Grand Designs

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

The Eye on the other hand was great.

My favourite GD episode is still the 20K build in the forest. Legend.

T’was fab alright. Thought it was interesting that it didn’t feature in Kevin’s 5 memorable GD. In fact, he chose Paddy’s container home as probably his favourite!

This lighthouse episode was the first one I watched (just out of curiousity from reading this thread).
That guy lost so much from the project. I half expected an epilogue with the two girls in their 40s reminiscing about their dad, now in a psychiatric hospital.

Enjoyed the show though.... I'll start recording it now.

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

There was a great episode few years ago of an Irish guy in England he renovated an old lifeboat launch house did an amazing job and managed not to disclose the costs.

Remember that episode. Lovely couple.

Calhoun wrote: »

20 years worth of episodes floating around some real gems, one of my favorites and is an Irish one is related to this story https://www.irishcentral.com/news/sale-irish-island-castle-vulture-fund-withdraw/.

The guy building it was away with the fairies when it came to building plans and the law, which resulted in some interesting results.

Any of the Irish participants are always great characters.

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

The Eye on the other hand was great.

My favourite GD episode is still the 20K build in the forest. Legend.

This one is on More 4 now !

Finally got around to watching the lighthouse episode, absolutely brilliant and you could see how much he ****ed himself up early on based upon his method of funding.

It felt in this case like his architects vision really screwed him over and he probably should have done a rethink when the original funds fell through.

The eye house he built was amazing and would have been exactly what they needed.

chooseusername wrote: »

How some of the efforts ended up,including the lighthouse;
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/homes-property/grand-designs-ghost-houses-the-abandoned-builds-left-to-rot-and-the-families-torn-apart/ar-AAJhe6w?li=BBr5KbJ&ocid=mailsignout

The barge episode was brilliant, the owner was a donkey who had such an eccentric vision in mind that it went over budget and he built an unfinished monstrosity that nobody wanted to moor.

mloc123 wrote: »

Kevin is back... watched the first episode of the new series last night, not sold on the house tho. It felt a little loveless, the guy IMO had no great drive to design/build it etc... Just hired an architect and paid the money.

What station/time

Found it, take you for the heads up! Have it in now. Ambitious job

New episode on Channel 4 now

Oh God I’m in bits for this couple .. hope it works out

Thargor wrote: »

Modest bathroom he said! Wish mine was that modest.

We said the same here , it’s stunning fair play to them..

Akabusi wrote: »

Great to see this back, maybe it more a reflection of our times but I've noticed more heartfelt stories with the people involved in recent seasons (a good thing btw).

Agreed. Though some of the car crash episodes are the ones that still steal the headlines.

Akabusi wrote: »

Yes, two that stick in my mind were the music producer guy who was basically left with nothing and the guy in the wheelchair that had his wife leave him. Felt really bad for those guys to see their dreams and families fall apart.

The music producer guy was such a vanity project. Stunning but still out there.

The wheelchair one was heartbreaking.