Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

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