Love it or List it: Kirsty & Phil

🙂 That's true!
He just seems to be a nice man.

Yes I get it Callistemon. We like who we like don't we?

I watched his programme when he was following in the footsteps of his grandfather who was a GP on Mount Tamborine in Australia.

Perhaps I'm excusing him because I like him, Kate! but yes, that is what I understood.

OK. Callistemon Thank you for explaining it.

Kate1949

*Callistemon*. Oh was it a cull? I apologise then. I saw the video. He said he'd always wanted to kill one, cuddled the deer and thanked it for granting his wish.

No, I didn't see it Kate1949 but I understand he was on an organised cull with farming friends as crops were being ruined by deer.

I think there are old customs which involve thanking an animal you have killed for food and expressing gratitude. Perhaps he was thinking of that.

I enjoy this programme and the presenters are a good team.
At the start of the programme I felt the wife really didn’t want to move at all from a home she loved and family so close by but to make life easier for her husband, was willing to look at alternatives. She just looked so sad and her heart wasn’t in it at all. The husband also looked happy to be staying with compromises to suit both of them.

Callistemon. Oh was it a cull? I apologise then. I saw the video. He said he'd always wanted to kill one, cuddled the deer and thanked it for granting his wish.

I enjoyed the programme and they were both very emotionally attached to their house. They did say they would have to leave eventualky. Their first grandchild was in the way so they wanted to stay close by. Understanable. Never miss this programme.

Kate1949

I don't like Phil since his trophy hunting of a beautiful deer. Yes I know that's nothing to do with the programme.

It wasn't trophy hunting

It was part of a cull

I can understand vegetarians might be offended but people do eat venison.
Vegetarian crops are often destroyed by deer.

I didn't know that Kate1949.

We watched it and got the strong impression that she didn’t want to move. Let’s hope it works out for them both.

We thought they’d stay. We live not too far from where they live and it’s a beautiful part of Nottingham city, one of the better parts. The places where they took them to view other properties are not in Nottingham city but villages on the outskirts or one in Derbyshire about 10 miles away, none of them had that city vibe nor were they close to their family.

He said himself that the whole process had made him realise how important the house and its location were to them both.

I did wonder if the changes made to the house made it work better for him or were enough for him but they seemed happy with them, perhaps they should have installed a stairlift

It wasn’t the best redesign was it! Side door with steps and long walk to back garden plus having to reach side door by going through the garage. The camera panned from mixer and other kitchen utensils in-between the cupboard to the toilet squashed in by lovely low tiled wall. No room for loo and not really hygienic. Left me wondering what happened at the planning stage, was the usual team unavailable?

I like the programme. With this one, I definitely thought they'd stay, from the beginning. The wife really didn't want to move. Hard, when it's your family home and only one of you needs the change.

I think if I'd been their children living locally I would have encouraged them to move to increase his independence. Perhaps it is the though of the actual process of moving which put them off? We've moved relatively recently and it was a real upheaval, let alone the process of buying and selling in England which is so stressful.

I enjoy the programme but haven't seen that episode.
Friends of ours were on one of them and told us that Kirsty and Phil were really nice.

They decided to stay in their case but sold the house a few years later
The building work went badly and they ended up taking the builders to court!
I think the process took its toll on the couple but we were at their housewarming and were amazed by the space created..

He did say that he'd decided quite early on during the renovation and search that he would like to stay. And she said at the end that they were likely to be moving eventually.
As another poster said, I did wonder about him getting upstairs to bed and wondered how he managed when he had much less mobility immediately after his stroke.
Sadly they are likely to have to move, unless the living room is turned into a bedroom and a shower is added in the utility. The access to the garden was greatly improved in the end, though not perfect. It was a shame that they had already spent a lot on doing the pantry in the kitchen and it all had to be undone.

I don't like Phil since his trophy hunting of a beautiful deer. Yes I know that's nothing to do with the programme.

I too wondered how the husband would manage with the stairs up to bed.

I've seen a place here where there is a lift outside for the occupant to go down to the garden, a drop of about 6-8ft. And a lift up to the bedrooms would have been a good idea too. Both possible but not done.

I also had a feeling that doing anything like that would narrow their market greatly if they sold up so that's why they weren't done.

Maybe they just wanted a makeover to increase the value when they move in a year or two. Yes they added value but the market was moving up considerably anyway at that time.

I don't think they realised how draining, drawn out and stressful building work is. They do now. I see people on Grand Designs age before my eyes and look dreadful at the end of 1-2-3years of issues/money problems. Is it worth it? It takes a toll on health, mental and physical a lot of the time.

Just thinking, they wouldn't actually put in a homelift if they might choose list it.
I love K & P.

I agree and also they did not have a loo downstairs (from memory) before Kirsty started.

The fellow either had better mobility than shown or he slept downstairs but again the bath facilities were upstairs and how could he get into a bath? Was there a shower in the en suite before Kirsty started?

I could have moved into the 1st house with a small garden, very modern and I would not have needed my stair lift.

aggie

Kirsty doesn’t actually do the design , I know it’s a tv programme , but I think the Architect should get the kudos for doing the actual plans
I do like the pair of them , and I enjoy the banter

I agree that the architect should get kudos for drawing up the plans.

Phil trained as a surveyor and actually runs a property business so he knows his stuff, but Kirsty has no training at all and is just a presenter who pretends to have some knowledge.

Actually I prefer their other programme Location Location. With LIOLI, how many people want to go through all the disruption and upheaval of months of structural alterations, probably having to move out while it's done, and then move house? Plus by the time planning has been granted and the alterations are finished, any house that Phil may have shown them will be long gone.

I wonder if any couples say "Stop those alterations! We'll sell up and buy this one instead"

Poppyred

Not once did they mention husband having difficulty going up and down stairs…. So not their main concern?

Yet he was shown struggling up just one step outside.

Not once did they mention husband having difficulty going up and down stairs…. So not their main concern?

Joseanne

^However, the £57K outlay for the work added almost twice as much to the value of the house^
What the programme omits to explain is that house prices were going bonkers at that particular time, so the double figure was as much down to a good market as anything.

Good point Joseanne