Your Home Made Perfect (BBC Two Tuesday 20.00)

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A new series began tonight. Looks like more of the same: kitchen islands and eye-watering overspending ahead.

If I were a child I'd be disappointed that the flat roof outside my bedroom wasn't accessible. And if kids need to be negotiated with on a nightly basis about bedrooms then get a rota.

Still a dark dining room too!
I preferred the other design too.

A lot of times people just need a massive clear out and better furniture.
They just needed to lose the conservatory!

And I don't know how this woman hasn't buried her husband under the patio before now.

For sure!

They really needed Laura this week as she is talented at unlocking the space on a practical level. As soon as the designs were shown, I thought zero chance of getting all of that for £85k Pivot door, huge kitchen, bespoke staircase, bespoke glazing, bespoke joinery and a double height extension? Even before covid, neither design was doable for that budget. For £85k they should’ve made the conservatory an actual room and put the kitchen in it, kept the utility/loo in the darkest middle section and the had a loft conversion for a master suite. Kids could’ve had one bigger room each and the box Room could’ve been the home office/guest pull out bedroom. As practical as that might’ve been, boring telly I guess!

I thought the same

I missed today’s!

I agree that would have been a better use of their budget!

That snug "room" was the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

I have more questions than anything following this week's episode ....

• Where was that snug located? And the mum's office?
• Why was it still so dark in the dining area?
• And most importantly of all, do you really still have to walk through the sitting room to get anywhere downstairs??

So much for not a penny over 85k!!
This was obviously started for last series, the reference to covid impacting building was a real throw back!

I really did prefer Lizzy's design, made so much more sense to me.
But there's no way, even pre-Covid, that those designs would have come in on budget of 85k.

Watching it now.... And straight away: the children are annoying, there's too much clutter and they're whining about a perfectly decent third bedroom?

Watching it I felt the children were told to play up for the camera.
I really didn't like all that brown wood in Damion's.

I watch it and ponder what they'd do with our house.

Plus they had bunk beds in the bigger bedroom. If neither twin wanted the privacy of the box room, they could have just shared?!?

Oh... COVID. Costs. Yikes. At least the pivot door got ditched....

Why the stupid, dingy grey filter for the before???

Oh my god stop repeating everything. Recessed roof.... Brave. It looks ugly from outside. Neighbours must love it.

Practical me thought 'he'll never get that huge concrete bath up that staircase'
When Damion looked up into the attic, I assumed he was going to do mezzanine beds for the kids rooms. But that cathedral ceiling didn't add anything beyond somewhere for spiders to be out of reach.
The final long thin bedrooms looked like converted garages.
And the dining room was still dark.

I much preferred Lynseys design.

Do you think the couple compromised by saying "if you get a kitchen island that I hate, I insist on a wet room that you hate"?

I thought they were lucky not doing the vaulted ceiling given the increase in energy costs.

It looked really cheap in the end. The point of the angled design was the high ceiling. Without it, it looked like a strange add on. No wonder the architect was quietly miffed.

Agree!
I now think the budget figure is seen by the architects as just for the structural elements of their designs, and even then both designs looked pricey.

Damiens ‘office’ was a joke. He says he recognised her need to have somewhere she can focus when wfh, and ‘ta-da!’, here’s a shelf in a cupboard right in the main thoroughfare with massive doors.

Anyone else notice the new upstairs windows ?
So much frame , so little glass.

Good on the husband for dancing with Andrea at the end, he’d seemed a bit of a misery guts up to then but then you do wonder how everyone can be edited and presented in a certain way.

Budget is always an issue £2k a metre

the finish barely resembles the original design

They would be better on Stacey Solomon’s show to get rid of clutter

"They would be better on Stacey Solomon’s show to get rid of clutter"
Yes- the couple with the house full of toys (who buys a sit in toy car to use indoors when you don't have room to swing a cat?) then Afterwards the child's toys are shown in a tiny cupboard!

For all my whinging, I actually really love this show, I just wish the editing was better. They repeat the VR render over and over again but hardly show any of the build and thought process. Then Angela wanders round some architectural marvel with a tenuous link to the Croydon Semi that the show is about!

Yes it really annoys me too.

Caught up on the last two episodes last night and both builds disappointed.

the Barbadian couple would have been as well to go with Will’s design as they basically ditched all the clever bits of Lizzie’s. And the couple with the Irish wife were understandably compromised by circumstances but also their decisions basically took all of the design out of it except the angle. Without the vaulted ceilings it was just a squinty box.

I get the impression that a lot this series was hampered by Covid. I feel there would have been a lot more of the build otherwise.