Grand Designs.

[shaunbhoy]

I remember seeing some show-houses in Milton Keynes in the early 1980s with nuclear bunkers build into them.

But who would wish to survive a nuclear strike if it meant living in MK??

[Clippy]

The woman came across as totally emotionless whereas the man was so passionate.

Shame the house failed to bring the two families together as hoped.

[The_Equalizer]

This season has been somewhat more traumatic as the credit crunch broke during the filming.

One house took over 5 years to complete & looks awful.

Another lune decides to spend upwards of £1M or so on doing up a disused lifeboat station in Tenby. I wonder how many force 10, 11, or 12 gales they've experienced since finishing it.

Yesterday's epic was a couple who wanted more space to store their collection of treasures, updated an Elizabethan/Georgian barn, then decided it looked better without the collection of junk.

That lifeboat station cost £1M.

Construction has gone down hill since the Victorian age.

[Doggy Styles]

Last week's lune has spent a mere £87k on his epic project.

Wonderful views from that window.

In fact, it's also a wonderful window I rather thought.

There is something strange about that couple, but I can't put my finger on what it is.

[d000hg]

Yesterday's epic was a couple who wanted more space to store their collection of treasures, updated an Elizabethan/Georgian barn, then decided it looked better without the collection of junk.

That was rather weird. I started off hating them as weirdos but they seemed to become less weird as the program went on. The interior frame was amazing and I liked the view from the bedroom through the silos, but it's very odd.

The main thing everyone wants is a house with 9X the square footage of a normal house, which they then leave as a giant room. A £1m house in the country you can't invite 10 people round to stay seems broken to me.

[vetran]

Loved the kid telling her father, "No, Rome wasn't built in a day, but this is a house".

Ye gods don't let my kids see that.

[TheFaQQer]

That was rather weird. I started off hating them as weirdos but they seemed to become less weird as the program went on. The interior frame was amazing and I liked the view from the bedroom through the silos, but it's very odd.

I found that as the episode went on, I hated them more and more.

The main thing everyone wants is a house with 9X the square footage of a normal house, which they then leave as a giant room. A £1m house in the country you can't invite 10 people round to stay seems broken to me.

A two bedroom house that no-one will ever buy, filled with a load of tulip.

They deserve to be bankrupt at the end of that one, even if his parents had given them the land and the barn as a starting point.

[d000hg]

A two bedroom house that no-one will ever buy, filled with a load of tulip.

Someone would buy it. And since they made their living with the "load of tulip", that's a silly subjective opinion.

[BoredBloke]

So this week's lune wanted to build a dwelling out of an abandoned engine house for a silver mine.

Carefully forgetting the 2000 foot deep hole in the garden, no doubt.

I thought it looked rubbish. Losing so much space inside the house to stairs meant it looked quite pokey inside and who the frig wants a 4 story skinny house anyway. The stonework looked good except for the dodgy looking extension they put up

That big chimeny didn't look too safe either!!

[d000hg]

Haven't watched that episode yet, but in Cornwall there are quite a few converted mine-houses - is that where this one was set? I would have assumed so but Cornwall's more famed for tin mining.