Gothic Church Revival - The Restoration Man - S02 EP8 - Home Renovation
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- Join Gareth and Jill in a gripping episode of The Restoration Man as they turn a Victorian church into their dream family home. Gareth, with no building experience, tackles the restoration solo, facing budget crises and unpredictable weather. The couple's relationship is strained as the project tests them emotionally and financially. From surprising archaeological finds to design disagreements, witness the highs and lows of this unique conversion. Will the church become a symbol of family triumph, or will challenges tear their dream apart?
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The Restoration Man features architect George Clarke as he explores the UK, discovering unique buildings being transformed into homes. Each episode highlights a different historical structure, like windmills, churches, and towers, focusing on their restoration, architectural significance, and the personal stories of the homeowners involved. This series blends history, architecture, and inspiring renovation tales.
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Awesome, generous stepfather! ❤️
Wow, I would be so glad to have a professional architect design my home. Some people....
yep...ego, vanity, narcissism, hubris and a total lack of vision.
Wife: 'Build my dream'.
Man: Works fingers to bone in all weathers.
Wife: 'You're never here, I need you, I hate this shit..I'm leaving you'.
They got divorce soon after they finished the house. Kids are homeless now.
That fight was the tip of the ice berg for these two, it seems her comment about sex is the real reason they are/were together. Sex does not builld a good home, brains do.
Rather selfish of Mom to insist on a huge bathroom while her kids have closets to live in. Plus her son gets panic attacks because he's so scared of the steep ladder he has to climb down on from his bed. And they are growing fast! What is a teenager going to do in a bedroom no bigger than a closet? Some mothers.......
The boys quickly realised they had to leave home asap
@@MissYvonne88 Really? If so, I am not surprised. That dude is a total egotistical goof who has no idea he could have bought a book on house building with all that money his ex-father in law gave him for free. Yes, and the boys rooms, they won't be boys for long...that place ain't for tall people. Some parents want thier kids to be babies forever.
The downstairs is great, but they really should have taken George's advice about upstairs, Boys have this annoying habit of growing and a room that was too small for them as little ones is going to be impossible when they are hulking youths.
I have never understood this obsession with bathrooms. I am as clean as the next person, but I don't need a ballroom to do my ablutions. Give me a shower, a washbasin, a loo and possibly a bidet and I am happy. I can understand some people like baths, but do they have to be the size of a swimming pool? How much time do you realistically spend in that room? 30 minutes a day? I would bet good money on them having had to redesign that top floor.
Showers are best.
Bet they never even use the bath as well
I really miss that original lead-glass windows. New ones kill the spirit of building.
Gareth is a real Hero, doing it all by himself as a auto-didactic ! Bravo! I do think though that the plan for the second floor could be better with a smaller bathroom ;-)
Please don't dilute the word, 'hero'.
It's disappointing and selfish that she shot down George's suggestion to increase the children bedrooms. 👎👎
I agree. I also like bright big bathrooms ..but not at the expense of having a super cramped bedroom/living space.
She doesn't really love her boys maybe.
When you finally see the cubbyholes the boys get so that mum can have that large luxurious bathroom... It says a lot about the woman. The boys didn't look happy in their 'rooms'. Shame. She looks like she couldn't care less. Vile.
' I want' trumps everything...except maybe, 'Can you just...?'
@@kyrio5a don't forget the boys will grow and leave.
I love Gareth's delightfully wonderful optimistic, funny personality. Plus he did a wonderful job on their home.
He is joker, not a builder. He never comes across serious, guys like this annoy me.
Building sold, they're divorced and he's had two little boys with another woman. . . Yeh, men like this annoy me too. . .
And that's his fault alone? With a egoistic wife I would leave too!
I'm so happy their relationship survived the renovation process and the house is stunning
So glad to see the follow up on this renovation and family! I remember the original episode.
I grew up in bedrooms that big. I wasn’t upset by it. Kids are adaptable. But still that bathroom space is a complete waste. Trust the professionals and don’t be selfish over a room you won’t spend an hour a day in.
This is so much more fun and interesting than history class in school
The downstairs is great, but they really should have taken George's advice about the upper floor. Boys have this annoying habit of growing, and rooms that were too small for them as little ones will be impossible for them when they are hulking youths.
I have never understood this obsession with bathrooms. I am as clean as the next person, but I do not need a ballroom to do my ablutions. Give me a decent shower, a washbasin a loo, and possibly a bidet and I am happy. I appreciate that some people like baths, but do they have to be the size of a plunge pool? Realistically how long do we spend in a bathroom on a normal working day? About 30 minutes?
That Alice in Wonderland doorway was impractical too, unless your are best mates with a hookah smoking caterpillar! I would bet money that they have had to redesign that top floor. If they could afford it.
Nice family, excellent work, shame about those bedrooms/bathroom!
In a previous post, I have read that they've divorced, building sold and he's had two little boys with another woman.
I don’t get it either. What does a palatial bathroom do for someone? I would have put the master bedroom in that end and done something similar to what George planned: perhaps put the stairs closer to the wall where the kitchen is and break up the upstairs space differently. Perhaps with the bathroom across from the stairs so it’s more accessible from the master bedroom and leave more space for the kids’ bedrooms on the end. And I would have created a drop down step area to the entrance to the bedroom under than low entrance. Dude did not plan it out very well.
Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@PlatinumIrishrose wow, there's an update I did not see coming, but hopefully, their two original boys have a bigger bedroom now.
So mum compromises the size of the kids bedrooms for a bigger bathroom ..... nice
The dude didn't put his foot down and didn't fight for his boys. He played right into her demands like soft butter and hot toast. It must have been all the "hot sex" they were having that convinced him to bend over for her.
I've been watching all the George series after the Restoration Home ones. This one was totally special. I love the fact that the mistakes work on this project. A great success, totally.
Happy they got it all done under very restrictive circumstances AND that their relationship survived! Amazing renovation on shoe string. But they should have listened to George's advice: moved master to bathroom end; given boys bigger bedrooms and smaller family bathroom
Great job for someone with no previous experience.
ugh, the tile! Kids bedrooms bad feng shui The contrast between the spacious bathroom and the kids closets...too funny and a little sad. Love the downstairs!
What is it with people wanting giant bathrooms? You don’t do cartwheels, there’s only a few things you do in there.
I personally appreciated the few jabs George got at the couple. She was absolutely selfish making the kids stay in a cupboard.
i'm glad you gave them heck for shoving their boys into such a harry potter-esque hole. shameful.
Yup! I thought the same. You spend an hour in the bath but 1/3 your life in your bedroom. Total nonsense!
Them kids will be just fine. Two parents that love them and an amazing roof over their heads. If mom wants a large bathroom so be it.
@@newtonmichael They divorced and sold it 5 years ago.
@@Isanion Alright then, well regardless I wish them all happiness. You too Isanion!
Yeah, those are not bedrooms, they are closets. Way to go, Mum 🤦🏼♀️! I would have definitely put the master bedroom where the bathroom is, much nicer views. And so much for her big luxury bath! Karma.
@@MissYvonne88 Can you share the link plz?
Don’t understand why they can’t figure out the tub. People manage to use tubs like that all the time. Peculiar problem for a peculiar house.
Leah Walker, so. . . I guess you she got her karma? Divorced and he's with another woman. . . Sounds like, to me, you're due for some karma yourself. 😒
@@PlatinumIrishrose
Huh?! I don’t get that. 🤷🏻♀️
That was a weird decision. Those bedrooms are super small.
everytime these historic listed buildings have a chance of being saved the preservation society makes it needlessly expensive and saddles the new owners with so many restrictions it is not worth the money and hassle. they should be grateful someone wants to preserve it at all....if there were human remains that were historically important, why doesn't the historical society buy up these properties and pay for archeologists to be on site for endless hours in case bones are found?? i appreciate history but there has got to be some common sense by councils and preservation societies or these buildings will literally crumble because no one will take them on due to the red tape.
100% agree. I would never touch a property like that - way to much risk, and a lot of those properties are not worth it as you are trying to take 2 hamburgers and turning it back into a cow
Excellent points, thank you!
Definitely agree with you.
All that time it was vacant ; the committee didn't blink an eye.
No concern for possible human bones , historical site or danger.
All they see cash 💸
Precisely. It is manifestly the responsibility of the local preservation societies ot The National Trust who CONTROL the use of these properties to deal with issues like burial sites, archaeological artefacts AND THE COSTS OF COMPLETE SURVEYS, REMOVAL RETENTION AND PRESERVATION OF RECOVERED ITEMS BEFORE SELLING THE SIITES TO PRIVATE OWNERS. No one who buys these historic properties should be held responsible for what the "holding authorities" have FAILED TO IDENTIFY AND PRESERVE. Foisting off thd cost of doing what the "holders" of the property haven't done is a SCAM designed to stick the unwary with the costs and responsibilities but without the AUTHORITY to control the process.
Multiply this case by the hundreds of others who have naively entered committed themselves in "good faith" to save historic bldgs in the U.K.. At the very least, such private purchasers should be able to get mortgages at TOKEN INTEREST that covers the complete cost of historic, archaeological and preservation work. At the VERY LEAST. .
I think the grand majority of us agree w you. I wonder what the conservation society members would say,
Please, make some more follow up videos on other projects! Thanks a lot!
From some of the comments looks like it didn't and they eventually divorced. :(
Omg! I want a big bathroom so who cares that my kids will be squeezed into tiny bedrooms that will be unlivable when the boys are older. I'll never understand why people don't heed advice from professionals and also don't look after thier kids needs. But ya know that gigantic bathroom that ur gonna take a bath in once in a while, is way more important thsn than the hours of play, homework, and relaxation that those boys need to do in thier bedrooms. Sigh.
My concern for the boys was privacy as they age. What if they want to bring a girlfriend home when they are teenagers? She might decapitate herself going to the loo after falling off the top bunk when the roll in the hay is done.
If the owner digging up the inside of the church is such a big ordeal for the higher ups......then why the hell isn't it taken into consideration BEFORE it is sold?????
Otherwise, i love the renovatie and think he did an amazing job, all by himself👍👍👍
I'm happy they can convert this to a modernized home on the inside. You can spend the rest of your life there...and the rest of your AFTER-Life if you're buried there. Win...win?
This would make a great plot for American Horror Story. Tennessee family buys a darelict church in Brit countryside to flip...
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I would love to live in an old stone Gothic church,or even a manor house in the UK.
Prayers and support to these 2!!!
Love what they did!
Beautiful home!
They built a nice bathroom, congrats
The green above the staircase......ugh! Don't know why they called it haunted though just because they found bones. They did a good job. Happy for them!
because clickbait. The original program listing probably says nothing about a haunting.
Ya, totally click bait. I've just started watching this series in the last few weeks and I had said to my husband how I was surprised none of the places have reported hauntings, so I was like, "finally!" And then nothing about it.
It really turned out well considering the budget and a steep learning curve but all in amazing reno and they saved a piece of history and no noisy neighbors👻
Tks to George and the beautiful family for sharing the end of the project with us. Be happy, enjoy your gorgeus chuch house ❤ from Brazil...🥂🍾,
I love this episode & glad I could see it again! 👍🏾
Probably not ideal for everyone but they managed to keep the spirit (no pun intended) of the place and did a great job, one or two flaws but they still got a very reasonably priced home with great features and character.
Well done, nice family and great on George to advise.
George's plans are much better, but they have to live in it. TINY children's bedroom. It's basically a 1 bedroom home with 2 offices. One thing about a grave yard is, it's usually quite quiet. If these people had a clue as to what would be involved they wouldn't take on the project. Not sure why they didn't start on the roof first. Wow! 600 pounds a day for an archaeologist, that's a great job. Great work Gareth!!!
it was 600 pounds/day for an archaeologist's team. I counted at least 3 people on the team. They all have to get paid.
This is so inspiring, and to see the challenges is very helpful. What a creative, beautiful home, and honoring of a building where people came for healing, and Spiritual connection. Amazing work~~~!!! I am envisioning doing this myself, in some way, in Scotland.
As a teenager those rooms may be a little small but et this stage they are cute :)
V beautiful transformation but the bathroom should have been the boys bedroom. N some more windows should be there in living room n kitchen or a large glass door in living room so they can enjoy outer view n more sunlight
What a . . . , busting up the bathtub and breaking out a part of the window. I saw that coming. . . I flinched and ducked when started swinging!
Gareth is being criticized for creating small room for his boys. It is a distinct possibility that in the future Gareth will tweak again the floorplan of the bedroom plan and create bigger space for the boys. Now they're young adults. Maybe we can get an update from them
I was curious about that too and did some digging. It seems Gareth and his wife divorced in 2015 and sold the house. From what I can find it seems to be an air bnb now.
@@GoneGrimdark that's not a surprise, she sounded like a miserable horrible woman to be honest. He seemed a bit crazy and probably a bit impulsive, but she really seemed a bit spoilt. 🤷🏻♀️
@@GoneGrimdark That's kind of hilarious. The whole time I was watching the reveal I was thinking "Monastic cells for bedrooms and a big ole showpiece bath that you have to crouch to walk into... I'd stay here for a week on vacation but living here seems obnoxious." Completely unsurprised about the divorce just from the little bits of their marriage that they showed us tbh.
Ripping out walls after all that work is plain silly, especially when it could have been done right in the first place. It also cost a lot of money, most contractors would not touch that project due to it's illogical design. The money was never his in the first place, he was acting as if money grew on trees.
@@NikiY They were meant for each other then but they both saw the light and realized they married fools and made it worse by having kids.
Love it ❤️
If you're going to live in such a tiny space you need to plan and have like minimalist furniture. It would drive me crazy to pay all that money and do all that work and still be that crowded.
I admire each and every family that are able to survive this process. This couple worried me the most, but pleased me when they came back together
I hope she left him and sued him for all the money he took from her dad.
They're divorced, he's got two little boys with another woman and the building was sold.
@@PlatinumIrishrose So sad
IF the government or some group thinks they could have just shut him down when he was going to save a building than they need to put their own money up front and buy the building themselves. There is a disconnect that should not happen and that before people buy the property they need to know all the loops you have to jump through including all the people who will have a say on what you can and can't do. Of course just as soon as sometimes suckers stop buying these building and they continue to fall down, someone will wake up that it is better to work with the buyer than act as dictator. Do not complain about losing historical buildings when you make it too hard for people to live in. If you want complete say than buy it yourself.
I agree. I also find it confusing that he had to pay archeologists to come dig up his floor. Wouldn't they WANT to come excavate a historical site? And that price to pay was so much! I'm a costumer and if someone said, "can you come examine this historical garment and make a replica pattern" I would be so excited to do this and wouldn't expect to be paid 250$/day. Maybe a stipend from the Gov at most.
Awesome
I actually do not understand Britains obsession with the past to the point of making it almost impossible for people to revive long abandoned and derelict properties. If this guy had not bought the old church it would have eventually fallen down into absolute ruin. Yet they come in at his expense to dig up old bones. Those graves should be moved to an active church.
He ended up with a fairly decent home except for the oversized bath and that ridiculous arch which could have been enlarged and easily reinforced.
I think the wife's emotional and seemingly irrational reaction was predictable since she was working two jobs and caring for the boys.
Great Story and a wonderful Family👍🍻
Is he wearing a corona hat?! Lol
I think this couple didn't have the ability to see the overall picture, neither from the perspective of the size of the task they were taking on nor from the prespective of how the space could fit together practically. There really wasn't enough space inside that church to put a floor above and use that archway as a doorway. Maybe they could have dug out the ground floor level, but then there would have been steps going down that would have taken up a lot of interior space. Even if they had taken George's advice about the layout - which they should have - bending down to walk into their main bedroom would have gotten frustrating pretty quickly, if they could have even gotten the furniture in. After working so hard and going beyond their financial means to make a home that was then miserable to live in every day, a family would enevitably end up totally messed up.
For the size of the church, I think it would have been much better to have one room open plan living in the nave and bedroom with ensuire wet room in the altar area.
why the room of the boys too small... they like abird leaving in a small cage :(
Maybe that's how they saw thier children when they were children.
What a great job. Love it.
By American standards that bathroom is very small. Its a matter of what you are used to. Interesting prohect.
The key wasted space is the upstairs hallway. Just put a center dividing wall and you have two equal rooms and there still could have been bunk space - and if only for storage. Everything has already been said about the bath. What else all could have been done? I'm guessing a second staircase up from the kitchen area. If each bedroom had their own sinks, then maybe a downstairs toilet and shower stall would have been quite sufficient - albeit a second head in the upper churchship would be also useful.
I love this family!
Well she can always use those two bedrooms as a walk-in closet for herself once the boys move out. And I hope she isn't surprised when they chose to live in expansive open apartments with walls of windows. Anxiety attacks? Good God. I would never have expected these two clueless individuals to have completed this project.
I used to have a small bedroom in a house I rented with friends and I will tell yah, the small space really gets frustrating after a while. I basically fit right into the build in bed when I stretched out. I was glad to move out and found a place where my double futon fit.
I truly hate what they have done with this building...
Why didn’t he lower the main floor, it would’ve given them more height for bathroom door.
Even with his lack of planning, he still should be damn proud of the result.
wow that mom was super selfish how are those boys going to fit in those bunks as they grow up
Omg.... inde ko kayang tumira dito... creepe!
The kids have to thank their mother for their closet-sized bedrooms. Nice job mommie, not at all selfisch🙄
George questions Garith's building......dude...I am super impressed he has an attitude of getting the thing freaking done. I'm like the opposite. I think he had gotten so far considering all the things hitting him at once.
I don't think the arch is the biggest deal especially because it was probably more important to get the rest of the floor the level they wanted it. Not only that, but they can make it bigger maybe.
Drop the floor, the ceilings are high enough. The effect of the church is lost with the smurf door. The dude is simply an ass who only wants to have a good time laughing and joking. Doors do matter, if he was in Canada, he would have a stop work order tapped to the front door. We have serious building codes here--that door would have been changed or loose the building permit. It's not just about coolness, it's about saftey for the home owners.
Wow. This is just an amazing makeover. Considering this is a one-man job, it’s just mad!!! Hope everybody is okay as I’ve read they’ve divorced some years back. 😞
Not surprised there
That's wierd he likes to be the "one man show" when he is clearly a musician. Musicians generally thrive on sharing talent with other musicians. He must not be that good of a musician.
He never would have been able to do it if his wife wasn't doing everything else. .. . I wish we could see the building's owner now!
Bedrooms and bathroom should have been built on the first floor. The living room and kitchen should have encompassed the second floor.
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Hi, it turned beautiful, but is it not posibel to make the bathroom door higher ?, by drill a hole each side of the door put a metal pipe in , let it bull on both side out then drill a hole on a metal staff tick for support the wall, install it in the pipes secured it , and than make the door bigger.
It is a listed building of historical interest so they are not allowed to change key parts of the structure, so unless they lowered the downstairs floor it wouldn't work.
I wonder if he couldn’t lower the floor of the bathroom to accommodate the doorway.
It would be better if someone kept the original space without dividing it, the whole majestic spirit of the building is gone forever(((
Living with tombstones and ghosts. Hororrrrrr
i spent most of my time growing up in a small room and it was fine !
I always wanted space to decorate my room, those rooms looked like jail cells. Maybe that's what they wanted from thier sons, a couple of jail birds. Sad.
I guess they figured the kids would stay small. Never reach their teenage years and possibly grow to be 6ft tall.
I’m in love with Gareth.
You must be blind, he has a brain the size a walnut.
At least he didn't have to dig the floor himself 😉
Gill is harder work
than the kip
No bathroom downstairs??!!!
Selfish Mother about bedroom sizing and sinful waste of a bath due to not calculating even if it was viable. Their couldn't care less attitude towards waste of resources is atrocious.
I read in another comment that they divorced in 2015, sold the church wich is now on air'bnb.
Not really a surprise...
He is just as bad, look at his body language. He smiles too much and that smile cannot be trusted.
Dfat ginawa n nga nmang mukhang bahay! Inde mukhang hauzzz
She says his suggestion with a smaller bathroom so the kids can have decent sized rooms "not their dream" and then reveals its HER dream to have a big bathroom. Her priorities are twisted, putting her kids in closets so she can have a bathroom bigger than the kids rooms COMBINED. Backwards and self absorbed.
cemetery house....
I’m sorry
Ok what did i just watch...hahhha...it's actually really sad that the mom made the boys live in such tiny closets just so she could have a "bigger" bathroom...sad waste of SO much space...strange and unique ep... very fitting that they had to tear apart the tub smh
Nothing HAUNTED about this restoration. So that's a major disappointment. False advert. Overall it was a most interesting episode.
For all the restoration I watched, this is the worst. It looks tiny and uncomfortable. Just my opinion.
I've seen worse, but this was definitely up there. It was just really badly planned out mostly die to selfishness and lack of planing for the future, considering their kids will become teenagers one day and not fit in their tiny bedrooms, probably won't fit in their built in beds made for small children.
Me reading the title
Me: 😰😰😰😰
Well she's definitely not selfish as she works really hard too to fund the restoration but I really doubt what she feels about the kids. I'd give my kids the best I can give. The fuck with big family bathroom. You don't get to put your kids in a claustrophobic closet!!!
I wouldnt want garrets wife for a partner...
A different viewer did some digging and found out they divorced a few years after this aired so I guess he didn't either.
Aren't you lucky.....I heard she didn't want you either...
It seems insensitive that the host didn't present his ideas to both partners. That could have been because of a scheduling conflict though. But he states clearly that trying to get people to open up to new ideas in these situations is difficult. I just think the host's ideas would have had a better chance of happening if he presented them to both at the same time.
ALL consecrated grounds REMAIN consecrated once Christian burials are placed within the boundaries.... its the FUNCTION of the church which may be de-consecrated...
penso que tu sperchi il tuo tempo... questi uomini sono ritardati, metnalmente indicapaci...
The idea of restoring and living in a old church is ok but I could do without the "lawn art"!! 😳
Ok episode but disappointed in the click bait.
What click bait....? Haunted....?
@@shicruisin7004 yes
nope not living in grave yard
why? You never get any aggro from the neighbours. If the house you live in is older than about 20 years, I can guarantee that at least one person will have died in the room you sleep in, and quite possibly numerous children.
Yah, I don't like going to the graveyard back home. It's good for a wee bit while I visit with deceased family and then I simply leave.
Without ppl like then to actually take on these jobs these places would be a pile of rocks you'd think they would be just a tiny bit relaxed on some of these more absurd rules and make it more convenient to renovate these old buildings as it is why on earth would you want to take on a job that had 500 ppl breathing down your fucing neck over every single little pebble rock and stone GIVE THEM SOME BREATHING ROOM
Cheers !!
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Weirdest remodel I've ever seen! That upstairs is atrocious! It would be cramped for a hobbit! So dumb looking!
Can you imagine getting up to pee in the middle of the night or coming home a wee bit drunk? The head ache would not be from the beer.
I'm sad we never got to see whatever it was they were building outside.
Dark and ugly 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️all those graves at night ….
I'm sorry, not buying the angle of "so courageous". You can't polish manure. They wouldn't listen and have a big bathroom with a small tub now, and the kids live in drawers. What the hell, mom?