home sweet home

Yes, I know what you mean, just pop to the bank to borrow another £150.00, no problem! They go through all these horrendous disasters, it rains continuously for months on end, everything they’ve budgeted for costs ten times more, then lo and behold! An amazing, spotless, enormous, mainly glass eco friendly designer home!

Another strange thing, they’ve always had a baby by the end of it all, must be cosy in that caravan with nothing much to do!!

Grand Designs - it all goes wrong, it will never get finished and is always way over budget!
Do they have an army of cleaners in before they go back to see the finished house, everywhere shiny, no smeary windows or clutter anywhere!

The programmes where they knock the whole of the ground floor into one big living/dining/kitchen/study/play room ! How do they keep it heated in this country and how on earth do you keep it all tidy?

And, of course, escaping to the country is fine if you have £850,000 to play with.

The one that gets me is the one with George Clark brings in an architect who prices it all up to their budget and never comes in anywhere near the budget. How do these people justify what they do? The home owner always ends up over £50k over budget and sometimes £150k over. Ugly house to Lovely house. Ok some of that is their choice of finishes etc but a lot is just the work specified.

I agree, they must have rich friends or relatives who agree to interest free loans. Either that or they've sold a kidney !
I do enjoy watching all these types of programmes though.