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I liked it, but if you're going to live in London, and you want space, you go up or down, no other option.
Listening to her whinge about stress being a killer makes me laugh. You're spending millions on a huge vanity project. You are not connected the the stresses of real people living normal lives. The ones stressing about if they can afford to put the heating on etc are truly worried to affect their health.
Sorry, I got here late, just watching on catch-up...
[i]Kind of detracted from the real world and the reality of life[/i]
[i]Ooh, blurred-out names on contractor vests - usually means problems...[/i]
[i]shout and whine at a window fitter, because she didn't manage her own suppliers properly[/i]
[i]I couldn't see myself living in a home that looks like a hotel.[/i]
+4
[i]1k per m² for the glass.[/i]
That's the one bit I didn't think was too bad. I'm pricing up a roof light for my kitchen and the cheapest I can find is £500/m2. I said to the mrs that 40k seemed cheap (for what it was) then it turns out they`ve gone bankrupt
I did enjoy a bit of schadenfreude when Kev started talking about the monolithic kitchen island, which was not in the least bit organic.
Window cleaning bills'll be cheap.
I liked it, but if you're going to live in London, and you want space, you go up or down, no other option.
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Waiting for this idea coming back into the fold
The Shambles, York?
that looked like a development to sell, rather than something they would live in (as we saw how they lived at the start).
For a cool 16M they could have had somewhere with views.
[url= http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&photo_page=1&property_id=749279&resource=photo&search_form=map&search_type=SS&sold=1&submit_type=search#resources_holder ]http://www.foxtons.co.uk/[/url]
Silly billies.
I've got so much money I don't know what to do with it. I'll Spaff it all on this as ... Well, why not... It's not like if it all goes wrong there will actually be any real consequences for ME, ME, MEEEEEEE! Aren't I wonderful
Narcissistic horse-shit for trustafarians
as we saw how they lived at the start
Wasn't it a one bedroom apartment they were supposedly packed into? Given how much money they had, and that they had to move out while it was being done, it's kind of odd that they lived there at all. I wonder where the son was (seen in a photo somewhere and talked about for the room with the roof window).
Would be great to hear more of the history of that place and see some pictures of how it used to look - must have been a riot when full of artists with that enormous 'social club?' in the basement.
Kev didn't like them - she didn't end up pregnant and there were no drinks at the end.
I wonder where the son was
expensive boarding school would be my guess.
Would be great to hear more of the history of that place and see some pictures of how it used to look - must have been a riot when full of artists with that enormous 'social club?' in the basement.
[url= http://www.philsbook.com/lansdowne.htm ]lansdowne house[/url]
The 21 year old son????
Didn't get the whole build. Seems ridiculous for two or even three people. Wish they had turned off the lighting to see how light it really was.
He was just the money. Think he was just trying to keep her quiet for a while.
And who said the bankers and traders are suffering?
He’d have bought the whole building 5 years ago...
Was he 21?
At (expensive) uni then I guess. Did like Kev's comment about seeing their son with his girlfriend on the bed 🙂
Great link Klunk. I've got a couple of those albums listed there.
don't think I'd fancy living in a place that was dependent on a pump to keep the water out, power cuts would be interesting.
Looks interesting.
Bit more of a down to earth project this week - a million miles from the last months episodes (thankfully)
Likey mucho.
Really nice.
I don't like the white interior, but as long as they do thats the main thing. Skye is brilliant though.
Are they wife and wife?
I think last week it was husband and husband ... 🙄
Again you see kitchen at the wrong place ... wait until someone cooks and someone is asleep upstairs. The designer designed a toy house.
Chewkw, the 1970s are on the phone asking for their homophobia back 🙄
I liked the house.
It was a refreshing change to see a couple who weren't just throwing money at a house to make a statement, but wanted a nice home.
I liked it. I also like an interior like a foxes glacier mint, I've got one, a welcome change from my twee victorian semi
Nice place that, fitted beautifully in the environment.
Bit small for me, would have liked a sunken room or the studio attached to the house, but hey..
"Claps"
Came across as really nice folks too, nice and humble. Hey deserve to live happily ever after.
I really like that house. Being on Skye just adds to it. A truly magical, spectacular place that I need to revisit.
It wouldn't be a studio though....... Bike garage/man cave
cynic-al - MemberChewkw, the 1970s are on the phone asking for their homophobia back
LOL! I am no homophobes but I think they are funny people.
Nice location ... not sure about the practically of the house but if the wives are happy that is good enough.
😆
p/s: really ... why not design a kitchen in the bedroom ... do they cook or simply rely on microwave food.
Not seen this for years but watched Skye house tonight. Liked it a lot. For that reason - I'm back in!
LOL! I am no homophobes but I think they are funny people.
Funny in what way, exactly? Care to expand on that statement? I thought they were a warm, genuine, caring couple, who had an opportunity to build a really beautiful house, in an extraordinary environment, for really not a lot of money, and I loved it to bits. Given more money, I'd have the front roof raised so you could see the sea from the mezzanine, but they didn't, so it was the best compromise. Once it's weathered in, and all the grass grown around it, it'll be fabulous. I'm green with envy, frankly.
LOL again, not covering yourself with glory as ever chewkw.
In fact you come across as narrow minded and stupid.
FYI Series 3 of Grand Designs Australia is on ep. 3, available by way of the normal places.
Much more fun than the UK one, Building regs.....hah!
Was ill a coupl eof weeks ago and found my all time favourite. Series 7 episode 6 (i think) was a boat housen the Thames. Overly smug couple but a genius twist from the architect by the end of the first part. Honestly if you have 15 minutes spare find it and watch. You will applaude the man.
I liked the house last night..... back to some sense of reality. There total spend was not far off what some people spend on the kitchen!
You get the impression that KM much prefers the small builds in unusual places to the hugely expensive monstrosities where people just want to get their house on TV for bragging rights.
My only question would be where do they put all their stuff, like clothes and that? Didn't seem to be anything in the way of storage outside of the kitchen?
My only question would be where do they put all their stuff, like clothes and that? Didn't seem to be anything in the way of storage outside of the kitchen?
There was a second bedroom behind the kitchen and a bathroom behind the master bedroom.
I've been looking for the plans to see what they did with the over hang/tail bit of the house.
Yeah I wondered about that "tail" thingy, was it for parking the car under, looked a little shallow for that.
Maybe it's for windsurfing kit..
Or a boat.
Anyhoos I thought the driveway looked good too, that matched the building really rather well.
I hope that KM gets to revisit this one, just to see how the cladding has mellowed in the ferocious winters they have up there.
And I didn't know but it seems the more air tight your house the less you pay for fuel? is this correct, I was part way through a G&T at the time??
I really liked it, with a location like that a simple house works very well.
I missed the beginning, was there a reason that they didn't turf the roof of the studio? Seemed a shame not to, was it a cost thing?
And I didn't know but it seems the more air tight your house the less you pay for fuel? is this correct
Sort of. If your house is air tight (excluding the installed ventilation system) then you don't have any draughts casuing heat loss and the ventilation system can be used to exchange heat between the how wet air leaving the building and the cold drier air entering it futher reducing the heat losses and so the house needs less fuel to heat it.
Yeah I wondered about that "tail" thingy, was it for parking the car under, looked a little shallow for that.
+1
I like the house and thought the builder was excellent, just got on with it.
First grand designs I have seen in ages where the couple came across as proper nice and not ****s.
And I didn't know but it seems the more air tight your house the less you pay for fuel? is this correct, I was part way through a G&T at the time??
Have a look at this.
[url= http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/standard.jsp?id=122 ]http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/standard.jsp?id=122[/url]
I really liked last night's build. Small, practical, wooden. The interior was a bit stark for me, but it's their house not mine.
Storage: I think there's a space behind the mezzanine bedroom where the bathroom is, which might also have contained a dressing room?
While looking for more info on last nights build I came across [url= http://www.****/news/article-1352749/Grand-Designs--80k-Channel-4-makeover-barge-turns-Essex-beach-vandalised.html ]THIS[/url] (Sorry if it's already been done as the news story is from Feb 2011, but this is the first time I've seen it!)
I found last nights episode quite inspiring actually, nice couple, nice house, nice location, not my choice of interior but when you have the dramatic landscape outside the windows are like interactive decor. The tail thingy might be their wood store?
The tower from 2 weeks ago; the two guys had ambition and did the right thing, but i would not want to live in that kind of house. The basement house was odd and not worth the effort or money IMO - Vanity project nothing else.
Fab people, fab location, fab builder, fab community but I didn’t get it. Separate workshop/studio, mezzanine bedroom above a kitchen, lack of storage, no view from upstairs…
Each to their own I suppose
Really liked last night's episode - it's one of the first for a while that hasn't felt like an hour-long advert for a house that you know is going to be put on the market as soon as the programme airs...
Isle of Skye looks horrifying - not sure I could live anywhere with no trees. Good episode though, although after the last two weeks it filling the 47 minutes seemed a bit of a stretch. Such a shame about the lack of view from the bedroom.
but I didn’t get it. Separate workshop/studio,
Completely sensible to have the studio separate from the house - not exactly short of space on the plot, but also I'd like more than a door between the dust and the solvents in my studio and my house. (About 2 miles does it in my case 🙂 )
I'd rather not have the square footage of an attached studio added to my domestic rates valuation either (especially not my one, its 4000sqft)
lack of storage, no view from upstairs…
I think there was plenty of storage, they didn't show much of the downstairs bedroom and bathroom and the lack of upstairs view was a budgetary constraint, would have been nice to have had an upstairs view.
Just watching it now. That's the type of builder you want.
Truly nice people as well.
My wife is giving me the "dont get any more ideas" Look.
Kona TC - Member
Separate workshop/studio,
I thought similar. Having to don oilskins and a sou'wester every time they want to go out to or come back from the workshop would get boring.
Having a covered route from the house to the workshop is far better.
First one in ages I've liked. I don't usually go for the modern look boxy ones. For once a down to earth budget too. I don't think the lack of view from the main bedroom would bother me when its just a short trip down the stairs.
the lack of upstairs view was a budgetary constraint
they mentioned that, a view from upstairs would have been nice but they just couldn't afford it. probably something to do with neither of them being "something in the city", but one being a bus driver, the other a teacher and they'd saved for 10 years.
not keen on the whiteness of inside, but i can see that as being something to do with catching the quality of the light - it was trotternish iirc and light there really is amazing
cracking build though, and no expensive artisan types, just a bloke with a can do attitude
I'm not sure why so many people want a view from the bedroom, my mums house has fabulous views, but I certainly don't sit in bed looking at them, but I do enjoy them from the lounge and kitchen!
Grrr wrong thread
Wheres the garage gone???
CountZero - MemberLOL! I am no homophobes but I think they are funny people.
Funny in what way, exactly? Care to expand on that statement?
You see the husband and husband bought and rebuilt themselves a glory tower pointing to the sky with a hot tub fit for several people ... OOoooouu!
The wife and wife built themselves a rather flat carpeted roof that will grow into bush if not trim properly ... OOouuuuu!
Coincidence or what? That's why they are very funny people ...
cynic-al - MemberLOL again, not covering yourself with glory as ever chewkw.
In fact you come across as narrow minded and stupid.
Merely my observation and not seeking glory or fame like you unfortunately.
LOL! Yes, I am like you narrow minded and stupid. Maggot! Now bow down and ask for forgive and lick my shoes clean while I step on you. Then thank me for setting you right. 😆
Only caught up with this last night. Great build. Liked them the moment she announced she'd got a job a bus driver. A pretty effective way of getting to know people.
I'd rather not have the square footage of an attached studio added to my domestic rates valuation either (especially not my one, its 4000sqft)
Rates valuation? Does it work differently in Scotland? Council Tax is just banded on property value which presumably would be the same whether the workshop was attached or not.
I'm not sure why so many people want a view from the bedroom
Seconded. Lack of curtains always strikes me as odd - how many hours of daylight on Skye in Summer?
London, derelict workshops for 500k and an architect. All the ingredients for an epic.
"its going to be like no other house in London"
And I bet they and the neighbours won't be on speaking terms shortly...
I like my divisions to be hints...
Budgets going to disappear quickly with those walls, steels and roof
My god, London is a different world isn't it?
a betterer world
Nice temporary roof materials!
*repeats falling out with neighbour predictions*
is throwing money at some old dump and decking it out like an IKEA concept store a new thing, or have architects been doing this kind of thing for a while?
Can't argue with the architect there.
*waits for bike comments*
Why bother taking out the existing columns!!!!!! Madness
is it me or is Kev spouting more cock than usual? he normally just does this at the end.
Sorry, but what is the point? You've totally knocked the original workshop down, why just rebuild it?
500 per month per neighbour? Who wouldn't want to live in that there London? Sounds like a right barrel of laughs.
It's your neighbours land love! If your agreement is £1000 pm tough! he's a property lawyer!!!!
What do you expect in London village... Arrrggghhh!
£500! If I was a neighbour I would be really embarrassed. Whats wrong with a case of beer when the job is done?
has anyone mentioned the possibility they may fall out with their Neighbours?
Stop calling it a workshop. They demolished the workshop.
I think it's a great advert for the architect and project management team.
an architect thats seems to struggle with measuring stuff
I would suggest that skimping on materials on such a empty space is really going to compromise the final look...
Reinforces my experiences that many 'prizewinning architects' are rather distant from the reality of construction. Or do people think this is how things should happen?