It seemed he was doing it to please the architect not himself. Very odd.
I think there was an element of patronage there as they knew each other for years.
It was ok, but nothing I'd want to live in.
Why is this a thing?It's utterly horrible stuff, it never looks good, it's only decent use is as a wall, but either side of the studs and buried under two layers of plasterboard and 4 coats of plaster.
Budget I think in this case:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs-australia/on-demand/65965-005
Concept is looking good tonight, but place your bets now - how much are they going to go over budget? I’m going with £300k.
Ohmahgod. 13 minutes in and she’s the client from hell already - just put new timbers in FFS!
place your bets now
Up the duff within 3 months
I'll raise u. £400k
Spent a million on the plot and they have to put the loo in a cupboard.
I still reckon this is going to be amazing.
Over a million quid for two bedrooms and no bath, but still...
Was it plot £920k and budget £275k?
That makes my prediction £1,495,000 I think.
Yay, the Building Research Establishment is getting a mention. In another life I used to work there.
I didn't get paid for burning stuff sadly...
My bullshit bingo buzzer has just been a single tone throughout this ..... Wow she is annoying .......
That said I think it will turn out looking nice.
Maybe just not £1.5m nice.
I think it’s really, really nice.
Is nice. No room for a baby this time though.
And I was miles out on the overspend 😆
Oooh next week looks good
So they claimed vat back (or I think, half) on the build.... So as I was thinking from part way through, not a home it's office space and show room for their design business.
You can claim vat back on a new build house.
next week looks good
Sure does.
[i]"If you're a centimeter out you're sacked..."[/i]
🙂 A man after my own heart.
Didn't like this week's but loved that French courtyard.
I liked their windows. Definitely in keeping with the not-a-roof.
I enjoyed last nights, would happily live there but the cost 😯
I too liked last night’s build and thought that her insistence in keeping some of the original fabric of was integral to the design, but the cost of the plot was utterly bonkers. No wonder the price of housing is utterly out of control when people will pay the best part of ONE MILLION POUNDS for a yard with a small derelict industrial unit on it.
Really? ONE MILLION POUNDS?
What chance has their son got of ever being able to buy anything round there?
Location, Location, Location, is just as bad where every week 24 year old web designers/recruitment consultants Josh and Phoebe have a budget of £500k to buy a one bed flat above a take away on Clapham High Street.
I watch in horror wondering how my kids will cope when it is their time to move on. I bought my first house for 2 1/5 times my wage in 1996. For my lad to do that now he’d have to be on £80k.
Really liked last night's. Really glad I live nowhere near London.
I'm not sure that lady ever laughs.
Quite liked the outcome though but yes, 920k for a plot is mental.
Every so often I watch those buying a house abroad shows, one compares UK to somewhere else.
There's no choice as for as I'm concerned. Two bed flat in North Wales or a 4 bed converted mill in the dordogne.
I watch in horror wondering how my kids will cope when it is their time to move on. I bought my first house for 2 1/5 times my wage in 1996. For my lad to do that now he’d have to be on £80k.
It's OK - Theresa May has solved the housing problem - don't you watch the news?
i cant put my finger on it but i didnt really warm to her, there was something dislikable about her. The house looked nothing like what they set out to do, they didnt really keep anything on show and what they did had to be painted over. 1.3m for a 2 bedroom house is just bonkers,i wonder how much it is worth now though?
Just watching this weeks now.
Mrs RNP and I have recently bought a sizeable mill that was originally the boiler house for the jam factory next door, AND also what was originally a Victorian abbotoir (then joiners shop and for the last 40years a car MOT garage) with a small plot of land between them. Basically a whole street.
Our plan is develop the garage into our home-it's similar to this weeks GD but bigger in size.
This weeks plot cost was absolutely mental but I guess that's London for you and not a northern Mill town.
I was in Chepstow today, just browsing at the house costs. Some lovely looking places for half the price of this weeks GD, all within commuting distance of Bristol (and London perhaps?) with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, and acreage, surrounded by fields and hills etc. There are so many better ways to spend £1.2m than a cramped house in East Dulwich. This compulsion to stay in London amazes me, puzzles me. I'm working there over the next two days and I'll return to Wales with black snot because of the poor air quality. 🙄
IdleJon - Member
This compulsion to stay in London amazes me, puzzles me.
It's about perception. Some people think that living near to work with a short commute time is the key to a better work/life balance, when you consider that they have all the amenities/shops etc close by too, it's easier.
Others would prefer to have a longer commute and live in a more rural area where they have less "stuff" nearby but can just look out of the window at trees, fields, livestock and so on to be happier.
Horses for courses.
Me too. It's out of fear for a lot of people. i.e. they fear that if they move out they'll never be able to come back.This compulsion to stay in London amazes me
I met a couple of families in NZ who lived in Auckland because it was the only place with high enough wages/house prices to mean they could come back to London if they ever wanted to. The thing is - they moved to NZ for the better work/life balance and wilderness. They admitted that they didn't really have that.
Even ElShalimo's reply above suggests that he thinks all the jobs are in London.
AlexSimon - Member
Even ElShalimo's reply above suggests that he thinks all the jobs are in London.
Not at all Alex. I was merely providing two different perspectives. I would never live or work in London. I'm happy earning less and being in the second group I mentioned above.
Living in Chepstow isn't much use if your friends, work, family etc. are all in London.
You could also argue that the London property is the better investment too...
What chance has their son got of ever being able to buy anything round there?
The inheritance...
I enjoyed the episode and thought they did a great job with it but if it were me I would have been doing all I could to get more living space (although I guess party wall issues would have stopped them from building past the properties on either side)?
The inheritance.
I am nearing 50, hopefully a good few years yet till I get any inheritance. Waiting for inheritance to get on the property ladder really isn't a workable solution.
You can set your life up to be near your job and amenities anywhere, not just London.
I am nearing 50, hopefully a good few years yet till I get any inheritance. Waiting for inheritance to get on the property ladder really isn't a workable solution.
That isn't what I was saying, I was answering
What chance has their son got of [b]ever[/b] being able to buy anything round there?
Ohh, and I claimed an inheritance after my dad died when I was 42, mum when I was 45. Not great but shit does happen. 🙁
Anyway watch the last NZ one? Blinder. Guy literally moved a house from Christchurch that had been damaged in the earthquake, he only went for the staircase originally, and then rebuilt it/unpacked it the other end.
you ****er Kevin
The 'elite' REME. Always mentioned among the elite regiments of the british forces.....
I now need to mop tea off my floor.
It looks like a bonkers brilliant design
The 'elite' REME. Always mentioned among the elite regiments of the british forces.....
Right up there with the RAF Rgt... 😆
This has serious potential of the bork and brilliance
Tremendous. Love it.
Seem like nice people as well.
Really disappointed.
Architecturally, the interior of the house is superb. I love the fact that you can see the glulam beams and I love the curvature and the stairs, but it’s a shame they’ve decorated it like a country cottage.
Externally, I really liked the intention of the diamond pattern but the timber cladding on the roof looks amateur - almost like pallets - and it really jars against that more traditional stone work behind it. I think it would have been better if they’d clad the main house in some really beautiful stone and then done the curved car port in the diamond pattern timber cladding. Copper was nice though!
Hmm. I thought i'd love this build, being so different, but there is something just not that pleasing with the finished proportions i think. The square section ends, undercut to the curved roof and jagged cladding just seem, er, a bit awkward?
Wonderful building but the roof looked OCD rage inducing higgledy-piggledy.
Yes, impressive design but shame about the pallet roof.
Loved it, just needs some time to weather in
