Grand Designs

[FourWheelDrift]

A kitchen that will never get used.

[okgo]

ACER laptop

Let yourself down there bud.

[FourWheelDrift]

A double bed that will never get used.

[FredClogs]

ajprice said:

He's a cleaner!

http://www.dall.co.uk/

Apparently not any old cleaner...
..

[Sheepshanks]

paul.deitch said:

Think about 70k but as I said based on lots of criteria, and you only get it at the end after transmission so you, in theory, don't add it to your spend. They don't want to be in any way responsible for your financial failures.

I have no idea, but I'd always understood people didn't get paid, other than expenses. I read that sometime the program makers sometimes dress the houses for the final shots.

£70K sounds immense for an hour's TV.

[Tango13]

I'd pay good money not to live there, very impressive but not for me thanks.

[Cupramax]

WTF is Bernie wearing

[Jonesy23]

Does anyone building these houses ever think of having blinds or curtains? Seems a common theme to have great big windows for show and no thought of what happens on a sunny day or at night.

And the echoes in there would drive me mad.

[TeeRev]

greygoose said:

TeeRev said:

paul.deitch said:

One on my mates has just started a project with them. When he makes some real progress I might post some pics. As I understand it, the money offer is conditional on a successful project and transmission.

My wife and I are going to do our "Grand Design" next year, nothing like as big as the one that's on now but an interesting project in a lot of ways.

She's said we should contact Channel 4 and see if they're interested and what they might offer us to be involved, I'm not so sure but if the money's good it might help fund my future car purchases, do you have any idea of what they are offering your mate?

Your wife will be pregnant for a start .

I'd need to trade her in for a much younger model to achieve that! Ooohhhh, that's a thought.
Actually there's no way could I do that though as I have grandchildren now and I can give them back, I don't think I could handle kids again at my age.

[Promised Land]

No place for anything as it's a building not a home. Everything's set out just so, you can't live like that.

Added to the fact from the outside it looks like a high profile car showroom.

Those columns with the bodged skirting detail would drive me insane.

[ajprice]

If it was smaller, with less glass, fine. But as it is, no. It's a nice building, but it was like a designer showroom, not a home. And as said already, where is the storage?

[TeeRev]

I used to say that Jaguars were an old man's car, now I'm old I'm actually considering one and 70k would buy me a nice V8 F Type, I think I might give them a call.

[Bonefish Blues]

Rather sad and empty.

Building much the same, I thought.

[DoubleSix]

Full of admiration for the guy.

He had a vision and he stuck to it and arguably achieved it without significant compromise.

Anyone with experience of bespoke building projects will know just how hard it is to achieve that level of finish.

Love it.

[Laurel Green]

ajprice said:

If it was smaller, with less glass, fine. But as it is, no. It's a nice building, but it was like a designer showroom, not a home. And as said already, where is the storage?

There was a tucked away container in the aerial shot near the end of the programme. Probably where all the odds and ends are stored.

[kev1974]

Well done, you built another golf course clubhouse.

These rich people never seem to have particularly happy lives do they? Kids but no Mrs Dall. Didn't seem to like the idea of parties. Clearly he's worked very hard to build his cleaning empire but it seemed to have sucked any life and excitement out of him.

[anonymous-user]

I really like it.

With 5+ acres around you, it's tbe perfect place for all that glass

[Evoluzione]

Laurel Green said:

The minute word gets around that the customer is a perfectionist, the price goes up - perfection is a costly business.

The contractors will have spotted him a mile off and doubled the price, he knows it too, but if he can afford it then why not - he never complained about the price.

[FredClogs]

garyhun said:

I really like it.

With 5+ acres around you, it's tbe perfect place for all that glass

Unless you've seen that manhunter film, I couldn't walk around in the buff even if it was only squirrels and dear watching.

Intact it reminded me of the house in the human centipede.

[Jonesy23]

garyhun said:

I really like it.

With 5+ acres around you, it's tbe perfect place for all that glass

It wasn't exactly central on the site, from the overheads it looks like the neighbours are actually pretty close through the trees. In winter with the leaves off you'd probably have a clear view across.