Outstanding oak frame and quite frankly a sweet couple. Witty humour always makes it better too. I hope they lived their final years in peace ^ and comfort.

Really love to watch these again, very relaxing.

Loved Kev's face when he saw that dreadful mosaic

43:29 attic bedroom, two single beds shoved into the eves; a bloody great beam TOUCHING THE PILLOW!! I'm sorry, but that ISN'T a livable design!! "This is what it's all about; a building with a heart of oak." Says Kevin. Romantic. But that room is a nightmare of impracticality and I CANNOT be the only one who sees (thinks) this, no???

I think that Kevin did a wonderful job, of keeping smiling, I could not have been so patient!

@dickon728

3 жыл бұрын

It's a shame he has to be so nice. What would he say if he could be honest about what he thought?

😊🌻Thank you for sharing with the USA viewers❣🇺🇲

"Marjorie doesn't like knobs" 😂😂

@dickon728

3 жыл бұрын

My heart also bleeds.

When reviewing the plans at the beginning, the host says that you'll drive into the carport, then check the faxes in the study.... faxes! That made me chuckle. Very 90s! : )

@JarrettWilliams99

3 жыл бұрын

I just faxed my social security card to my uncle at the Bitcoin company.

Building a house from green oak is a risky business, as oak beams warp and crack when drying. I built an oak frame house 22 years ago from oak beams, which were allowed to season before cutting them. My carpenter had a CNC machine for the cutting and drilling, so making the oak beams for the entires 2000 sqft. home took only 3 days! I find it pitiful, that all the beautiful timberwork is concealed by rather dull rendered block walls. It would have been much nicer if some of it had been visible from the outside.

Nice old slightly eccentric couple, there money so they should get what they like. Researched and see that they lasted until 2018 in the house and it was sold for 1 million pounds. so they got nearly 20 years use out of it.

Love the oak woodwork in it. But that big picture covering the banister - no - that's just wrong!

@duncanrogers6484

3 жыл бұрын

OLED TV is there now.

I prefer these older episodes; more emphasis on design, building and detail and less reality TV drama, which I find gratuitous.

@Trixtah

2 жыл бұрын

I have to agree. Kevin isn't such a prick during the early episodes, which makes the "this is fantastic" hagiography at the end much less jarring. As you say, 70% building vs 30% "personalities" is so much better than the other way round.

I loved the woodwork with the oak. The kitchen was too small and boxed in. They need an Aquascape system set up with a pondless waterfall and plenty of koi!

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

Wait... if the Aquascape is 'pondless' ... where do the Koi go?

Doesn't matter where the pond is, the site is graded down from the house so the fall is towards the pond. Just means the pipe is a bit longer from the rain water collector manhole. I liked the house and furnishings are just personal taste, the entrance from the car port is great idea. Why park the car and then have to walk round to another entrance through the pond filling rain. People should use their houses in the most convenient and simple way that they enjoy, and sod the rest.

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!! Long pipe! Hello! Doesn't anyone else have a brain??? (It's exactly what I thought).

@TheByard

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 Some people make life so complicated. There's a hole in my bucket Dear Lisa.

@JarrettWilliams99

3 жыл бұрын

Or just dig a small ditch to catch and guide the runoff

Amazing series

This house is disappointing inside and out. Their furniture not only doesn't go with the design of the house but it's out of scale for the rooms. I think Kevin did a good job with showing his politeness.

The beginning barn looked more like an elegant church! No wonder there’s so many barn conversions.

Beautiful, beautiful oak!!

I must’ve watched more than 100 of this fantastic series of programs - it’s one of my te favourites, along with Time Team. But this is the worst outcome of more than 20 years of watching! Kevin was very polite...

Great.Thanks

The only thing that works for me (on a 90ies context) is the central area with the wooden bridge.

I have those mugs at the end! 😍

Nice one. Loved the living room area. Could look a lot more modern with some changes today. And remember to judge it by that time. Unfortunately, people weren't good with open spaces as they are today back then. So I can see why some design choices can be seen as weak and untasteful

The terrace is fantastic. It opens out over the surrounding countryside. It would have not have been the same without it. The pergola is of no real value is it?

I love the oak, barn style design esthetic. But I'm a much bigger fan of Rod James' office at 8:45. That gave me high hopes. 😂

Watching these older episodes he!ps explain property trends people will but and remodel in later episodes of Location, Location, Location and Escape to the Country.

Fantastic couple mamazing hime,wouldve liked to have seen the wildflower meadow and pond

A lot of money and a lot of beautiful oak that were put to no great end.

good advised kevin ,never too late to build your own

I wonder how recently this house sold for now, and what it looks like these days...

@swanvictor887

9 ай бұрын

four acres in Berkshire...literally millions of pounds.

💚💚💚 Grand Designs

You can tell by looking at the kitchen ... THEY DON'T COOK!

- what do you think of the curtains?! - ahmphhhheuuh (…) 41:00

@turnkit

3 жыл бұрын

41:41

@PhilippeLarcher

3 жыл бұрын

@@turnkit fine... It's your house

I love the oak beams. I wonder if this couple is still (living) there or have their children taken over or sold the place?

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@ChocolateFrog

3 жыл бұрын

They'd be well into their 90's now.

@TurkeySandwichJr

2 жыл бұрын

Denys died in 2015 aged 88. Marjorie died in 2017 aged 91.

@paulsheridan1

2 жыл бұрын

@@TurkeySandwichJr Thank you for confirming. A fitting home for their retirement years. Rather perfect, as it's a snug fit for their unique tastes.

I wish the prices of lots and homes were the same today as they were then!!

Look at the hair on that guy!

Lovely Outcome

Whoever was in charge of the graphic design part of this episode sure did blow it. Big let down....that's always been my favorite part.

The pergola doesn't carry on with the lines of the house; it interferes with the design of the house. It chops off (the lines of) the roof of the conservatory!! It's absolutely stupid. It's plonked onto the patio, doesn't lead to anything... it's all wrong.

@thomasmerkelbach6228

10 ай бұрын

Sorry but your comment makes no sense 😂

@andreaandrea6716

10 ай бұрын

@@thomasmerkelbach6228 And I am so sorry you have no visual intelligence!

Well, they did it their way...

The terrace is like a big parking lot, ugggh😳they have probably had major regret about it

@doggod4

4 жыл бұрын

Probably not since they're probably very dead by now

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

No! They haven't a clue!

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@doggod4 Probably!!

😂 man, if people wanted to live in a building in the open style of a barn, they'd just buy the barn, clean it up, throw on a fresh coat of paint and move in.

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly, you've not done that....? There's a BIT more involved.

I quite like the house, although I have seen some barn conversions that are better. I have 2 remember that this was 20 years ago....and kitchens in those days didn't need to be as big or open as nowadays. A big kitchen though would have been nice....unless they have a cook and then often a cook will not mind a small kitchen tucked away. Interesting couple though...and it worked out well too because they were financially well off and had built a house before (which in my opinion looked nicer from the outside than this one.)

@theDaye

3 жыл бұрын

This isn't a barn conversion though. It's a new build. Kitchen is very small!!

I like this house, now in 2023 and when I first saw it a few years ago. I don't like the glass roof because it seems to me it would get dirty fast also I live in Michigan in the USA, and winter can produce a lot of deep snow and freezing cold. If I were to build a timber frame house I would l most likely have SIPs and maybe fewer windows. But that is me and I am something of a hermit.

The individual rooms are curiously small. The wood beams and railings dominate the entire building, and they're visually irritating rather than uplifting. I'm not a fan.

The shed--The Man Cave

😂 suck up the flies in the morning.

Money doesn´t buy good taste, how awful, beautiful timber framed ruined by that block. Those first buildings in the series had no architectural quality, they where just buildings

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

The Architect's house (8:36) that we saw at the beginning, that was all OPEN... why wouldn't they choose THAT???

@jody024

3 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 Openplan living was not a thing in the UK back then. For most people living in non custom homes it still isn't.

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@jody024 It's so interesting how we evolve.

@jody024

3 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 And don't evolve at the same time.

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@jody024 Yes. We are VERY SLOW! (On so many different levels).

Love the house, but hate the pergola (cheapens it and adds no function).

A nice idea but poorly executed. Anyone buying that would today would make significant changes.

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

Like putting in an actual kitchen?

😱 very impractical not necessarily aesthetically pleasing. And the kitchen is definitely too small!!

It's much better when they're wealthy than when they set ridiculous budgets then complain they can't afford it.

All that house - for a view - yet that is the smallest, tightest, darkest kitchen I have ever seen NOT improved upon.

A couple of wealthy oldies with too much money and not much taste. But, as Kevin intimated at his then, tender age of approximately 39, as long as they're happy. However, they'd never admit it is a fiasco. I'd love to see how it has aged. Particularly as our dear Mr McCloud has aged so well.

I miss theese old style of houses, I HATE open floor plans!!!!

wow...250k for four acres of land in Berkshire!! My god! bargain of the century. I wonder who owns the property now, as I'm guessing the couple have probably passed on, 25 years later. Hope they enjoyed the house.

when the "best way in" is through the garage, the architecture has failed.

@StyleViewStudio

4 жыл бұрын

Wallace Murray ... you have a point ...

@annnewton2878

4 жыл бұрын

I took it to mean “the easiest way into the house”. Perhaps because of his size/age, he could just drive right into the carport and get in the house easily. Where I live in the Midwest, almost everyone uses the back or side door before using the front door because “that is just for company”.

@guesswho5790

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree. The architecture serves the clients needs. The man was obviously referring to his most convenient way, drive up, study, bar, etc.

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

YOU understand what Architecture means. (!)

I am rich, so i can be wilful.

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not rich but I AM willful.

I don't understand why they were getting so many flies??? o.o

@ChocolateFrog

3 жыл бұрын

From the pig farm possibly?

The kitchen was sooo small & shower curtains 🤔

I did not love this episode at all but I dont understand why oak building and massive amount of flies has to do with each other?

@VangoghsDoggo

6 ай бұрын

Happens in lots of new houses because of the humidity coming off of drying plaster. We had it happen in one of ours years ago. Built in spring with rainy warm weather. Over the summer it was humid. The minute we turned the heat on, they started hatching! Had them over the winter but they became less and less as the house dried out. By the next winter, they were done. They mentioned it was maybe the oak. I don't think so. It's the plaster drying out, especially because they put it over masonry.

Crunchy fly corpses underfoot. Joy-Joy.😜

I don't understand why people didn't like this house... I quite like it and it seems to me well done, it's the paradise compare to the little flat I live in.

@aaron62877

11 ай бұрын

I agree, the house is beautiful. I think the issue is with the dated decor. But people don't realize that this was 25 years ago.

We live on the farm and anywhere there are animals, especially pigs there will be flies

41:11 Poor fella. I'll bet she liked them in her younger years

@Claire-ri3ye

4 жыл бұрын

haha well done :-)

@doggod4

4 жыл бұрын

haha thanks now I can't stop laughing

18:15

A pig farm for a view and a house full of flies. Grand Designs???

@guesswho5790

4 жыл бұрын

I think that is the point the host wanted to make lol

It amuses me that they are all wearing their [compulsory] little plastic hats, because if one of the beams actually fell onto their heads, the little plastic hats would absolutely NOTHING to protect them! 20 years ago; I wonder if they are still in this world?

Come on Kevin, be honest - it's a mess in so many ways. The cheap looking aquarium is laughable. Once again, money doesn't guarantee good taste

Listen in 0.25 speed .....Everything seems so sus.......lol

So sad! They ruined this perfectly beautiful, extremely well built, oak building. What a shame for whoever buys it in the future. I mean, there are so many things to mention, but that kitchen!!! What were they thinking? Not to mention, the block works, the colour scheme, pergola etc, etc, etc...

@OzdenGuney

2 жыл бұрын

I stoped and came to the commentrs as soon as I saw that ugly kitchen. You built an oak house inspired from a barn and that is where you cook. that kitchen easly can be a caravan kitchen. what a shame.

Oooof! Too many ads. And INTRUSIVE.

@janitoronfire

Ай бұрын

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@andreaandrea6716

Ай бұрын

@@janitoronfire $$$?

@janitoronfire

Ай бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 money well spent. Trust me. You can turn your phone off and put it in your pocket Ana still listen. Can’t imagine not having it. Makes my work day much better. I can’t imagine ever having to sit through another ad.

Wow, trying hard but everything seems so dated. By the standards of good architecture, not sure these early builds stand the test of time. No disrespect, just saying.

I don't like the glass table with plastic chairs considering how much the oak cost its a cheap let down for the designer jfp west sussex

Repurposing an existing barn is a beautiful, quixotic and selfless act. This isn't.

Proper posh folk indeed. She's also a bit of a Karen 18: 15 oh my god..... Woman they weren't even talking to you!

Some houses just don't age well

Marjorie doesn't like nobs...

@richardwebb2348

7 ай бұрын

"Nobs" - informal English for a person of wealth or high social position.

Yet another example of too much money and too little taste and sense......

Hideous furnishings.

What I don't understand is why, in the middle of the build, after agreeing to the design, they suddenly wanted to do away with the glass on one side of the roof and put slate up instead. It made my stomach seize up. As an architect, that's your nightmare; you design something really extraordinary and then the money comes in and pisses all over it. (It's what I call perverse stupidity). And then the architect has to drive all the way down and EXPLAIN to them WHY it isn't a good idea. And even THEN they don't get it. You CANNOT explain DESIGN to people who aren't visually sensitive. And I just want to hit them.

@unaninanine3743

4 жыл бұрын

😂 Hit them?

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

@@unaninanine3743 Yes. Not very girly, is it?

@unaninanine3743

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 😂

I disliked this couple...SO 'snooty'.

Pictures and plants and beautiful nicknack things, all, make a home, yes. Something people seem to be forgetting in the white, open, minimalist, crap, designs of today. My Best. Out.

@andreaandrea6716

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but did you see how the very large painting was hung halfway across the staircase (!!!) because there wasn't enough wall? If I had a house built, the art going into it would be one of the major considerations in the design.

@ivanj.conway9919

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 : Indeed. I completely, agree. What bugs me immensely, about all these shows, and what seems to be typical of modern, interior design, concepts, is that it all, seems to be about form and almost, nothing about substance, if you know what I mean. All this nonsense about clean lines and light and so forth, and precious little about what constitutes a proper, warm and inviting, home. For all the fancy talk that goes on, on these shows, when I see the end product, I would not want to live in any of these places as they are. Far, far, too, cold and uninviting for my liking. I guess, what I'm trying to say is that, not EVERYBODY, is into the all white, open concept, crap that they seem to focus on, on these shows and what seems to be typical of modern, interior design, today. I personally, hate it with a passion. I want my walls. I want my rooms. I want my colour and I want my richness, in the form of paintings and artwork as you say, and plants and ornaments and nicknacks and so forth, and all those wonderful things that make a house, a structure, a PROPER, WARM AND INVITING, HOME! It boggles my mind that these things seem no longer important to people anymore. Everyone of the places shown in these programs look more, like office complexes and places of work than proper, homes as we've long, known and understood a home to be. Even the host of this show seems to have changed his attitude greatly, from what makes an acceptable home from the first shows to the latest. He now, talks about a home as you would a piece of artwork you would exhibit in a gallery or something, but only, to look at and never touch and experience in a more intimate manner, if you know what I mean. Indeed, most of these so called "homes" look more, like art galleries than places anyone would really, want to live in. I don't even, bother to watch so called "home improvement" shows anymore, because I'm sickened and fed up with what the end product usually, turns out to be. Far, far, from an "improvement" as far as I can see. What I want to see, for a change, is shows that reflect MY, taste and attitudes toward interior design and the millions more, in this world, who think and believe as I do, on this matter. Just make it more, an all around thing that reflect EVERYBODY'S taste and not merely, those of a select few. You see? Of course I noticed the thing you mentioned, and was surprised that people with so much money did not seem to have better taste, but each his own, I guess. Thanks my the way, as you're the first to reply to any comments I've made to any of these videos. Much appreciated. My Retro/Vintage Best. Out.

@guesswho5790

4 жыл бұрын

@@andreaandrea6716 to be fair. Really the house was built with the husbands needs and wants in mind, not the wife's. It's no surprise that they didn't think about her artwork when designing the house.

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@guesswho5790 Yes. But notice that she said they'd had a fight over it! So, she knows how to stand up for herself. In her shoes, however, I'd have sat him down BEFORE the build (she's been married to him FOREVER; she should know him by now!) and say; "Look, THIS is what's important to ME. How are we accommodating MY wishes in the new build?"

@andreaandrea6716

3 жыл бұрын

@@ivanj.conway9919 You are very visual! (So am I). I know what you mean; there are fashions and fads in Architecture and Interior Design and people are like dinghies on the high seas, bouncing around from one fad to another. I think it's fair that people have different tastes, but I notice that there are hordes of people who just go with whatever is in fashion (and then turn around and do it poorly). One's tastes CAN change ... but I've seen so much BAD modern ... no, DEPLORABLE modern!! Still, done well, mixed with antiques/old/'vintage' (not a mish-mash, not 'just anything,' it takes a good eye), it can be warm and charming. Not for nothing is Design an Art Form! I remember being in someone's flat in Paris ... it was a wonderful if small space but it was awful; it felt like a garret. I remember thinking; "It wouldn't matter HOW MUCH money this guy had, he doesn't know how to make an inviting, beautiful space. He has a poverty stricken mentality ... that's something you can't fix." And then... some people have a way of making whatever space they end up in, (no matter their means) warm and inviting. I think you are creative and need a creative outlet!! Or perhaps you have one? (I have MANY and they are my sanity). Still, I like to critique the obvious flaws I see. And, notice... we all pick out different things!

Atrocious.

To be completely honesty honest these two are most likely deceased now in 2020 so it doesn't matter anymore but although it would be a trest for my cats chasing and eating the flies it's utterly disgusting the thought of them un any house let alone enough to be vacuumed up everyday and she just brushes it off, one of my cats caught one in mid flight the other day and down it went it was both amazing and gross at the same time.

too much money, no taste ?

@jennistone364

2 жыл бұрын

wilkinson sword pays top people too much!!!

Omg terrible . No taste whatsoever

Beautifully oak beams and very nice building shell. However, terrible design choices and a horrible kitchen. Very granny style

What a vile couple.

@doggod4

4 жыл бұрын

They are thin glassware? Vile I can definitely agree with. Certainly dead by now as well

@ChocolateFrog

3 жыл бұрын

Hardly.

Great design- less the plaque of 🪰

Plenty of money there