Anyone watch last Wednesday’s Grand Designs?

[TheGander]

The one where they knocked down a 1920s castle and started building a “ 21st century castle” on the site? Even though they already lived in a beautiful timber clad house in a beauty spot? Sold their house, London flat, raided mothers pension fund, borrowed, and kept going with the build, sinking million after million into it? It’s now for sale £7 million. Jaw dropping stuff.

Looks like it was built on Minecraft

Just awful. They'll surely never get their money back. Other than Stratford it's in the middle of nowhere! There's surely not that sort of money in that area? I felt really sorry for her, can't imagine living with that much debt hanging over you. Though Mummy bailed him out...

I feel sorry for them too. A kind of insanity seems to set in with some of those projects. I hope they are ok in the long run.

I also think with these huge vanity projects … they’re missing a great chunk of their small kids childhoods focussing on all this. I know they’re with them and doing stuff but the focus must be elsewhere.

Oh dear. Watching it now. This is the fugliest naffest house I’ve ever seen.

It’s a very ugly building.
What’s a Lavender marriage?

The lovely barn house they had been living in is now a prize on Raffle House. Something has gone on there 🤔

Watching it now. Why bother?! If they were worried about the land being sold to developers they could have just bought and demolished it then planted trees, meadows etc. So weird.

The view though - I’d pay millions for that outside my kitchen window!

But they had that view already in their beautiful home!

It was very unfinished in July of this year so I’d be very surprised if those pics weren’t artificially generated.

Gay man marries a straight woman to ‘pass as straight’ both very aware it’s not sexual. Or gay man marries gay woman

Reminds me of Churchill College in Cambridge but not in a good way

I looked up the original house. It was much nicer.

My face just puckered up in horror when I opened that link with the photos.

I was really hoping this project would go completely tits up & that ghastly posh arrogant little prick would end up bankrupt.

Maybe it still might, because nobody is going to pay £8m for that hideously tasteless property in a normal town in the Midlands. Maybe if it was in the Home Counties or the Cotswolds or even the footballers’ ‘Golden Triangle’ in Cheshire it might achieve that price, but not in that location and not without a significant amount of land.

Yes it seemed surrounded by other buildings when they panned out a bit.

I agree with that money they could have bought up a lot of land around their original house. It’s now in a raffle! Something has gone very wrong.
Can’t help noticing the weasel words in the estate agent bumpf. “Eco credentials” - they were pouring concrete into that building for months. And they glide over the fact that for £8 million you get a place that’s far from finished. In essence, a money pit.

Can someone link the raffle house? (Im not sure what a raffle house is)

The draw is closing but just Google Raffle House Warwickshire

So that house is for sale as well? Where are they going to live? The Castle isnt finished clearly. Or maybe the raffle house takes time to sell etc. Or is it already bought. It almost feels like they are going to end up homeless.

I kept thinking the kids could hide from you in that house and never be found!

It's just sheer greed that anyone would be building an 8 bedroom castle for a family of 4. I don't think they learned anything from the Cornwall lighthouse debacle. Such a shame, as they could have stayed in the barn, sorted out the utility access and sold the other castle on to new developers, or renovated it into a few posh flats for a fraction of the cost. Folly indeed.

Another folly: 5 kitchens, including one in the gym. Why???

Oh my God that’s ugly. And the interior is super bland, makes sense that it may be AI generated.

You can learn to love ugly houses but I doubt the sort of person who has 7 million to spend would bother.