New series of Grand Designs

[FourWheelDrift]

Notice how they can only convert it if they assign sufficient space for work, but the work space becomes a display area (studio) and the actual work space suddenly gets shunted to an adjoining barn. I don't get that.

[2.5pi]

Listed building rules do seem on the far side of bonkers, a bit like woman with the red hair

[Laurel Green]

2.5pi said:

Listed building rules do seem on the far side of bonkers, a bit like woman with the red hair

All very well being bonkers, as long as one has the money to back up such 'bonkerness. Otherwise it will just end up being a compromise.

[FourWheelDrift]

Won lots of architectural awards given by architects to architects, sane people wouldn't have.



Ps. Kevin going back. I bet they've sold up and moved back to London

[ajprice]

Kevin's got a Juke. The barn still looks like a barn. The flowers have grown. Her hair is different again.

Still don't like it.

Edit: and they've still got a load of stuff stashed away

Edited by ajprice on Wednesday 28th November 21:56

The community project next week from years ago. Kevin had hair

Edited by ajprice on Wednesday 28th November 22:00

[FourWheelDrift]

Wow next week, Kevin's got hair!!!!

[Baron Greenback]

The barn is them! Want to know what its like in the winter! Not much privacy in noisy in the bedrooms!

I cant see the awards for innovation, the roof skylights only! Not really innovation.

[Burnham]

I hope they enjoy living there for a really long time. Cos I cant imagine finding a buyer is going to be easy.

[Megaflow]

She doesn't want to be conventional and live in a oral house, err, that's why you spent 17 years in a 2 bed flat then...

[Stu R]

More power to them for building what they like, not what they're told they should like.

Still don't like it, but clearly they do and some others do enough to reward them with some awards etc. To me it looks like they let the kids design it and some bodgers who happen to live in it just keep cladding their junk onto it. Still, they seem to enjoy it, more people should build wacky nonsense like that which suits them.

[Beefmeister]

Loved the skylights, that's a proper genius idea.

But the rest just seemed like a massive waste of space, and the only reason they could do it is because daddy gave them a huge barn. Could have been amazing in there, having said that I did like the reuse of the silos.

But the biggest problem I had was that they had this impressive looking building, with three crappy looking silos outside the front door. They could've tarted those up a bit too, but not even when he went back had they changed. Odd.

[Project C]

ajprice said:

Kevin's got a Juke.

The cars Kevin drives are just rentals being used by the film crew and for the shot of him driving up to house.

[ajprice]

Project C said:

ajprice said:

Kevin's got a Juke.

The cars Kevin drives are just rentals being used by the film crew and for the shot of him driving up to house.

Kevin's film crew rented a Juke and he drove it up to the house.

[ajprice]

Hey, remember back in 1998 when Kevin had hair?

[Laurel Green]

Blimey, our Kev is looking a tad young in this episode!

ETA: ^^^^

[ajprice]

September 2000 revisit, it's starting to get thin up there

[Laurel Green]

It's a wonder he has not used some insulation donned a hat.

[FourWheelDrift]

Anyone expected to see lots of 13 years olds running about who look remarkably similar to Kevin?

[Laurel Green]

FourWheelDrift said:

Anyone expected to see lots of 13 years olds running about who look remarkably similar to Kevin?

I was doing just that - looking at the kids to see if I could spot a Kevin amongst them.

[Stu R]

Pretty unremarkable episode if ever there was one. Looks like the modest budgets came back to haunt a bit, shame they couldn't have specced more resilient materials and weatherproofing. Nice idea though, seems to have worked out well for the folks involved as a long-termer.