O/T Grand Designs tonight - Wed 5th

[GetCarter]

was it any good?

[tvrforever]

yes - is that yours then?????

We loved the place but are fasinated to find out just what it cost...

Oh and too many fish in the fish tank for that surface area

[GetCarter]

Not mine, but similar by all accounts.

If the bloke aged 20 years in 10 months - then it is probably very similar!

[V6GTO]

GetCarter said:

Not mine, but similar by all accounts. If the bloke aged 20 years in 10 months - then it is probably very similar!

So you started building your house aged 10?

Martin.

[HankScorpio]

Wasn't the best GD I've seen, the "loch" was a man made fishing loch that could be drained on demand (what happened to the fish when they did?) and all they did was throw money at it, no design, fiscal or timeline challenges.
It also ended up looking like a showhouse rather than a home. They bought EVERYTHING new and didn't take anything from their previous homes which struck me as weird.

[Autonotiv]

I thought it was good, but 400+ lights, and did you see all that cable?
must have been miles of it (wouldn't want to be the sparkie)

[tuscan_v8]

GetCarter said:

was it any good?

Not the best IMO. Spending far too much money on pointless item (£20,000+ for lighting and £3,000 for light shade)

But the view is stunning tho (not the house).

[longers]

Autonotiv said:

(wouldn't want to be the sparkie)

I would..... but only when he got paid for all of that work!!

[Autonotiv]

longers said:

Autonotiv said: (wouldn't want to be the sparkie) I would..... but only when he got paid for all of that work!!

LOL, well yes but, i think i would get doing the wiring!

[Tuna]

With 400 lights, I guess you could guarantee there would be one or two not working at any one time.

Showhome, yes, character, um... With two kids and another on the way, you would have thought they would have put some effort into something their children could enjoy.

Still, it's good to see people putting some real thought into the design of their home, even if it's not to my taste (or Kevin McCloud's, if the veiled comments were anything to go by).

[victormeldrew]

Tuna said:

With 400 lights, I guess you could guarantee there would be one or two not working at any one time. Showhome, yes, character, um... With two kids and another on the way, you would have thought they would have put some effort into something their children could enjoy. Still, it's good to see people putting some real thought into the design of their home, even if it's not to my taste (or Kevin McCloud's, if the veiled comments were anything to go by).

I don't think it was their taste either - more the local planners. It didn't turn out so bad though.

Can't help wondering what the guy did for a living, considering he had time to be on site EVERY day, yet threw money around like confetti.

Thos floating glass stairs with a baby are going to be interesting. I can't help thinking they may not have thought that one through completely. But then they seemed happy to bring up their kids in splendid isolation, so maybe their thinking was a bit on the selfish side all round.

[cmsapms]

Wifey was quite fit though, in a slightly hard faced Glaswegian sort of way .....

....well, up to the point where they announced she was up the stick. Why do people on GD and other property programs feel the need to go out of their way to display their fecundity?

[minicity]

cmsapms said:

Wifey was quite fit though, in a slightly hard faced Glaswegian sort of way ..... ....well, up to the point where they announced she was up the stick. Why do people on GD and other property programs feel the need to go out of their way to display their fecundity?

Has there ever been a woman on GD that was not pregnant? I thought it was compulsory.

[tinman0]

minicity said:

cmsapms said: Wifey was quite fit though, in a slightly hard faced Glaswegian sort of way ..... ....well, up to the point where they announced she was up the stick. Why do people on GD and other property programs feel the need to go out of their way to display their fecundity? Has there ever been a woman on GD that was not pregnant? I thought it was compulsory.

geee is it so difficult to work out?

they are creating a "nest" so just after they move in shes up the duff, getting ready to populate the aforementioned nest.

[GetCarter]

I've just seen the prog and (as I was moved) have kinda' joined this (much longer) thread

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?p=4&f=141&t=258256&h=0