Grand Designs…..

Truly worthy of the Grand design title but also utterly impractical. The views from the tank were just amazing but I couldn’t understand why they didn’t put a second kitchen and maybe the office up there – even just somewhere to make a cup of coffee and pour a drink. I can’t see how it’s going to get much use otherwise – up in a small lift to the 6th floor then another few flights of stairs.

doesn’t have a garden

but the roof of the new block was a decent sized roof terrace. Area is on the up and it’s 15 minutes from the city. Gated development, garage.

I’d be surprised if they lost money on it. The 37th floor penthouse in Strata building (the building they moved out of) is on for £1.6m. Probably a lot more practical but only 140m2. Could easily go for some millions.

Self cleaning glass.

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What I didn’t get was he kept referring to it as his and not ‘ours’.

That was odd. Obviously a couple and the money was very obviously coming from one of them (you don’t make millions in building conservation) but you’d still expect it to be ‘ours’.

Read on the internet that it was really designed to be a hotel. I’ve not seen it yet so can’t comment on it.

Anyone know why its not on 4od?

Best knock a door run target ever!

Anyone know why its not on 4od?

that’s weird it was this morning, not there now 😕

Watching it now, extraordinary building, glad it’s been saved, and I’d love to live there.

Just got to the end. Jeeze, what a building! It’s staggering, and I love it to bits. I really could live there, the view from the top is unbelievable, and in London, priceless. I could never tire of looking out of those windows, just magical.

A spacial design consultant and a city trader developing a grand basement – oh **** off!

It’s going to be interesting.

From the sublime last week to the utterly ridiculous this week so far…

My head just exploded trying to fathom wtf is going on with the plans 😯

“I’m not going to talk about money”.
Sounds embarrassingly expensive already

We don’t discuss money, fair do’s.

An example of hubby bank rolling a project money no object.

Kind of detracted from the real world and the reality of life

..and WTF does “spatial design consultant” mean?

..and WTF does “spatial design consultant” mean?

Air head

She’s going to get on my

The space is colossal.. looking forward to the results 🙂

Ooh, blurred-out names on contractor vests – usually means problems….

The Roman Bath is the only thing I’ve wished I had so far…….. Mmmm Roman Bath !

Is it me or have we come into a half finished project already???

Poncey and pompous in my honest opinion, and blimey isn’t she a bit….. Well you’d like to make her part of the foundations wouldn’t you???

Well you’d like to make her part of the foundations wouldn’t you???

Fair play, she’s accepted defeat graciously.

This is going to be one big money pit.

She is a nightmare, seems to be a major rule on this programme.
Get a good architect, get the plans drawn up, get a good site manager then piss off and leave the builders to it

She needs to through a few scatter cushions at it. That will improve it no end.

Brilliant stuff so far 😆

1k per m² for the glass. I love it.

£1000 per square m for glass . . . bonkers.

what the hell is that thing?

LOL @ the kitchen … now when she cooks the people upstairs get the oily air … nice moisturiser … 😆

“I have never considered Geoffs opinion”

well that says it all really

That just looks like a high end show house. Not somewhere to live

well that says it all really

What does it say? Apart from him being happy to indulge her, and have the means to do it.

Interesting project but I couldn’t see myself living in a home that looks like a hotel.

She “likes to resolve the problems”

Really means – shout and whine at a window fitter, because she didn’t manage her own suppliers properly and didn’t think about the wiring

Marble was nice, but overall nothing special – still a pokey basement in holland park that’s over priced and at risk of flooding if your neighbours pipes burst

“hewn out of the living rock”
c*ck

a bit echo-ey.

FCOL 🙄

Vanity project of the year surely?

It shouts LOOK HOW RICH I AM love the design by her paying huge amounts of cash to designers/specialists

Well, I liked her; knew what she wanted to do, got rid of the original site manager when he tried to dominate the ‘little lady’, and proved that she knew what she was about with the finished product. OK, a huge amount of money poured into a hole in the ground but I bet they’d still be on the right side if they sold… just! I wouldn’t want to live there though.

where oh where is all their stuff?

Are there any windows to open?