Grand Designs?

We demolished the cottage we had lived in for 28 years and built a new house. Most interior walls are white but every room is fully furnished and there are curtains at every window. Supervising a new build was stressful enough for DH and I worked hard on the build with him and the various professionals we employed.
Please remember that Grand Designs follows a formula. There must be a budget over spend, the build will be late and there will be some sort of disaster/problem.
We met some employees of a building firm that had worked on a build which was filmed for Grand Designs. The build was completed on time, within budget, and everyone including the customer and the architect were happy. The film crew director said the programme would not be shown as everything had gone too well.
I have stopped watching the programme as I end up shouting at the TV that you need to be on site everyday to check what is happening.

The way we are going, all those homes, with the same no-colour walls and the same minimalist furniture will soon become like the cities with the same branches of chain stores and the same featureless brutalist architecture.

At some point there will be a turn-around and those of us who have never updated our brown furniture and bright cushions will be back in fashion. Lets hope we are not too gaga to appreciate it.