Grand designs

Swedish architecture on the outside...1930's Art deco appearence on the inside.

Nothing new there.

Thats my view. :-P

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The3rd Earl Of Derby
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And what a basic mistake not taking account of the Building Regs in the part of the country the house is to be built in .. Did you also notice when the windaes did arrive that the logo on the guys T shirt was blurred out ...wonder what it said ..

Stuart

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Stuart

Maybe what Gav posted......

Dave

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Dave Stanton

"Stuart" wrote

Yes - Not sure why the architect wasn't held accountable there! The window requirements etc should be clearly stated on drawings, not the fault of either contractor IMO.

Phil

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TheScullster

"Weatherlawyer" wrote

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Either my perceptions of this program have changed, or the delivery has become diluted. It seems that Kevin now has to close for each advert break with ever more dramatic cliff hanging rhetoric (sp): "Do they know what they have taken on here? I'm really not sure!" Or "The program they have set themselves just doesn't seem realistic" etc etc

To my mind this is typical dumming down to dovetail with all the disfunctional family garbage shows about Nannies and what your kids will look like if they continue to eat 5000000 bags of crisps a day.

I guess the bottom line is that if you want genuine technical content you need a dedicated channel rather than the please-all ex-terrestrial offerings. Not sure if such a channel exists (I don't subscribe to Sky just catch the free stuff).

Phil

Reply to
TheScullster

It looked not bad inside but outside I thought the house was just plain 'orrible

Stuart ..

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Stuart

Noticed they didn't give the over spend from the original 350k budget. 50k?

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

Inside it was the same as every otehr project they have done. Acres of beige, and why does every house they show need to be built with an upper floor that doesn't reach as far as the wall?

I suppose they think they are being "different" by choosing something the same as everyone else. The house was a horror, cheap allotment shed on the outside, standard middle-class ticky-tacky box on the inside.

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Steve Firth

Presumably they're catering for those who watch it...

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Mary Fisher

I seem to recollect reading somewhere that the programme's producers want him to spread doom and gloom throughout, coz they want to hold (the unthinking part of) their audience with 'will they, won't they fall flat on their faces'. Having said that, he *always* come up with an anodyne comment at the end of every prog. " Well, despite not having enough money, despite not having a clue about project management, despite trying cutting edge technology, despite resorting to medieval technology, despite this, despite that, they've managed to come up with a home that is .....[1]"

The programme ain't about cutting edge designs, it's merely another type of reality TV programme. I've largely given up watching, the only one that rang my bell was the guy who built his own home in the middle of his own woodland. Unfortunately, in the follow up prog, he had acquired a partner and sprog and she was busy imprinting her influence on what had been a superb home.

[1] Enter whatever description suits your opinion, I tend to favour 'crap'.
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The Wanderer

. I've largely given up watching, the only one that

I think the guy was a genuine person, he had no wealth, diddled the planners and related to his immediate environment like no other person on the show. This appealed to viewers like me.

Also, it was fascinating to watch someone *create* a house out of a few ideas. The chances of it being demolished are zero as it has attracted so much acclaim. It will probably end up in a heritage park, next to the saxon house.

Reply to
EricP

Like one or two previous designs, there was a lot of space used for double height rooms, and then tiny kids bedrooms. If I was going through the trauma of such a build, I would want it to be big enough for my needs for a very long time.

Chris

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Chris J Dixon

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Sounds like a lot of swanky houses - all about showing off rather than being useable and nice to live in.

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Guy King

The only reason I started watching Wodin's day's programme was because their false advertising lead me to believe there would be a touch of the diy about it.

If I want to see the latest tech I'd buy a building magazine, get a trade brochure or go to see the ideal home insipidion. Bytte whych manne canne tyrne ye clocke backe.

There is another (daytime) programme that follows people buying homes abroad. Much the same sort of style but at least the punters get a free hand with their dosh and sooo much cheaper to buy in ex iron-curtain states.

I think GD is milking the prime time slot and wouldn't survive there long if the other channels started showing entertainment. At least I never sponsored their slot by watching any commercials.

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Weatherlawyer

I agree with most of what you said but in what way did he diddle the planners? It took him about a decade of negotiations whilst living in a temporary tree house before they agreed didn't it? And there is a covenant that if he leaves it has to be pulled down. Presumably it can only be passed on to an heir if they continue the same type of work as well....

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Fitz

They? Who is they? The interior was specified by the owners and we've never seen anything they have done before... The Grand Designs production team havn't 'done' any projects before they just report on the progress of others. The fact that fashions have influenced a set of people causing them to arrive at a common interior decorating style is remarkably unsurprising as to be almost not worth commenting on.

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Fitz

LOL show us some photos of your house, go on.

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The program producers. The people who show identical, dull, houses each week.

I didn't say they had. You appear to have remarkably low reading skills.

Then they could start by trying to report on something mroe interesting. If I want to watch beige on my TV I'll set up a camera pointing at the inside of a paint tin.

It's not just "a common interior decorating style" it's a uniform bland approach to design and interior construction.

Which bit of "f*ck off k*****ad" are you going to find difficult to understand?

Reply to
Steve Firth

Man-made isn't always spoiled. Much of it is sheep-made, without them it would be spoiled, in my opinion.

Mary

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Mary Fisher

Yes fair point, but I meant from the viewers point of view. He simply appeared to obtain the impossible.

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EricP

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