Grand Designs On Now Ch4
Discussion
When you saw the guys shops, didn't they look like the shops in "I saw you coming" sketches from Harry and Paul Show.
Could have been a great house to rival the Woodsmans Cottage (which is still the best imo) but being a div over the planning permission and making out he was the victim, really not making a very spacious house (two bedrooms upstairs when 3rd kid on the way?) just left me feeling that although the guy has great drive and determination, he was a bit of a wally. Nice but dim to carry on the Harry Enfield theme.
Could have been a great house to rival the Woodsmans Cottage (which is still the best imo) but being a div over the planning permission and making out he was the victim, really not making a very spacious house (two bedrooms upstairs when 3rd kid on the way?) just left me feeling that although the guy has great drive and determination, he was a bit of a wally. Nice but dim to carry on the Harry Enfield theme.
Horse_Apple said:
You live in a beautiful, scenic part of the English countryside for years and then some mentalist drives up from London and builds an 80 foot tall Oompa Loompa next door.
I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
In a hundred years, someone living in that oompa loompa will say just what you have said.I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
Conservatism is dependent on progress.
Without progress there would not be anything for future generations to conserve.
ewenm said:
mouk786 said:
is no one going to mention was a knob the presenter is?
i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
I don't think McCloud is that bad and I suspect he lives in a very nice place.i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
It wouldn;t surprise me if Grand Designs/KM were the myterious neighbours who put in an objection!
ewenm said:
mouk786 said:
is no one going to mention was a knob the presenter is?
i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
I don't think McCloud is that bad and I suspect he lives in a very nice place.i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
mouk786 said:
His constant digs and pessimissm are annoying
To a degree yes, but in the last couple of years I have had the joy of dealing with several council planning departments, attended committees such as the one shown last night not to mention building regs folks. I think for the most part he is actually quite realistic and appreciates the stress, delays and costs incurred by not doing things by the book and doing it right first time. robinhood21 said:
Pesty said:
robinhood21 said:
Mind, if I remember right, this chap fell foul of planning with his shopfront in Muswell Hill.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3715118....Edited by Pesty on Wednesday 4th February 21:45
That's going to take f**king forever!
Swilly said:
Horse_Apple said:
You live in a beautiful, scenic part of the English countryside for years and then some mentalist drives up from London and builds an 80 foot tall Oompa Loompa next door.
I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
In a hundred years, someone living in that oompa loompa will say just what you have said.I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
Conservatism is dependent on progress.
Without progress there would not be anything for future generations to conserve.
I liked the property but think he should have bought all the paint from Farrow and Ball rather than Enus and Cleetus.
Ok, sitting on the fence here...
The bloke was an arrogant, London-centric borderline narcissist with some serious issues who instead of spending three years playing about with a massive midlife-crisis flat-pack, frittering away his pension fund and putting his businesses and future security at risk, should have just grown a pair and spent his time with his growing family and his wife when she needed him.
The bit where he bleated on about unfair planning regs were and how he'd 'thought I'd left that sort of sh*t behind in London' - WTF? Did he expect Oxfordshire not to have planning regulations? Is it not a real place, like London? For Christ's sake he was banging on about it like it was the wild frontier when he's no more than 10 miles from Wycombe and a giant Asda, Tescos and John Lewis an 5 minutes from the M40.
He may be seen as 'eccentric' (personally I think to be classed as 'eccentric' you have to have some degree of personality), but ultimately he's created misery for himself, his family and his neighbours, missed out on the first important part of his son's life and gambled on their future security. All for something that is quite frankly bloody ugly and looks like the jerry-built, characterless out-of-box family homes thrown up on the outskirts of every town in the American Midwest.
If his aim as stated at the start of the programme was to build something that looked like it was 100s of years old which they'd just discovered and then renovated, then it was an epic failure.
On the plus side, we spotted our neighbour in his car following him on his way to SODC.
The bloke was an arrogant, London-centric borderline narcissist with some serious issues who instead of spending three years playing about with a massive midlife-crisis flat-pack, frittering away his pension fund and putting his businesses and future security at risk, should have just grown a pair and spent his time with his growing family and his wife when she needed him.
The bit where he bleated on about unfair planning regs were and how he'd 'thought I'd left that sort of sh*t behind in London' - WTF? Did he expect Oxfordshire not to have planning regulations? Is it not a real place, like London? For Christ's sake he was banging on about it like it was the wild frontier when he's no more than 10 miles from Wycombe and a giant Asda, Tescos and John Lewis an 5 minutes from the M40.
He may be seen as 'eccentric' (personally I think to be classed as 'eccentric' you have to have some degree of personality), but ultimately he's created misery for himself, his family and his neighbours, missed out on the first important part of his son's life and gambled on their future security. All for something that is quite frankly bloody ugly and looks like the jerry-built, characterless out-of-box family homes thrown up on the outskirts of every town in the American Midwest.
If his aim as stated at the start of the programme was to build something that looked like it was 100s of years old which they'd just discovered and then renovated, then it was an epic failure.
On the plus side, we spotted our neighbour in his car following him on his way to SODC.
Edited by Highway Star on Thursday 5th February 11:08
scotal said:
ewenm said:
mouk786 said:
is no one going to mention was a knob the presenter is?
i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
I don't think McCloud is that bad and I suspect he lives in a very nice place.i wonder what kind of a dive he lives in.
t mix.Does look like a nice place.
Horse_Apple said:
You live in a beautiful, scenic part of the English countryside for years and then some mentalist drives up from London and builds an 80 foot tall Oompa Loompa next door.
I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
If it's where I think it is, all the houses overlook an industrial unit, amongst other things (halfway up the hill to Stokenchurch, on the bend). Beyond that and the old A40 begin the views.I'd have gone and bought a box of Swan Vestas. Poor sod.
Swilly said:
sleep envy said:
Swilly said:
Nope still the same
not sure it is, he painted it orange and then stripped it out and has put back a fairly standard shopfront and painted it grey
BTW
GD'er - I like this wiring, it's a bit of startship enterprise?
KM - hmmmm, anyway...
Highway Star said:
He may be seen as 'eccentric' (personally I think to be classed as 'eccentric' you have to have some degree of personality), but ultimately he's created misery for himself, his family and his neighbours, missed out on the first important part of his son's life and gambled on their future security. All for something that is quite frankly bloody ugly and looks like the jerry-built, characterless out-of-box family homes thrown up on the outskirts of every town in the American Midwest.
If his aim as stated at the start of the programme was to build something that looked like it was 100s of years old which they'd just discovered and then renovated, then it was an epic failure.
Agree. What a stunning waste of a fabulous hill-side plot... I'm amazed he ever got planning permission for something quite so ugly and out of character. Who ever heard of a water mill on the side of a 'waterless' hill anyway? The barn he had the frame stored in was actually far nicer than the finished house itself. And what was all that about staining the (natural) cedar wood that revolting artificial orange colour? Left alone, cedar would have mellowed just fine over a few years and blended into the woodland perfectly.If his aim as stated at the start of the programme was to build something that looked like it was 100s of years old which they'd just discovered and then renovated, then it was an epic failure.
With a plot like that why not do somethething a bit more interesting? So much potential from that site so utterly wasted. Personally, I'd have done something more like Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water on a plot like that.
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