy with the finished house?
Or have you had one built near you? I'd like to hear the neighbour's opinions more on some of these projects.
Obviously I'm not asking precisely which house or what area you're in.
I'm in Aus and watch our local version of GD from time to time and know pretty well a lot of the areas where the houses have been built but haven't gone for a peek at them.

@bunnybuggs
No price on there but should imagine it was very expensive

Yes - they did not live there long - I remember Kevin was amazed (as I would be) that they did not make more of the view. It is always worth climbing the Malverns just to look out over the green English countryside - I love it. Looking on sold house prices it does not appear so m,aybe they are still there.

Love GD. Love Kevin. Love the idiots who have no budget or proper plan and make changes Willy nilly

Thanks, BeaucoupFish, for the info. I'd forgotten a lot of the details. Sad, really.

@notjaneausten
I think it is sad as well 🥲 but I have not seen the episode but the story is sad.
Hopefully they are happier somewhere else now

I worked for an architect and building company that built one. It was an ‘interesting’ experience seeing it all from behind the scenes!

I have visited the house by Greta and David Iredale, who built the
flat-pack Huf Haus on Grand Designs in 2004. They were very sweet!

@squashyhat

I drive past the Rusty Metal House in Lewes a lot. It may have lovely river views but it's sandwiched between that and a very busy road with the A27 Eastbourne-Brighton road about 1/4 mile away. Very noisy I would imagine especially on a warm summers day with everyone heading to the coast.

Agree with you and @MotherofHeathens . It's on a mud bank, slap bang next to a main road. I don't see the appeal at all.

@Idontknowhowtohelpher

I have visited the house by Greta and David Iredale, who built the flat-pack Huf Haus on Grand Designs in 2004. They were very sweet!

This is one of my favourites. The house was beautiful and a relatively easy process in comparison to some of the others.

I know someone (the instructor at my hobby) who has recently bought a grand designs house! It's basically castle. He hasn't put up pics yet though.

@Vaselike

In one of the early w, a young family were featured. But between the first and second meeting, the husband died leaving his wife and very young children. The project scale got cut and the tradesfolk appeared to be “helping out” as much as possible. Often think of that family - it was a beautiful, normal budget scale home.

That one is really near me. The house is lovely, and very 'normal' - it's basically between some 1950s houses on the main road and a small 1960s housing estate.

I think it was my favourite episode tbh - not because it's local but just because it was so moving, and the end result was wonderful.

I always like the ones with ‘normal’ folk and ‘normal’ budgets “we bought the land for a squilionty million, have a budget of £5m but overspent £10m by buying ancient Italian marble staircase. It’s our third home after the castle in Wales and our villa in Provence...”

[quote BobbinThreadbare123]@Horriblewoman I loved that episode. They seemed a lovely pair and the house was actually sensible as well as unusual.
I don't live too far away from the Dome House, by Windermere. That looked an absolute state till a lady paid for it to be finished. They owe her a lot of money and it's a guest house now. They really weren't liked by the neighbours, I believe, because the house is so big and out of keeping with the area.[/quote]
I came on to say this one too. Some random woman loaned them the money to finish the house, and ended up having to buy it. I think her children run it as a very upmarket guest house. It really doesn't fit in to the surroundings despite what Kevin said at the time. Maybe if you've got cataracts.