Watch it online if you missed it.
They spent £250k to fill the house with gadgets to make life 'easier'
All seem to consume electricity!
Something to do with the sponsor being e-on?
Colin Bignell
I did assume that was something to do with it.
They have 5 shows planned - rest, work, play, food, wellbeing The first I assume was the one on Sunday because they had gadgets to help you sleep better....
I thought they could have talked about the way the home was powered more but maybe that'd be a different type of show.
The idea of retrofitting so much stuff seems quite strange - rather than sending them to live for a few weeks in a futuristic house. I assume the money they spend doing it is a tax deductable for making the show.
Perhaps the message is that anyone can do this in their own home.
Colin Bignell
The only labour-saving thing seems to be the automatic lawn-mower, which will save an hour every fortnight, which the man will spend watching television.
Perhaps the next episode will have some expensive gym equipment to burn off the weight gained after giving up lawn-mowing.
Owain
I watched the first few minutes to see if I could recognise what part of Sheffield they were in. When they started knocking walls down in the name of open-plan living I changed channel, and then closed the doors and curtains of my nice, cosy, warm, non-open- plan living room.
JGH
Yes, this open-plan twaddle is such complete s**te isn't it. And it's the same at work. In my final job, the bosses had offices but the serfs didn't. At least where I worked previously, everyone had an office (shared with another, sometimes, yes).
You do not have a cat. Cat's do not do closed plan.
They don't do doors, either.
Owain
Lots of the gadgets didn't need walls knocking down to show this.
I don't understand the love of open plan either
Our Rosie used to come and look through the door if we closed it to the lounge ... but having open doors in doorways isn't the same as having a huge openplan area.
You'd have to tidy the kitchen up immediately after use if it was open plan otherwise everyone would see it was a mess. And then can you hear the dishwasher/washer/dryer everywhere if you have no doors to shut?
Me neither. Perhaps these people like looking at (and smelling) the remains of their dinner while they're watching TV?
Being cynical, I suspect the walls were knocked down mostly so the camera angles could be better, and the house would look bigger. Open plan has always looked more futuristic, too. Going back to the 1950s and even earlier, science fiction movies have showed us living in large, open plan spaces, rather than the rabbit hutches we all buy from Barratts and the like.
Its very 'working class' where essentially everyone lived in the kitchen, because it was the only warm room.
A week or so ago I started wondering whether the fancy modern semi-open-plan effect between the kitchen and dining room we've done here:
Anyway, I won't be living there. Let the tenants worry about it.
JGH
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