Grand Designs

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FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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She seemed surprised the yellow paint on the stairs looked so yellow.

ajprice

27,522 posts

197 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Kitchen worktop made of computer screens?!?! What's that all about?!

FourWheelDrift

88,554 posts

285 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Small house with a large water tank attached to it.

Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Stairs by JCB

Wiccan of Darkness

1,839 posts

84 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Bonefish Blues said:
Doors simply odd
I quite like them. They do look antiquated and old.

Now that staircase is something else. It looks like the emergency access route from the helipad on a north sea oil rig.

Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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It's not identikit, is it?

FourWheelDrift

88,554 posts

285 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Next week preview, did he say it, did he really say it at last?

Woman - "I'm having another baby"
Kevin - "It wasn't me mate"

ajprice

27,522 posts

197 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Next week's preview...

Woman "I'm having another baby"

Kevin "Nothing to do with me mate"

hehe

KP328

1,812 posts

196 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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The kitchen doors might be more in keeping if they were in the lodge kitchen. I'm not convinced a black box is a good look for a house.

Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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I was beginning to worry about Kevin. Sounds like his mojo has returned

BoRED S2upid

19,714 posts

241 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Quite liked that not to my taste personally but they stuck to what they wanted and it worked. Could quite easily have just done the big square box like everyone else that guest annex was nice I presume the Greek mother will be living in that.

Sway

26,324 posts

195 months

Wednesday 13th September 2017
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ajprice said:
Next week's preview...

Woman "I'm having another baby"

Kevin "Nothing to do with me mate"

hehe
Awesome.

Back in the very early series he had a Chimera, so entirely possible he reads these threads...

rufusruffcutt

1,539 posts

206 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Sway said:
Awesome.

Back in the very early series he had a Chimera, so entirely possible he reads these threads...
I thought it was a Cerbera? it was definitely in at least 2 episodes.

Edit: Yeah it was a Cerbera

Old Pistonheads thread here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=93...


Edited by rufusruffcutt on Thursday 14th September 01:14

BlueHave

4,651 posts

109 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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The two styles didn't complement each other at all. Kevin was just trying to be nice again.

The cooler box handmade kitchen was a monstrosity which probably cost about £30k- 40k.

The yellow staircase was a monstrosity I could go on.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,261 posts

236 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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BlueHave said:
The yellow staircase was a monstrosity I could go on.
After a couple of months the paint will wear where (you don't see that combo very often biggrin) the feet go.


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Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
BlueHave said:
The yellow staircase was a monstrosity I could go on.
After a couple of months the paint will wear where (you don't see that combo very often biggrin) the feet go.


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I liked it in the raw state, I couldn't believe when they JCB'd it. I sort of understand what they were doing, but no thanks.

But ultimately, they built it for themselves and they were both happy, I guess - but her commitment to the modern was superficial, in the technical sense of the term. (But there again, so was the Waddesden Award-Winner, that was filled with heirlooms and antiques).

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

101 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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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?

Zoon

6,710 posts

122 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Where on earth are they getting the money from to pay £700k for a plot and another £600k on build?
I'm in the wrong industry clearly.

Mark Benson

7,523 posts

270 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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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?

Pistom

4,978 posts

160 months

Thursday 14th September 2017
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Looking forward to my time zone catching up with this one.

Also. I'm getting one of those bingo cards printed out for my next project.

Even we had a pregnancy on our last one and my Mrs has been past it for years.