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Sweet FA said:
I bet they get bored pretty quickly of the kids dashing across from the playroom in the piss down with rain, putting wet footprints on the white carpet in the front room.
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I thought that as well. Daft idea.

Either an enclosed corridor between the 2 or a big skylight over the 'indoor' garden would have been a lot better.
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
i think it's basically because there are two schools of conservation runnign paralle with each other one is that you should do everythign you can to make your alterations non impact and in keeping with the area which was certainly ture up til about 10 years ago.

however now theres a feeling that the new builds alterations should reflect the history and changes of the area.

I personally preffer the later unless it means destroying some smashing old architecture from another age.

Times change, things move on so this should be refelcted.
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couldnt agree more. it would be pretty bland if in say a hundred years time no one could see the impact that our built form had on an area because it was trying to mimic what was there before. i think the pastiche approach is awful. Contrasting the old georgina terrace with a modern structure was great as it showed off how great the gerogian building was and contrasted it massively with the new build. Spookyfrank and others seem to have a downer on the couple that built the house for some reason, but i think thats more of a personal thing per say as opposed to anything about the design of the property.

i only wish that they hadnt quite run out of money so that they could have introduced more glass into the building as the glass they did put in worked really wells. just a shame there wasnt more of it.
 
SpookyFrank said:
90 objections? You've got to be a special kind of twat to shrug that off...
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or believe in what you are trying to do and have the balls to carry out regardless. clearly the objections were unfounded as planning permission was granted. anyone can object for the sake of it, but it doesnt mean that the objections are founded in any way. 90 objections was probably a petition signed by a few neighbours and their kids and any friends they could get to sign it.
 
Didn't like the house, and thought the couple were complete twits.

3 ovens... and the only time that woman cooks is when she was posing for the camera stiring a tin of soup :rolleyes:

The patio/playroom/living room on the same level was stupid. That cream carpet is going to get pretty manky pretty quickly. And I think building out of polystyrene and concrete is about as unsustainable as it is possible to build.
 
waterloowelshy said:
or believe in what you are trying to do and have the balls to carry out regardless. clearly the objections were unfounded as planning permission was granted. anyone can object for the sake of it, but it doesnt mean that the objections are founded in any way. 90 objections was probably a petition signed by a few neighbours and their kids and any friends they could get to sign it.
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quite were they were all complaining about the loss of a view and the impact of the new house on the value of their house. people do not like change and get very protective/agressive when faced with it.
 
Fuzzy said:
it still got through though i take it. got to love the planning system.
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anyone can object. to have a valid objection is another matter. be pretty sad if things were turned down soley because of objections. we'd all still be living in caves.
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
did you not see trade secrets last week the mentioned that the average cost of a posh kitchen like that is about £30,000 :eek: and that they never get used as most of the time the owners eat out...
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These kitchens, especially the stainless steel professional style ones that got fashionable a few years back are called Marie Antoinette kitchens, on account of her having a dairy farm built at Versailles so she could play at being a dairy maid once in a while. :)
 
waterloowelshy said:
to have a valid objection is another matter.
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precisely. see my next post. as you rightly pointed out an objection is an objection in planning speak it has to be legitimate planning reason for it to have any substance. obviously in this case 90 objections werent enough to convince the planners to refuse it. it must have been a shit letter of objection.
 
Papingo said:
These kitchens, especially the stainless steel professional style ones that got fashionable a few years back are called Marie Antoinette kitchens, on account of her having a dairy farm built at Versailles so she could play at being a dairy maid once in a while. :)
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whilst it's a good story that's all it is in reality she only ever have 12 cottages and a windmill of a model village built. Based on the model village from the Prince de Condé his however did have several windmills and a dariyhouse/parlour...

I take the point though.
 
Fuzzy said:
quite were they were all complaining about the loss of a view.
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What view? The backs of the houses in the next street. :D

My neighbour applied for an extension. The other neighbour objected on the grounds that the new landing window would look into one of their bedrooms only 5 foot away. This was got round by changing the design to a high narrow window to provide natural light but being impossible to see out of.
 
3 ovens... and the only time that woman cooks is when she was posing for the camera stiring a tin of soup
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Two stoves as well, what the fuck was that all about? It seemed like an interior design vanity thing that. And what was going on with their cushions? They had a nice enough black and white decor and then put horrible orange and green cushions on the white sofa. :eek:
 
stavros said:
Two stoves as well, what the fuck was that all about? It seemed like an interior design vanity thing that.
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Art. To make the kitchen look symetrical was their excuse. :rolleyes:

Where was the second sink eh?
 
bumpety bump

I feel a bit mixed about tonights project. I think the interior is amazing.
The finish is incredible and it is extremely luxurious with all the gadgets but the exterior is hideous.
It looks like the social services day centre my mum used to work in, it's just awful.
I like the roof but I hate the rest.
The only saving grace is the wall is so huge you can't see the house from the street.

:confused:
 
I disagree. I liked the building on the interior, but that guy's taste in furnishings was horrific.
 
He seemed like a total nut job to me, with a bit too much money to spend. There weren't the usual frettings about costs. I did however really like the design, although fuck knows what he's going to with all that space.
 
My Boss is on tonight- Martin Pease..............:eek:


he is having a big party at his house tonight and i bet they are popping champagne right now!!!!:D
 
ooh! Looks like we might get something which doesn't hark back to a bygone age tonight! :cool:

On the other hand, it may all turn out to be neo-tudor bollocks.
 
Horrible. Soulless. Who's going to clean all that glass? :eek:

For that money they could've even bought something really nice down here
 
First of the new ones I've seen.

Shit house for kids really. £1k for a tap! worth it my arse.

The glass was cool but the fireplace was the the bit I really liked.
 
That was a horrible house. Among many things that annoyed me about it were the fact they only had three poky little bedrooms and yet a vast amount of empty space hanging above the 'lounge' (although how anyone can lounge about in right-angled furniture is beyond me). Then there's the near total absence of any colour or form whatsoever. I pity the two little kids having to grow up in a flawless, lifeless non-space like that tbh.

The trade secrets program afterwards was good because it showed that 'minimalist' doesn't have to mean no colour, no curves and no warmth.
 
SpookyFrank said:
That was a horrible house. Among many things that annoyed me about it were the fact they only had three poky little bedrooms and yet a vast amount of empty space hanging above the 'lounge' (although how anyone can lounge about in right-angled furniture is beyond me). Then there's the near total absence of any colour or form whatsoever. I pity the two little kids having to grow up in a flawless, lifeless non-space like that tbh.

The trade secrets program afterwards was good because it showed that 'minimalist' doesn't have to mean no colour, no curves and no warmth.
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The echoes every time they spoke would've been enough to do my head in. Maybe they've got a couple of stepford kids who don't make any noise though
 
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