Grand Designs

[CTO]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

DodgyGeezer said:

GD bingo - this chap has absolutely nailed it:

https://www.thepoke.com/2024/02/15/every-episode-o...

"Flavia is pregnant"

Watching that gives me palpitations

[Wish]

Anyone see last nights Grand Design Australia ?

Small plot next to train track ….. I don’t want to include the spoiler.
But they showed great resilience.

Hats off to them.

[SydneyBridge]

Where can it be watched in the UK?

[Bluevanman]

Wish said:

Anyone see last nights Grand Design Australia ?

Small plot next to train track ….. I don’t want to include the spoiler.
But they showed great resilience.

Hats off to them.

Was it a repeat?
I have a series link but nothing was recorded or is about to be recorded?

[gareth_r]

SydneyBridge said:

Where can it be watched in the UK?

Channel 4 and catch up.

[The Rotrex Kid]

Only ones showing for me were first shown in 2021? Series 9?

[gareth_r]

S9 and S10 being repeated currently.

[FourWheelDrift]

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

[Pedaller]

FourWheelDrift said:

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

Includes the eye too. That’s a big price cut.

Also:

AGENTS NOTE: Savills are appointed on the instructions of Joint Receivers: H.Varsani & M.Yianni (Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors & LPA Receivers).

A very sad story all in all.

[Bonefish Blues]

The Mail had the story a couple of days ago, but didn't post it because standards Timothy

[monthefish]

Wish said:

Anyone see last nights Grand Design Australia ?

Small plot next to train track ….. I don’t want to include the spoiler.
But they showed great resilience.

Hats off to them.

Sounds intriguing - Do you have a series/episode number at all?

[The Gauge]

Pedaller said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

Includes the eye too. That’s a big price cut.

Also:

AGENTS NOTE: Savills are appointed on the instructions of Joint Receivers: H.Varsani & M.Yianni (Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors & LPA Receivers).

A very sad story all in all.

A very sad story indeed, lost his fortune and his wife to that house.

[fuzzymonkey]

The Gauge said:

Pedaller said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

Includes the eye too. That’s a big price cut.

Also:

AGENTS NOTE: Savills are appointed on the instructions of Joint Receivers: H.Varsani & M.Yianni (Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors & LPA Receivers).

A very sad story all in all.

A very sad story indeed, lost his fortune and his wife to that house.

Could have just spent 150k doing up the orginal house on site and been happy ever after...

[James6112]

fuzzymonkey said:

The Gauge said:

Pedaller said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

Includes the eye too. That’s a big price cut.

Also:

AGENTS NOTE: Savills are appointed on the instructions of Joint Receivers: H.Varsani & M.Yianni (Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors & LPA Receivers).

A very sad story all in all.

A very sad story indeed, lost his fortune and his wife to that house.

Could have just spent 150k doing up the orginal house on site and been happy ever after...

Seen it a few times, a sad ending.

The disaster episodes are the most memorable though!

[The Gauge]

Although had the project succeeded and he'd moved in, he'd have had to cope with those very narrow lanes around there which are a nightmare during tourist season. Drive 100yards forward and then reverse 200yards to let an oncoming car past. After half an hour your further back down the road than when you started. Unless you and the cars behind you outnumber those approaching you head on. It's a war of attrition!!

[skwdenyer]

fuzzymonkey said:

The Gauge said:

Pedaller said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Well it's back on the market again, down from the £10m of last year to just £5.25m now.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/144035423#/...

Includes the eye too. That’s a big price cut.

Also:

AGENTS NOTE: Savills are appointed on the instructions of Joint Receivers: H.Varsani & M.Yianni (Belleveue Mortlakes Chartered Surveyors & LPA Receivers).

A very sad story all in all.

A very sad story indeed, lost his fortune and his wife to that house.

Could have just spent 150k doing up the orginal house on site and been happy ever after...

It is sad. But equally there’s just so much wrong with the project. The terrible driveways, the poor use of the site, the mis-match of styles. You knew it was going south the moment “The Eye” became the potential saviour of the project.

If he’d put up a steel-framed structure, he could have been up and running in a fraction of the time. The engineering and cost projections for the built house were simply astonishingly poor.

The current price may tempt somebody, and I can imagine it could be lovely to live in, but equally I suspect you’d be chasing snagging issues with it forever.

[Bluevanman]

Should rent it out to porn movie companies

[thegreenhell]

skwdenyer said:

It is sad. But equally there’s just so much wrong with the project. The terrible driveways, the poor use of the site, the mis-match of styles. You knew it was going south the moment “The Eye” became the potential saviour of the project.

If he’d put up a steel-framed structure, he could have been up and running in a fraction of the time. The engineering and cost projections for the built house were simply astonishingly poor.

The current price may tempt somebody, and I can imagine it could be lovely to live in, but equally I suspect you’d be chasing snagging issues with it forever.

Perhaps he should have just built The Eye and left the original house as it was. That would have been grand enough on its own.