I hate these Grand Design Houses

[pushchair]

They all seem to be hard glass and steel with no clutter or 'normality' Where are the magazines,tissues,toys,books even. The couples are all really demanding and perfectionist.GAH

More money than sense.
They piss me orff!

Well I didn't like this one much

Everyone at my office loves grand designs, but then we are building services engineers

agree, people on grand design seem to be posh showy people. they are all perfectionists. live int heir pwn perfect life.
imo, though
i like other porgramme, was it build your dream or something like that mostly normal people.

The nicest ones are when the couple get invloved and do the work themselves (thinking of a couple in Italy who did an artists retreat type place) but when people just throw money at things it never seems to have any soul. That just wasn't a family home at all.

That said I love to watch it

That house lacked warmth and soul I think. Too bloody perfect.

wasnt fussed on this one at all, very bland from the outside and cold looking inside

homely it was NOT

yes it was a great building fab features amazing kitchen etcetera etcetera

but

Fun?
Personality?

No none

It really was a visitors centre doubled up as a kitchen showroom. Still wouldn't turn it down tho! . Some of them can be really nice.

Tbh that house was humongous and we only saw about 2/3rds of it. I will bet that there is a huge amount of storage within it. That said I agree with Kev, it did look like a visitors centre. I am a fan of modern design but this one was without human attributes and did not feel like a home.

One of the houses from a previous series is quite near to us and we drive past it sometimes 'cos we're saddos. Looks good in the flesh brick glass but not as spectacular as the tv cameras made it look.

Love the programme though.

I quite liked it. I like modern, clean cut, type places, I don't go in for old and period features.
I bet the house isn;t normally as tidy as that when they don;t have a TV crew visiting though.

they kept saying 'architect did this, architect said that' as dh said why doesn't the bloody architect live in it.

soulless waste of money imo

I thought the trapdoor was downright dangerous (esp with small children in the house)

The most interesting part were the foundations and how they stopped it sliding down the hill.

My family could never live anywhere like that. They could make it look dreadful in about one day. We need lots of cupboards and doors you can close to hide football kit/trainers/homework/musical instruments/pets. They'd just spoil an open-plan house. I liked looking at that one tonight, though, and thought the location was gorgeous.

the location was amazing

the house did nothing for me

and all the gimmicks - as the op said 'gah'

I thought the house was beautiful.

I liked the look of the outside but found inside soulless and agree some parts dangerous for small child.

i liked it.
how much did they spend in total?

Agree with most on here, stunning but cold inside.

I am always wondering "what do they do to afford to build a houe like that, where do they get the money from?"

Good on them for restoring an old derelict building though, I would have taken the money and built a new house from scratch, I would have cried spending 60K on underpinning you don't even see

I loved the bowl of fruit.. 16 lemons and the most perfect figs.. just like I have at my house

I don't understand why planning/conservation officers make it so difficult for people though. It's as if they would rather the place just fell down.

And a lot of it seems to boil down to the personal taste of the planning officer - some friends had this in their listed building. They ended up arguing over the colour of the window surrounds when it didn't actually make the blindest bit of difference.

And £26k on rehousing bats?