I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE SECOND HOUSE...THE ONE BUILT WITH THE ADORABLE SON'S AIR QUALITY REUIREMENTS IN MIND. IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES FROM THIS BELOVED SERIES.
So do I. But seriously, Shhhhh... We all get it. You leaning on the shift key does not make your point any clearer, and all the energy could've been put into what it is about this home that excited you so much.
In some parts of Nairobi City in Kenya, a piece of land that size can cost you 3M GBP. That's what you get with unfettered crony capitalism and gross income & wealth inequality that comes with it
It has so much potential though. Imagine how nice it will be when the next person buy it, for a good price too, then renders the outside. Paints the inside White. Puts some wood cladding on key walls. Tiles the outside of the pool. It will look amazing one day.
I remember watching these episodes and although I was sceptical at first, I found the episode at 4:00 quite inspiring. They weren't just a couple of middle class yuppies after all but a vision of family and how they could do the best by it. And it worked. With regard to that last episode 7:53 with the fuckt up pseudo Speyer home, what a wanker that guy was. And what a pigs ear he made of something that could've been remarkable. I thought Kevin went way too easy on these two. It turned out an absolute monstrosity. The mobile bookcases demonstrated - dare I say - screamed just how bad it was. Take them out and their colour co-ordinated books and journals and what have you got. A hall of ridiculous, poorly considered dimensions. All that view, and you've got a bunch of blank wall hiding what should've been the _pièce de résistance_ but instead, you get a corner that's way too tall and added stupid cost at the expense of the modernist possibility. (sigh)
Granted. And this makes the whole hype of the program more and more ironic. Carbon footprint is rapidly morphing like original sin or purgatory for the early modern Church, one of the 3 or 4 impossible things You are required to believe in before breakfast, but you forgot at noon.
@@c7tt264 funny that you mention credentials. Not sure you will understand what that means, but I happen to have a PhD in condensed matter physics and I do research and teach in universities around Europe. And on this topic I know what I am talking about. But I understand discussing articles of faith is always very difficult. But do not worry. Keep your faith in the Holy Carbon Redemption, or how you want to call it. We all need a gleam of hope in these trying times. 😘
That grey concrete house is the most depressing I've seen in this series - it's like every day would be grey, overcast and rainy. - To each his own of course but for me I'd go suicidal living in a grey depression like this.
Kevin McCloud starts with the presumption that the design is going to be gloomy inside. It’s a bit prejudicial when he hasn’t even seen how the effect is at the end. In fact, he changes his mind when he sees the final result. I notice this is has been a common theme throughout the great design series. Now don’t get me wrong please because I happen to like the great design theory and I like Kevin McCloud. I think this is just some sort of theatrical rhetoric to make the ending seem more amazing when the final reveal is made. I personally just find it an annoying practice.
I really don’t know why we haven’t been using concrete more. I’m wondering with the storing prices of wood if it’s going to be more common, it would certainly be more energy efficient.
OK this popped up on my recommended videos again and on second viewing I must admit I’ve changed my mind: that concrete monstrosity is horrible, disgusting, an utter eyesore and the owners should be thoroughly embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.
What I find hilarious about GD is the deep irony of the programme. We begin our journey with an overly smug couple standing in a field with Kevin, enjoying the view. Then at the end of the programme the house is rightly forgotten, as they all stand in it again looking at the same view only this time attempting to ignore the Tesco Express box albeit clad in wood, that they find themselves trapped in.
I have to say that I absolutely despise concrete buildings. It's such a stark, boring, ugly material to make a house from. The alergen free house was nice but also not a fan of the raised Ferris Beuller house.
I love multi-split level layouts, but they really are fuck-all good for universal access, unless ramps have been incorporated from the outset, rather than tacked on at the last minute as they usually are.
Makes me laugh. Non of them talk about the problems they had with the builders. My gosh must they have had problems. Imagine the foreman! excuse me you want to do what! Well that's gonna cost! Actually just give me your cheque book
it's a shame to think that some people find it attactive to live in a house built of of pure concrte! Go to any abondent nuclear power plant Fukushima, Shernobil, and you will find hundrerds of abondent buildings built from massive concrete blocs. :-)
Ass if the UK wasn't gray enough let's build a gray concrete home with no windows. Color ? Who needs it 😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Can we have a series called 'Modest-designs'? All too often, the homes on this show are many many times bigger than they need to be, many many times grander than is required, & waaaaay too expensive for even 'well-off' professionals! This show should really be called 'Penis measuring, in building terms'!! 🤣
Very few people would watch such a program. Most people watch these shows because it's aspirational. If they wanted to see average run of the mill dwellings they can look around their own place for that.
@@seanchapman5959 expressing his own personal, negative opinion of the homes people are designing and building for themselves with shady, judgemental comments and back handed complements, and forcing them to try and convince him that what they built is nice while he rolls his eyes and purses his lips. He's a fucking asshole. Describing things as "Otherwise gloomy", "the brutal side of brutalist." and on the last house he outlined everything that made the house different from the homeowners design inspiration. as if he expected an exact copy.
It's just banter. He always starts out the doom- monger, pointing out 'issues' and follows them with site visits & even mucks in sometimes to help out. He is always complimentary of what is good about the building and the struggles the people have been through on the last visit. It's the standard schtick & sometimes you can really see a friendship there.
Kevin McCloud talks so much bollox. He really needs a scriptwriter. His choice of houses (if he's the one that picks them) is, to say the least, inconsistent and sometimes bordering on the banal. Sometimes inspirational, sometimes humdrum
What's your favourite home??
Watch the series: bit.ly/2DbKptf
quality of video so bad cant say.
@@ALEXDUSTCULT must just be ur terrible devise mine was 🌟perfect🌟
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE SECOND HOUSE...THE ONE BUILT WITH THE ADORABLE SON'S AIR QUALITY REUIREMENTS IN MIND. IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES FROM THIS BELOVED SERIES.
It’s so stunning, yet so damn modest.
So do I. But seriously, Shhhhh... We all get it. You leaning on the shift key does not make your point any clearer, and all the energy could've been put into what it is
about this home that excited you so much.
First house looks and feels depressing. Imagine the neighbours having to look at that everyday?
4:36 A quarter acre of land for 765,000 GBP?! WTF!
That's how much it costs in the big cities...
Bloooooooody heeeeeeeelll
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In some parts of Nairobi City in Kenya, a piece of land that size can cost you 3M GBP. That's what you get with unfettered crony capitalism and gross income & wealth inequality that comes with it
Is that a mistake??????!!!!!!!!
The concrete home makes me think he was inspired by minecraft
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Ahah true
The concrete build....enough said.... Good luck to the wife who has to live with it
@@bekind6513 not anyone is smallminded like you are
i really liked the home with the air quality
Concrete house is appalling, it’s depressing. Imagine coming back after a crap day at work in mid winter to that🤮🤮
It has so much potential though.
Imagine how nice it will be when the next person buy it, for a good price too, then renders the outside.
Paints the inside White. Puts some wood cladding on key walls. Tiles the outside of the pool.
It will look amazing one day.
I’ve never met a person that doesn’t enjoy a bit of grand designs
I’ve never audibly said “ I hate it” on a RUclips video before. That concrete house , my god 🫢
“Paul and Deborah run a small pottery glazing business, selling at the side of the road on a part time basis. They have a £2.4m budget…..”
I remember watching these episodes and although I was sceptical at first, I found the episode at 4:00 quite inspiring. They weren't just a couple of middle class yuppies after all but a vision of family and how they could do the best by it. And it worked. With regard to that last episode 7:53 with the fuckt up pseudo Speyer home, what a wanker that guy was. And what a pigs ear he made of something that could've been remarkable. I thought Kevin went way too easy on these two. It turned out an absolute monstrosity. The mobile bookcases demonstrated - dare I say - screamed just how bad it was. Take them out and their colour co-ordinated books and journals and what have you got. A hall of ridiculous, poorly considered dimensions. All that view, and you've got a bunch of blank wall hiding what should've been the _pièce de résistance_ but instead, you get a corner that's way too tall and added stupid cost at the expense of the modernist possibility. (sigh)
The first house is so grim
Oh middle house looks amazing - would like to have seen the lower level
The carbon footprint of this building must be ridiculous, whatever local authority approved this is incompetent at this point
Granted. And this makes the whole hype of the program more and more ironic. Carbon footprint is rapidly morphing like original sin or purgatory for the early modern Church, one of the 3 or 4 impossible things You are required to believe in before breakfast, but you forgot at noon.
@@saa82vik please continue to work in Tesco
@@c7tt264 funny that you mention credentials. Not sure you will understand what that means, but I happen to have a PhD in condensed matter physics and I do research and teach in universities around Europe. And on this topic I know what I am talking about. But I understand discussing articles of faith is always very difficult. But do not worry. Keep your faith in the Holy Carbon Redemption, or how you want to call it. We all need a gleam of hope in these trying times. 😘
@@saa82vik absolute BS. That is not who you are 😂😂😂 enjoy your mums basement bud
The concrete house looks like the slammer
That grey concrete house is the most depressing I've seen in this series - it's like every day would be grey, overcast and rainy. - To each his own of course but for me I'd go suicidal living in a grey depression like this.
Love it!
I love it. Maintenance fee. Build once done ✅.
Please what is the name of the software use for the animation
Enjoyed this ..thanku. .love an god bless x
the concrete house is just like a jail !
The concrete place is near me in leafy sussex.
I drive past it regularly & often wondered what it was .
Love to watch
Very good programming for view plan
6:52 😂😂😂😂😂👀👀
Credit to the councils for being open minded
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Omg ikr I would never
Each to their own
Anyone knows what software they are using? the animations are beautiful!
They do sell it, i think if you search grand designs model software it’ll come up i remember seeing it for sale years ago
Beautyful house nice
Beautiful?
Kevin McCloud starts with the presumption that the design is going to be gloomy inside. It’s a bit prejudicial when he hasn’t even
seen how the effect is at the end. In fact, he changes his mind when he sees the final result. I notice this is has been a common theme throughout the great design series. Now don’t get me wrong please because I happen to like the great design theory and I like Kevin McCloud. I think this is just some sort of theatrical rhetoric to make the ending seem more amazing when the final reveal is made. I personally just find it an annoying practice.
Oh! Shut up
It’s a show so dramatic twists and turns are necessary.
WOW the first one has got the "prison look" design...
Simply fantastic and amazing and what a great beauty.
I would paint the inside walls white. For the first house
What did these houses cost to build? They obviously are highly customized.
I love this concrete house.
Loved it too, but I would have given colour to a few walls. white, grey, dark blue maybe..
You must be american
@@sirtrollalot7762 Irish Canadian.
@@andrewaway Oh god you're one of those type
Urrrrfff what a mood very grim
I really don’t know why we haven’t been using concrete more. I’m wondering with the storing prices of wood if it’s going to be more common, it would certainly be more energy efficient.
Cares about children air quality... lives in London lol
15 months to less than 2 1/2 years, that's quite fast to build houses this size ? I suppose they had all the permits already...
Looks & feels like a concrete jail
Would that concrete home be a cheaper build or more expensive
Very expensive
Concrete building looks cold
That concrete monstrosity is absolutely hideous.
OK this popped up on my recommended videos again and on second viewing I must admit I’ve changed my mind: that concrete monstrosity is horrible, disgusting, an utter eyesore and the owners should be thoroughly embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.
@@vonteflon everyone is entitled to their own opinion and taste
Until I see homes on this show that incorporate colour on the inside, I'll never consider any of these empty, white, shells to be breathtaking. Out.
lol the show does not exclusively feature modern designs, just this video.
I've never seen such a depressing swimming poor as the first one 😂 just isolated and cold.
So eco friendly lol 😂
first house is like prison. just wtf
Fancy keeping alive the spirit of Berlin 1945? Concrete bunker is the perfect home for you
This is a wheelchair users's Dream Nightmare
Each to their own I guess....
Oh he is so good.... But cantilever, hmmm, well, I suppose, all of 2 meteres max?
James Franco’s house on “this is the end”
I like this. May Allah bless us and we build them
What I find hilarious about GD is the deep irony of the programme. We begin our journey with an overly smug couple standing in a field with Kevin, enjoying the view. Then at the end of the programme the house is rightly forgotten, as they all stand in it again looking at the same view only this time attempting to ignore the Tesco Express box albeit clad in wood, that they find themselves trapped in.
Hahahahaha well said sir. Sometimes pretentiousness and pretense are too much. Me, I ducked in bunkers more charming than this one.
Inside is boring
Never could quite get into brutalism.
Anyone else fucking confused 😂
the allergy house with huge, sliding glass doors.
I have to say that I absolutely despise concrete buildings. It's such a stark, boring, ugly material to make a house from. The alergen free house was nice but also not a fan of the raised Ferris Beuller house.
Seven different levels?
Sounds great getting older and need to use staircases every funking minute
I love multi-split level layouts, but they really are fuck-all good for universal access, unless ramps have been incorporated from the outset, rather than tacked on at the last minute as they usually are.
Spending so much money to get this shit
How to people manage to clean these big houses? For a couple they will be spending a full day whole to vaccum, dust and wipe the place.
The concrete one would be the worst for this.
Robot vacuum cleaners are the way to go, as long as you're good at putting away cables.
The concrete house looks and feels like a Berlin Sex Dungeon
Talking from experience..? ;)
The firs one is horrible!!! They just forgot the machine guns in the windows. The other two are far better
Looks a bit like a prison
Makes me laugh. Non of them talk about the problems they had with the builders. My gosh must they have had problems. Imagine the foreman! excuse me you want to do what! Well that's gonna cost! Actually just give me your cheque book
it's a shame to think that some people find it attactive to live in a house built of of pure concrte! Go to any abondent nuclear power plant Fukushima, Shernobil, and you will find hundrerds of abondent buildings built from massive concrete blocs. :-)
I also find it a shame to read comments on RUclips only to discover mass illiteracy & shallow overly judgmental people
not a fan of these vanity projects, too much money, no sense
Start with buying your wife a non lopsided bra.
I see nothing inspiring in those houses
The video quality blows-a$$
Ass if the UK wasn't gray enough let's build a gray concrete home with no windows. Color ? Who needs it 😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Obviously Nature does not want Born and Ellenor to breed.
We
yikes
The first house is hideous
Horrible house that concrete one
its horrific.
Can we have a series called 'Modest-designs'?
All too often, the homes on this show are many many times bigger than they need to be, many many times grander than is required, & waaaaay too expensive for even 'well-off' professionals!
This show should really be called 'Penis measuring, in building terms'!! 🤣
Very few people would watch such a program. Most people watch these shows because it's aspirational. If they wanted to see average run of the mill dwellings they can look around their own place for that.
It's called " Living Big in a Tiny Home" . Millions watch it too. But "Living Adequately in an Average home" might not have appeal, I agree.
It is distracting how insulting the host is.
Google him...
How 😂
@@seanchapman5959 expressing his own personal, negative opinion of the homes people are designing and building for themselves with shady, judgemental comments and back handed complements, and forcing them to try and convince him that what they built is nice while he rolls his eyes and purses his lips. He's a fucking asshole. Describing things as "Otherwise gloomy", "the brutal side of brutalist." and on the last house he outlined everything that made the house different from the homeowners design inspiration. as if he expected an exact copy.
It's just banter. He always starts out the doom- monger, pointing out 'issues' and follows them with site visits & even mucks in sometimes to help out. He is always complimentary of what is good about the building and the struggles the people have been through on the last visit. It's the standard schtick & sometimes you can really see a friendship there.
Revolting house.
Both amateur home builders have more money than sense. Pitiful.
Kevin McCloud talks so much bollox. He really needs a scriptwriter. His choice of houses (if he's the one that picks them) is, to say the least, inconsistent and sometimes bordering on the banal. Sometimes inspirational, sometimes humdrum