Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

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Fucking hell.

Thoughts:

1) The video they had done made me think of Tomb Raider 3.

2) The couple were a bit weird

3) They were fucking minted. This aroused my ire. Anyone who sepdns 34K on a bleeding cooker is a waste of genetic material.

4) The house was bllody marvellous. Might be a clear case of Marxist righteous indignation being a cover for simple envy. The library was very nice, with door disguised as bookcase.

5) The staircase was nice. As was the glass walkway (in the video, replaces industrial mesh grid floor.

6) The bath was far too small for both of them to fit in.

7) It was the kind of house Blofeld would have.

8) The best bit though was the planning dispute. They interviewed the people from (I think) the London Symphony Orchestra who objected to the brick used in the party wall. Because it wasn't their actual property, they could act in their own minds as not personally interested and so more 'rational'. INstead, shorn of any reason to compromise (because you actually have to live there and be neighbourly ultimately) they really got to the heart of the bourgeois nastiness that is contentious small home improvement planning issues. Magnificent to see the true nasty spitefulness come out. More!

For more, including video, visit the Grand Designs website.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 10:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

They seemed a strangely mismatched couple I thought.

But yeah, phenomenal house.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

I only saw the start and finish, it's been on before apparently, cos I thought it looked like an amazing plan and when I called Chris in to watch it he said he'd seen it before and she was so annoying he couldn't watch it. He was right.

The best bit of it I saw was the update on the planning application, that approval for the bricks in the party wall had been refused, and that they were appealing. Fantastic!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was so shocked by the £34000 cooker that any further rational analysis went out of the window.

Thirty Four THOUSAND POUNDS on a COOKER! THAT DIDN'T EVEN WORK!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

It was a new series, so how has Chris seen this? I think we should be told.

They were odd weren't they? I thought they were both lu-las but I warmed to her; she smiled. He was a bit of a cold fish, but I started to like him when he got all philistine about commissioning art.

They'd been looking for a dream house for 6 years; I wondered at some did they stop loving each other (or will htye?) and instead they love the idea of being people with a grebt house. He provided the cash, she got the plans drawn up and supervised that. I started to wonder what the catacylsmic consequencdes would be if either had a drunken shag vcausing the rellie to fall apart.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

I saw the end of this (I was watching Bob Monkhouse's Heroes of Comedy which seemed to be based on hearsay as they didn't include any interviews with him, and Hairy Women where a guy went look around the Amalfi coast in pursuit of the hirsute - dude, use the internet, it's designed to find hairy women) and I'm glad I didn't see all of it. The way they quickly dismissed the fact that they had spent double their budget of £600,000 made me sick. I'm afraid to say I cheered when it said that their retrospective planning application had been refused.

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

really? Maybe it's been on living tv or something? Or maybe he imagined it.

The house itself was amazing, but they really didn't come over well. How many of the couples/families involved in grand designs do though?

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

"How many of the couples/families involved in grand designs do though?"

The couple who rennovated the derelict water pumping station in Chesterfield did.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Was that the one where they didn't manage to renovate the part that was going to be the bedrooms, so had to sleep in the living room?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

If that had been the Royal Family doing that, we'd all be at the walls with torches....

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

Don't think so, by the epilogue the house was completely finished, but it was one of the Grand Designs revisited episodes.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

No, the one I'm thinking of was also Revisited, and they still hadn't finished it. It was an old water-works with a tower that had had a tank in it; they were going to convert the tank into bedrooms, with new semi-subterranean buildings around it as the living areas. The new parts were finished fine, but by the time the money ran out the tower was still an empty shell.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Caitlin, that one sounds very different...weird that there are two water-pumping-station episodes though. I missed the one last night, but saw the other water pumping station one, and really enjoyed it. All their hard work and dedication was amazing, and the building looked fantastic at the end, despite my doubts about the gigantic living room floor plan etc, they really made something uniquely suited to them with relatively little money.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

I think I remember the one Sarah describes. Didn't they turn an old Mini into a desk?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh, was *that* waterworks one the one that was on a week or two or go? I remember that too - it was *huge*.

The one I'm talking about was in the last series, I think.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes on both counts. I thought the Mini would be weird, but it looked good with their posters and art, and to scale with the interior.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sigh. I miss England so much.

Ah, I bet it wasn't as good as the one where we got to laugh at Damien Hirst for spending tens of thousands of pounds on A SHED. That was the best one ever. Better than the two goths with the water tank. (There have been two water pumping station couples.)

Maybe it's schadenfreunde (sp?) but I prefer the ones where everything goes wrong and the smug couples who you want to punch in the face at the beginning of the programme are left debt-ridden and on the verge of divorce at the end.

― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

all that space for two people is bordering on the obscene, especially in london.

and then they go and put 3 large goldfish in a small spherical bowl. grrr.

that said, the bricks they used for the extra wall did look like a better match for the rest of the wall than the ones that were specified. other bits of the courtyard used the other bricks but that wall was already pink. they just needed a couple of months to get a bit grubbier and less new looking.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

that huf haus. i want one. a bespoke, prefab, 3d mondrian.

and would you find 6 english builders as efficient as those germans?

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

The production team probably got a zillion calls yesterday from middle-class handwringers trying to get the number for the German builders.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Wasn't there another Grand Desgins - possibly the in the series on interiors, where they brought in German builders and it all went horribly wrong - something to do with a flat roof I think ?

― smee (smee), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

It was the one in Hackney, where they completely ripped the insides of a terrace down. They got Germans in to do the glass walls at the extension, and the flat roof on the extension, and yes, it leaked and had to be re-done.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

because they designed it for the water to actually sit on the roof instead of running away, so that it could act as a further insulator - which I thought was madness, and it was.

That house was rather nice though.

― chris (chris), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

My pal Carlos' old Arch. tutor Jeremy Till was on this last year, as he and his wife (also a top-drawer Arch. lecturer) made this amazing house in the arse-end of N7 where there was hay-bale insulation etc. Which was weird because the place has been in a million supplements.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ooh, I remember that one - that was the one right next to the ECML, was't it?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 2 February 2004 11:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, the one with the hay bails was nice.

Couldn't stand the place with the £34K cooker though. The whole building was like a very impersonal, immaculately finished, public space - with glass walkways and indoor courtyards. It felt like a Terence Conran restaurant or a posh hotel to me. If I worked in the city, that would be the last place on earth I'd want to come home to.

― bert (bert), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

ach the first one in this thread is being repeated now.

cunts!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

also that huff-haus is now being used on "Footballers Wives"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

i love the LFO for making that couple's lives a misery.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

> being repeated now

'revised repeat', means they don't have to mark it as a repeat in the listings. didn't watch it last night but a part of me hopes it has fallen down since the last visit.

the finnish timber kit house looked fun. like lego only bigger. (and only £65k for the entire kit)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yes the Finnish DIY house was fab! Nice woodworking man put one of the support pillars in the wrong place though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was concerned that that the house they built was terribley energy inefficient. Why do they need six toilets, if there are only two of them in the home?

― jel, Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

I would like to build my own house. I fear it would always be incomplete though.

― jel, Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

yes, i fear that i would be walking on planks for the rest of my life. there'd be a path from the door to the chair to the kitchen to the bathroom to the tv and the rest would remain rubular for ever.

> terribley energy inefficient.

rich people, i have decided, don't care. if they can afford the bills it's ok for them to use as much as they like, they feel. for all of us who bother to recycle there's someone like my boss who drives a hummer.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I saw it first time round. Really unpleasant tosspot people, very nice house. I'm not sure, but I think it would have cost them as much as the cooker to pull the wall down and do it properly, but they thought it was extortionate. It might have been more though. Who cares, they could afford it.

The other insufferable couple were the ones (well, come to think of it, they were all insufferable) who decided to build a New England clapboard (or whatever) house in Sussex and the bloke built his own fireplce and it looked like a bloody great Babapapa in the corner.

The only ones who weren't entirely insufferable were that Pet Shop Boys bloke and his boyfriend and they were only bearable because they were subjected to homophobia (or so they thought, sadly we didn't get to see any of it).

I would like just a little wooden house.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

I remember the New England house in Sussex from last year. That couple made me seethe - especially when the lady described one area as a 'meditation room'.

The folks who renovated the 19th C. house in Leith were nice.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

"C. house" would be appropriate terminology for the kind of people who go on these programmes.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is that the couple who were climbers Rob? I liked them, they were nice.

I also remember a guy who made a house out of straw in France? He was a nice down to earth chap, and his house ended up looking grebt.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm all for having a few mod cons in the kitchen, but a £34,000 COOKER? That's not even funny, it's a disgusting, excessive display of wealth that made me sick.

AND a dumb waiter - not only that but a HEATED dumb waiter!!!

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, the climbers. They had a nailgun that went through STEEL.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

You're thinking of the Three Little Pigs, Rumpie.

Next week, a foolish man builds his house upon the sands.

I missed the ones with nice people, I was in a state of seethe.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

The climbers were great. I loved the way they seemd to treat the whole exercise as one big excuse to hang off the side of the building at precarious angles.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

What's the update on the house? How much did they spend on resolving the issue of the mismatched brickwork? Are they divorced?

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not divorced yet, but he's definitely having an affair.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

The council suggested they got someone in to tint the bricks. Which was objected to by the LFO. The police were called to enforce the councils decision. When presenter chappy asked if they wished they'd given in to start with they said no cos it would have been too expensive. 'Too expensive?','yes, it would have cost about £30,000'. Sadly no news on whether the £34,000 cooker was in working order yet.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

much as i hated the couple the footage of the LFO meeting was hysterical. "so do you want the wall torn down?" - "no, thats not good enough because it shouldn't have been there in the first place". I'm surprised that people liked this weeks house though, i just thought it that kind of kind of good taste that can be bought, utterly uninpired. The tall atrium/dining space looked just like a meeting room in a corporate office space mixed with the communal area in bad girls.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

I didn't think much

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

What does the F stand for in LFO?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

festival

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

or funkie

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

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Ah! The big gay white cube on the beach? I remember that one!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

I didn't like the huge copper roof on last night's Grand Designs - like the presenter said, *now* it goes really well with the terracotta-coloured exterior, but it won't do in twenty years' time when it's bright green.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

he's got a name and that name is KEVIN do you hear!!!

― Kev, Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

conned her? I don't think you watched it, did you?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sounded like a con to me.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

okay

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

Okay, maybe didn't con her as such, they merely estimated the cost of the house at 200 thousand and it ended up costing well over 400 thousand. She was very uncomplaining.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

a house on a loch with two small children in the house and one on the way? good thinking. at least they boxed in that staircase.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 7 April 2006 09:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

God, I miss telly.

Did Kevin look supercilliously at them, and point this out?

― Bernard Sumner's Girlfriend (kate), Friday, 7 April 2006 09:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

he was too busy gushing about the scenary. (does it really look like that in scotland? i had a suspicion they were using coloured filters on the camera).

they also seemed to have dumbed the program down a lot. in the first series they'd've explaned how the laser guided plumbline thing worked. see also: scrapheap challenge.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Laser Guided Plumbline. Is that the new Spiritualized bootleg that's doing the rounds? ;-)

― Bernard Sumner's Girlfriend (kate), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

a house on a loch with two small children in the house and one on the way? good thinking. at least they boxed in that staircase.

i dont get it

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

small children + water = risk of drowning

they also had a space age staircase of glass planks poking out of the wall (cantilevered) and it looked like they were going to have no banister for a while. in the end they had a glass wall boxing the stairs in in place of a banister and (hopefully) stopping young children from falling off the sides and caving their heads in.

the aquarium was impressive.

and the laser plumbline was more of a laser measuring thing complete with it's own tripod, for locating walls and beams and stuff to within a 3mm tolerance (which sounded low but which is quite high for this kind of stuff)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

surely small children grow up near water all over the place? rivers, lakes, sea etc? unless the birth rate plummets in seaside towns

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, you kind of learn - after being repeatedly shouted at by your parents - not to go near the river/lake (both of which I've had in houses where I was growing up.

The staircase without a ballustrade I find more worrying, though. I'm an adult, and I'd have THE FEAR walking up one.

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Where was that place - despite going on about it's remoteness and breathtaking beauty I'm sure I could hear traffic and see houses in the distance. I liked the house though. Just about my perfect size. I'm going to put in an offer,

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 7 April 2006 11:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sometimes when my bus gets diverted I get to go past the one in Peckham where a really pleasant couple built a fantastic one-storey house, with a magic retractable roof on ballbearings, in an unlikely plot. They've been working on the front, extending it I think. Bless them.

― Tim (Tim), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Just noticed the house in Peckham is part of the RIBA open house day in London. I'm going for a good ol nose around and to see those pods and the retractable roof.
Just found this too when doing a search for their house www.peckhamhouse.com I can't believe the size of the plot they started with.

― jaussie (jaussie), Monday, 11 September 2006 07:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

saw the second of the Castleford regeneration programs last night (missed the first). was depressing. people not listening to people, vandalism, bribery, ugly monoliths...

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/kevin-s-big-town-plan/?intcmp=docpage_box3

― koogs, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 17:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

this motherfucker tonight made my blood boil, i fervently hope he's penniless, miserable alone and itchy tonight wherever the fuck he is

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

just awful. kevin mcloud is a better man than me.

― jed_, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

awful awful awful, right down to the martyred siege mentality so prevalent amongst the most shining examples of celtic tiger idiocy. I couldn't even enjoy the inevitable, seething as i was in a mental red mist of 'I'M PAYING FOR THIS YOU PRICK I'M PAYING FOR THIS YOU PRICK' i may write to the producers demanding a less sympathetic summation from a finnish economist

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:36 (9 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

the irish guy was a bit ridic - basically eschewing plans and drawings in favour of blarney.

i did like the plywood box house, specifically the way they had a laser cutter on site and could tweak things as required (fortunately given that they'd overlooked stuff. lol, fine art students...)

his sunday night show is a bit of fluff though, the kind of thing dick strawbridge would present...

― koogs, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

otm the plywood was neat

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

sunday night show is increasingly icky. dogshit and deer brains tonight.

― koogs, Sunday, 7 October 2012 21:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

horrible woman

― koogs, Thursday, 11 October 2012 18:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

dreadful! And the place looked like an orgy of mobile homes.

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

a must-see huh?

― Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself (ledge), Friday, 12 October 2012 08:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

I kind of applaud them for sticking to their contemporary guns int eh face of all the old white privilege "though shalt not enter the 20th century" bullshit, but at the same time I wish they'd just built something a litte more subtle: so many of the contemporary / modernist boxes they build on GD are so bloody large that they don't ever seem clever or imbued with personality. I'm always far more impressed by the ones they build on tiny, awkward plots - and whilst this was a relatively awkward plot, they still stuck a 3-storey mobile-home-orgy (great description!) on it.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 12 October 2012 08:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

what got me is how the neighbours hated the idea of anything new but seemed to be ok with the rotting carcass that was there before. and the new one seemed to overhang the river less - better for the neighbours.

am guessing the feelings around that neck of the woods are running a bit higher after the program has aired...

also, lol at ex-husband demolishing the old house and then moving away

― koogs, Friday, 12 October 2012 08:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

How have I never posted on this thread before? I love GD. We had a fridge magnet of Kevin for about 4 years ffs. I own one of his books.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 12 October 2012 08:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

i agree, SM, it's not that the riverfront didn't need relief from the stuffy archetype, i just didn't think the couple did it with any grace nor flair. The build wouldn't have fitted in anywhere, really.

Think that kevin has been cheerleading increasingly indefensible projects this series, which might make for better 'tv' but hasn't improved the show imo

It was an interesting build, but only for the difficulty of the plot and the little elements of teutonic perfection in the execution of eg fired clay exterior (not enough of this vs 'let's interview another dreadful entitled rich person')

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 09:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

this programme is turning me into a marxist

― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

steady on

― a pass-agg to indier (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

i mean i'm having visions of a higher rate of tax of i dunno 90%

― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

it was good enough for my parents

― a pass-agg to indier (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

spent 380k on tower, quotes on build brings it over a million

a friend let them half a mil

what do the ppl on grand designs do? we need to be told. roscommon cunt still has me clenching in rage

― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

> what do the ppl on grand designs do?

"property portfolio"

― koogs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

hmm yeah

i mean gluck to him but really let's have a proper 'ten years on' follow up on these ppl where they live in the bahamas having given up the house to the bank with 2m arrears owed, kvetching about how the suits just 'didn't understand their vision, the brutes'

― the oft-posited third fisherman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

last two have both been loads of money with disappointing (imo) results. yes, the view was nice in that first one, but the rooms were all smaller than average - throw a party for more than 30 people and it'll have to spread over at least 2 floors.

what's more interesting, to me, is George Clarke's Amazing Spaces on tuesdays where people are doing small things on 4 or 5 figure budgets, not 7. (that said, programme itself is a bit of a mongrel - following one project, highlighting others and doing one himself - so you end up with not much detail on anything)

― koogs, Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

i think that the new turn gd has taken is somewhat samey, offputting and boring- unlimited cash budgets funding 'i'm so individual' brats.

Last night's turned out better than expected, but tbh it was like clocking a game on cheat mode with all the money involved. And kevin was just trolling in overemphasising the lighting aspects throughout, coming over all amazed at the end when they solved it by putting in.....lights. Seriously, didn't see that coming?

These people are spending huge money on vanity projects, which, fair enough, has almost always been the MO of the programme. But they are all booooring, identikit superprivileged who want to get on grand designs.

― i will fondue, and i will killue (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

and SO MANY lights. i'd hate their lecky bills.

― koogs, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

obligatory 'sooo cheap to heat' ref at the end oh fuck you, you just spent three million on a marble staircase don't fuckin come over all worried about either household bills or the general wellbeing of the planet now you chancer.

― i will fondue, and i will killue (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

Anyone who needs that much vanilla marble has emotional problems that will not be solved by any amount of vanilla marble.

Haven't seen the George 'Arthur C' Clarke programme yet but it does seem more appealing, even if he doesn't.

My favourite GDs are almost always were interesting people do creative things with small budgets. City cocks with marble staircases can fuck off.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

omfg at the underground toilet conversion on the George Clarke programme.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

tube trains on the roof. downside: you have to wear your coats in the winter...

― koogs, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 09:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

The dancefloor is cool, but 25 grand. Ouch.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 21:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

fuckin cuuuuunts

― bill paxman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 21:52 (6 months ago) Permalink

Kind of skirted over the "how are you getting on with your neighbours now" issue.

― ledge, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:03 (6 months ago) Permalink

Skirted around. Scooted over?

― ledge, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:04 (6 months ago) Permalink

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