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 (twenty years ago) link
Thirty Four THOUSAND POUNDS on a COOKER! THAT DIDN'T EVEN WORK!
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
The couple who rennovated the derelict water pumping station in Chesterfield did.
― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
The one I'm talking about was in the last series, I think.
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:06 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
and would you find 6 english builders as efficient as those germans?
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
― smee (smee), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago) link
That house was rather nice though.
― chris (chris), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 February 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 2 February 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
cunts!
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
'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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel, Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
> 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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
The folks who renovated the 19th C. house in Leith were nice.
― robster (robster), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
AND a dumb waiter - not only that but a HEATED dumb waiter!!!
― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpy Pumpkin, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
And then they conned her out of £300000.
Very poor.
― Rumpie, Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link
has he not watched Poltergeist?
(i'm only 15 minutes in but i can see where this is going)
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
I hate him
― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
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
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
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
― koogs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
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
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
Right im banning this programme from the house
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Thursday, 28 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
This is possibly the worst episode I’ve ever seen. I kinda wanna break things because I’ve seen it.
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Fuck im glad we left the music on and the tv off so because every episode is that for me
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
i always absolutely despise the folk in this show. can't bring myself to watch it again, blood-pressure-ruiner.
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
they saved the mill by ruining the mill. not that you can live in a mill but...
― koogs, Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
Cool couple mill baby
― cpt otm (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
Love this bothy
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 16 September 2021 06:22 (two years ago) link
bothy: deems nuts (about it)
― kinder, Thursday, 16 September 2021 06:43 (two years ago) link
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
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
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
― koogs, Saturday, 25 September 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
Only half watching but this fella is a dolt
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
Love the result mind
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Do you feel the pressure, Fernando
― kinder, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
kevin's jeggings
― koogs, Thursday, 30 September 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Hes a gangster kevin you can say it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
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.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
(TBF, I might just have seen one shit episode that put me off for a bit).
― djh, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
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
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
(also My Floating Home)
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 05:36 (two years ago) link
5 minutes into yesterday's and the guy seems like a cock
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
No double entendre but he grew on me
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
yeah.
nice enough house but fuck a pointless cantilever.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
Rotten pick for house of the year
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
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?)
― koogs, Friday, 10 December 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
is this the same one? tamarhttps://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
― koogs, Friday, 10 December 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
It was on at least one other show but im going to haev to check re the specifics
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 10 December 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
new series tonight.
― koogs, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 07:30 (one year ago) link
(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...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 07:32 (one year ago) link
watching this now. 5 minutes in: "it'll be a nightmare if it costs that much"...
― koogs, Saturday, 3 September 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
30 minutes in and the Latvian constructors have taken the money and run.
― koogs, Saturday, 3 September 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
and the entire thing done for 2 people, one of whom works away for months at a time.
― koogs, Saturday, 3 September 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
australian show was better last week - quadraplegic making a single-level earth house.
but the uk one this week more up my street - modular
― koogs, Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Thought postman Kevin was Russ Abbott at the start there
― kinder, Thursday, 8 September 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
i have annoyed my other half by yelling "you're gonna get live-ins" at every shot of a shed on a truck
― kinder, Thursday, 8 September 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:26 (ten months ago) link
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
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 January 2024 14:31 (three months ago) link