An Incredible Home TWO DECADES In The Making | Grand Designs | Channel 4 Lifestyle
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- A revisit to one of Grand Designs longest ever builds, as Kevin McCloud heads back to Devon to see a home that generations have seen develop & finally see the finished build of a home that is filled with stunning design.
Kevin McCloud is on a journey to follow some of Britain’s extraordinary self-building projects on various different building sites showing the full process all the way up to the completed dream home. Watch more here: • Binge-Worthy Grand Des...
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And the real success story is that they are still together.
One might imagine that such an experience would cement their relationship beyond ever parting. Rare, eh ?
@@thetessellater9163 real LOVE🤔💪👍 YES POSSIBLY 🗣️🙏🥰🥰😍✌️
LET'S ALWAYS HOPE FOR ONE ANOTHER 😢😇❣️💞🇬🇧🤔🗣️💪💯😁
While Mr & Mrs McCloud are not ...
@@thetessellater9163 😂😂
Yes, a home truly is
How wonderful to find your “forever home” location, 25 years before retirement age and spend the next 25 years never ever becoming bored and ending up with a beautiful and extremely valuable home. For me, that beats blowing £10k every year taking the family to Orlando and just having a box of photos to show for it, but that’s just me I guess…I bless this family.
I really admire this couple for staying with it. Most people these days would give up, or decide they'll lose money on the project, but in their case, the project has been their life, and how much more enriched are they because of it.
Possibly the best build GD has ever been involved with. Must be complete life fulfillment, very envious
I remember watching this all those years ago (in Australia) and feeling their pain - we've been renovating for 30 years almost (four different houses, but the combined size of those four houses probably add up to Sue and Martin's house). Amazing effort. But, time has certainly stood still for Martin - he looks exactly the same!
What gets me everytime, is that these people see the finished product before building has even started, we see a decrepit tumbledown barn, they see a magnificent home. 10/10 for the grand design team for their hardworking over the years. Rarely watch TV these days but will happily binge watch G.D. over and over again.
Grand designs aren't a team of builders, it's one man who films other people's builds. They don't do any work. You're congratulating the wrong people lol
@@SEA-dv5kh - given the person you're replying to does 'binge watch' them 'over and over again', I figure they may know that, and that you might have misinterpreted their response. Just sayin'.
The hardworking previously mentioned, is the time and dedication to the project that the production
company put into the editing final transmission of the series. e.g. continuity and Time lapsed editing and so forth. The one man you mentioned is only the presenter, he has a whole team behind him, from project selection, to logistics, film crew, editors, producers etc... this team bring us other peoples vision to the small screen and ultimately to us the viewers. I think you'll find the congratulations were in the right place and for the right people all along. Just saying...
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Ye that’s not my experience.
The GD team painted the inside of my house Lilac after I very Firmly told them not to paint anything other than pure brilliant white.
Putting up walls that I later had to remove because they were in the wrong place.
Just really really annoying.
What a beautiful home they have created and the sacrifices to do it. They truly deserve what they have created, what a heritage for their kids one day. Renovated with love 🫶
My mum loved Kevin McCloud and his grand designs. I haven't been able to watch his programmes since she died but this one made myself My mum would have loved to see it
I have met Kevin and I’m very envious of the opportunities he has had doing these programmes to see first hand the realisations of peoples own personal visions. It demonstrates the very best of human endeavour.
This is a lovely home. You can see the value of it evolving organically.
I'm so thrilled, for this lovely couple and hope that they continue to enjoy their beautiful home
Say 'barakAllah'... it's important when one sees something that delights the eyes, to say 'barakAllah'
@@dayax3335 shh
Simply beautiful. I love that they stayed together all those years. Clearly they in some part enjoyed the journey, and the house shows it. I much prefer these kinds of projects than the super swanky ones.
That is so amazing. We are 14 years into our renovations of a 17th century convent. It is comforting to see someone else who understands...and to see that there actually is hope and light at the end of that tunnel.
Beautiful ...good for them ...done a wonderful job ...
I watch Grand Designs from first episode. I like to see how changed People through the years and of course how changed Kevin, and what never changed... passion of builders.
The interior spaces are so simple and magnificently done. Brilliant work by the owners.
Stunning. Exudes warmth and love.
It might need to, looking at the size of those rooms!
I remember watching this episode. The caravan scrapeing along the wall in the lane. I put my hands up to my face watching that then and again now.
Hi Kevin, thank you for following uo this story of restoring old barns and the dedication that goes into the creation of a family home.
You have to admire their dedication to this restoration and more importantly to each other and their children. Well done you two!
Beautiful.
A gorgeous house and a wonderful HOME!
Family & life goals.
Amazing! Incredible! Well done to this courageous and brave couple. The vision, anything is possible 👋
PLEASE, 20 years in 4 minutes? Please show us more. The before n now? Cheers. Congratulations. Lovely home.
I think it is a great home and I am glad they stuck with it, they deserve it!
What an incredible achievement! Congratulations.
Glad to see it finished!
Beautiful.
A stunning final result. Proof that even sketchy dreams can eventually come true.
Kevin, me encantan tus reportajes de Grandes Diseños. Thanks a lot 😊
Wow beautiful wish them all the very best
That's splendid. Job well done 👍👍 Magnificent home. I hope it stands for hundreds of years and in the family 🙏
Great people 👏. Great talent, great will !!! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷.
That was amazing to watch, well done to everyone involved it was heart warming to watch.
Stunning home!
Absolutely stunning. Great to see that.
Absolutely beautiful!
What a beautiful place.
So beautiful and special by spiritual people and their inner visions.
Oh Kate the house is looking so so good please look after your self love u are a great mum just take time and get in a good space and be u 💞sending love to u and your family xxx
I remember the Freak offs we had in that barn.
Bloody brilliant and just Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing❤👍
Loving the tenacity.
absolutely beautiful!
I've known families that lived in their garage while they rebuilt their home. When I was a kid my parents and 4 of us kids lived in a tiny house while my dad built a foundation, added a couple of bedrooms and a bathroom, rebuilt the plumbing system, put a poured floor in the garage and added a bathroom and room to the back of the garage, put in a septic tank system, rebuilt the electrical system, heating system. Yeah, people do remarkable things without fanfare . . . all the time.
Well done you two it looks lovely. A big thumbs up from me 👍
MAGNIFICENT!!! I remember watching that episode all those years ago too!
Such a beautiful home. And it looks like the next generation is living there now too?
Great story of life. 💕🤩
Incredible ... well done
Hats off! Well done that's something not everyone would even have the determination to complete.
Brilliant. *** Well done. Add your own superlatives, can't do expletives of course. Hats off to you, thoroughly deserved and thanks for sharing with us all.
2 decades that's commitment
Would looove to live there! Beautiful...😍
Wow!
An actual transformation and makeover, not knocking most of it down and making something that wouldn't look out of place in a doctor's clinic
beautiful
Great!
I remember thius so well, but heavens! was 99?
What a amazing work
20 years to build a home - I don't think I could handle it
Rest in peace Sue. ❤
Wow, meditating DID work :D
Yes the house is Divine ✨️
20 years in the making and you are making a four minute short of it!??!?! WHAT?
absolutely gorjus! 😍😍😍
Magnificent.. just epic.
When Kevin McCloud walks into a room and says: "Yes." That is a full win.
Patience
Persistence
Perseverance
Perfection
Where is this house located ?
Respect!
époustouflant ¡
Seriously though, how can bricks and mortar be an "everchanging expression of who they are?" Such architectural b-s.
We all need a home, and some of us take more pride in it than others, some spend 20 years to build it, some spend 40 years to pay it off. We have been duped when we believe that home ownership is a reflection of us, that somehow a shelter now becomes life's main focus. It's like living to eat rather than eating to live. A home has a function, but it is not the destination.
I watched the whole show on Channel 4's website. No mention of where these two got the money or their backgrounds other than the man was a freelance writer. Not much money in that. Still I was impressed with their tenacity. All those months of mud would have done me in.
Love the vision and belief
I have my own designs for my forever home, although not so 'grand'!
It's just a pipe-dream, as planners would never approve of my entirely temporary structure, specifically aimed at lasting only as long as it's inhabitant, me, & then gifting the land back to nature, just as I will be when I expire.
In Ghana, if you build an adobe house, you don't need planning permission and can basically build whatever you want. You see many houses left to the elements, and nature is reclaiming the land after the owners have passed on.
Next time you see Africans living in mud huts, consider the fact that the mud, wood, and thatch were free and will return to the earth, which is the most ecological way to build a house.
Come to Africa and build your dream house.
@@laupernut
My dream isn't in another country
Wonderful
Amazingly good looking 🥰
😻
Amazing!
Wonderful place.
That imo is nicer than that $10 mil mansion that poor man built on the saddest build episode
Where is the rest??
bueno bueno
Not too shabby! 😀
RHUBARB PIE....i am lying in bed and hungry,and you end with that.
I can understand wanting the visual surfaces to look authentic and true to the original building methods and materials BUT...
Especially on load bearing walls and other strategic areas (like the underpinning work done to the rather compromised walls) building those using conventional, durable, strong and easy to build modern materials and cladding them using cobb, lime mortar and stone and all the rest would have saved a lot of time, money and effort and created a building that would have been more durable in the long run.
Using "moderns" to rebuild the large portions of the structure that to be honest had not stood the test of time seems to me to be the only rational and logical approach.
As it is, this building will be just as "compromised" in 200 years as it was before this renovation started and at that point it will become a fallen down ruin of a relic of the past.
But to each his own I suppose...
Amazing , where did the years go
a dream
But what about the Budget !!? were they under ?? ..... or over ?? Damn! we'll never know 🤨
Don’t understand the desire for a large home and all the work it requires. Small and simple makes more sense, then life isn’t so much about a house.
and they built it themselves
A heating nightmare with all of those huge windows , high ceilings and skylights .
Is this lady Hugh Laurie's sister?
haha I was thinking the same. 😂
I was thinking that too!
Nemám v plánu někde nechat dvacet let svýho života :D :D :D
Vy by jste tam nemakali ani tejden :D
Klobouk dolů před každým, kdo chce chcípnout u renovace starýho baráku...
nice but was it really worth 20 years of your life?
It's not like they only did that one thing. They lived too and raised kids and have grandkids now. Plus they built their marriage too with the help of a common goal. What else could you labor in for 20 years and have something so beautiful to show for it?
@@jasonvanbreda4749 or maybe they could have just spent a lot less money, bought a beautiful home and spent far more time raising their kids and enjoying life. But hey, at least they got on Grand Designs and can brag to their friends about how wonderful their home is (if they still have any).
They finished the house and all the kids moved out…
oh no, TWO DECADES??!! what a pair of numptys!
Such a beautiful home but a shame that it won't be suitable for them as they get older with all those stairs.
Beautiful woodwork beams are amazing! Bit I seen condensation of water on windows and lack of central heating... So thanks but no thanks. I lake to be comfortable and warm at home
Think you need to go to Specsavers!. No condensation on the windows (just reflection) and very clearly central heating!
No central heating in my stone house but it’s beautifully warm inside in winter and cool in summer. You need to broaden your horizons.
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It's unfortunate that this otherwise excellent show did so much to popularise burning wood, when much cleaner heat sources have long been available. The pollution and particulate matter released by burning wood - full of toxins and carcinogens proven to impact health and cause disease - are now polluting the air of our towns, cities, homes and gardens. E.g. that 'nostalgic' and 'sweet' smell from wood smoke is benzene, a carcinogen. Only 8% of UK homes burn wood (almost all of those homes are middle or higher income homes on-grid and/or with a cleaner fuel source - leccy, gas and even oil are all much cleaner), yet this is now the biggest source of harmful particulate matter (soot) - more than traffic. We've sleep walked into a serious air pollution problem. Smoke harms and kills, it always has. Please don't burn wood if you have a cleaner alternative.
Would have been a bit quicker if she helped do the work