GRAND DESIGNS

I wasn't full of admiration for the amount of money her overspend cost both her and her son. I didn't really see the point of it all.

I love Grand Designs, but I've hardly watched anything since I was "forced" to get this new tv.
I'm still disgruntled

Although I do love those sort of programmes I do find them a bit formulaic. There has to be stress, bad weather and a huge overspend. At least the 84 year old didn’t find herself pregnant part way through the build which most of them do!

My favourite series has to be The Great Irish House Revival on BBC iplayer with the late Hugh Wallace ( who I absolutely loved . I binge watched several series of it but can’t bear to watch it now he’s gone.

Escape to the country is one of my favourites.
I love those little chocolate box cottages.
I do get cross, though, when the potential escapees keep shilly shallying around and end up not buying anywhere.

I’ve just binge watched Wales Home of the Year on iPlayer.
Some really stunning homes and locations but not all the decor was my cup of tea. 😂

I really do need to spemd more time glued to "the box", watching stuff.
I think it genuinely would cheer me up a bit.

Often amazed when people looking for dream homes on Escape To The Country fall in love with a place, go for second viewings - and haven't yet sold their homes!

So they are in dreamland. But at least they got on the telly and had a couple of nice days out.

MissAdventure

I really do need to spemd more time glued to "the box", watching stuff.
I think it genuinely would cheer me up a bit.

Haha! My excuse is now we’re ‘going Mediterranean’ the hot afternoons mean a binge watching siesta is called for. 😂

merlotgran

I’ve just binge watched Wales Home of the Year on iPlayer.
Some really stunning homes and locations but not all the decor was my cup of tea. 😂

I didn’t really like a lot of them to be honest.

At 82 (last year) we downsized to a 'project' house. 500 years old and nothing, or very little done to it since the early 1970s. Lived in for the last 20 years by a compulsive shopper/hoarder, who did no cleaning or even the simplest repairs.

Why did we do it? well, we are serial house improvers, but this is the biggest project we have taken on. The answer is Location, location, location. We have moved into the centre of a small town, where every amenity(doctor, dentist, optician, podiatrist, 2 supermarkets, library) is within 200 yards, easily accessible on foot or in a buggy and it was the only house we saw that matched our requirements.

One year in and we have had no huge overspend on, admittedly, a very loose budget. Yes, we have had to do things we did not plan for bur we haven't had to do other things we did plan for. We now live close to one AC, and the journey to our other AC and family is far easier and almost halved in length, 2 hours rather than 4.

Our biggest problem has been accepting that we have to pay other people to do things we otherwise would have done ourselves and DH made his health problems worse by trying to do too much, to begin with. Now, after a year of lways having one trades man or another around the house. When we are finally done with them, I will be at a loss with just us in the house.

I saw a hilarious FB send-up of GD recently - the usual, they’re going to have it ready by Christmas, doing a lot of the work themselves, budget ‘optimistic’ to say the least….

Roll on 3 years, still only half built, budget all spent, huge loans but still not enough, living in a caravan on a site of mud - and Mrs GD is pregnant - again- 😂

Her late husband was an architect , so I suspect she was more familiar with build issues than most.

Remember she sold the old house in four days flat to a local couple who were very eager to buy in that road. At the programme end , despite massive overspend on the build, she "still had enough to live on"...

I reckon this was code for " she stuck the overspend onto the sale price and the buyers still nearly bit her hand off"

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Whats the problem with the new television? Don't you like the facility of the remote control?!
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It's a me problem, I know.
I've also just got out of the whole tv watching. Seriously, though, if I made the effort, I know I'd love quite a few programmes.

When my sister was round at mine quite a lot, I started to find lots of things I enjoyed.

Perhaps It's just sitting here on my own, as much as anything.

My last tv was better looking, too.

MayBee70

Although I do love those sort of programmes I do find them a bit formulaic. There has to be stress, bad weather and a huge overspend. At least the 84 year old didn’t find herself pregnant part way through the build which most of them do!

I noticed that! I watched one of those where they match 2 strangers to renovate a home and take the profits. She also stopped because she was pregnant