The humbleness and kindness of this couple touches my heart. Wish the all the best

I simply love the professional knowledge and passion these two presenters have. It so refreshing and intellectually engaging. Pierce's thinking out of the box is wonderful.👌✨ Thanks for sharing 🙏❣️

One of my favourite homes so far. Love the ingenuity. Congrats to hardworking couple!

I love these people. What a wonderful spirit they display. I love how gently the experts guided their efforts. Bravo.

Neil and Amanda are great! Applied architect's ideas to what they wanted and for a great price!

They're so cute and adorable! This is a good example of how to listen to the experts, pay attention to your budget, and work hard at executing your dream. Great job! :-D

Brillent result. Hard work, listening to a skilled architect, learning skills, thinking outside the box and grafting within the box made a beautiful home. Hope your family enjoy it for many many years.

I love this house and the sweet family. The change in the dog and children over 18 months is lovey to see. I work part-time as a realtor's assistant and see all kinds of pricey homes that aren't much more than heaps of drywall and stucco. This is truly beautiful. I do wonder what happened to their lovely farmhouse kitchen sink. That roll-top tub is fantastic. The only things I would have done differently is the full bath upstairs and just a powder room or loo with shower downstairs.

I’ve watched this around six times. I so want to build a timber frame home for my family.

What a lovely story and a great build for a lovely family and it's nice to see people listen to the architect's advice and they've nailed it!

Gorgeous house and a lovely couple, it's beautiful to see how they listen to advise and made it their own with such a small budget and managed to even impress the experts .I am inlove with the brick wall and the wall with the green planks from the old house. It's art made from salvaged materials and an amazing feature to the house.

This is a stunning home. And I cannot think of a more deserving couple. They have been richly rewarded for having the wits to listen to the advice they were offered.

@rosemariekennedy1899

3 жыл бұрын

ASTONISHED! This is amazing.

Thanks for posting, it's one of my favorite shows, showing the ingenuity, architecture and design which comes out of restraint budget.

This was my absolutely favorite episode! It is a beautiful home. I think this was such a lovely team work between the four of you. They took your advise and got their dream home! Well done! I love this show!!!

My absolute favourite house. Well done. Would love to see it today.. 😍 Love the way they embraced the good advice they were given.

amazing home for a beautiful family, they listened to the experts and made a warm home

I'm rewatching this episode and it's still my favourite house of the show.

A truly beautiful house! What a sensible couple who takes the good advise, but leaves the ones that are not to their taste. A lesson to us all.

Oh man wow what great support. I wish I had that when doing my loft. I would have had better results for less money. Neil you are my new hero!

Piers' guidance on this home was clearly a lifeline to these homeowners/builders. What an incredible achievement on such a tight budget

Keep the grey cement boards on the facade.. the house looks really great and modern without being conventional! It's one of the most interesting houses on this show so far!

@monabale8263

6 жыл бұрын

how to handle the seams though...

When she said she thought he needed to put more time into the family life, when he's TRYING to build them a house (with NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER and CLEARLY not a clue) my jaw hit the floor!!! They're like very sweet but not very bright children. Bravo for trying. Honestly, sometimes you have to be ignorant to jump in at the deep end and nearly drown ... in order to get your dream.

lovely story, lovely home !

Thanks for posting this Kim. I'd have paid the BBC to watch this series again but for some reason they don't provide this service! Excellent episode and given us great ideas for our current build!

Cleaning large amounts of reclaimed brick using a SOIL COMPACTOR (as is used to prepare topsoil when laying sod): (1) CREATE A FRAME: Use double-thick floor underlayment. Put a layer of rough pea gravel and place an array of bricks to create a surface that is as flat as possible, lay 2x4s around the perimeter so the frame is 2" high (not 4") -- it doesn't have to be pretty. (2) Cast small amount of rough gravel over the top with a shovel of dry dirt and put the dirt compactor on top and let it go to work. (3) The action of the gravel beneath and above, and the bricks against each other should shake loose almost all the old mortar. (3) Sort bricks into two piles: one of "clean" bricks that are ready to use, another of bricks that need a bit of hand work to knock off a few spots of mortar.

@SuzanneU

5 жыл бұрын

yoo toob : that’s great to know. Thanks for posting this advice.

I was worried for them midway through the program, but in the end, it reflects their beautiful personalities and quirky resourcefulness. As a fellow graphic designer who also did a self-build, I see the parallels of risk, worry and sense of accomplishment. Happy for them! But the end part of the program question "Now that it's finished...", my sense is that self-builds are never finished, they continue to evolve now that the owner has the self-confidence and abilities to swing a hammer and use a drill and saw.

My favourite house of the programme.

This house was my favorite and the guy building it really came through. Top job!

one that i love coming back to watch. this is a classic story and what a wonderful team they are. kieran and piers not too bad either. : )

Gosh, that's an achievement! Excellent use of materials & what's available. Always love post & beam - wonder if our builders know how it's done? Wonder why the insulation can't go on the outside, would be quicker & probably more efficient - so far as materials go? Very inspiring episode.

And this house will last for 1,000 years. I can see it in that medieval museum in 2521 A.D.

Thanks for these programs I've really enjoyed watching them.

Piers' left half of face is almost burnt with sun, while the right half is white. He surely drove a long way for this scene. LOL

And then we drive down the road looking at those $390-400k + cookie cutter homes. This is what homes should look like ..

Awsome house! Fantastic show, I've learned so much

Amazing house on that budget.

Hemp, cob, straw - any of those he could have done on his own, and had the insulation already built in. With lime render, it would look exactly like what they wanted.

Ophelia by lumineers at 10:03 just gave me a sudden kick from inside, BBC certainly knows how to use music at right places.

@paulinethomas1452

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up I now love the Lumineers had never heard of them before 😌

Brick floors are rough, uneven and too much like a street. A friend's house has it and I don't like it. Brick floors are never comfortable enough to wear socks around the house or go barefoot. The house is rustic enough as it is, and the interlocking planks are a good idea by the owner.

ASTONISHED! This is amazing.

What an amazing achievement, Amazing ! Well done and God Bless you both and your family.

Incredibly beautiful house!

Magnifique...👍🏻

She's taking care of the two kids and working full time in a supermarket while he's struggling to keep track of his pencils.

fantastic video any chance that you would be able to put season 1+2 on please

beautiful home, he did a great job!! I personally would have liked it more if they would have painted the plywood white to make it look more spacious.

Very nice made house.

lovely!

Sorry.. that's way too much wood showing, looks a bit unfinished....

his wife has more manly voice than he has 😂😂😂

They sound like chipmunks

which one is which?

Pierce needs to step back about the brick floor!! Really pushy:( Chip 100 bricks and then comment .

At 18.20, she taking care of the baby, he is taking care of the dog. That's the way it should be. (smile)

Neil could take command of his agency, his conversations, his future, if he learned what a chest voice is. He sounds like a woman because he only modulates his voice in his head.

not the sharpest couple on the block....

@Kevin-sm8pn

3 жыл бұрын

Yuri Korshunov Smarter than you, dipshit, lol.

Why is it that every Architect on tv is a complete knob.... Do they have a special school turning out these self important wazzocks ? Love the house and the couple, well done you guys, great effort........cant stand the presenters tho

@janwarrington

2 жыл бұрын

@@missprimproper1022 Haha ! there you go, you have backed me up with your own experience ! I forgot I had made such a frank comment, but I stand by it still. It made me laugh reading it again :)

Neil and Amanda are great! Applied architect's ideas to what they wanted and for a great price!