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