Page 3 | Kirstie's Homemade Homes

ThriceWoe · 16/04/2009 21:12

Made my blood boil, I'm afraid. Pearls of wisdom from the Hon. Kirstie Allsopp: You can still use plates even though they're 100 years old!! You can buy old stuff from street-markets and use it in your house! Things don't have to match! Oh, and why not be inspired by your parents' lovely mansion, and especially their 100ftx100ft kitchen/dining/sitting room?

Hey, thanks, Kirstie. I'd never have known any of this stuff without you to point it out to me....

Grrr. I could take her on Location, Location, but not with this witless bolleaux. And what's with the builders quietly doing all the serious work on this lovely but wrecked house while she was swanning around in her Landrover making cushion covers with Mummy and Daddy's old chum? (OK, will calm down now...)

salome64 · 16/04/2009 21:14

Very India Knight does Thrift. 'give up foie gras, don't eat out at the Ivy, make Jam!' Boak.

twoluvlykids · 16/04/2009 21:18

The only thing she was right about was the lovely Mr Shakespeare and his wonderful glass blowing place - it rocks! And is well worth a visit if you're ever near Taunton

ThriceWoe · 16/04/2009 21:19

I loved the comment about her 'passion for sewing'....so passionate that, erm, she hadn't actually done any 'since school'. Amazing how the offer of a C4 series can rekindle things, eh?

Feelingoptimistic · 16/04/2009 21:54

I used to really like Kirsty, so that's why I started watching this show.

But as others have said there is something so wrong about it - it's just soooo smug. And let's be honest - buying all those "bargains" would actually work out really, really expensive.

Katisha · 16/04/2009 22:23

And her brother just happened to be throwing out the ginormous bench or whatever it was that got magically transformed into her kitchen table.

I've just had my kitchen redone partly to be able to get a breakfast bar in. Can now seat two people easily and four at a push. Had to restrain myself from throwing the remote at the screen when she let it drop that she was off to find a kitchen table that seated 12.

While she was "skipping" I pretty much expected Nigella to appear on her bus to share a thermos of pea soup.

Gah.

MakemineaGandT · 16/04/2009 22:45

hi Katisha and all other cupcake bunting watchers

I the one thing that kitchen still needed was a twiggy heart............

Perhaps we'll learn how to make them next week....

Katisha · 16/04/2009 22:47

G&T - great to see you again!
There definitely was not enough GINGHAM..

MakemineaGandT · 16/04/2009 22:49

Indeed. And a "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster on the wall wouldn't have gone amiss.....

expatinscotland · 16/04/2009 23:00

'And her brother just happened to be throwing out the ginormous bench or whatever it was that got magically transformed into her kitchen table.'

Snap, Katisha. I told DH, he had a big ol' bench like that? Was he living in a church?

mrsmaidamess · 16/04/2009 23:22

Well it made me feel better about nicking that cupboard someone had left on the pavement outside their house yesterday.....

sazzerbear · 17/04/2009 08:31

I have recorded it - worth watching or not? Sounds like good comedy value, if little else...

ivymae · 17/04/2009 08:33

Forty five quid for a picture from a street market?!! She thought it was a bargain?! She needs to get herself to my local car boot sale. I did laugh when she rocked up at another mansion only to tell us it was her parents home! Dad is Chairman of Christies, I think. Still, good luck to her. Fab heels by the way, the ones with red soles. Yummy!

expatinscotland · 17/04/2009 08:46

Oh, it's good comedy value. Kirsty looks like she's having fun and I don't think she's smug, she's just a bit clueless and removed from what is reality for most Britons.

Yeah, that watercolour was fug and a rip off.

25 quid, maybe, given that it had a frame, tops.

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 17/04/2009 08:54

It did make me laugh when she was earnestly explaining she was taking the mirror from the skip instead of buying one to save the world resources, whilst driving one of the hugest vehicles (was it a car ?) that I've seen for ages.

DH and I fell around laughing at the WOW letters on the wall. And the comment from cat's bum lady about the cushions selling for £40 in London does illustrate how completely mad things have been recently.

I'm all for getting away from the formula interiors that seems to have sprung up in recent years but programs like Location are part of the reason they've appeared in the first place. Not sure who I would have liked to have seen presenting this but definitely not Kirsty, it all seemed so hollow, whereas with someone different it could have actually been quite good.

We are now wondering whether it will be Phil's turn to pop up next showing us all how to grow our veg.

wychbold · 17/04/2009 08:58

I half watched KA but was also occasionally flicking across to Channel 5's I've got the bestest house (or whatever it was called). It was so much more interesting to see the finished article than Kirstry's continuous I'm going to do this, then I'm going to do that, let's tease you with a soft-focus half-glimpse ...
RL got in the way for the last five minutes of the programme so I never actually saw the completed kitchen! I was just left with a series of unconnected vignettes with no idea of Kirsty's overall plan, I only knew about the twiddly bits around the edge. E.g. I knew nothing of her kitchen layout - why did the cooker go there, why choose that flooring etc (never mind how did that shell that had been unoccupied for a generation get transformed into a liveable house - did she find a magic wand in that skip?) but did know that there was some blue&white crockery. Big wow (not).

wychbold · 17/04/2009 09:01

Oh, unintentional pun there. Missed the WOW bit! lol

noddyholder · 17/04/2009 09:07

Lovely kitchen but ridiculous show The cushions were not £40 worth no matter what mrs cat bum said.Liked the table and the fireplace and the room in general was lovely/Kirsty soooooooo annoying after years of saying property can only ever go up she is now all make do and mend while driving a huge car wearing thousands in jewellery and showing off her parents house which she will prob inherit one day!A relaxing watch but no one is going to do any of it!

Katisha · 17/04/2009 09:11

It's Marie Antoinette telly. Her and Nigella. Rich people pretending to be doing things on the cheap n'easy and rather condescendingly sharing it with the masses.

expatinscotland · 17/04/2009 09:12

She's savvy, though, bagging a show to pay for her holiday home, basically, and freebies from some of the best in the biz.

Wouldn't her brother-of-the-massive-bench inherit the parental home?

Maybe he can furnish their sister's holiday home with all his castoffs once he comes into his inheritance.

expatinscotland · 17/04/2009 09:14

Our entire family has lived in spaces as big as her kitchen.

She's detached from reality, but I'd have expected some of the show's producers wouldn't be.

That's why I just see it as comedic value.

It's the hour after I put the kids to bed and unwind with some telly and a cuppa.

Katisha · 17/04/2009 09:15

Another example would be Willie Harcourt Cooze who has bagged TWO series on Ch4 to advertise his products.
Telly seems to love credit crucnhy toffs at the moment.

wychbold · 17/04/2009 09:15

She is savvy - purposely chose a house that had been unoccupied for ages so no-one could accuse her of killing off the community, pricing locals out of the market etc.

expatinscotland · 17/04/2009 09:22

Oh, I'd rather be strapped to a chair to watch Kirsty from here to eternity than a second of that awful, awful Willie Wanker-Chocolate.

WTF is that? He must have been due a BIG favour to get that show.

He's dire.

QuantitativeMeasure · 17/04/2009 09:23

Oh God that Wanky chocolate programme is just odd.