Discussion
The 'black box behind white lodge' idea sort of worked, and I imagine a few of the neighbours over the road will be pleased about that.
I also liked the large windows looking out onto garden and trees, hard to get a view that doesn't include several other people's houses in London.
And the general layout I thought was good with a limited amount of space, but I suspect that the 'guest suite', given it has a kitchen in was the source of the extra 'borrowed from family' funding (elderly Greek mum moving in imminently since she's paid for it).
I didn't like the stairs, all it needs is a ticket machine and a smell of piss to complete the 'NCP' effect.
I didn't like the lighting 'pipework', it's not an industrial building and that look just doesn't work in a modern box.
The kitchen cabinets looked quite nice close up, but in the longer shots they just looked like the kind of 1980s dark wood cabinets you rip out of a doer-upper.
And 2 kids sharing one bedroom? Really? All that and you couldn't have given them a room each?
I also liked the large windows looking out onto garden and trees, hard to get a view that doesn't include several other people's houses in London.
And the general layout I thought was good with a limited amount of space, but I suspect that the 'guest suite', given it has a kitchen in was the source of the extra 'borrowed from family' funding (elderly Greek mum moving in imminently since she's paid for it).
I didn't like the stairs, all it needs is a ticket machine and a smell of piss to complete the 'NCP' effect.
I didn't like the lighting 'pipework', it's not an industrial building and that look just doesn't work in a modern box.
The kitchen cabinets looked quite nice close up, but in the longer shots they just looked like the kind of 1980s dark wood cabinets you rip out of a doer-upper.
And 2 kids sharing one bedroom? Really? All that and you couldn't have given them a room each?
With the 'annexe' with kitchen etc., does that not need to be considered a separate dwelling with it's own liability for council tax, etc.?
I posted in the homes forum about buying an ex care home and setting up an existing annexe as a holiday let, and was informed I'd need both planning permission and would be liable for separate council tax and so on...
I posted in the homes forum about buying an ex care home and setting up an existing annexe as a holiday let, and was informed I'd need both planning permission and would be liable for separate council tax and so on...
Shakermaker said:
Why is nobody commenting on the entirely bizarre way the bloke was shown holding his computer mouse in the "shot of him hard at work in the office" segment?
I never comment on these things - the way that right-handed people do things never ceases to surprise me.Fewer arguments than I expected. Kitchen worktop was to have been made out of old apple computer screens somehow, but seems in the end to have just been thin white contiboard.
Mark Benson said:
I didn't like the stairs, all it needs is a ticket machine and a smell of piss to complete the 'NCP' effect.
I didn't like the lighting 'pipework', it's not an industrial building and that look just doesn't work in a modern box.
The kitchen cabinets looked quite nice close up, but in the longer shots they just looked like the kind of 1980s dark wood cabinets you rip out of a doer-upper.
And 2 kids sharing one bedroom? Really? All that and you couldn't have given them a room each?
Spot on. NCP car park stairs....I didn't like the lighting 'pipework', it's not an industrial building and that look just doesn't work in a modern box.
The kitchen cabinets looked quite nice close up, but in the longer shots they just looked like the kind of 1980s dark wood cabinets you rip out of a doer-upper.
And 2 kids sharing one bedroom? Really? All that and you couldn't have given them a room each?
NCP car park stairs.... 
I was actually going to suggest adding "foreign wife" to the bingo list before I'd seen the episode.
I would like to add "underfloor heating", "sphagnum moss roof" and "Audi showroom design" though.
I thought I was going to hate this build, but actually quite liked it in the end. They'd made a nice home of it at least and it wasn't your typical unimaginative, modernist, antiseptic, flat-roofed box that Kevin usually gravitates to.
BTW, anyone else think the bloke looked like Penfold from Danger Mouse?
I was actually going to suggest adding "foreign wife" to the bingo list before I'd seen the episode.
I would like to add "underfloor heating", "sphagnum moss roof" and "Audi showroom design" though.
I thought I was going to hate this build, but actually quite liked it in the end. They'd made a nice home of it at least and it wasn't your typical unimaginative, modernist, antiseptic, flat-roofed box that Kevin usually gravitates to.
BTW, anyone else think the bloke looked like Penfold from Danger Mouse?
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Very successful this weeks I think, the only things I wasn't keen on were some of their fixtures and fittings and it seems churlish to pick up on that.
The black box/white house technique worked really well.
The climbing frame light fitting was dreadful, didn't like any of it, location was terrible right next to a main road.The black box/white house technique worked really well.
There wasn't one part of which made me think I'd like to swap places with them.
Zoon said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
Very successful this weeks I think, the only things I wasn't keen on were some of their fixtures and fittings and it seems churlish to pick up on that.
The black box/white house technique worked really well.
The climbing frame light fitting was dreadful, didn't like any of it, location was terrible right next to a main road.The black box/white house technique worked really well.
There wasn't one part of which made me think I'd like to swap places with them.
I liked it, wasn't sure at first but yeah. Did like.
The older fittings in the new box is a tad Disney though?
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