TV: Grand Designs - tree house

[Owain]

Contrary to some listings, tonight's Grand Designs (just started, C4) is the coppice-worker's house again.

Owain

[Séan Connolly]

Its the 'revisited' one this time though.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I thought a tree house was built in a tree? :-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Owain]

Yes, but he's now got a flock of sheep, a woman, and a son.

And as he mentioned he's got planning permission for some extra rooms perhaps there's be a new series called "Grand Designs - The Bits We Added Later" next year.

Owain

[Owain]

Have you been taking DIMMpills?

Owain

[Mr Fuxit]

So where's a sh#t house built?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

That depends on the parents.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Ian Stirling]

In the arctic, otherwise it melts. That's not pretty.

[Séan Connolly]

Not much new footage was added really was there. The house did look great though after some time had passed. Nice garden as well!

[The Wanderer]

IMO, the original series had portrayed him as a guy who was completely in tune with his environment, someone who eschewed the frills and frippery of domesticated life.

I had watched, somehow expecting to see the place not too much altered from when it was finished - i.e. he was still living there on his own and would have provided only the bare minimum to make the life he was living when it was last shown that little bit more comfortable.

He's been domesticated, and the house now says far more about his partner than it does about him.....

[usenet]

Which turned out to be 90% repeat and very little genuine revisit.

[Chris Bacon]

Yup. What else can it be?

[Sam Nelson]

The revisited ones always are like that.

[Owain]

Mmm, I thought that garden looked positively suburban.

Owain

[Paul Andrews]

That may be the case, but it was still very enjoyable viewing..

[Peter Johnson]

At which point Kevin should have asked for an outline of what is proposed - rooms at the side(s), at the back? Could ruin the look of the place if they're not careful.

[Doctor Drivel]

It will ruin the kerb appeal that is certain.

[John Rumm]

Yup, I would go along with that...!

One of the best projects they followed IMHO - it showed a man who got exactly what he sought, and it was something that would have been almost impossible for him to have got in any other way.

[Huge]

Absolutely. And it was a super house, to boot.

[Chris J Dixon]

Is it still the case that the planning consent was only for his lifetime - after that it has to come down?

Chris