I’ve watched a few of these episodes and they’re nice easy viewing. Can you believe it that they’re on series 4 of this show?
It sounds like it’s almost a game show but it’s not. Channel four describe it as: Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp go head to head as they battle it out to convince homeowners to either sell their home or refurbish it
It does give Kirstie a chance to give people a sledge hammer. I do like the way that houses are remodeled to give people a better idea of how to use their space and what knocking down a few walls and moving doors can do. When you live in a house you might have it so fixed in your mind that you can’t see – sometimes quite radical – solutions to how to use the space better.
As more people have children staying at home for longer, it’ll be more important to create spaces within homes for people to enjoy living space without getting on top of each other. The episode I watched recently – series 4 episode 10 – Royal Wooton Bassett revisit – deals with this problem and they transform a four doored lounge into a much more usable space. The couple end up moving to Wales though in the revisit bit of the program!
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Quite an interesting idea. I’d missed the lovely georgian house that won, and didn’t like the two 1960s houses. I missed the bloke’s house too. Certainly something to watch if you’re nosey!
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Gavin and Stacey house for sale – story on BBC about how the house used in Gavin and Stacey is up for sale. 47 Trinity Street in Barry, south Wales, which was used as the set for the home of Stacey’s mother Gwen in the show, has a guide price of £125,000.]]>
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A former pub that was once home to the biggest folk band of the Sixties and Seventies is on sale
Can’t see the place on rightmove or on the EA website.
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This house on Brookside close is for sale.It’s a few years since Brookside was on telly
The only question you should ask is does it have a patio?
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Character Grade II Listed Four Bedroom Farm House
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Character square kiln oast and Tudor barn for development (Subject to PP)
Numerous additional outbuildings and garaging
Pretty formal rear garden, vegetable plot and 6 natural ponds
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Exploding trees, oak bark beer and a trip down the sewers of London in search of a fuel to power his home off grid.
His home made fuel though is made in a lab though, so perhaps not as offfgrid as he’d like it to be.
Surely a better option would have been beehives and collecting the wax to make candles?