Kettle on, feet up
Is she pregnant yet ?
Like the two finalists, although the one at the Fal estuary was pretty damned spectacular.
Is it going to be like last year where the client with the biggest cheque book wins?
client with the biggest cheque book wins
Was that the guy so posh he needed subtitles?
Is it going to be like last year where the client with the biggest cheque book wins?
Did he still go over budget and have to ask his parents to help out?
Is it going to be like last year where the client with the biggest cheque book wins?
That is one of the 3 criteria. They also take into consideration:
2. Square footage of glass imported from Germany
3. Amount of people who've pulled up outside it having mistaken it for a visitor centre.
I can't actually believe anyone bothers to watch it any more. Judging from this thread, no-one did. For years its just been a tedious exercise in cheque book waving.
Time for Kev to be handed a hipflask and a revolver and asked to do the decent thing, I think
4. Is it on the market yet ? (Being on the Telly adds value)
Is it going to be like last year where the client with the biggest cheque book wins?
If a bungalow in Crewe won you'd have to wonder what they were paying for.
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client with the biggest cheque book wins
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My father in laws quarry in West Norfolk supplied the flint set into the walls of last years winner so he got invited to the party to celebrate the win, he has a very broad Norfolk accent and said that he couldn't understand any of the posh in-breds around him at all and they couldn't understand him, but he got a load of free drink and some more orders so he was happy.
Is this your FIL?
The first ever grand designs I remember was a stone tower in rural Ireland. Then there was a succession of converted water towers and other interesting oddities. Now it's just people knocking down a bungalow and building a massive glass box with a flat roof. Run out of money three quarters through and she gets up the duff. Builders go off site and lingering shots of cascading rain and flapping tarpaulins.
Tom Raffield and partner should win it. The steam benders.
Theirs was 'real', they did much of it themselves, it was beautiful and innovative and it was lush.
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Agree with above, the house using the steam bent wood was beautiful and had real character, so many of them are houses but they don't feel like "homes".
But it must be fairly easy to design a lot of these houses, design brief "i'll have a box on top of a box, with another box at a jaunty angle. Walls? how about white..."
But it must be fairly easy to design a lot of these houses, design brief "i'll have a box on top of a box, with another box at a jaunty angle. Walls? how about white...
Don't forget a room with very high ceilings and shed loads of glass 
has anyone noticed how none of these cuboid wonders never seem to have a garage? Where is the "man hiding place" where you go pretend to tinker with things, when actually you're just after some piece and quiet and a crafty beer?
[i]Don't forget a room with very high ceilings and shed loads of glass [/i]
And the smug know-it-all turning up every few months in a puffer jacket asking how much it's costing.
Seeing as how one of the two winners was a house originally built in the 1960's, left to become virtually derelict because insulation wasn't ever considered, and which has been fully restored and is now a family home, seems to fly in the face of most of the comments.
Anyway, the entrants to this competition aren't Grand Designs builds, they're chosen by an architectural organisation, and all sorts of builds are considered, as shown in last year's programme.
https://www.coppindockray.co.uk/project/ansty-plum#!
West Norfolk, in-bred and glass houses - there's a joke in there somewhere.