Lambourn Valley | Season 2 Episode 5 | Full Episode | Grand Designs UK
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2022
- Kevin McCloud meets Rupert and Julie who are prepared to take their chances on building a very expensive and very experimental idea in the Lambourn Valley.
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The dog is just adorable. Sitting so upright and well disciplined. Made me smile
Planning. Planning. Planning. In my experience (84 years) most people don't fully understand or appreciate the importance of planning. on time & under budget are two of the sweetest sounds.
for a house that has such a huge presence on the outside, the rooms are shockingly small the kid's rooms are like cupboards
It's more than big enough for a kid.
@@reemssmeer-maar-dan-omgeke9028 wee my friend kids grow up pretty fast
They are laughably small.
Yes! Such stupid, stupid design!
At least they're larger than what I grew up in.
A Shoe box.
I’m rewatching the old episodes and I’m definitely not envious. How could anyone justify felling all those magnificent oaks to satisfy their egos. It would be like living amongst the dead. Totally disgusting! The plan reminded me of a movie where a maximum security jail was featured with the wardens sitting in the kitchen area. Kevin can produce all the nauseating rhetoric but ultimately this kind of outrageous build should be outlawed.
I love watching Grand Designs. I love the show. I love every episode. I love the way Kevin McCloud would have with every building of all kind of homes. It one of the best shows l have ever watched.
Yes!
Too many things bothered me about this one. Julie was the one who insisted on this style of build, yet she was quick to announce she would sell it. She laughed at the notion of her husband taking on an extra job to pay the mortgage. We've just finished building our new home and you always assume it will cost X amount extra but this 'open-ended' budget rang alarm bells for me right from the start. Your home is important and I get that in order to get somewhere you sometimes have to take risks, but to stretch yourself so much and not be 100% in love with your home is just sad. And don't get me started on harvesting so many 100+ year old trees!
The oak trees pissed me off
@@kellyk.3855 Same!
85 oak trees at a 150 years a pop = 12750 years of trees in a house.....
That's horrible. No excuse not to use recycled wood. @@lgtheodore07
So many trees sacrificed, in spite of what the forester said, when they already had a beautiful home. I enjoy watching these houses being built but sometimes I question the use of so many materials to create an oversized dwelling.
agree
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They just seemed sad. I would’ve been happy just renovating or maybe extending the existing bungalow a bit. Simplifying your life and being content with what you’ve got is the key to happiness. They became too ambitious and unhappy in the end like every other person I’ve seen in other episodes.
The home ended up owning them.
I love “Grand Design”, and this House is amazing!
But why are the arkitekt always wrong about the Price???
That is not okey!
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It is surprising to me that a couple that had done several renovations had no idea what it was going to take to build this house: how long, costs, workers.
Personally, I don't like it (especially that kitchen), but to each his own.
She doesn't like it 😳
Many of the internal spaces are small and the overall look is cluttered as the oak goes every which way. Perhaps this would work better on a larger scale but it seems quite pinched and overly complicated. The center kitchen is a deal-breaker.
It would be interesting for Kevin to go back into some of these builds 10-20 years later and see how they have been to live in.
Thanks for posting these earlier shows.
Loyd Kahn wrote the Dome Book and then he recanted when he realized how impractical they were. Pretty to look at though.
I like the idea and visual appeal of this house. But, if this was my house I would want a couple more bedrooms that are much larger. I think the kids' rooms are way too small.
I think the size of the kids bedrooms is fine.
@@kattihatt Children grow up.
Fancy building your own house and then cheating yourself with the size of the rooms! Madness! (stupidity, or just negligent planning).
@@andreaandrea6716 children need less space as they grow older.
@@kattihatt That's SOME generalization! Zowie.
Am surprised that nothing was said about where to put the fridge, freezer, washing machine, dryer and other household "boot room" or utility room things. Also, nothing said about bathrooms / shower rooms ... perhaps the budget was so overshot that they forgot all about needing these things in a home.
6:26 There's a utility room straight off the kitchen.
Thank you so much for uploading! I LOVE these!
I liked this one
Just madness. And why the hell did they use oak? Crazy.
Not really a fan of the exterior but the interior is spectacular. The views are amazing.
Amazing house. Beautiful. Would have loved to see it today everything finished inside and out.
85 oak trees at a 150 years a pop = 12750 years of trees in a house...
This looks very much like a classic Colorado mountaintop ranch home, onside and out...
Switch out the finished fireplace surround for a large rounded rock facing and the soft furnishings for big low natural leather and add soft throws and some handwoven rugs and it is a perfect match...
To a multi multi million dollar estate. Back then. Today ten million or better.
It is very attractive and excellently sited- and I hope they still own it.
Absolutely brilliant in every sense of the word.
Outstanding home, soaking up natural views at every turn. Superb design, harmoniously combining new and old construction methods, But, I totally agree with others here that the children's rooms are uncomfortably small. A painful oversight, no doubt, as they grow.
Quite a significant overspend, too. Hopefully lessons learned all 'round.
Enjoyed this programme very much - thank you for uploading it.
Loved this one, I wish they had a deck and garden around now..
The center of the house (kitchen) gives me wild Christopher Alexander vibes. I love it!
For such a beautiful view, the windows / views should have been much bigger and unbroken.
WOW,,Fantastic!
There's a lot of concern for the trees in the comments. That's fair, but maybe people will feel better to know that many forests in the UK (and in other countries) were planted in the 1800's for the purpose of being cut down one or two hundred years later. Also, timber companies that harvest these often trees plant them back (sometimes several trees for each they cut), so its a cycle that hopefully gets repeated in the centuries to come.
What rubbish! That’s like a grouse moor gamekeeper justifying what they do.
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Great episode
awesome 👍 design-build
Love it❤
Please tell me there is a concerted effort to prioritize using reclaimed oak beams and struts in the uk. 80 century old oaks felled for one dwelling is downright upsetting!
As the owner mentions this space works as a holiday home - difficult/tight space for a young/growing family
The wood work is beautiful but for the amount spent, the usable space is a disaster! That kitchen blocks off the whole house. Just my opinion.
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The length of time builder’s used to take was just ridiculous. Now homes can go up in 3-4 months due to more efficient practices. I’d go mental if I had to wait 2 years for something that looks like an office block.
This is a LAUGHABLE take- even with mass development sites it takes months to organize the grading and infrastructure and foundations. And all that is followed by cookie cutter framing electric plumbing interiors etc that takes those 3-4 months when all done by the crews literally moving down the line each task after another immediately.
3 YEARS is very typical in an easily accessed site with a simple yet semi custom design home.
And that assumes zero supplyline or fuel or labor crisis strike 💁
@seaneendelong8065 Also, here in Ireland anyway, there's a shortage of builders, plumbers, electrician etc.
I wonder what happened with this family. The house is beautiful. The kitchen seems silly for a house of this scale. There is no storage. And Kevin is right; what about cooking smells? It would need to be clean all the time since it’s right in the entry. The kitchen does not seem to be her idea, nor was it ever approved by her.
Showing my age, i just look at these houses and heating costs. Too many windows, too much open space
The kitchen in the middle is so out of place. Just why? The rest is beautiful.
God bless this family, I think they were let down by their architect. He was supposed to be proficient in “envisioning” the end result. I’m certain this is not what they imagined. Definitely more than they expected to pay.
I've never, never seen an architect who has designed a home that could be built to the owners budget. Even in his first talk, the architect dismissed the owners concerns. A good architect embraces and takes on board the owners dream, not HIS OWN dream, and brings them to plan.
Most bizarre entrance I've ever seen on such a grand design! Right into the KITCHEN ???
It seems bad planning to wait until the foundation is totally done to get a price on the frame. One of the beauties of getting things done off site is that work gets done on two fronts simultaneously. In this case, they have to shut down the work and wait for the frame? Not good planning imho.
Plus, they avoid the very problem they had: having to now get a frame that fits the foundation. Order the frame first and then build the foundation to fit.
Order the frame and then build the foundation to fit? Both are custom made, makes no difference whatsoever.
Such a huge house and such tiny rooms for the children! I mean it's fine when they are little but those are not good rooms for teens. The kitchen is pathetic.
" its a complicated space "
The dog is the star of this episode as far as I am concerned.I also don’t buy the justification for cutting down the oaks 🤷🏻♀️
30% is a standard contingency for over costs.
shame. looks dated, whereas the house which had the wall of curved glass panes still looks amazing.
Knowing that many trees had to sacrifice their lives for a house I wanted to build would bring me up short, and make me rethink what I wanted to do. I would have investigated using recycled and salvaged barn beams. While I love post and beam construction, I think the size of the wood used here is excessive in being out of scale with the size of the structure. I agree with other commenters that the kids are getting the short end of the stick as far as space goes - their rooms are tiny! I think less glass could have been used on the upper part of the central core to cut down on costs. The interior does seem remarkably small for the visual size of the exterior. Video quality is terrible - how old is this?
It looks like they used coppiced oak, which is very sustainable. The trees have probably been maintained exactly for this purpose, a tradition from the middle ages. This is a very old video btw, I'm guessing early nineties, 30 years old :)
Kevin had more hair and it's darker here, so I'd say some time in the 1990s....????
Despite loving the architecture, I couldn't sleep well as I'd always imagine all the Ents slowly swarming around to haunt me.
Kevin keeps on reminding them of their mistakes isn't helping the situation at all
They can't afford this house. Their mortgage will be a struggle. Husband will need a second job. He looks sad. Will wife be helping pay mortgage?
woow so beautiful
Nothing is to scale, very empty and actually not homey…but this is about 20 y old if not more. And those bedrooms r ridiculously tiny and when kids grow up, will be very uncomfortable
They should have lived on the woods if they liked wood so much
gosh i really hate that kitchen and location, and its so small :/
POOR trees
Is she planning divorce already? She keeps saying 'MY' builder! Surely it should be 'OUR' builder? ;-)
This was a strange episode. I've never seen a couple on this show be so uninterested in home design. The home itself turned out to be not much more than the lake house McMansions we have here in the US.
While I don't like all the homes I see on Grand Designs, what makes them Grand imo is the owners having a special connection to it. But there's not much here more than rich people wanting a giant, complicated house.
Depopulating the forest of ancient Mother trees is highly questionable. The oldest trees pass on superior bloodlines. Look it up if you doubt me. Beams and posts can be made from smaller trees that are engineered and glued up nowadays. They also don't split or warp.🙂🙂🙂
AGREE
It's beautiful, but I don't like it. The views are fantastic but there is too much wood for my liking and cutting down all those trees seems obscene.
They're trees. It's absurd to even have a say in it when you can grow new ones.
At 13 mins.19 secs I find out that they chopped down, was it 85 150 year old Oak trees cut down for a damned house??? Seriously? Its not even a house they can afford...just something they can brag about when someone says "nice beams mate". The guy from Longleat says they are just thinnings...things are what you make floor boards out of not 150 year old trees.....they were worshipped for a reason...trees are so precious these days, soon there will be nothing left in this world but concrete and kids will see trees in books (made out of more trees) because selfish people have chopped them all down for houses which they will probably end up selling because mortgage rates will go up so much they wont be able to afford to pay for them anyway. Thats a thumbs down for me and I dont care how many of you tolls give me a hard time....Im entitled to my opinion.
Very nice people, but house is way too much- cowboy style on steroids.
I don't like it because it's very impractical. Open plans have their problems and this house is a disaster. I like lots of windows and agree that the kitchen is the heart of the home but this has missed all of the points that most find important. Good luck!
OMG, The ADS!! Just a plethora of ads...
That framing juncture of 2 complicated angles and 1 simple angle, which occurs 24 times per level, times 3 levels...
The architect says he reoriented the axis so now there's 1 complicated angle and 2 simple ones.
THEN he claims he's taken away 2/3s of the hard angles; no, he didn't.
Either orientation has 1 simple and 1 complicated angles standard; he only changed 1 complicated angle into a simple one. So, he only took away 1/3 of the hard angles.
Low Resolution 360 dpi makes it unwatchable.
Hideous
She wamt's to go again because she doesn't have the stress
These people are emotionally crippled by their excessive need
Billions of men, women and children starve while these greedy self absorbed fools worry that their megalith is a month behind schedule.
Shame on them.
Lol the billion of people starve argument can be made anytime you complain about anything.
And yet, you condemn the politics that created the former and not the politics that created the billions of starving folks who can’t afford anything…. It’s their culture that robs from them…,
Love this show... but this one... yikes. That's gotta be one of the ugliest houses ever featured on the show. Kevin was being soooo nice in his praise.
complete waste of 85 trees... really bad design
The curved glass “house” looks ridiculous for me. That looks like a building not a house. The timber house is massive for a family of 4. Big mistakes with the bedrooms,no space for wardrobes ,the smell from the kitchen goes all around. Omg
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