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Grand Designs is on tonight...

234 replies

ViolentFemme · 16/01/2008 20:32

I heart Kevin McCloud.

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yurt1 · 16/01/2008 23:03

ha ha - my house will be back in fashion

virgo · 16/01/2008 23:05

did you notice how evey cut of their little boy showed him 'reading' - bet the 90 odd objections were about them being neightbours rather than the house tee hee...sorry just had an urge to be incredibly bitchy and its safer about people you don't know at all..

expatinscotland · 16/01/2008 23:06

my current favs in this house are: mustard yellow carpet in the living/dining area, pub carpet in the hall and a banana yellow bathroom suite in the family bathroom plus a cobalt blue toilet and sink in the W/C.

love it!

oh, avacado green velvet curtains in said living/dining area.

and most of the furniture is IKEA.

wheresthehamster · 16/01/2008 23:11

Yes the boys will only play in the lounge in the winter as Zoe won't want the doors opening and shutting all the time as they want drinks/loo etc. Then at the end of the day SHE isn't going to want to cart all those toys back across the freezing courtyard.

I bet Tim has already been persuaded to use that room as his study.

brimfull · 16/01/2008 23:20

I would have made the playroom into a mummys room,laptop,telly ,squashy couch and far away from front door and kitchen... ideal!

expatinscotland · 16/01/2008 23:23

i'd have upgraded the terrace and then if i still weren't happy, sold it, fetching a better price for its having been rennovated and moved to a custom built home.

i mean, as the song goes, 'geewhizz, if i only had a brain.'

edam · 16/01/2008 23:30

Agree they were not very sympathetic people and house was very limited. But you could use the glass doors of the playroom to do some great craft stuff - felt tips or paint on the glass (wipe off and do something different next time). Only thing is I bet she would never, ever, let the poor kids anywhere near messy play.

expatinscotland · 17/01/2008 00:20

and if they start playing footie in the living room, they could damage one of the chandelier cooker extractors.

MrsJohnCusack · 17/01/2008 01:03

I keep seeing old Grand Designs on UKTV here and lovely Kevin is SO YOUNG on the old ones, and has so much hair

i'm with you expat, love kitsch, love charity shop things, it's soooo dull when you see so many identikit houses with the same furniture/colours/cruddy 'art' on the walls

am really coveting that banana yellow bathroom suite...

expatinscotland · 17/01/2008 03:02

i love it, too, MrsJohn, sorry, wish i were drunk and not up working but i work nights!

but i like how they redecorated around the banana yellow suite!

modern tiles with fishies.

modern cupboards.

banana yellow suite.

i'm going to ask permission to redec the W/C.

want to do something nautical, seeing as the sea loch is across the street and the suite is cobalt blue.

it's kitsch and i'm kitsch, too, so i like!

come to think of it, every place i've been in but one, where i didn't feel at home, has been such.

you have to go with the flow, and with this episode, they didn't.

as kev put it, 'i feel like i'm coming through the tradesman's entrance.'

'nuff said.

morningglory · 17/01/2008 06:45

Saw the program lat night. I found it deeply disturbing. The new house looks like it stepped out of a design magazine edited by a superficial, stylish, childophobic gay man. Slick, but completely sterile and child unfriendly. Poor kids are scooted out of the main house, and have no more outside space to run around. Zoe is probably already regretting the move.

GetOrfMoiLand · 17/01/2008 06:51

Bloody hell I want to bed last night and the vitriol carried on!

Can you imagine having to live in that house knowing that all the neighbours hate you!

Bet they move within months.

When shopping on Saturday, I am going to wgo there and have a nose round.

Perhaps it will be all of a state, all of the polystyrene crumbling away lol

YeahBut · 17/01/2008 07:19

Not sure about the house. (Being charitable)
Very sure about Kevin. Yuuuuuummmmm..........

niceglasses · 17/01/2008 07:39

My dh made a gd pt I think - I know it would happen here. What about cat shit? They'd troop our of the airy fecking kitchen,cross the garden ,cue shit, into the playroom (banished to end of garden) back thru cat shit, back into airy fairy kitchen.........

She was very annoying.

happystory · 17/01/2008 08:44

I love mn! DD went off in a strop this morning, I've got BORING shopping to do, and a report to write and I just knew there'd be LOADS about Zoe on here!!!

You've all cheered me up!

edam · 17/01/2008 11:23

Oooh Getorf, do report back when you've had a good nosey.

emkana · 17/01/2008 11:29

Getorf, where in Cheltenham exactly is the house? Feel tempted to drive past...

hifi · 17/01/2008 12:26

i was so dissapointed in the end with the decor, so burban.

Fimbo · 17/01/2008 12:38

My dc have a playroom. Do the play in it? Do they heck?

How can you have a kitchen with nothing at all on display. Didn't see any wardrobes either.

Agree she looked like Ulrika and he looked like Timothy Spall.

Anchovy · 17/01/2008 12:39

Haven't watched it yet - have it on sky+

My DH looks exactly like KM - literally to the extent that the DCs used to go "ooh - Daddy" when they were smaller and there were pictures of him in magazines. Dresses just like him as well (I think it is a generic sort of "early 40's vibe" for certain types or something).

Fortunately doesn't talk like him - think Kev has got a bit of a strange voice.

I honestly nearly cried on the update of the house in the woods and you saw a wife and baby in the background - it was just pure TV magic. I read somewhere that it was KM's favourite one ever as well. He is diplomatic about some but reading between the lines does think that some of the people involved are totally bonkers.

zebedeee · 17/01/2008 12:49

'Tim Bawtree and his wife, Zoe, epitomise the modern living couple.'

Apparently. So they say on their website for 'The Cheltenham House'. And for £1,100 a weekend you too can live their bunker 'like a piece of art' kitchen/banish the children/manicured lawn dream 'cause they rent it out.

tictacto · 17/01/2008 12:50

I have just watched this. Agree they were both very smug.

I loved the house. i would love to live there, mind you I'd fill it up with lots of rubbish very quickly.

Lucky gits.

scattyspice · 17/01/2008 12:57

I read a mag article by a family who'd been on Grand Designs first series.

They hated living in their quirky minimilist house (with 3 kids). Had to keen tidying up, couldn't find anything, kids made a mess everywhere etc and all the new technology kept breaking.

Hahaha!

Sherbert37 · 17/01/2008 13:12

My poor DH nearly expired when the polystyrene started disintegrating. He has a fear of crumbing houses and subsidence, so I think that will keep him in nightmares for months.

Botbot · 17/01/2008 13:18

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That is the smuggest website I have ever seen.

Count me in for the weekly slagging off property twats thread - come next Wed, I'll be there. The only reason I didn't come on last night was because dp was doing something tedious with iTunes.

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