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Anyone else been watching them?
Really quite inspiring programmes, I particularly like Grand Designs.
I thought that the couple last week were quite amazing in what they had managed to achieve with such a small budget too! Quite breath taking property, very simple yet elegant and sympathetic. Was quite amazing the energy and drive that they had (they weren't young).
If anyone didn't see the programme, the house (an old barn) was in the South of Italyand what was quite peculiar in that they were applying for planning retrospectively (much more expensive but quite normal apparently and avoids planning regs). But this can only be done once every ten years and the basic builiding has to be complete. The couple discovered that the deadline had been changed for this planning application and they had only 24 hours to loosely construct the basic outline of the building by stacking the bricks (no mortar) just to take photo's to prove the structure existed! Quite bizarre!
I can't believe the people they have on Property Ladder! So stubborn and unwilling to listen to advice. The advice given from the presenter - Sarah Beeny is just discarded (even though she obviously very good at it, self made etc.) I would be hanging on to her every word. Do you think the programme makers deliberately pick people that will ignore her advice or is it contrived in any way???
It makes me wonder how these people manage to achieve savings to fund these projects???
Really quite inspiring programmes, I particularly like Grand Designs.
I thought that the couple last week were quite amazing in what they had managed to achieve with such a small budget too! Quite breath taking property, very simple yet elegant and sympathetic. Was quite amazing the energy and drive that they had (they weren't young).
If anyone didn't see the programme, the house (an old barn) was in the South of Italyand what was quite peculiar in that they were applying for planning retrospectively (much more expensive but quite normal apparently and avoids planning regs). But this can only be done once every ten years and the basic builiding has to be complete. The couple discovered that the deadline had been changed for this planning application and they had only 24 hours to loosely construct the basic outline of the building by stacking the bricks (no mortar) just to take photo's to prove the structure existed! Quite bizarre!
I can't believe the people they have on Property Ladder! So stubborn and unwilling to listen to advice. The advice given from the presenter - Sarah Beeny is just discarded (even though she obviously very good at it, self made etc.) I would be hanging on to her every word. Do you think the programme makers deliberately pick people that will ignore her advice or is it contrived in any way???
It makes me wonder how these people manage to achieve savings to fund these projects???