Grand Designs

[CAPP0]

In a year's time it's going to be a nightmare keeping a toddler from falling in the drink with no garden to speak of or to fence off.

[DoubleSix]

Jonesy23 said:

Shocking - another Grand Designs house with all hard surfaces, no storage and no curtains. Overlooked by a main road, the neighbours and the river traffic. With the road side bit looking like some sort of designer public toilet. That'll be fun to live in.

Not everyone wants to be closed off from the world.

[ajprice]

Revisited next week

[bazza white]

One thing those screws holding up the panels were rusting already if that's the only thing securing them I wouldn't want my kids playing in the garden in a few years without inspection and replacement.


Not sure if I would have had the cladding on the roof too. Nice build though. Couldn't take the Mayor seriously when talking ugly with her black and neglected teeth.

[C Lee Farquar]

Max_Torque said:

first house i've really liked on GD for ages! Genuinely different, but not just for the sake of it. The woodwork is lovely

But with two dogs and a baby, no garden and the probability of one of them falling into the river, having left marks on your fancy glazing, is it fit for purpose?

Woodwork exceptional, checking ebay for huge obsolete band saws

[Pistom]

I liked the term landmark property but the building just wasn't to my taste.

I really want to like it but I don't.

They seem to which is what matters.

I'm finding myself saying this about a lot of the GDs.

Now next weeks revisit, I was impressed with that.

[Roo]

Loved the house. Hated the location.

[FredClogs]

I like to scratch my balls when I'm watching TV, I can't imagine what goes through the minds of these people who want to live in fishbowls, especially as there was no garden to step into why have all that glazing in your front room, it was overlooked by the neighbour, the road and the dog walkers on the river bank.... Bonkers... I take back the walter mitty comment though he seemed to keep it together well enough.

[Magog]

Just watching this on +1... What on earth is the point in blurring the numberplate of their car when we know where their house is!

[Laurel Green]

Not my cup-of-tea but, on time and budget has to be a first so a big from me.

Finding a window cleaner might prove problematic though.

[Equilibrium25]

garycat said:

I would have bet my mortgage he'd have an Apple.

Bit late on this as I only watched Ep1 last night, but I was equally surprised by his SuperDrt t-shirts. Seemed out of keeping with the whole Audi-showroom-perfectionist persona!

[BoRED S2upid]

Roo said:

Loved the house. Hated the location.

Location they better hope the daughter doesn't like playing outside, river to one side main road to the other, nice!

[Adam B]

BoRED S2upid said:

first rusty box I've seen in a while

thanks for sharing

[Adam B]

Liked this one, thought the design was excellent, although would have blocked the driveway off with further building footprint, IIRC it was like that on the 3D design at the start.

Loved the table, the kitchen (my missus has now told me we are having a toaster cupboard when our extension is done, and this reminded her she never told me, never heard of such a thing), and the hallway walls and that concrete wall with timber grain.

Not sure what the comment above about lack of storage - lots in kitchen cupboards and big fitted cupboards in bedrooms

[FourWheelDrift]

I still don't get the fascination with concrete and the rusty steel on last nights just looked wrong. Did you notice the steel put up over the bathroom window as a kind of privacy thing instead of frosted glass, so how do they clean the outside of the window?

[Bonefish Blues]

FourWheelDrift said:

I still don't get the fascination with concrete and the rusty steel on last nights just looked wrong. Did you notice the steel put up over the bathroom window as a kind of privacy thing instead of frosted glass, so how do they clean the outside of the window?

Presumably it opens/swivels.

[Beati Dogu]

Google street view is from August this year, so you can see it under construction.

BoRED S2upid said:

Location they better hope the daughter doesn't like playing outside, river to one side main road to the other, nice!

When I first saw the site I said "it's a good job they don't have kids". Even garden ponds are toddler magnets & this place will be a constant worry. Then Kevin worked his magic and a second young daughter from a previous marriage appeared at the end. Oops.

The house looked reasonable until they clad it with with scrap iron to turn it into a giant cheese grater. At least it will be easy for a future owner to replace.

Architects are such ponces sometimes. The way they were enthusing about the imprint from the wooden shuttering on the hideous exposed concrete. Yeah Kevin, as seen on every WW2 pill box.

The guy who made the table was a genius for persuading him to buy it with the rotten off cut still attached. Real Emperor's new clothes.

I bet the house owner shops in places like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgysRim_zT4

[MiseryStreak]

It's not a bad place to be, the pub over the road, The Snowdrop, is pretty decent. Named after the most deadly avalanche in UK history incidentally, not the flower. Getting contemporary stuff built in Lewes is no mean feat, the indigenous population (some of them tracing their local roots back to the 11th century) are extremely protective and don't like change, the planning department are utterly insane.

[Bonefish Blues]

Bonefish Blues said:

ajprice said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Natives and pitchforks perhaps?

Isn't it Lewes that has some huge pagan bonfire where they burn effigies or do I misremember?

I see it is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Bonfire

[V8covin]

Won't look so good with rusty streaks n stains down the walls and windows