Kirstie's shopping again for her 'Homemade' home

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and it's so fun to watch someone so detached from reality having such a swell time.

I just want to check my reality against everyone else's. Did anyone think that Anoushka Whathername's blue and white bathroom was nice? Anyone? I just don't get why having every single item showing the same quite overwhelming pattern is tasteful.

I liked the wallpaper

but I thought all those bottles were just annoying in the main bathroom - too much to dust

oh god the thing that made me really laugh was her saying that "teacup candles would go for 50 quid in a fancy shop"

Which shop ???? (apart from the Harry Enfield 'I saw you coming' sketch)

I want to open one and make a mint

I didn't see it tonight but I have a chair in my bathroom. Does that make me posh like Kirstie?

Exactly Laurie - making up a price for something she has made/haggled for/pretended to find in a skip and saying that's what it would go for in a fancy London shop is not a true comparison.

Don't get me started. I have a long list of gripes...

Did I dream it or was one of the mugs she made into a candle holder a coronation mug showing Alexandra or Mary (either the wife of Edward VII or George VI. Dh joked "she must have fallen out with her family".

fishie, I read in the paper that the house is going to be a holiday let.

Can you imagine your children in it? No, mine neither.

I thought the whole point of the show was to illustrate how you can tart up your place on a budget? Overpriced, over the top boll*cks IMO! That tiny flat in London made me want to have a migraine. Kirstie won't be having candles in every room when her two ankle-biters start toddling!

I have decided that the point of the programme is actually to see what can be achieved with a largely unlimited budget coupled with very limited taste. It cetainly leads to interesting results.

when she said the bit of wallpaper that went a bit wrong was going behind the loo.... how many of you wondered whether it was wipeable?

Here - if you have £2000 pw spare or £2500 in the school holidays.

It's all very 1980s Sloane Rangery strange isn't it? Surely that shop where she bought the doorknobs and little bottles was Harry Enfield's I Saw You Coming actual shop.

dg what a waste of nice cups.

Good: the wallpaper (sorry, I liked it), the plant stand (if it had had plants on it), the lovely stained glass in the woman's workshop

Bad: the naffolo seaside themed bathroom, the sink in the downstairs loo (didn't go, imo), Kirsty's self congratulation, the assumption that it's normal to spend £50 on a candle

Fugly: Anoushka's brothel, the bathroom in the tiny flat in London, the bottles full of coloured water (wtf? it's like something off Changing Rooms c. 1996), the frankly dodgy bit of stained glass that Kirsty produced, her enormous collection of strange coats

Would you really put this poster in the playroom?!
And look - you can rent it!

MollyO beat me to the rental thingy .

That photo isn't on the holiday letting website. Imagine 'mummy what are bollocks and why should I never mind them?'

look at the bottom of the page- she lost that massive ruby ring

i loved the 'you must be a right charmer to sell me a door knob for 50 quid' with the harry enfield character smirking with ill disguised disgust in the background. actually no kirstie he saw you coming.

Nice find MollieO. LOL at "clever young owner" - indeed! The bedrooms are a bit dull, aren't they? I'm surprised there is so much availability - I would have thought it would be booked up with Cameroons, or do they all go to Suffolk? I love the idea of the walk through the bluebell woods to the cove.

Cringe at the playroom. That really is Changing Rooms back from the dead.

Yes Mollie - and 'what are Sex Pistols, Mummy? Can you shoot people with them?'

oh no she's lost her engagement ring (whilst learning to make a mosaic as you do)!! Not many takers for Meadowgate at that price yet!!

I reckon it has probably only just started letting. I love the thread you found JackieNo. Why is everyone obsessed with getting those naff gold letters?

I have to say, the captions on the pictures from the channel 4 website are dreadful. and why is one of the pictures of a basket of eggs? Could be anywhere.