North London | Season 2 Episode 7 | Full Episode | Grand Designs UK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Kevin McCloud visits a couple who are looking to build their hi-tech modern house in a quiet north London street. Sarah and Coneyl have long dreamt of the perfect work and living space. Unable to find what they were looking for they decided to build their own. However the site they have found is situated in a predominately Edwardian street, and they have purchased the land without first obtaining planning permission.
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Would love to see how many of these people in these old episodes still live in their homes.
The planners passed a white sparkly box! In an area with no other sparkly boxes…..How do things like that happen?? The architect was a classic…..jewelley and photography and the jewel box. Please!! What planet do these people come from? A lot of the dialogue reminded me of Acorn Antiques 😂
The episode didn't show the fully completed house and them having moved in. I wonder if they actually did move in. MDF is a cheap product that I sure wouldn't want on my floors and walls. I would also prefer my glass wall not to have plastic tubing inside but use another method to make it private.
no footings?
why they don't keep the bricks.. omg.. and sell.. omg
I think it was after the Great Fire of London they decided bricks were better.......I laughed when they said 20 weeks......that's builders for you.....😅
11 months to get planning permission?! I live in Canada and most building permits take 3 weeks! I hate the idea of some bureaucrat sitting in an office holding up your plans.
Welcome to europe. Where space is limited. Where only big companies can build whatever whenever wherever
Where in Canada?! As a former planner, it's very uncommon for a building permit for a full house construction to take only three weeks to get through the permit process now. In large cities it takes considerably longer. Certainly not 11 months, but also definitely not 3 weeks.
@@VisionaryGardener Winnipeg. It was 10 years ago I built a house and the building permit was issued in a week
360p ? :-(
shot on a Sony Betacam, pre HD!
Oh well everyone to their own taste ! ☹. To plonk that within edwardian villas is dreadfull .
Mike fm firm Tonkin Liu..Great work Mike.... Planning department are the new fascist head-quarters..
I really don't like this tree in 2:51
It is absolutely obscene that a pack of worthless apparatchiki get to decide what you can build on your own property.
I hate the presenter of this show. The British aren't great at choosing presenters for tv shows. They still slay it with comedians though
What is it about him that you don't like? There have been 23 seasons with him as presenter.
lol...he's still presenting the show, 25 years this year. He has less hair these days! lol.
@@gilessteve He's a bit ugly and his droll voice is boring, he just has no appeal to me. The show is a success because of the content, not because of him
Its a house to look at .
Where are the rooms for human beings to live in , that create a sense of well being ?
Hate the mdf everywhere. That stuff doesn't hold edges and corners well. Over time, I doubt it has weathered especially well. Plus, the glue generally used in making the mdf is pretty terrible stuff that offgasses some pretty toxic chemicals. I wouldn't want to live in that.
I'm sure that house has rotted away by now. Horrible material selection and a flat roof. 👎🏾
this is my thought about so many of these houses. So many of them are just glass, concrete and mdf boxes
None of the timber under the buildings was treated or waterproofed in anyway. The concern was that the brackets on top of the micro piles were not galvanized, the timber supports sitting on to of these brackets will rot much quicker than a mild steel bracket.
From a structural point of view this building is badly designed from start to finish.
Anyone else finding this couple bloody annoying? Not their fault. Some people are just naturally annoying. Annoying or not, they have themselves a lovely home.
Glue on timber does not work similar to a welded connection, welding steel you are connecting elements with the same tensile strength as the weld, with the timber if the joint fails it will be because of the relative weakness of the timber not the glue, particularly if the timber has not been treated and is rotting. This building is a structural disaster, and an expensive one at that, the owners should be worried
Someone wrote here in the remarks it’s just a shed and indeed when you look at the fabrication there is no breathing membrane walls where no installation comes which we do nowadays at seems like my shed which I have put 25 years ago in the garden also insulators and concreet floor
Mdf, chipboard box
No thanks cheap disaster in the long run
I' sure they were both lovely people...but for me, this is the very definition of 'Pretentious Wankery'... The house is out of keeping with its environment and choice of materials is dodgy, to say the least.
I don't like it. It would be a perfect vacation home in a warm place but to live in honestly, It doesn't look comfortable.
The texture of the mdf? It's efffing mdf mate. Are you serious?
As a 31 year Japan resident, I see absolutely nothing whatsoever that espouses or even hints at anything traditional of Japan in this building. If there is anything at all, it is its long rectangular shape which would be known in Japan as a 'nagaya' (長屋), but even then it doesn't really hint at anything Japan.
Stunning and timeless. Can Kevin revisit ?22 years later PLEASE
Hopefully it has fallen down by then. I guess a white box is timeless however.
Not so timeless: maps.app.goo.gl/VzKpT61AzoEmEB2K8
It's still standing as of last year, but the finish of the building is looking really rough. It was looking pristine on the first Google Streetview pictures from 2008, but somewhere between then and 2012 it just went bad.
Not surprising. Air pollution will always darken a white material. It can't really be painted or the "sparkle" will be gone.
I'm getting tired of gd, why does everything have to be so radical and pretentious? People burning money.
What would you rather watch? "Hi I'm Dave, a builder. I am building a three bedroom terraced house out of brick". 3 months later... "All done, no major issues".
@@TheWeightliftingTriathlete yeah
There money there choice
These early shows had the nasty habit of following projects that didn't get finished in time for broadcast. That's like hearing a joke with no punchline and frustrating because I loved so many ideas here. Luckily, they learned to film over longer periods in later series to circumvent this problem.
Who thinks that small space under the whole build the Rats will live there ? I deff do 😂😂😂plus with no treatment on the underside of all that soft wood all of it will rot away in less than ten years 👎👎
Planning taking 12 months.."we have to wait for them" WHY? You are paying the bill, its your house...make a noise people...they arent God they are shire/council office workers doing a 9-5 job and not very well it seems.
Not a very attractive 'house', not to my liking, but not my house so my opinion doesnt really count eh? But I cannot understand the English love of concrete breeze blocks..you build toilets blocks out of them in Oz and MDF/chipboard we dont line our houses with it on floors and walls. we build cupboards and wardrobes with it and use it for backing products etc. its a very cheap basic product, I also wouldnt have thought it very waterproof or solid for long wearing areas like floors. I loved how the tradies wore masks when the insulation went in but the guy putting in the insulation didnt wear one and he was coated from head to foot in the paper dust, I wonder what his lungs are like now? Wasnt impressed with the 'tweaking' of the wooden panels. On the whole a very rough slipshod job if you ask me (which you didnt), certainly not what I would call a "Grand Design"
£450 000 for a garden shed plus the land in 2000 🤯
Looks more like a Grand Nightmare
After watching this twice I'm pretty convinced that everyone on this show is part of the Fast Show ensemble.
Sound proofing ! Non! Warmth! Rain on a flat roof! You will hear and feel everything you don’t want to.
Grand designs junkie here- great to get another episode on the download 😀
The house is beautiful, but what's with that ugly board fence along the open walkway - it looks like a temporary construction fence, and no one mentions anything about it! It wasn't part of the original design - no fence was - but the presence of some sort of fence that close to the walkway, WILL be part of the design.
They didn't build a home, they built an office.....
It struck me that the joiner company who was hired to create the many panels didn't have the necessary experience to do the job. I was cringing watching them bashing away at the panels to make them fit. As a homeowner, I'd have been highly angry and very frustrated watching the construction as it proceeded at a relative snail's pace.
I agree, one of the workers looked like he was 12 years old.
That is what you call an apprentice. Everybody has to learn on the job to get expierience and the practice. No need to blame him or look down in the youth.....
this is an absolutely terrible house. imagine sitting in there at night, not being able to see out but everyone seeing easily in. horrific
This raises all kinds of questions that fascinate me. In general, I have come round to prefering traditional buildings . However, there have beeen many modern buildings that I admire and value, even if I would not want to spend lots of time in them. The question of when, where, and why to make windows transparent fascinates me. In general, I dislike blank graph paper street facades. Overall these people are charming and I would be happy to live next to this house. I think concerns about durability are valid. Time will tell. Thanks for this episode..🙂🙂❤️❤️💯💯
This has to be the worst design of all time.....
I think the space between the ground and the subflooring will result in mold issue, due to humidity under the house.
A depressing lack of skill.
The architect seems twee and eats word salad for lunch. He flies high in the sky in a dream. Sorry architect ❤ Pretentious build..
Hmm... that fire was a bit suspect!
Since, they have a home that was inherited why not update that than do this? Makes no sense. Why not save money? His inherited house looks bigger and has a garden. 😢😢😢
If no one will say it I won't say it either. Sigh.
The water garden could have easily been a pool
1990s build with render over a wooden frame SCREAMS leaky building.
I wonder how it ages
@@barbarahaines7661 1A Lincoln Rd, London N2 9DJ
@@Mr.Gui.monteiro @barbarahaines7661 Wow, thought so. I love the concept but it was obvious that this will not age well. Looks so bad now, after only twenty odd years.
😂 Great design could have been cheap and solid but with all would have all methods of installation probably won’t last long.
This place looks as shoddy as the old buildings that were there, only with less integtity. I'm surprised they got planning permission to build to the property line. Here in Ontario, unless bring built as a contiguous property, the new building must be set 1 metre inside of the property line. That would have cost them two metres of the width.
The insulation choice was just STUPID. Over time the fire retardant degrades. In time you are left with shredded newspaper inside the walls, floors, and ceilings. Back in the 70s my parents had cellulose fibre insulation blown un the attic. By 10 years ago it was about st the point of forcing a major renovation to get it all out. We pulled some out, and it lit up like a christmas tree, and gave off noxious fumes.
I think it looks ridiculous in that neighborhood. Talk about an eyesore. Good architecture should blend in with its surroundings, not stick out like a sore thumb and scream LOOK AT ME!!!
I wonder how all that mdf and glue is looking now; 25yrs later?
I'm not sure who's more unfortunate, the owners for having to live in it or the neighbours for having to look at it.
The neighbors are more unfortunate.
Painted chipboard (smh). "A fixed budget is a very naive view."
Those architects did it to themselves.
The original garage was much more attractive, not to mention the even more attractive house they sold to fund a bland box.
I could not have put it better myself, its bloody awful
It is an interesting build. Sure, pretentious. But why not? They are trying something new and original. It is so easy to dismis that. It is a very interesting site. Very deep and narrow. That alone inspires. It is beautiful.
Thanks for share
Love this House… beautiful and modern!
Beautiful!!!
This is donkeys years old?!
Beautiful.
Lovely music very emotive!
Be nice when it's finished.
Thank you
an adorable couple!!
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I love to watch your program, but I'm afraid I won't be able to do this anymore. Can't you edit the program and take out when you're guests use the name of GOD. his Name is Holy and should not be used in vain, PLEASE
Oh jesus christ!
Having no respect for an imaginary sky-god is a disgrace.
Which one of the many hundreds of gods would that be? Please close the door as you leave.
Jesus bless you :)
Anti climatic ending. We want to see the finished house.