Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

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