It's a curse to be fixated on perfection. Apparently, having children will cure you of this.

@svietka202

2 жыл бұрын

I can guarantee you it is not on their plans

@lawrencemanning

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! I used to fuss about marks on walls, furniture etc. There’s far more important things now!

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencemanning like what lol? your kids probably attend a public school system that won't get them past 3rd grade level. by 18 yrs old.

@SueMead

6 ай бұрын

@@drrydog Wo! Vicious. And based on what, exactly?

@Kelli.B.

6 ай бұрын

​@@drrydog When the hell did public schools enter into this conversation? I can't understand how you took a comment about attention to details and being a perfectionist to someone's children and public schools.

They've always wanted to live in a hotel lobby

So enjoying watching these old Episodes- more please 🙏

Would love to see this now. 2024.

Extraordinary couple = extraordinary house.

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

for real, she's no joke, smart af.

Fantastic detailed planning, love the boxes of fittings all numbered up. A real credid to them.

I've often thought of this episode ... one of the strangest in my memories.

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

It sticks with you, because the couple is a pairing of two legit bosses. unlike most episodes.

So much late 90s.....the kind of design that aged terribly bad!

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

badly

@jonathanbennetts2632

2 жыл бұрын

Like orange wallpaper in the 70's Sad really. But we will say the same in 20 years time about our homes.

@lawrencemanning

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanbennetts2632 Yup all that hard wired technology will have been ripped out years ago. It looks a like hospital to me; horrid. Fits in with his personality though. I'd listen to him to go to sleep.

@jonathanbennetts2632

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencemanning The owner, to me came across as a guy you would not like to have a pint with for sure. I'm sure he is a nice guy. We all have our own tates in houses and people.

this needs to have the dated added for the monies shown to have any relevance. Kevin looks all of 19! Ahhhh 2001

Thank you for uploading!!

I like the house. Since they put in a shower they should have made it bigger. And this house is begging for some color! Even some colored items in the kitchen would help, or books, one colored wall and a rug or two, Something other than white & tan.

@kattihatt

2 жыл бұрын

Back then this was the hottest thing. Just like lots of colour is trendy at the moment, hence why you think it needs colour.

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

it's begging for an artist, to hang some dope oil painting, all over that place

cold as they are!

Thank you

Brilliant!

I loved every bit of that house

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

same, 100%

I started hating it, but it grow on my quite rapidly!. The open plan design looked awful on render but is beatiful, full of light and spacious! They doesnt seem to be to full of themselves and they respected the neighbourhood look. the exterior facade looks beatiful and the windows are lovelly. The kitchen and the glassroof are a marvel!. I too hate the shower and would´ve love to see the steal beams in a bright colour

This is a fabulous house. Love the exterior and the surprises inside. I never will understand why anyone would build a new house and make it look old and distressed. Time will age this house naturally.

the steel structure could have done without the columns...but maybe easier to install...great project refurbishing an ancient mill.

Couldn’t imagine children in that home

very nice indeed but personally I still feel the need to expose a part of the old barn wall in their interior finishes

I enjoy watching Grand Designs and how people design their homes. This home turned out nice, but I noticed no storage places and only a One Bedroom. All that space is wasted, just my opinion.

@albertsandberg

9 ай бұрын

The design in the beginning shows 2 or 3 additional bedrooms. Perhaps they were just not fitted or shown.

Every house is just a box or collection of boxes, new or old, but what someone does with those boxes can be vastly different.

There’s issue with the size of the screen when you watch on a normal TV …… this is the second time whereby you can only see a third of a normal screen

this is 90s/early 2000s contemporary done right, if ever it was. but what is that they keep saying? at the end? what bits?

Health and safety rules must have changed in the interim, most work sites require hard hats in most of episodes filmed in the last1) years or so.

we need more of these episodes, where the guy is a legit alpha male, and the wife is smart AF. and doesn't do stupid shit for the entire length of the project, Very based couple

@janitoronfire

Ай бұрын

Agreed

Demolition, not a face mask in sight, cough, cough, wheeze.

I wish they would have left the majority of the stone and wood exposed. There is modern and then there is devoid of character. Of course, they built the home they wanted to their taste.

Why old ep updated ones would be nice

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't seen this one

It's a fabulous space for an art gallery ... so sad that the only 2 'paintings' are so ... I was going to say 'neutral', but in fact they're just 'blah' (neutral is not bad... there are some very beautiful and subtle paintings one could call neutral) ... and they are out of eye-line-sight. I'd have put large paintings downstairs. It actually feels very sterile to me. They could have had a beautiful wooden table that didn't look as if it came out of a conference room. The black chairs, in fact all the black furniture from this era, feel heavy and (again) impersonal (office furniture). There is nothing personal in the space! No actual art, no books... thank God for the dog and the plants! I would have added more TEXTURES. And all their high-tech equipment (in all those metal boxes)... is now obsolete. What's missing is COLOUR. But I very much like this couple. I wonder how the space and their tastes have evolved over the past 20 years... ! It would be interesting to see any/all changes they've made. I hope they are still enjoying their home. It's easy for me to critique now, but this was a LONG while ago and they were quite cutting edge for THEN. I think what we've learned is to MIX old with new to make a more interesting and complex interior... layered.

@svietka202

2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny because I am reading your comment after I posted mine and I totally agree

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

for sure!! they did such a great job on the house, they owe it to themselves to get an art master in there, to hang some dope pieces

@peterpage7322

11 ай бұрын

It’s a fact of life that we all have different tastes. I am just finishing a self build and I too love, as you put it “sterile”. I think what you describe is cluttered and messy! I guess that’s what makes the world go round.

@andreaandrea6716

11 ай бұрын

@@peterpage7322 I like modern. I like uncluttered spaces. But just as Maximalism CAN look cluttered, Minimalism CAN look sterile. It ISN'T that Maximalism IS cluttered or Minimalism IS sterile. They simply need to be done well.

Anyone who later bought the place would completely need to redo the obsolete tech lighting.

Ideal sized home for 2 anxious people? and death trap for visiting children!

I like watching this show but I've always wondered why people love the kind of modern plan that this house has. To me they have no character. Another peeve of mine is that they make such ambitious plans. Why not just do what you can afford to do and that can be achieved in the length of time you have in mind?

what the hell is this obsession with the "modern look" cold, stark, uninviting, sterile, lifeless, Petree dish living? uncomfortable and hard will never end up a real home. who wants to live in a Doctor's office? we all end up in our last days confined to a hospital bed in rooms like these ... why would you want to live in the same type of place you'll die in?

@meme-sw1pc

2 жыл бұрын

I agree after while all these houses look the same, not much like you would have a life in them.

@algebra737

2 жыл бұрын

I very much like your comment but I also like what the couple did here, what they achieved. They have the same calmness about them, their voices are calm and gentle. There is no clash with the surroundings they achieved. For the first time I got some understanding of the desire for this kind of home. It is not for me and I still like your comment a lot and still learnt a lot from the couple and the process. Intriguing home without an intrigue. Self absorbing but peaceful.

It would be interesting to see it 20 years later, to see how "worn in" it looks.

@trickyricky2903

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I wonder if a place like this can "settle in" as you'd see a more traditional build.

What year was this filmed?

@drrydog

Жыл бұрын

2006?

@swanvictor887

9 ай бұрын

@@drrydog Its season 2, so, probably early 1999.

Ripped the character out totally ! If I wanted a space ship Id find land and build one 😕.

Like a what's backside?

Watching Kevin be excited about an antique home automation system was quite funny. And the system itself is just crap - nowadays, if you can't do this via your phone, tablet or even voice-control, it's not worth putting in. I don't miss pre-2010. Everything was just so crap.

What a shame that this lovely historic building has been robbed of it's original character.

Nice house, but that shower is godawful. I'd be ripping that thing out the moment I moved in.

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

I liked the shape it made in the middle of the house, looking up at it. It was one of the few things that wasn't square (and I like square!). The shape, from the living room, gave an Art Deco flair.

That shower ... is hideous

I’m from Yorkshire and I just wanted to assure everyone that we’re not all like this 🤢

Sounds like a skill issue 💀

Must be the 90s. Bad era for design. I would have taken my cue from the outside and continued that through out.

kevins voice has changed :D

What a waste of an historical building!

Why are these 2 folks so difficult to understand when they speak? I could only understand Kevin during pretty much this entire episode.

By gosh he has to be the most boring man possible when this was made 20 odd years ago. I hope he's livened up a bit in his older age.