Grand Designs new series.....

Next weeks episode looks a bit more like that.

I certainly wasn't keen on this weeks show. While I thought the bloke, his wife and team seemed like nice people, the whole episode had the feel of an advert for his new product. The concept was more suited to offices and the finished product looked like a small head office in a business park in somewhere like Swindon..
 
Aw lord when she said she needed to talk to her frienRAB when she was cooking as he wouldn't be able to.

There are tears welling up.

She's so very brave.
 
If there is one certainty about Grand Designs it is that when you hear the worRAB "I have decided to project manage it myself" you just know budget and deadlines can be thrown out of the window.
 
Very sad to watch knowing there wasn't going to be a truelly happy ending.

She did well to hold it together for the final visit.
 
The link building was appalling - as Kevin said it looked like the entrance to a church hall. It should have been a complete contrast - steel and glass - in order to show as much of the originals as possible and not "fight" with them - the oak was far too obtrusive.

Mr. Bennett was an ill-educated tunnel-visioned bully.

A stained glass window in a barn - don't tell me the baby Jesus was born there because I'm not convinced he was a Suffolk boy.

The guildhall would have looked a whole lot better if it had been repaired rather than restored. Bennett's blinkered view that it should look like it did 400 years ago is bizarre. It wouldn't have had a perfectly flat limestone floor (ghastly) and those perfect infill panels. Kevin's view that the building should be able to tell its story is much more sensible. For how much of its life was it a barn?; for how much of its life was it a guildhall and for how long might it have been something else? All this is as equally important as how it looked when it was completed in the medieval period.

All in all an unhappy compromise. The only small crumb of comfort is that at least the buildings were prevented from collapsing or crumbling.
 
I totally agree... its all about being "seen" to do the right thing, even if the right thing turns out to be wrong.

but this programme was supposed to be a celebration of architecture meeting real life.. how buildings effect/affect us and how we can build our dream environment...

but now every single bloody episode is boring the living pants off of me...im going to start switching off...i wonder if anyone knows if the viewing figures are backing up the opinion we all seem to agree on...
 
LOL! That's exactly what I think every time I see these people building houses with acres of glass. No matter how lovely they are I just know I'd be a gibbering wreck if I had to go into the kitchen on my own :o
 
Slightly off topic question but this has been bugging me for a while, does anyone know the song that is played when Kevin is talking about the house the couple are designing in this episode. It's used a lot in Grand Designs and I really do love it and would like a Kevin free version. Btw the song starts at around 4:41.
 
The episode was a bit too laid back and stress free for my tastes. Nice gaff an' all, especially compared to most of the stuff we see, and the young woman was certainly impressive, but nothing really "happened".

I'm not sure how I'd feel if I was the boyfriend either, it couldn't be more her house if she tried. He almost seemed to clutter the place up whenever he was around. :D
 
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