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Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:09 am Post subject: Grand Designs
Anyone else see it last night? Fantastic property, hand make, mainly by one person, out of almost all natural materials. Excluding his labour rates, an absolute bargain too.

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:10 am Post subject:
It was stunning. Very impressive.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:24 am Post subject:
Looked great, didn't see the whole programme but saw a bit of the hard work. Cash, time, skills and land and we couild all come up with something unfortunately it's getting the combination in the right place ath the same time! Not sure about the glass bath - looked interesting but whatever floats your boat.

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:30 am Post subject:
To be fair I think his skills far exceeded what most of us have. He was such a lovely man and incredibly talented. Even my normally recalcitrant husband was astounded by what he was doing with a router. Also, I absolutely loved the glass bath

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:34 am Post subject:
The carving with the router was incredible - I loved the house too - amazingly beautiful and so well done - It must be somewhere not far from Cab and Bagpuss as it was in the Cambridgeshire Fens I loved the leylandii hand rails as well but the staircase was breath-taking

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:35 am Post subject:
Haven't watched it yet - taped it but will make sure I watch it now with such rave reviews

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:35 am Post subject:
I don't think it's the glass part of the bath Behomoth wasn't sure about, just the bath in general.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:37 am Post subject:

jocorless wrote:

It must be somewhere not far from Cab and Bagpuss as it was in the Cambridgeshire Fens

My guess is about half-an-hour north as they were not too far from Ely.

jocorless wrote:

I loved the leylandii hand rails as well but the staircase was breath-taking

That was a work of art, that thing; much like the rest of the house.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:39 am Post subject:
Fantastic Fantastic fantastic. I loved this house and the people. I particularly liked it being on stilts to keep the damp and vermin away from straw walls.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 8:45 am Post subject:
it was amazing! Glass bath....yes!!! What a talented and hard working bloke

dododumpling

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 40

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 9:00 am Post subject:
Oh no, I missed it. Hopefully it will be on demand or one of the squillions of NTL channels.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu May 03, 07 9:02 am Post subject:

It did make a great house for the programme and would like to see more of this type of house and more detail.

On a more practical note I wonder what people could do with a simpler design. Have a simple house based on rectangles to make the joints easier and not focus so much on the arty side of things. Base the windows on off the shelf sizes rather than design the windows to fit the unusual house and then pay a large amount for them. I would have thought you could cut the budget in half or have the money to hire a professional carpenter to help.

One thing that did annoy me was the cutting of an inch thick willow sapling with an electric saw, what's wrong with a hand say?

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 9:09 am Post subject:

dododumpling wrote:

Oh no, I missed it. Hopefully it will be on demand or one of the squillions of NTL channels.

More4 9pm tonight.

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 9:34 am Post subject:
Its not the cost of the house but the cost of the land to put it on thats the problem. I missed the start so dont know the details of the land, but he was a very talented bloke.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 9:37 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

On a more practical note I wonder what people could do with a simpler design. Have a simple house based on rectangles to make the joints easier and not focus so much on the arty side of things. Base the windows on off the shelf sizes rather than design the windows to fit the unusual house and then pay a large amount for them. I would have thought you could cut the budget in half or have the money to hire a professional carpenter to help.

Agree, it's exactly what we did with our 'non eco' house.

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