Dipping Into Our Wedding Funds To Renovate Our Home For $60,000 | Ugly House To Lovely House | Abode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2022
- Simon and Sue’s house is the embarrassment of the neighborhood, with neighbors calling it “the ugly house”. Purchased for $530,000, the couple sunk their savings into the home. With Simon working from home, sharing the space with the kids, they describe the house as a “boiling point”, adamant something has to change before they break. With a wedding in a few months, the couple have a strict $60,000. Can George Clarke transform the home into a practical space? Or will the family’s frustrations boil over?
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12grand over budget? Brilliant! I’d get married at city hall and put that dough to my home!
Agree! Married at city hall and fancy dinner with family and small number of close friends on restaurants sounds way way better.
I'd rrather put more money towards the house or honeymoon in Spin or portugal for 2 weeks rather than paing 12,000 pounds for marriage hall.
Kudos to Laura Jane Clark, the architect and the builder, Duncan! Amazing work and vision!
Absolutely agree with you! The way she carefully arranged the budget and did her best to not go crazy amount over it, and the timing of only one month over the original do date. Truly great work👏
The 1st time I’m not frustrated about the build going over budget. Laura Jane really gave her best to give the family the most comfort for the money spent. Would’ve loved to have seen the garden and the office space
Great ideas to bring it all together. Having dad's work space separate was a great idea as well.
The builders are amazing. Well done! Oh, and the architect Laura is a hero, seriously.
This is one of the better shows Abode has on. Regular people having real Architects to help them…dealing with real budgets…
@@maracohen5930 not only dealing, but truly doing her best to squeeze in the most. The floor came out looking great! And the brick tinting is cheep and easy on labor.
@@lolalolina2120 I used the brick tinting method, and it works well!!!!
Laura's idea to change the colours of the bricks is brilliant
I bet that rotating wall is never moved. I think an open kitchen would have been a better idea.
The house turn beautiful. Love the skylight.
Moving the staircase and downstairs bathroom makes a lot of sense. The layout overall is much better. But I hate the rotating wall and by-fold doors. I think the brick is still really ugly. The entryway brick looks very different from the body of the house. And the yellow brick still looks yellow. I would have stained all the brick a deeper charcoal color.
I think the rotating a wall was a waste of $$ & time, especially with a tv on it. Why? Nice idea, wrong place
Why didn't they just paint the brick? Probably cheaper than staining it...and that rotating wall was a waste of money. I wonder how often they actually use it open?🤔
Heather, I agree. I wonder if painting the brick would have been the best unifying solution. I think the rotating wall doesn't make sense because when it's "open," it creates an awkward space behind it in both the living room and the kitchen. I suspect they'll just always leave it "closed."
I love the rotating wall and bifold doors. The rotating wall was my favourite part.
The yellow is better but they could probably have been able to paint it if they hadn't done the rotating wall, useless thing really. But the byfold door can actually be useful. If you're watching tv in that snug in the evening and the rest of the house is already in bed, this "door" can probably lower the sound a bit.
Amazing talent Laura. Really wow!
"If the client chips away at the design in starts to look ordinary again " ha ha ha. As an architect, so true, so true... but it’s their house. But it’s too bad because i feel some people actually realize after the fact. They needed to trust the professionals. But it’s built. They don’t mention it.
And i tke pictures of the better part of the project only, leave the mediocre choices of the client out of my website.
The rotating wall with tv on it!!!!! omg.....how bad!!! If you watching tv and someone turns the wall....what would you think? George says at the end the kitchen is heart of living....but you can swing a door round and the heart is lost!!!! Also didnt the architect volunteer her services for the family? At the end it says architect fees were excluded???!!!
Just wanted to say that the architect is a genious. (Though the rotating wall is simply not fit for this house, but oh well, everything else was brilliant)!
10/10 to the Architecture, I love all the interior designs of the houses in this show, they are just lovely and the texture from each house is just something else, even though some owners ended overspending, it's worth it to me. from old school design, to modern and elegant
Architect agreed to do this design at zero fees to the client. Wonder what those fees would be otherwise.
Don't know of course, but with this particular architect, worth every penny simply because she was so respectful of the clients' budget and didn't put her ego needs above their real housing needs.
Hopefully this family keeps the house tidy as well ...
It's pretty minimalist in terms of accessories.
So Laura, the architect, BROUGHT TO LIFE something else too, during all this! She's great!
I believe things finished in plywood can look absolutely breathtaking gorgeous and beautiful. My brother works with plywood all the time and his work is amazing
What a lovely transformation!
Oh I love the floor it is so amazing the green in that wood something else wowser
Could have painted the brick.
I love this architect simple solutions maximum benefit for the least amount of money and time amazing
Wow. Outrageous!
Overall it’s gorgeous, but that brick still looks too yellow to me.
Maybe, but it cost EIGHTY POUNDS (!), it's certainly an improvement, and nothing's to stop them from painting over it in the future should they wish!
Yeah, I hate the bricks still. They would be better off painting it all in white , I mean anything else. Maybe spend 160 pounds to include primer 😆
Well done. It's fab.
uh, I wanna know how they did the floor and the countertops with plywood! I want that
Amazing. Now I want to buy a ugly house.
Is there a powder room on the 1st floor? I had a townhouse with no 1st floor powder & it was a pain, I would have liked to see the floor plan slowly bc I dont understand why the stairs had to be moved.
At 13:03 you can see a WC (ie powder room) off the new stairwell on the first floor. Also, if you want to watch anything more slowly, you can play it at a slower speed by going to the gear icon at the bottom right of the screen. Click on it and you will see where you can change the playback speed. If I don't want to fool with that, sometimes I just pause the video to look at floorplan layouts. Where the stairs were originally created a small space to the left of the stairs both upstairs and down. By moving them to the right, the space to the left became large enough for a larger kitchen downstairs and a new bedroom for their son Max upstairs. Hope that helps.
I could be a presenter of this show. I simply have to make sure to end my sentences with “isn’t it?”, “doesn’t it?”.
Lol!!
Do you have posh Accent and raspy voice though?
@@nntflow7058 It's raspy af, but Idk about posh. is a NY accent considered posh?
I don' know how anyone can live through this kind of redo. I couldn't do it - too much chaos!! PLEASE tell me the details about that ensuite wallpaper. This might work in my bedroom!
The upstairs closet would be an ideal walk in closet
I think black is the favourite colour of producer. That's why every home ends black
Wow
Final cost?
Don’t blame the house for all of the problems. Bad housekeeping doesn’t help.
In the USA plywood is made of pressed wood shavings and is used as a cheap veneer base over the more solid floors and walls beneath. In and of itself it is flimsy and weak.
No what you are describing is osb or even worse particle board.
This is not plywood you are describing. (From the US)
You are describing particle board
Cheap, yes, but neither flimsy nor weak. And considering they had a tight budget, bless the architect for being creative with materials. I think the floor looks fabulous, but like the unpainted brick, nothing stops the homeowners from adding an upgraded floor in the future if they have the money.
Ut where is the office for dad who works from home?
He got a separate space in the garden, right at the start of the building, so he could keep working during the build (that pre-fab building they put up in a matter of hours). Bet he's happy to finally have some space between him and the kids, too!
Please turn the music down so we can hear the voice
When did Brits start greeting each other 'french style?" That wasn't done when Ieft in the late 90s.
I love this programme....but...every single time the architect exceeds the client's budget, which destroys part of the concept of this series.
Yeah, but many times that's just the reality of building. At least here it was truly a small increase, and presumably blessed by the homeowners.
I laugh every time I hear the British use the word homely. It means the complete opposite in American.
We say "homey". They say "homely" which for us means dull & unattractive. I agree it's worth a chuckle. (Our use of the word "fanny" means something QUITE to the Brits. That's another odd one.)
The Brits came up with the English language though...so....
Where is Sophie?
Ha ha. I like that show too.
I just visited the small city of my youth (northeast US). The uniform black and orange exterior finishes will become as redundant (and to my taste, ugly) as the original "council homes". I'm going back watching them save the 500 year old mansions.
Again, this would be a better show to watch without the overpowering "background" music that overtakes the voiceover and makes it headache inducing.
Are you by chance listening with earphones/buds?
@@mapleleaf0 Hi, no we play it on the television.
@@michelec152 Interesting. I'm listening on my laptap (without eaphones either), and the sound/music balance is perfect. I assume your TV is not set up with stereo speakers (where you might get music from one speaker and voices from another) which you could adjust. Hmmm. Your sound experience is a mystery to me as a different device user.
I don't find the music loud. I can hear the voices easily.
The audio of this show is only terrible on this Abode channel
2 weeks for a floor? Cheaper other ways
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A wedding .. what is wrong with people ???? Fix your darn house to live in and don’t have a wedding !!! Omg … people on this show either go on a holiday, get pregnant, or need a wedding while needing to FIX their home !!!! Don’t go on this show if you don’t want to commit to doing your home … and wait about a holiday, baby or wedding !!!!
out of curiosity, i'm in South Africa, most of the time we use plastering for exterior of the houses, then paint, i'm puzzled by the ugly exterior bricks being left like that instead of plastering being done or colourful painting being done to them. the houses almost look the same, so painting the bricks with that blackish thing, didn't do much justice for me. house almost looks the same, just those windows make the difference.
yeah I thought they would paint the brick instead, one solid colour to make it looks like new. It still looks dirty now. And the thing on top of the door and window doesn't add anything but awkwardness.
The narrator's volumn is too low
I actually like the house before. 😅
He’ll be taking of kids that aren’t even his?? Bonkers!