Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

But yeah, phenomenal house.

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!

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

andy

That house was rather nice though.

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.

cunts!

'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)

> 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.

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.

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

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

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.

And then they conned her out of £300000.

Very poor.

Did anyone else see that "How To Rescue A House" on BBC2 earlier in the evening? THat was even sadder? It was supposed to be about buying and restoring derelict listed properties. And in the end, the couple missed out on the house they fell in love with because it was sold to a developer who was going to use the land to build TEN NEW HOUSES and not bother with restoring the listed house.

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

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.

i dont get it

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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...

otm the plywood was neat

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

horrible woman

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

a must-see huh?

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.

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

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.

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')

this programme is turning me into a marxist

steady on

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

it was good enough for my parents

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

> what do the ppl on grand designs do?

"property portfolio"

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'

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The dancefloor is cool, but 25 grand. Ouch.

fuckin cuuuuunts

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

Skirted around. Scooted over?

new series tonight, 21:00 on 4

(have been watching old favourite This Old House on quest for the last couple of weeks. how GD used to be)

how is this any different from grand designs?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/building-the-dream/episode-guide

"Architectural designer Charlie Luxton helps people build dream homes that are both amazing and affordable"

maybe it's Grand Designs for people who don't have a cool two mil two spend, i.e. they only have a cool 500k.

the converted cinema in GD this week was <450k

but, yeah, is more4 so suggests it's a budget version

Fuckwits

^ post every week at this time tbf

am watching this now and am curious when in the programme the above was posted. was it at first use of the phrase 'eco taxi'?

or "14 neighbours' fences"? or "lap pool"?

it's all a bit of a blur

specifically, alex james i spose, had i to pick

ha.

next week's looks promising - "the kitchen is the mothership of the home", "rhythmic spaces"...

i think the cheapo more4 version may actually turn out better.

Yeah it seemed much more promising.

GD has become a programme about schadenfreude, o'erweening pride and planning struggles. Last night was ten mins of house forty mins of difficulties ten mins of whinging about difficulties (usually, obv, self inflicted)

Just tell us about the plan, show us the build, pick out the details, show us the house! Dont dwell on the fact that ignoring yr architect or running yr own project or triumphantly taking on neighbours, planners or the bank is idiocy- we know!

Just, yknow. The house. Show it.

Building The Dream (just watched) is a second class Grand Designs. i wonder how the people feel when ch4 turn them down for GD and then suggest they do BtD. and it's not like they do a lot of GD - half a dozen a year or so, some of which are 'revise repeats'. i guess it's kevin's availability. that said, he's fannying around building sheds...

has a lot of the same problems though. 400k and not 1M, yes, but there's still something about it. marketing manager, tax advisor, parent's garden, village they grew up in, 'party house', the aga, the wire basket full of corks etc. presenter keeps asking 'will they listen to my advice?' not quite to sarah beaney levels but still. also, the false jeopardy - will they make it in for the random deadline that they picked out the air?

(and the massive, sad, irony being that given both his parents died in the last two years the house he grew up in, next door, is now empty)

i want to know why they are building it that way, and how, the details, the insulation, the moisture barriers etc. This Old House does this well. GD used to.

Would watch four hour program (or even whole channel) entitled 'aimlessly poking about other folks houses' tbh

there was 'britain's best home' or something, on ch4 in, er, 2003 which was pretty much this. every other one had a le corbusier lounger.

I think I might have seen this on ILM originally but this posh, architect oriented estate agent's website is a nice Sunday rabbit hole.

http://www.themodernhouse.net/

^ should have kept my parents' Ercol furniture . . .

and then there's this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bjq4d

The House That £100k Built

"With house prices out of the reach of many people and banks refusing to lend, buying a home in the UK is becoming an impossible dream. So a few brave but ordinary souls are trailblazing what could be the solution for all of us - trying to build their own house from scratch."

"Will he be able to finish the house and pay his parents back?" DUN-DUN-DUH

^ starts Wed on bbc2 at 20:00, just before Grand Designs...

yeh m8 the solution for all of us, let's see how far that £150 in my bank account gets me.

yeah idgi, house prices out of the reach of many so the solution for all of us is... to drop a hundred grand??

I mean fine make a programme about people who want to build a house from scratch, but conflating it with austerity etc seems fucking tenuous.

100k isnt cheap for a house?

Och I suppose so aye. I'm just skint and bitter. Carry on.

You can get a flat in a shithole in Glasgow for 30k.

ok, two things wrong with the 100k programme. why build something enormous immediately? there has to be a modular way of doing this*, no need to jump to a 4 bedroom place from nothing. and you don't need to finish it to 5-star restaurant standards immediately either.

(* and if not, why not?)

also, the land was *another* 100k.

presenter is a bit odd. looks like bill gates. and fuck showing these people innovative houses for inspiration, he's not in the position to take such risks. maybe next time.

100k is cheap for a house, to me. but then i live in zone2 where a 1 bed flat goes for 280k. the problem is that getting a mortgage for a self-build might be difficult so you might need the whole of that 100k immediately. or borrow it off your pensioner parents...

oh, the 100k bloke didn't do too badly in the end. apart from that metal wall. i hope there weren't electrics in there...

100k home: my two least favourite building materials, together at last. but otherwise i quite liked it.

(but again, the money didn't include the cost of the land)

not grand designs. not the low-budget grand-designs, not even the bbc2 rip-off of grand designs but George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, specifically the beehive house thing. i've been banging on about affordable modular houses for ages, buy new rooms as you need / can afford them. and that seemed to be close... but, i don't think hexagons are the best shape for the modules - honeycombs are that way as that uses the least wall for the most cells, but that's not what you want for buildings, too many walls.

they also seemed a bit flimsy - single floor, more suited as a summer house than a permanent house.

(maybe insulated shipping containers...)

Yeah, I wasn't at all sold on the insulation properties of the beehive house. The idea makes sense, but I do suspect that squares / rectangles would work better, and that you don't want a flimsy plastic skylight letting all your heat straight out of the roof.

the living pod int he french garage on Amazing Spaces was nice and compact. i could see that catching on in a million tiny london studio flats.

on building the dream last week he said 'the shiny silver stuff keeps the warmth in'. really?

Hard to get excited about someone with ocd building a warehouse, etc.

Cave is a bit o_O

yeah the warehouse/gallery was ehhhh ..... off

I liked the cave!

he did a good job with the cave. but didn't seem to be quite living in it when kevin came around.

New series.

Loved the outside of the black house from yesterday, not so keen on the inside.

My Floating Home on Thursdays at 21:00 on more 4 is fascinating BTW. It is what it sounds like, and a lot of it is Dutch etc, places where they've been doing this for ages.

Wouldn't want that guy as my accountant after that. I wonder whether he'll lose clients now that's aired?

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hate em already

lmao 6 months? what's their budget?

two hundred grand odd lolololol

posh rich ppl failures are funny til u realise we pay for it

lmao an archaeologist (£400-500 per day) has to investigate every bucket of earth they excavate ?!

this is already extremely funny

oh its the blackest comedy

princess cant distance herself enough from the dreamer architect genius she married

theres only two types of ppl in the world (obv) those that tell you the type of person they are and those that arent awful

His only help on site is Mimi's dad, a retired vicar.

one kid, another on the way and they build something with only two bedrooms?

place would've made a nice 1-bed flat, but it's not a family home.

use of lidar scans was original and useful though.

its an airbnb already, depend upon it

you'd have been better off watching DIY SOS, it was a real tear-jerker.

janeane garofalo is a big fan of diy sos. she was on front row on day supposedly talking about her edinburgh show but spent a lot of it talking about nick knowles.

grand designs australia is on one of the *4 channels every night and that makes interesting viewing, both because of the cultural differences and the building regulations. 40,000 australian dollars put a 1m extension pole onto a power line... (would've been 80k to bury it)

and i didn't think i could like her any more.

that looked a lot like they'd bought a bunch of books because of the colour of their spines.

lol

https://www.granddesigns.tv/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/07_UNP-CH4-38863-Grand-Designs-Mawgan-Porth024.jpg

(look at full size image, there are duplicates in the top left hand box, and others)

a friend of line worked on a design for a similar show (a george clarke one) and says the TV company almost always styles the house for the "reveal". they take those Wegner chairs and Bouroullec brothers lamps and colour-coded spines away as soon as they have wrapped the shoot.

(in case you're wondering how people that didn't have the budget to finish the build suddenly have Eames dining tables)

holy shit i think im a cynic and every now and again boom amidships

I'm thinking that's a pretty cool bookcase, if you ignore the colour coded spine stupidity, but the bolts on the castors are damn ugly and make the lower tier pretty much unusable.

grand designs is such a bad programme because of the presenter

Those bolts look like anti-homeless nobbles

There's like a thousand George Clarke programmes but I thought one of the recent ones, the point was he/the TV show dresses it? After the owners do it up? So there's some element of surprise? I don't know, the rules were vague or maybe I am severely sleep-deprived and the more I try and work out the point of it the more confused I get. Nice show though.

No, it wasn't that show.

best g clarke is ugly house lovely house

the new one, about building in 'impossible' places is good, based on the one episode that's aired so far. because pre-fabs.

yeah nice to see solutions to actual problems as opposed to poshos inventing stupid ones and getting sealclapped

also it looked like home a bit so

Can anyone confirm that the new Grand Designs isn't just highly wealthy people phoning their friends to organise finance?

I once saw a George Clarke programme where a couple lived next door to and above three parking spaces. Clarke made suggestions about the use of space and added some black cladding and ... it was probably the best TV house/design programme I've seen.

point of that prog is that it isnae george clarke making suggestions isn't it?

this one: http://ashtonporter.com/all-projects/residential/cut-and-wrap-house/ ?

yes that series was the one i was referring to but the friend had been working on (a friend of conrad's as well, i think) but her point was that the stylists for the reveal do it for all of these kinds of series' inc. grand designs.

x-post: yes, that was the one. I'd forgotten that it was someone else making the suggestion.

that is horrific

boring inside and considered ugliness outside, sheer contrarian pick 0/10

I agree, it’s awful.

Mingin colour.

run through of previous winners quite cheering apart from those creepy non-children

nice gaff

seven yrs a bit of a pisstake

Esp. at their age.

ooh this is good

always wonder where ppl

really

get their money

and increasingly intolerant of brushing over this in these shows

class consciousness babey

it’s good

im irish, rural irish, youll forgive me my slow start

*pops monocle*

concrete artist

fucks sake

im goin all vincent browne/haughey on these thieves

a dancer

o rly

and a chief technology officer

oh would ye fuck off

i know isis have a very sophisticated social media operation going and all that but rly all they need to demonstrate the decadence of the west is to cut together some lowlights from this and man vs food and voila, instant radicalisation

im proof

mashallah

id kill her

yes your honour, not guilty

yes representing myself

no just one item. well i have it here. 27 minutes jncluding adverts.

Well tonight’s episode was quite something, arrogance, folly and hubris in spades but still felt sorry for him at the end.

and that's just kevin mcleod!!

Lol!

j/k

i didn't see it (well i saw the credits as i put it on for the circle a bit early) but sounds like a good episode, might check out

wasn't particularly a good episode, wasn't even a good disaster, was just pretty much what Dan said in the revive.

the Grandest Design episode they did to celebrate the anniversary was interesting, a revisit of the best 5 or so from over the years. the winner was the irish guy with two shipping containers stacked on top of each other (which i remember as being interesting at the time)

guy fucked it

can he play rb

it was a least interesting episode, fuck all about design and all about a horrible family

the house that the euphoria series of dance music compilations failed to build

ministry of housing

are you all talking about this lighthouse one that's on repeat right now?

yes

This thing had hubris written all over it from the beginninng, your kids don't need a double room with an en suite each.

beginni the beguinninni

only caught the end. 4 million quid, was it?

plus eight years plus one marriage

minus one house

new series of Australian GD started last night. they do love their Cor-ten steel.

Australian Grand Designs on again nightly. repeats of a series i didn't see at the time.

that thing where they are surveying the plot and the date pops up on screen and it's 7 years ago. and they're still talking about being in before christmas...

(two married bishops, ren fair fans, medieval timber frame building, on a slope, and he's insisting on sanding all the beams himself)

add to that a 5m stained glass window

new series (which'll probably be the usual 4 new buildings and then 'revised repeats')

digging down 6m next to an ancient graveyard, what could possibly go wrong?

at least they're not building on top of it.

has he not watched Poltergeist?

(i'm only 15 minutes in but i can see where this is going)

I hate him

second episode quite impressive

but this series is being hit by covid. they are digging, they are digging, [covid happens], final distanced reveal. they seem to be skipping a lot of the middle of the process.

third episode looks like they are building something very similar to the temporary theatres that went up in w12 - mansard roof, steel skeleton, sips panels.

Is this the guy who was moving his kids, new mrs, new kid, old parent, old ste parent all in?

I quite liked the way it turned out tbh

episode 3, yes

the theatre i was talking about. the making-of video shows the shape better, and not just the square facade.

https://www.troubadourtheatres.com/news/building-troubadour-white-city-theatre

These two deserve each other

This fella really thinks hes a visionary, back-of-fagbox designing hus version of things that have already been commercially available for ages

Genuinely seems like he's not quite there.

Tragic for her she had to get a job filling wrinkles to afford cushions

Right im banning this programme from the house

a caption saying "May 2017", nevr a good sign.

'we'll be in by next christmas...', yeah, right.

was the earth ship he visited a previous GD? looked very familiar, especially the tyres.

(i also think i remember his dad on tomorrow's world)

This is possibly the worst episode I’ve ever seen. I kinda wanna break things because I’ve seen it.

Fuck im glad we left the music on and the tv off so because every episode is that for me

i always absolutely despise the folk in this show. can't bring myself to watch it again, blood-pressure-ruiner.

they saved the mill by ruining the mill. not that you can live in a mill but...

Cool couple mill baby

Love this bothy

i liked the triangular thing from last week, built on an odd plot between a railway line and a main road and bisected by a sewer.

bothy: deems nuts (about it)

Oh dearie me no

Xp yeah that was also a delight

The show is so much better when the problem/constraints are real and not just idiot ambition

big pavilion was nice but I'm sure there was a way of having fewer than 3 spare bedrooms and keeping the favourite tree of the guy who almost single handedly built it for you

Only half watching but this fella is a dolt

Love the result mind

Do you feel the pressure, Fernando

kevin's jeggings

Hes a gangster kevin you can say it

Has it been worth watching recently? I think I hit a point, a few years back, where everyone seemed to be a million quid short and could always find it ... and I stopped caring.

(TBF, I might just have seen one shit episode that put me off for a bit).

I definitely hit that wall, covid era has meant things get at least that interesting again

Def true that the actual designs and builds became less and less interesting or the central focus years ago which made it a far worse show imo

A few of the recent ones definitely had more interesting, challenging builds with very good stuff in them (and quite likeable people) tbf

i think at this point i prefer the Australian and New Zealand ones, they seem more varied. or the various George Clark budget versions.

(also My Floating Home)

5 minutes into yesterday's and the guy seems like a cock

No double entendre but he grew on me

yeah.

nice enough house but fuck a pointless cantilever.

tinie tempah doing a good job on Extraordinary Extensions despite the odd premise - he seems to know his stuff and is affable. quite fetching pink titles too.

Rotten pick for house of the year

watched this last night and, yeah, the winner seemed to be really nothing special.

liked the one in the scottish highlands, or would've if they'd've just left it as the one long part and not added the two other wings.
(wasn't that featured on the short lived show about prefabs that ch4 did, with the presenter who died before the series was finished?)

is this the same one? tamar
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/impossible-builds/on-demand/64660-001

vs assynt:
https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-house-of-the-year/2021/house-in-assynt

It was on at least one other show but im going to haev to check re the specifics

new series tonight.

(australian series on thursday as well, a contiuation of the fashion of more4 showing aus versions of all the english favourites: big brother, bake off, married at first sight, lego challenge...)

watching this now. 5 minutes in: "it'll be a nightmare if it costs that much"...

30 minutes in and the Latvian constructors have taken the money and run.

and the entire thing done for 2 people, one of whom works away for months at a time.

australian show was better last week - quadraplegic making a single-level earth house.

but the uk one this week more up my street - modular

Thought postman Kevin was Russ Abbott at the start there

i have annoyed my other half by yelling "you're gonna get live-ins" at every shot of a shed on a truck

Kevin enthuses about a bronze light switch that you can toggle with your elbow. but it sticks out about an inch and it's going to catch on everything for years to come.

Love it when Kevin McCloud is like "great architecture can change the world, it can light up our hearts, a home can show us how to love & how to live" at the start of Grand Designs & then the episode is about the cruelest & most delusional man you've ever seen in your entire life

— Mike Townsend (@townsendyesmate) January 6, 2024

Amazing Spaces on Thursday... mk3 train carriage, gwr livery at the bottom of a field. £3k to buy, 10k to transport

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amazing+spaces+george+clarke+train+carriage&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridgeindependent.co.uk%2F_media%2Fimg%2FG6C2RDG4CNE8DXNV3MK1.jpg (image Search link to avoid paywall)

the previous week was something similar with containers and that always appeals. maybe i just like narrow buildings.

narrow buildings always have problems locating the stairs though. do you halve the useful width with a staircase or stick it at the end?

this reminds me that there is a new season of grand designs on...something. britbox. or acorn. one of them.

filming on project started 5.5 years ago, i wonder how this is going to go...

the final trip to another water tower seemed like twisting the knife

they'll never finish it.

when it opened with the lift tower I thought whoa! the water tower was a bit of a let down after that.

the latest episode has the most unpleasant and unnecessary intro imaginable.

i liked the boat, but My Floating Home got there first.

your post has reminded me I've not watched the second one yet

it's odd that GD and Amazing Spaces restarted in the same week. you'd think they'd spread them out.

unpleasant and unnecessary? kevin mccloud?

i have seen it now. yikes.

i like the new afters show that goes into more detail. and the prefab build was nice and smooth, to the point of being uninteresting.

new presenter on GD Australia not as good though.