Top 10 Grand Designs Disasters

[@WatchMojoUK]

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[@hoagy_ytfc]

The one phrase you always want to hear is “to save money, we’re project-managing ourselves”. Definitely a recipe for entertaining disaster.

[@Bevan1988]

Hmm project management isn't all that hard. But then I'm saying that as a project manager. Saving money by cutting out the engineers/architects (or experts) is surely more problematic.

[@runningfromabear8354]

@@Bevan1988 My Dad's a semi-retired project manager. We're building our own home and he's our project manager. We're using an architecture/engineering firm for the plans. A little scary seeing home builds that have gone wrong but we're trying our best to make sure we have a generous budget and a good plan.

[@stephenjohnston7630]

No 10 was one of the most beautiful houses to ever feature on the show, and some of the nicest, most talented, hard-working people. They didn't deserve what happened to them.

[@Roberthambly2]

You do realise it was most likely an insurance job

[@stephenjohnston7630]

@@Roberthambly2 Can't say as how I do. Shedload of sweat and ingenuity for a genuine craftsman to trade for what's likely to be a low insurance value, relatively speaking. But I don't know any details beyond reading about the fire itself, maybe you do?

[@henryposadas3309]

@@Roberthambly2 wow you are such a great detective🤣🤣🤣

[@alexoftheway8169]

Yeah, totally, I had absolutely no idea that No10 burned to the ground. It's very sad and I just hope that the family are OK!

[@LitteJeanie]

Things I've learned from Grand Designs. Whatever your budget is, assume you need double. However long you think it will take, assume it will take twice as long. The more conceited you start out, the more likely you will fail. And don't build on cliffs.

[@glennpowell3444]

Yep.If you know how to build helps.Costing is everthing and should have a huge ammount of time doing that before you cut the first sod.There are so many obvious things overlooked in some of these projects I want to scream at the TV! Either you know what you are doing or dont do it at all.

[@WilliamGreenfield]

And glass will be late

[@NikumbaUK]

And if your a couple your getting pregnant

[@openhighlowclose9385]

... or divorced

[@scobitronmcscobie9965]

Or want to be in by Xmas

[@Polyphemus.]

Nothing will ever beat UK Grand Designs. That perfect blend of hubris, low intelligence and no money is beautifully entertaining. Unfortunately the Australian and Kiwi versions never seem to be able to track down any proper lunatics and most of the builds are usually well-funded and completed in a reasonable time frame. Nice houses, but nowhere near as entertaining.

[@morbideddie]

The UK one does have the odd nice design or well managed projects... but we all watch it for the trainwrecks lets be honest.

[@silverfox8801]

As a brit this made me laugh 😂👏🏻👍

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Most of them are dreamers. Personally George Clarke is better

[@annakeye]

@@oscarosullivan4513 Of course they're dreamers. That's why they're on a show called, 'Grand Designs'.

[@IrishKeshiHead]

I feel sorry for the folks who created their Eco house.. it looked lovely to be fair!

[@jeremynunns7496]

That was one of my favourite houses ever on Grand Designs.. really sad to hear this news!

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@jeremynunns7496 but not really a grand design disaster

[@BrentODell]

As an American, one of the things I always enjoyed about this show it the possibility of failure. It's not that I WANT to see people fail, but American/Canadian shows will create fake drama, but always end up with (at least the illusion of..) a happy ending. It's silly and unrealistic.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Yep. We Brits don't exactly love failure, but we've fought, won and lost hundreds of wars and thousands of battles over millennia, so we're used to confronting it. If foreign peeps want to laugh at our self-deprecating humour, our defiantly crooked teeth 🤭 and our reluctance to worship our flag and terminally dreary national anthem, that's fine. Go ahead. We don't mind. We try to be honest, and in some cultures that's taboo. No pep-rallies or plastic-bodied cheerleaders for us, thank you very much. No fake TV dramas featuring fake people and fake heartwarming tales of triumph over adversity (after a suitable amount of prayer, of course). Our sit-coms are notoriously dark and grim and populated by losers. We like 'em that way because we're not superstitious regarding the tempting of Fate, and don't feel threatened by the spectre of failure. Did you know you can buy Disney-themed toilet paper here? Oh, dear. I bet that wouldn't go down well in the USA (no matter how many times you flushed). In this video, the homes built on eroding cliffs are a perfect metaphor for Britishness. Er, probably. The nation's done some great things, and it's done some truly terrible things. We know. That's life. We're still here, that's what matters. Not very much, though. 😁

[@sukijay4990]

I have nothing but admiration for these people with big ambitions to build their dream houses. My husband and I engaged an architect and a professional builder to do a fairly minor conversion to our house and even that went wrong.

[@peterlatham1742]

My favourite episode was Grand Designs UK where the guy bought an old Railway Station and set about making it a home. He made all the windows and cabinetry himself and it was a fabulous home built to an extremely high standard. He was building the home whilst also working and Kevin kept on asking him how he could afford it. His reply was something I will always remember. He said “ Well I started with nothing and I’ve managed to hang onto most of it ! “. A very clever owner, designer and builder and I remember it being up there with the best !

[@tawetranquillity]

I tried to find this episode as I was interested to see it after your comment, but all I could find was a railway water tower conversion on “the reconstruction man” show, is this what you were referring to?

[@peterlatham1742]

@@tawetranquillity I was wrong about ot being Grand Designs. It was “The Restoration Man” hosted by George Clark an architect. The episode was The Northumberland Train Station done in 2016. I watched the episode again and it’s truly a good episode of triumph over adversity and a truly great reno. I see that it was later up for sale at 340 thousand UK pounds. Enjoy.

[@tmontes1974]

I liked the water tower episode

[@gordonpatrick3135]

Anyone else noticed the wives always end up having kids 9 months after meeting Kevin???

[@zetametallic]

I can understand why. Kevin is😉❤🔥

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

🤣🤣🤣😂😂

[@velibrown7904]

@Gordon Patrick, hey, what are you suggesting. Kevin McCleod seems like a well meaning guy.

[@VegasMilgauss]

Part of the show is Kev Rawdogging the wife

[@UnscrupulousAgitator]

Kevin is the "expert" after all 🙂

[@NathanEllery]

As a building designer, I've learnt a lot of wisdom lessons from GD that I pass on to my clients, particularly because they are also building custom projects.

[@gcrichards1]

Number 1 was the biggest disaster ever, and no surprise from the start really, the guy had an ego bigger than the house he was trying to build. His poor wife and kids living through that hell for years, only for it to be still unfinished was a salutary lesson for all self builds.

[@serenacelestine]

Apparently it's finished now and on the market for £10m. Still not worth years of hell and destroying your marriage, though!

[@keirfarnum6811]

They should have just built the small home next to it that they built as a temporary home from the beginning. The guy was way too ambitious and tried to build a mansion instead, when the smaller home would have been fine.

[@benodaboy]

My favourite is one ever, is the barn conversion on the most recent season. An example of great, simple, practical architectures.

[@brucemcgeehan8255]

Don't we love locking people who probeley never built a chock house

[@Bazookatone1]

I remember when the eco barge episode was broadcast, my mum got angry at the guy because the girlfriend owned a flat which she sold to pay for the whole project, and he just squandered the money. I'd be curious if they're still together. I always feel a little sorry for poor Kevin McCloud he alwys has to try and find something positive to say, even when its clear the whole idea is a disaster in the making, his favourite go-to is "they refuse to compromise their vision", which is a great euphemism for "they're stupid and they don't know it". Grand Designs is like watching the Dunning Kruger effect in action.

[@wahahabuh]

didn't he openly say bad things about the barge one during the episode? Or am I thinking of a different one? There was one episode where he openly in a nice voice said bad things about the project at the closing of the episode. Later on he confirmed in an interview that he really didn't like that project or the people and that he didn't actually want to do that one and was trying to prevent that one from being on the show.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

Yeah, I'd love to know what happenned to the family. It was a huge waste of money. The Barge ended up breaking free of its moorings somewhere in the country, and crashing onto a beach somewhere, completely vandalised.

[@gilesa.4052]

Almost all underestimate the budget by 20+%.

[@Justin-Theobald]

“That boat is a wonder it created itself.” The builders would say otherwise.

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

Lol, the boat house! I remember watching that and the guy just going off and salvaging any old windows he could find then trying to build the walls round them 😂

[@Spaxcore]

I literally haven't watched it for years and sometimes that boat just pops into my mind.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

It had all odd windows, to save money, but just looked ridiculous, and the frame was built around these different size windows.

[@denisegore1884]

2 million over budget, and there's me trying to scrape up $40 for a tin of varnish.

[@chrisfi3d]

And me strategically trying to think ahead about how much masking tape I’ll need to use from the roll.

[@Norfolk250]

When stuff like that happens, I force myself to remember: all that money went into the local economy - folks who got paid to do the work they chose to do for their living.

[@dragonmartijn]

A house is nothing more than a stone toilet. Why don't you shit in the woods like your forefathers?

[@Bookish_Lattes]

Pretentious people with money and/or no common sense who think they can outsmart nature really shouldn't complain about their daft decisions.

[@TheDarkVictini]

They clearly forgot their GCSE Geography skills because building on a cliff is a very bad idea.

[@peterjames8904]

I was the Agent selling the watertower and it was incredible doing viewings in

[@rspandit4786]

“Are you going for a pitched roof in this rainy country, like every other long lived building?” “No, Kevin, we’re going to ignore hundreds of years of common sense and put a flat roof on it, probably made from something that will sound like Evelyn Glennie has moved in upstairs every time it rains.”

[@oneeleven9832]

I worked on a project where the sports hall sloped from either side to a central gutter. When it leaked the Architect was moaning & i said well for thousands of years roofs have been designed to cast water off them..what did you expect..i got silence…

[@oscarosullivan4513]

It is stupid having a flat roof in such climates

[@runningfromabear8354]

@@oscarosullivan4513 What about all of the shops and office buildings with flat roofs?

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@@runningfromabear8354 They allow the water to leave the roof by the gutters

[@oscarosullivan4513]

@@runningfromabear8354 They use gutters

[@leonhardeuler675]

The lighthouse is on the market now. I saw it in an estate agent window.

[@GS-lu2zu]

Been on sell for ages for only £6.5million 😂 Reduced on 28th July 2023, I would like to bet that it is going to be reduced many times more before it may get sold. The 3 bed property that they built next to this, they are selling off as a seperate lot. People should note too that the South West Coastal Path runs right down the right hand side of that buildings garden. So, whoever walks along the path and in the field next to it, has a lovely view and can have a good old look straight into all those windows or whoever is in the garden or pool 😂

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

Just as they could with a drone

[@itsjadeblade]

I'd love to live in the eco house (before the fire lol) it seemed like an ideal project

[@PlumbobMillionaire]

So many white boxes mashed together with full-length windows. Money really can't buy good taste.

[@flemmingsorensen5470]

Still remember the brilliant, and sensible, house from the Isle of Skye. Lovely and effecient house, that blended in so well. Would love to live there.

[@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

is that the one the local bus driver built? was a great episode

[@flemmingsorensen5470]

@@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n Spot on 👍

[@sahhull]

Is that the black square box build that could have been a small warehouse on Skye? If so, not a fan. We should have stopped building houses around 1900. After then, houses have become more and more like square boxes with little architectural merit. Look at the square box new builds of today. No room to swing a cat inside, postage stamp sized gardens.

[@nobodyleftbehind]

If you think the boat looked sh1t on screen, I can assure you it was worse in the flesh. Moored in the Thames estuary for a while, went to have a look, bl00dy awful.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

The boat house was hilarious. He was putting in various old windows, he got for free, which meant that they were all different sizes and was making it harder to construct... which made i more expensive... and it was only after they built it, the realised it was going to be hard to find somewhere to moor it!

[@daveybaby10]

I’m working on a house that was house of the year a few years ago and the whole roof has pissed in and ruined lots of fearures

[@SuperBloxTube]

I remember: I sat down, I watched Grand Designs on More4, It was the Lighthouse episode.

[@alexchapman3906]

I’m a tradesman and I’m gutting a normal house I just bought and putting fairly standard things in. It will still take too long and cost too much.

[@kevinh1178]

Number 7 on the list is the “ Omaze “ house in Devon they’ve been flogging on TV

[@superyachtchef]

What?

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

No it isn’t. Wrong house.

[@superyachtchef]

@Paul Blackman well said - agree with every point.

[@nigelb5341]

....As someone has already said, this isn't the Omaze house but it is too close to the cliff edge and to be honest I preferred the old bungalow that was there before 😒

[@petergambier]

Thanks for these disasters WM, they really are appallingly bad especially the modernist mansion at 2:38 and the Miami place in Devon (4:13), how the flock do people get planning permission for such structures, particularly because they don't blend with the natural landscape and what person in their right mind is going to build near a crumbling cliff on the shore, haven't they heard of land erosion by the sea? It was also pretty obvious that Mrs Barry was a little peeved with her fella (6:28), and doubt that they stayed together for long after that.

[@glennpowell3444]

I have watched this series since it started. I have built myself but the money spent in recent years on some projects makes me weep.People who have absolutely no idea how to construct deem themselves as project managers and wonder why they go over budget.There have been some great builds though.( And some terrible ones alike) I often talk out loud to my wife saying " give it a few years and it will be a leaky mess"

[@frankklein4872]

Shows how much you know!!l

[@pullformore]

I disagree about the Scottish one - if anything it is a little unfair, it will blend in more as time goes on. I liked the couple, immensely. The one you're missing is the ghastly white square mansion a gay male couple built on the Sussex coast. It was so disproportionately big, it completely dwarfed the smaller holiday homes around it. The owners then finished and decorated it with the most ghastly taste ever - think lots of 50s and pop art memorabilia, gold taps, etc. I remember Kevin was really, really scathing about it in his closing monologue at the end of the show.

[@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

gay male couple

[@MrDaithis]

@@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n That made me cringe a little.

[@pullformore]

@@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n how else am I supposed to describe them? I agree their sexuality has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Perhaps I should have just written "couple", but then, that may not have made as many people recall the episode, which is why I made reference to their sexuality. Maybe I should have just used "male couple"? BTW I am a gay man myself, and I have no qualms being described that way.

[@katewebber1131]

Big fan of this program, seen most of these builds😊😊😊.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

There's one missing from these. There was an Irish "castle" an Irish guy tried to restore in a sort of fantasy weay - season 12 - Cloontykilla Castle. It cost him a bucketload. He ran out of money, and it wasn't finished, so the end final tour consisted of him showing drawings of what it was "supposed" to look like. It was a disaster as it was a huge project, and way beyond the money he had, and he did a lot of work on the cheap. He ended up having to pull a lot of the work out and re-do everything as it had been done incorrectly and cheaply, definitely one of the worst disasters and *hugely* expensive.

[@dashinvaine]

The ruined mill in the lake district that had to be knocked down and reused as partial cladding was pretty unfortunate, too. And the cemetery gatehouse in London might get onto such a list for the fortune poured into it.

[@LORDEAUX]

Am I the only one that saw the UFO flying over the water between 9:01 - 9:03? 🤔

[@adeleadeje18cheesecake]

Strangest pronounciation of the word curve I have ever heard 🤣

[@brendesigns8618]

Kerghve

[@joinedupjon]

... I've got 5 million pounds, I can do anything I can think of and there's no way the money can possibly run out ... if I make it twice as wide as it needs to be and twice as high as it needs to be and twice as long as it needs to be I reckon it'll only be twice as expensive as it needs to be, maybe less if I project manage everything myself.

[@expressoevangelism80]

I recall the first programme I saw at the outset. It starred a very self opinionated character who thought he could undercut everyone and still get perfection. He had an idea about a delta wing roof, which kept producing ongoing problems. As far as we know, it was never finished. That was the start. Since then there have been some lovely couples, and some great stories of success. And a lot of repartition. I have to compliment Kevin for retaining his polite encouragement at all times, with good manners to all of the peculiar people with whom he is obligated to relate in each of the programmes. He has an excellent style of presentation, and can convey the situations presenting themselves to all listeners in a clear fashion. Well done Kevin.

[@aogrady]

Number 1, Chesil Cliff House is in Staunton/Croyde, down the road from where I live in North Devon. There is another smaller house on site all done, I understand the sale of this would go towards or finish off the main house, but as it’s still on effectively a building site, the small house couldn’t be signed off and sold…. Some rebuilding has recently started earlier in the year to repair damage done by the weather during construction New windows etc to make it watertight I understand.

[@GS-lu2zu]

Been on sell for ages for only £6.5million 😂 Reduced on 28th July 2023, I would like to bet that it is going to be reduced many times more before it may get sold. The 3 bed property that they built next to this, they are selling off as a seperate lot. People should note too that the South West Coastal Path runs right down the right hand side of that buildings garden. So, whoever walks along the path and in the field next to it, has a lovely view and can have a good old look straight into all those windows or whoever is in the garden or pool 😂

[@pippipster6767]

I plan to build a palace with 300 rooms.… But I only have £15 in the bank.

[@lindagoad2163]

Not featuring the castle wall that fell down? The Devon House at the end has finally gone on the market too.

[@GS-lu2zu]

Been on sell for ages for only £6.5million 😂 Reduced on 28th July 2023, I would like to bet that it is going to be reduced many times more before it may get sold. The 3 bed property that they built next to this, they are selling off as a seperate lot. People should note too that the South West Coastal Path runs right down the right hand side of that buildings garden. So, whoever walks along the path and in the field next to it, has a lovely view and can have a good old look straight into all those windows or whoever is in the garden or pool 😂

[@marcjudge680]

I'm still waiting for the Cob house to be finished. On an epic.scale. A must see episode 👍

[@metube9541]

The funniest one I remember was a house that had a prefabricated wing shape roof that couldn't get wet but was installed on a rainy day and the owner was about to burst. Then he broke his ankle. The whole family fell about laughing.

[@stephanie6069]

Is that the one that was two episodes and still wasn't finished? I seem to remember there was a tonne of wiring because his wife was going deaf and needed hearing loops around the house.

[@metube9541]

@@stephanie6069 Not sure, he was a chubby fella that was so far out of his comfort zone and everything went wrong.

[@Colin_]

Yes i remember that episode. Didnt he damage/injure both of his ankles one after the other. The roof was prefabricated to have the desired underside already built in but as you say it was not supposed to get wet. The project was plagued with issues like poor planning ie the roof turned up on a dry day but the workers didnt have the correct tools to install it so had to sit for a day or two and then it started raining lol.

[@CROSSofIRON-uk]

The energy consumption of some of these huge glass houses must be eye watering, eco glass triple glaze picking up solar i get it, but overly huge floor areas at a time of increasing fuel costs is just vanity. This heating/cooling load is never discussed, instead schmoozing over some desigier tin- opener in the kitchen or other trivial crap.

[@paullinnitt5450]

You have missed the Amersham inverted wing roof house. Stressed plywood roof put up in the rain and damaged by it. Still not completely finished.

[@gracieamazing2076]

I wonder

[@damiankimmins3880]

I keep looking for that one! A classic! Didn't the owner break an ankle and his arm whilst making it? Onward he went though, with some gusto as well I remember.

[@markherbert4799]

Toms project was the epitome of the classic Grand Designs "Arse Up"

[@damiankimmins3880]

@@markherbert4799 had to admire his spirit though.

[@onewheelatatime2905]

@@damiankimmins3880 he was stuck there for hours as no one looked for him!

[@johnkellett7797]

While most were disasters many were just ‘not liked’ by the narrator. A very weak argument. Ignoring the advice of the professionals is also a major reason for failure not highlighted sufficiently.

[@GedMaybury23]

I watch something like this and end up feeling quietly glad that I didn't end up being an architect* (as in qualified/in regular practice/following the fads/& creating these horrors). Angular white boxes full of glass look dreadful wherever you put them - especially on top of antique water towers! [*I did design a few things, eventually. My clients were happy.)

[@SoTypicallyMeh]

but was the eco house fire a result of the construction? or just a terrible accident?

[@johntowers1213]

both probably... pretty sure that was the one made from hay bales and lots of recycled timber... no doubt the fire was accidental but the construction materials meant that once it got hold there was no saving any of it...sad really :(

[@marioavilavendetta73]

Amazing.

[@galegrazutis964]

My ABSOLUTEL dream house would be in the English Irish or Scotish countryside over looking th ocean. Two bedroom stone cottage with wood beams a slate floor in the kichen with an Aga. Lots of beautiful antique furniture abd porcelain. And a rustic country bathroom. 😊

[@richardbrooks50]

The last one still sits there unfinished and is a real eyesore ! Hopefully it will be demolished soon

[@Thomas-u8q]

LOL it's still there in 2021 I see

[@loujohnson3735]

God knows why anyone would want to live in an Ikea glass box

[@simonorourke4465]

Maybe I'm just olo lol but iI will never understand this modern trend for massive mansions built out of concrete with many sharp angles, stark white walls and floors andhuge expanses of glass. I'm all for windows and natural light in a house but these just look like a collection of glass and concrete boxes stacked haphazardly on top of each other to me.

[@Justin-Theobald]

People who have more money than sense when a lawnmower throws a stones at the windows you need have window insurance.

[@UnscrupulousAgitator]

I liked the church, lighthouse and tower. Though they needed more money and guidance to make it right.

[@NmpK24]

Not all of them were disasters, with some of them its depends on your taste.

[@sterlinglewis5700]

We've seen a number of these episodes, but the most annoying was #8. What an idiotic couple. They themselves created one disaster after another by disregarding one of the most elemental rules of construction: Measure! Survey! Then measure again. From the ground excavation up, it went wrong, and nothing lined up or matched up. The project was unsuitable to begin with, because of the [dopey] restrictions placed on it, the worst of which was the inability to add fenestration. That alone would have stopped any rational couple...

[@TheBrainDunne]

I was kind of expecting worse. These buildings will give you a heart attack and or divorce.

[@kevster1007]

In the end Kevin always blows smoke up their arses

[@trevorj3838]

Build a environmentally friendly house, nature destroys it lol, that's irony

[@PeterJames-f6y]

I was the estate agent who sold the water tower!

[@superyachtchef]

I remember watching these as kid growing up in Norway 🇳🇴 and wondering how many prize numpties lived in Britain 🇬🇧 🎖🎖🎖

[@AtheistOrphan]

Lots!

[@Norfolk250]

I don't think number 3 belongs on this list. I didn't particularly like it (all them stairs and odd bedrooms), but they did fantastic in what they accomplished.

[@JackoJ15]

Most of these buildings didn't fail, it was the health or marriage of the people building them lol.

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

My brother in law is an architect and absolutely hates this show, because it casts his profession in such a bad light. He described as always pairing a narcissist of a client with a lunatic of an architect.

[@PLuMUK54]

Grand Designs is full of two types of disasters-in-waiting. The first is the person who thinks that design is easy, that what they want is perfect, and who ignore the advice of people with more knowledge and experience. The second is the architect who goes along with the first. I can, to an extent, understand the former. To want to be part of the show you need an abundance of ego, to want (or maybe need) to show the world how wonderful you are. This includes both the eco-Hobbits that regularly appear, and those who create the monolithic structures such as "The Lighthouse". However, there is nothing inherently bad about these egos. Had "The Lighthouse", for example, been completed, it would have been lauded as a striking example of modernist architecture. It is the second group that I do not understand. Part of the role of the architect is to push people further than they might have gone, but also to rein back the client's wilder fantasies. Too many of the architects fail in this. Do they fear losing a client so go along with some of the frankly weird ideas? They take a huge risk. I certainly would think twice about employing an architect who had been involved in any of the disasters shown on the programmes. I often find myself wondering how people can even consider living in some of the properties. I like modern architecture, but could never imagine myself in a Neo-Brutalist bunker with bare concrete and everything on show, from the wiring to the industrial plumbing. I wonder how many of those who built such structures, secretly regret their decisions, but do not have the funds to rectify the problems?

[@frankklein4872]

He client has the final word over the architect, to back to first school you fool

[@jacmar44]

I feel like on a number of episodes the architect was pushing some arty-farty vision whilst completely disregarding the investor's needs, budget and experience.

[@henryposadas3309]

@@frankklein4872 what a stupid comment. Troll

[@UnscrupulousAgitator]

#2 even if they had changed the colors it would have worked better Tans, browns, & greens instead of white

[@seanhuds7351]

We want to make this the cheapest and most ECO friendly house in Britain, so here is all the wood we will use from that forest we cut down.

[@joshcadman5868]

Probably the most sustainable material tbh. Trees grow back

[@lesleywillis6177]

So many of these people make a house that is WAY too big. Living room the size of an auditorium, what are we going to do with the rest of the space? Cinema room and a snug and a children’s room and a gym and a pantry. Still got space to fill, I know a pool and a bar and what about a library?

[@WatchMojoUK]

Where the hell do they get their money from anyway?

[@robertpehatcher968]

Most of them have worked very hard in High paying successful careers. Thats a bit of a stupid question to ask. Makes it sound like you've never watched the program

[@AlexOnlinewarnehmen]

I know someone who was on it and they say the price is often exaggerated for drama.

[@TheDarkVictini]

Or asking for a massive loan and if not careful, they would be in massive debt.

[@Nik-do1wd]

Inheritance, multiple loans, selling an old property and a reasonable income. A lot of them have no idea how to properly budget, and always ended massively over borrowing because the final finishing bits are way more expensive then they thought, which they could’ve known by watching any one of the hundreds of grand designs.

[@frankklein4872]

You sound jealous in your dogshite little house

[@static-san]

There were several hugely ambitious builds in seasons 4 or 5 or so that the owners struggled to finish. One I remember they were nowhere near finished by the end of the episode, so McCloud did a part 2 in the next season! And it was _still_ not completed!

[@markfox1545]

'Like season 4 or 5'? So not 4 or 5 but like 4 or 5? So season 3 or 6, do you mean? Which?

[@frankklein4872]

Do not like

[@crazygreenlady7907]

Remember the couple doing up a French chateau who didn't speak a word of French? Kevin had to translate for them and fought valiantly but in vain to disguise his contempt.

[@Thomas-u8q]

Which one? The ones where Kevin can't stand the developers are the best.

[@fernlew8828]

Kevin mccloud is not liable for any damage

[@gslim7337]

Grand Design UK is the ultimate in "Real Estate Porn" to say the least. My wife loves the show, with a background of construction I see it as like watching Nascar races; it's only ever worthwhile when they crash and burn. A few thing stick out about nearly all the projects. Always base your budget on gut feel and never on hard evidence of construction costs. Windows and window frames. How many times have I heard Kevin say that the project is at a standstill while the owner is waiting for the windows to get delivered? Sorry to hear about the Pembrokeshire house. It was quirky and I liked it.

[@jinz0]

I live in small apartment in Tokyo, I can't be happening and would never do anything like that 😂 why

[@eclecticjon1019]

I don't see how the Miami beach house in Devon was a failure, it looked pretty stunning. The boat house couple however, we're complete idiots. They had no plan, no vision, no idea. They just salvaged junk and tried to make it fit, which it didn't. Eventually squandering away their life savings.

[@aureliuswright1456]

I am not even surprised the London Tower and The Lighthouse are on this list. Egos and shallow wallets.

[@drwfigureadventures]

“They were some of the only people on Grand Designs we didn’t want to see fail” Alright you feckin’ psychopath...

[@martinholmes1493]

How to be an Architect. Design ugly large cubes with big windows covered in wood cladding, that's all you need to know.

[@henryposadas3309]

Stupid statement from a guy who obviously is suffering from Dunning Kruger effect🤣

[@Thomas-u8q]

Judging by 95% of the 'designs' on the show he's not wrong. The one I ever remember looking was the Barn

[@TheArchiTenshi]

As someone studying architecture I can say with confidence that most of these people are nuts. The only house I felt was a good idea was the cheapest house project.

[@keirfarnum6811]

You can’t really call all of these disasters.

[@davidtabler315]

The last house is finished now.

[@mauricebate5069]

Brand designs should be called "" Make a fish tank big enough to live in " they all like that to me😂😂😂😂😂

[@Thomas-u8q]

That's "modern" architecture, it's s dead art I guess

[@kobirelf97]

The one in Brighton is horrible it sticks out like a sore thumb doesn't blend in the amount of times I've gone past it as I live near I think it looks horrible

[@AtheistOrphan]

Cast-iron FACT: The participants always gush that it’s our ‘forever home’, then two months later it’s on the market, for a HUGE profit. Every single time.

[@oldman1734]

How do you know?

[@lanzecki]

You mean a few went on the market. Mainly because it financially broke the owner and had to be sole off to pay the debts.

[@billpugh58]

Here’s a fact, people who write fact in caps are never telling facts.

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@oldman1734 - Er, because I watch them on the programme saying ‘It’s our forever home’, and then I see the properties listed for sale with estate agents. That’s how I know.

[@kenrehill8775]

@@AtheistOrphan you’re spot on

[@jamieharris5947]

House Number 6 recently featured on 2021s I'm a celebrity get me put of here

[@Ravestar80]

First one, insurance job. Paid 500 pound, worth 40 times that later. Defo insurance job. Lol

[@jackwatsonepic626]

Some people have got that much money they don't know what do with it . i mean fancy building a brand new house on a cliff edge which is a eroding and we on the dole , benefits ,welfare are supposed to be the stupid ones 😅 😭🇬🇧 F / M .

[@ThatCoalSoul]

You're not stupid ...you need to capitalise your i's into I's but yeah you're not stupid.

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

@@ThatCoalSoulyou should have put “your” just for comedy value

[@sasproductions701]

is this what happens when rich ppl dont have brains? so many abandoned mansions in the world and uncompleted projects.

[@fleurdilian4458]

the bigger you go, the greater the risk.

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

Gotta bet big to win big. Why buy a own one house and rent it, instead own a place that’s crapper with 10 units, say one decided to leave you still have nine paying you. rent where you live. You can quickly change your outgoings. Do as I say not as I do.

[@winklepicking3202]

Number 6 was featured on Im a celebrity 2021.

[@anthonyscully2998]

there was a build in n england that could have been included. it was another hobbit style house that took tens years to complete. during the build the idiot builders family froze to death in a bungalow while he continplated creative ways to make window frames

[@ol102jg]

Disaster hmmm, someone doesn't know the definition of the word.

[@sahhull]

For the most part, modern buildings are all faceless concrete, steel and glass boxes with little architectural merit. I'll stay in my old draughty 1700's built house where nothing is straight, level, flat, smooth or plumb, but it is solid and very pretty.

[@rspandit4786]

My last house was built in 1978 and there isn’t a right angle in the place. My current house was built c.1870 and looks like a fairground attraction upstairs it’s so twisted. The bats don’t seem to mind

[@sahhull]

@@rspandit4786 My friend lives in a new build. The windows leak when rains, The kitchen roof leaks when it rains, A damp patch appears on the hall wall when it rains, the landing light switch does nothing... Worse still theres no wires to it, the instant hot water boiler is either broken or getting fixed.... Getting the builder to do the jobs to an acceptable standard is proving difficult. You cannot turn a switch on/off without it being heard anywhere else in the house.

[@liamcollinson5695]

I did not like the kiln house the building looks almost like a small commercial building

[@arghjayem]

The thing I hate about this show is it makes it seem like just about anybody can get a plot of land and build their own home. Which isn’t true. Even on the “cheapest” house build, the eco home, the show didn’t take into account the cost of the land and they often add on the land cost as some sort of aside, and not mentioning how long and expensive the planning process can be for one off homes like these especially if they are wildy out of character with the surrounding architecture. Reality is it’s mostly a certain kind of person who can do this, build their own one off home. And the category of person that can do it is getting smaller with each new series. Notice the average age of the home owners keeps going up? More and more the newer series is just jammed with baby boomers who already own one property or multiple properties, either that or if they are under the age of 40 they have family money or inherited money. It’s a really nice looking show full of b******t. 💩

[@wmgthilgen]

Put good intentions in one hand and shit in the other and see what happens is a very expensive endevor.

[@simontaylor2525]

What's a "kehrve"?