| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:14 - Mar 13 with 3155 views | footers |
They'll probably give it away to asylum seekers or something knowing this country. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:15 - Mar 13 with 3141 views | giant_stow |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:14 - Mar 13 by footers |
They'll probably give it away to asylum seekers or something knowing this country. |
arf. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:22 - Mar 13 with 3088 views | noggin |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:14 - Mar 13 by footers |
They'll probably give it away to asylum seekers or something knowing this country. |
Get it right, they're illegal immigrants. They all get a free Iphone too. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:27 - Mar 13 with 2902 views | jeera |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:22 - Mar 13 by noggin |
Get it right, they're illegal immigrants. They all get a free Iphone too. |
Driving lessons... |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:28 - Mar 13 with 2897 views | jeera |
That's a lot of space being used up just in order to go upstairs. | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:35 - Mar 13 with 2869 views | EdwardStone |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:28 - Mar 13 by jeera |
That's a lot of space being used up just in order to go upstairs. |
Modern design in the upper end of the market is like this
Huge volume of space that achieves nothing
Like living in an aircraft hanger |  | | |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:38 - Mar 13 with 2853 views | jeera |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:35 - Mar 13 by EdwardStone |
Modern design in the upper end of the market is like this
Huge volume of space that achieves nothing
Like living in an aircraft hanger |
Agree.
Hey, if I live in an aircraft hanger.
I want a bloody aircraft in it. | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:44 - Mar 13 with 2826 views | jeera |
Twin-rooms too! | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:50 - Mar 13 with 2805 views | NthQldITFC |
It all started in the garden in the 90s, with bloody decking. 'Imaginative' and 'innovative' creative geniiusesi showed us how clever and avante-garde we could be with 'quirky' and 'thought-provoking' not-at-all-tacky-and-impractical designs. Then the stupid sods started to carry the same 'brilliance' into the design of entire buildings. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:53 - Mar 13 with 2790 views | EdwardStone |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:50 - Mar 13 by NthQldITFC |
It all started in the garden in the 90s, with bloody decking. 'Imaginative' and 'innovative' creative geniiusesi showed us how clever and avante-garde we could be with 'quirky' and 'thought-provoking' not-at-all-tacky-and-impractical designs. Then the stupid sods started to carry the same 'brilliance' into the design of entire buildings. |
The last barn conversion I worked on would have easily made 3 separate 3 bed family homes
Instead it made a 3 bed conversion for one family
We super-insulated it, but it still had some impressively high heating bills | | | |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 15:06 - Mar 13 with 2748 views | Oldsmoker |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:53 - Mar 13 by EdwardStone |
The last barn conversion I worked on would have easily made 3 separate 3 bed family homes
Instead it made a 3 bed conversion for one family
We super-insulated it, but it still had some impressively high heating bills |
That's the problem with high ceilings.
Friend of mine had a thermometer blu-tacked to the pelmet rail that you had to stand on the arm of the sofa to read. It was 70 whereas the temperature at sofa height was 62. It didn't help that they weren't allowed to replace the 8ft high victorian grand windows because it was in a conservation area.
Their heating bills were high too. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 15:09 - Mar 13 with 2735 views | jeera |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 15:06 - Mar 13 by Oldsmoker |
That's the problem with high ceilings.
Friend of mine had a thermometer blu-tacked to the pelmet rail that you had to stand on the arm of the sofa to read. It was 70 whereas the temperature at sofa height was 62. It didn't help that they weren't allowed to replace the 8ft high victorian grand windows because it was in a conservation area.
Their heating bills were high too. |
So some kind of stilts would have been useful? | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 15:11 - Mar 13 with 2722 views | Oldsmoker |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 15:09 - Mar 13 by jeera |
So some kind of stilts would have been useful? |
When they moved in, they erected scaffolding inside the rooms in order to paint the ceilings. | |
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| £1.8m? on 15:56 - Mar 13 with 2630 views | factual_blue |
Don't want to trade down, but thanks for the link. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 16:54 - Mar 13 with 2515 views | Ryorry |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:53 - Mar 13 by EdwardStone |
The last barn conversion I worked on would have easily made 3 separate 3 bed family homes
Instead it made a 3 bed conversion for one family
We super-insulated it, but it still had some impressively high heating bills |
And the one in the OP is hideous inside imho - wouldn't live there if they paid me to. Add the idiocy of an indoor *pond* - when they could have had a swimming pool! 
Every time a barn conversion with double height rooms is shown on 'Escape To the Country', I'm yelling at the TV - "but what about the heating bills ..?!" |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 18:27 - Mar 13 with 2378 views | J2BLUE |
If I had £10m and that was £800k I still wouldn't want it. |  |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 18:35 - Mar 13 with 2357 views | Bluespeed225 |
Spent all the money on the build so had to furnish it from the Argos catalogue. |  | | |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 22:29 - Mar 14 with 2157 views | BryanPlug |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 11:45 - Mar 15 with 2012 views | giant_stow |
Thanks for the link - somehow managed to miss that one.
Poor sods on one hand. On another, maybe a lesson in not being greedy. | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:21 - Mar 15 with 1902 views | Ryorry |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 11:45 - Mar 15 by giant_stow |
Thanks for the link - somehow managed to miss that one.
Poor sods on one hand. On another, maybe a lesson in not being greedy. |
When Kevin himself advises people against a project - and this monster is going to be built on the edge of a crumbling clifftop ... and another perfectly good house is going to be demolished to make way for it ... and the couple needed to borrow millions to do it - how on earth did it ever get planning permission? | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:23 - Mar 15 with 1901 views | giant_stow |
| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 13:21 - Mar 15 by Ryorry |
When Kevin himself advises people against a project - and this monster is going to be built on the edge of a crumbling clifftop ... and another perfectly good house is going to be demolished to make way for it ... and the couple needed to borrow millions to do it - how on earth did it ever get planning permission? |
got to wonder innit. | |
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| £1.8m to live in someone's poor taste 'grand design' on 14:48 - Mar 15 with 1845 views | WeWereZombies |
The typo under the last photo 'For Edward, there is sill hope for the lighthouse' as you see the building perched on what looks like the piece of ground most likely to become the next landslip made me smile. |  |
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