[Closed] Grand Designs.....

"Money is worrying" Lol

I couldn't be arsed answering the door if I was upstairs.

how are they managing to stay smiling..?

awesome

'Where would you put your alpaca?'

Biggest respect to the pair of them.

£4K Porcelain bath...... Eeeeeeek

Bonkers!

Can't wait to see this.

I like mucho.

Are those two husband and husband?

Wow...

Completely bonkers and magnificent at the same time

Makes a change from the normal checklist of

Impossibly small budget
No architect
No project manager
Doing most of the work themselves/with mates
Missing deadlines.

That staircase carpet is bloody awful.

Easily my fave episode/house ever.

Got to be worth £10mil? If only for that view!

Six man bath ? 😯

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Six man bath ?

Orgy?

That's the money shot, right there.

View tidy.

Nope ... don't like it. (little Britain)

Looks like a suicide tower ...

p/s: definitely husband and husband.

£2 million ... 😯

One of my favourite. Brave guys to take that on but very well executed. Shame it is in London and not somewhere nice 😉

Over 2m and no garden!

wow, fairplay to them. best grand designs ever!

Simply amazing

Wow! Fairplay that is a spectacular build! Great vision, and the end result is one of the best grand designs ive seen...

How the hell do you clean those windows??

Simply stunning.

Wow. Seriously impressive stuff.

D'ya need a garden if you're gay, possibly never going to have kids and have that view?

At last, a proper [i]grand[/i] design...

Easily my fave episode/house ever.

I still have a soft spot for Francis and Peel Castle; he took on English Heritage and won saving a fabulous building in the process

[url= http://peelcastle.co.uk/granddesigns/granddesigns.html ]Linky if you missed it[/url]

D'ya need a garden if you're gay,

That was stunning!

Funny but I was going to start a 'what's your favourite grand designs project' thread and the Peel Tower easy does it for me. Tonight's project was unfathomable but it was still a vanity project.

Don't really like it. Admire the ambition and drive but the guy's a tool with little sense of design or taste. He seems to have built a soulless 4 bedroom modern hotel with shocking decor. Only saving grace is that view and even then I'm with Kevin - "but it's in London".

Well its definitely grand!

My mind can't contemplate the enormity of the project though. Things like the 6 storey lift shaft, the huge sliding glass front on the cube, even just furnishing & decorating the place just is just mind boggling. I meant they must have spent hundreds of thou on just fixtures & fittings.

How on earth they'll repay the debt before the end of their days is beyond me too. Unless they plan to live there for 15/20 years or so then sell for a huge profit.

Awesome....just awesome.

They were going to have a garden but due to the plot it would be one of them expensive vertical ones and they didn't want all the up hill gardening jokes 😐

Might ride past tomorrow and have a gander

I wouldn't particularly want to live there, but a very impressive build. Fair play to them.

impressive, eccentric, but just a souless impractical vanity project.
why have massive sliding doors to look out at some unsightly yard and wall in Lambeth. too disconnected - I reckon you'd end up living in just one part of the 'house', probably the cube thing. the lift is kind of pointless as you still have to use a load of stairs as well. 6 bathrooms?
I can ride up the hill near me and get a better view of London and it doesn't cost £2m.
I hope the pigeons reclaim it.

I suspect there isn't much of his buy-to-let portfolio left after that. Massive views, but not very practical to live in. Great to see someone bring in a building on time, and adding more builders when needed instead of stringing a project out.

Yes but you don't own the hill. It's their place, their view, their legacy.

One of the him's is a property developer. Can you think of a better advert for a property for sale in the near future ?

Impressive but impractical building in a pretty ropey bit of london, although it is moving up in the world.

do we need to have a whip round to pay the ransom?

Nah - I'll escape by Sunday, but thanks. I'm in this....

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but the weather isn't that good right now!

You couldn't exactly wander around with no clothes on could you ?
Or are they magic windows?

Like him or loath him same with the building that is all personal taste, what is not in doubt is a wonderful building restored very well. Personally I loved it.