My Bungalow Bliss

I'm wondering the same. It would be around my budget 😪

I have started watching ‘your home made perfect’ as it’s on Netflix (it was bbc or channel 4) and they are able to do amazing things, like totally transformative stuff for around €50k. Granted material costs have gone up but the ideas put forward on that show are eye opening, particularly the Northern Irish architect in seasons 1 and 2

Every episode seems to go over budget but nowhere near the extent of the Irish show.

Celebrity architects such as Hugh couldn't be seen to be doing those kind of jobs. Everything in those builds are "well" priced and lets be honest, I don't know of too many who could go 100k over budget if they were relying on a bank to fund it. I guess the old saying "fools and their money are easily parted" is quite apt here.

Is there a modern equivalent of Bungalow Bliss or any of those type books ?

Ah but it sounds good when in social circles. Hugh designed my house... Dermot did the garden....

Pity the fools... being robbed blind 🤣

That's a pretty cool idea .

Just was curious if people building their own one off house use books nowadays to get ideas or go straight to an architect.

Probably specialist websites for it ?

The last house wasn't completed in time for filming.

Will it not air this month. That was the original plan?

It seems that the lady of the manor always wanted an open fire in the sitting room and a solid fuel burner in kitchen as they have an endless supply of firewood on her family's farm, but the hubby would not hear of it. He wanted an ultra modern house and he was one of those geeks who was constantly on his laptop monitoring electricity usage by all appliance etc. It seems despite all his efforts their electricity bill was astronomical.

After the power cut incident he was told where to stick his laptop and she took over and availed of the opportunity to get what she always wanted. She ordered a top of the range gas cooker and made sure it was fitted in time for xmas. Now an extension is on the cards to house a solid fuel cooker and a shed for timber is being built, started last week. Her brothers cut a pile of timber over the xmas holidays which she hopes will be suitable for burning by next autumn.

Going by the tv listings it doesnt look like the final episode is being shown this week, there is nothing there for Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday in the time slot. And they only go up to next Monday on RTEs site so I cant tell if it will be shown next week

It was posted by someone on the last page that the 4th episode wasn't finished in time to air. So not sure if we'll see it anytime soon. Planning was granted October last year.

Yeah, tbh the whole story sounds like nonsense. most homes will have very little back up in the event of an extended power cut. At best for cooking you might get lucky and have a few gas rings, but even then, you're lighting it with a match because the built in ignitors need power to spark. Also, a brand new A rated home should retain heat well enough that it would really take a couple of days in freezing weather to make it uninhabitable.

your oil boiler and pump needs power to run, ditto if you've got a treatment unit for your septic system. A generator would have been a relatively easy and cheap stopgap for everything bar the heat pump.

So no sign of the final episode yet.

Room to improves first episode aired last night. New family house, came in about 10k under budget, even though it was built in the pandemic. Fantastic value in comparison.

Was there ever an announcement about the final episode that it was delayed due to the building of it being delayed? iirc one of the houses they showed was completed in October 2021 and the episode was broadcast in November 2021 so it was very tight between them finishing the house and the episode airing