An Incredible Home TWO DECADES In The Making | Grand Designs | Channel 4 Lifestyle
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A revisit to one of Grand Designs longest ever builds, as Kevin McCloud heads back to Devon to see a home that generations have seen develop & finally see the finished build of a home that is filled with stunning design.
Kevin McCloud is on a journey to follow some of Britain’s extraordinary self-building projects on various different building sites showing the full process all the way up to the completed dream home. Watch more here: • Binge-Worthy Grand Des...
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And the real success story is that they are still together.
One might imagine that such an experience would cement their relationship beyond ever parting. Rare, eh ?
@@thetessellater9163 real LOVE🤔💪👍 YES POSSIBLY 🗣️🙏🥰🥰😍✌️
LET'S ALWAYS HOPE FOR ONE ANOTHER 😢😇❣️💞🇬🇧🤔🗣️💪💯😁
While Mr & Mrs McCloud are not ...
@@thetessellater9163 😂😂
Yes, a home truly is
Possibly the best build GD has ever been involved with. Must be complete life fulfillment, very envious
I have met Kevin and I’m very envious of the opportunities he has had doing these programmes to see first hand the realisations of peoples own personal visions. It demonstrates the very best of human endeavour.
My mum loved Kevin McCloud and his grand designs. I haven't been able to watch his programmes since she died but this one made myself My mum would have loved to see it
What gets me everytime, is that these people see the finished product before building has even started, we see a decrepit tumbledown barn, they see a magnificent home. 10/10 for the grand design team for their hardworking over the years. Rarely watch TV these days but will happily binge watch G.D. over and over again.
Grand designs aren't a team of builders, it's one man who films other people's builds. They don't do any work. You're congratulating the wrong people lol
@@SEA-dv5kh - given the person you're replying to does 'binge watch' them 'over and over again', I figure they may know that, and that you might have misinterpreted their response. Just sayin'.
The hardworking previously mentioned, is the time and dedication to the project that the production
company put into the editing final transmission of the series. e.g. continuity and Time lapsed editing and so forth. The one man you mentioned is only the presenter, he has a whole team behind him, from project selection, to logistics, film crew, editors, producers etc... this team bring us other peoples vision to the small screen and ultimately to us the viewers. I think you'll find the congratulations were in the right place and for the right people all along. Just saying...
@@SEA-dv5kh
Ye that’s not my experience.
The GD team painted the inside of my house Lilac after I very Firmly told them not to paint anything other than pure brilliant white.
Putting up walls that I later had to remove because they were in the wrong place.
Just really really annoying.
Simply beautiful. I love that they stayed together all those years. Clearly they in some part enjoyed the journey, and the house shows it. I much prefer these kinds of projects than the super swanky ones.
I watch Grand Designs from first episode. I like to see how changed People through the years and of course how changed Kevin, and what never changed... passion of builders.
Hi Kevin, thank you for following uo this story of restoring old barns and the dedication that goes into the creation of a family home.
PLEASE, 20 years in 4 minutes? Please show us more. The before n now? Cheers. Congratulations. Lovely home.
Great people 👏. Great talent, great will !!! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷.
I think it is a great home and I am glad they stuck with it, they deserve it!
Oh Kate the house is looking so so good please look after your self love u are a great mum just take time and get in a good space and be u 💞sending love to u and your family xxx
Absolutely beautiful!
Absolutely stunning. Great to see that.
absolutely beautiful!
Incredible ... well done
beautiful
Rest in peace Sue. ❤
Patience
Persistence
Perseverance
Perfection
absolutely gorjus! 😍😍😍
Magnificent.. just epic.
Respect!
I watched the whole show on Channel 4's website. No mention of where these two got the money or their backgrounds other than the man was a freelance writer. Not much money in that. Still I was impressed with their tenacity. All those months of mud would have done me in.
Where is this house located ?
But what about the Budget !!? were they under ?? ..... or over ?? Damn! we'll never know 🤨
Amazing , where did the years go
nice but was it really worth 20 years of your life?
It's not like they only did that one thing. They lived too and raised kids and have grandkids now. Plus they built their marriage too with the help of a common goal. What else could you labor in for 20 years and have something so beautiful to show for it?
@@jasonvanbreda4749 or maybe they could have just spent a lot less money, bought a beautiful home and spent far more time raising their kids and enjoying life. But hey, at least they got on Grand Designs and can brag to their friends about how wonderful their home is (if they still have any).
Such a beautiful home but a shame that it won't be suitable for them as they get older with all those stairs.
Imagine wasting your life on a building. Just a huge waste of energy and life.
My thinking too. It’s a fine house but what was the opportunity cosy? Maybe they really enjoyed the experience - I hope so because in life you need to enjoy those passing years, not just focus on an end result.
@@tian5639 👍
Lovely home. 😍
Great and sustained effort - over hardships and time. 👍
But they clearly had way more money than I've ever even dreamed of.... REALITY.
M 🦘🏏😎
How wonderful to find your “forever home” location, 25 years before retirement age and spend the next 25 years never ever becoming bored and ending up with a beautiful and extremely valuable home. For me, that beats blowing £10k every year taking the family to Orlando and just having a box of photos to show for it, but that’s just me I guess…I bless this family.
I remember watching this all those years ago (in Australia) and feeling their pain - we've been renovating for 30 years almost (four different houses, but the combined size of those four houses probably add up to Sue and Martin's house). Amazing effort. But, time has certainly stood still for Martin - he looks exactly the same!
I really admire this couple for staying with it. Most people these days would give up, or decide they'll lose money on the project, but in their case, the project has been their life, and how much more enriched are they because of it.
What a beautiful home they have created and the sacrifices to do it. They truly deserve what they have created, what a heritage for their kids one day. Renovated with love 🫶
This is a lovely home. You can see the value of it evolving organically.
Beautiful ...good for them ...done a wonderful job ...
I'm so thrilled, for this lovely couple and hope that they continue to enjoy their beautiful home
Say 'barakAllah'... it's important when one sees something that delights the eyes, to say 'barakAllah'
@@dayax3335 shh
They finished the house and all the kids moved out…
Seriously though, how can bricks and mortar be an "everchanging expression of who they are?" Such architectural b-s.
We all need a home, and some of us take more pride in it than others, some spend 20 years to build it, some spend 40 years to pay it off. We have been duped when we believe that home ownership is a reflection of us, that somehow a shelter now becomes life's main focus. It's like living to eat rather than eating to live. A home has a function, but it is not the destination.
I can understand wanting the visual surfaces to look authentic and true to the original building methods and materials BUT...
Especially on load bearing walls and other strategic areas (like the underpinning work done to the rather compromised walls) building those using conventional, durable, strong and easy to build modern materials and cladding them using cobb, lime mortar and stone and all the rest would have saved a lot of time, money and effort and created a building that would have been more durable in the long run.
Using "moderns" to rebuild the large portions of the structure that to be honest had not stood the test of time seems to me to be the only rational and logical approach.
As it is, this building will be just as "compromised" in 200 years as it was before this renovation started and at that point it will become a fallen down ruin of a relic of the past.
But to each his own I suppose...
Is this lady Hugh Laurie's sister?
haha I was thinking the same. 😂
I was thinking that too!
Stunning. Exudes warmth and love.
It might need to, looking at the size of those rooms!
I remember the Freak offs we had in that barn.
Amazing! Incredible! Well done to this courageous and brave couple. The vision, anything is possible 👋
Stunning home!
The interior spaces are so simple and magnificently done. Brilliant work by the owners.
20 years in the making and you are making a four minute short of it!??!?! WHAT?
Beautiful.
A gorgeous house and a wonderful HOME!
Family & life goals.
Nemám v plánu někde nechat dvacet let svýho života :D :D :D
Vy by jste tam nemakali ani tejden :D
Klobouk dolů před každým, kdo chce chcípnout u renovace starýho baráku...
I remember watching this episode. The caravan scrapeing along the wall in the lane. I put my hands up to my face watching that then and again now.
That's splendid. Job well done 👍👍 Magnificent home. I hope it stands for hundreds of years and in the family 🙏
Has anyone noticed when Kevin is talking to a female his eyes wonder
Well done you two it looks lovely. A big thumbs up from me 👍
That imo is nicer than that $10 mil mansion that poor man built on the saddest build episode
That was amazing to watch, well done to everyone involved it was heart warming to watch.
Would have been a bit quicker if she helped do the work
I remember thius so well, but heavens! was 99?
Wow beautiful wish them all the very best
So beautiful and special by spiritual people and their inner visions.
That is so amazing. We are 14 years into our renovations of a 17th century convent. It is comforting to see someone else who understands...and to see that there actually is hope and light at the end of that tunnel.
Brilliant. *** Well done. Add your own superlatives, can't do expletives of course. Hats off to you, thoroughly deserved and thanks for sharing with us all.
Glad to see it finished!
Beautiful.
RHUBARB PIE....i am lying in bed and hungry,and you end with that.
Don’t understand the desire for a large home and all the work it requires. Small and simple makes more sense, then life isn’t so much about a house.
Bloody brilliant and just Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing❤👍
I've known families that lived in their garage while they rebuilt their home. When I was a kid my parents and 4 of us kids lived in a tiny house while my dad built a foundation, added a couple of bedrooms and a bathroom, rebuilt the plumbing system, put a poured floor in the garage and added a bathroom and room to the back of the garage, put in a septic tank system, rebuilt the electrical system, heating system. Yeah, people do remarkable things without fanfare . . . all the time.
and they built it themselves
Such a beautiful home. And it looks like the next generation is living there now too?
Wow, meditating DID work :D
Yes the house is Divine ✨️
Kevin, me encantan tus reportajes de Grandes Diseños. Thanks a lot 😊
What a beautiful place.
You have to admire their dedication to this restoration and more importantly to each other and their children. Well done you two!
Great!
What an incredible achievement! Congratulations.
20 years to build a home - I don't think I could handle it
Where is the rest??
Loving the tenacity.
🥲
Would looove to live there! Beautiful...😍
What happened to their children? Did they become heroin addicts after living in a building site for their entire childhood?
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No, they're sitting at the family table, you fool.
A stunning final result. Proof that even sketchy dreams can eventually come true.
époustouflant ¡
I have my own designs for my forever home, although not so 'grand'!
It's just a pipe-dream, as planners would never approve of my entirely temporary structure, specifically aimed at lasting only as long as it's inhabitant, me, & then gifting the land back to nature, just as I will be when I expire.
In Ghana, if you build an adobe house, you don't need planning permission and can basically build whatever you want. You see many houses left to the elements, and nature is reclaiming the land after the owners have passed on.
Next time you see Africans living in mud huts, consider the fact that the mud, wood, and thatch were free and will return to the earth, which is the most ecological way to build a house.
Come to Africa and build your dream house.
@@laupernut
My dream isn't in another country
2 decades that's commitment
Great story of life. 💕🤩
bueno bueno
What a amazing work
It's unfortunate that this otherwise excellent show did so much to popularise burning wood, when much cleaner heat sources have long been available. The pollution and particulate matter released by burning wood - full of toxins and carcinogens proven to impact health and cause disease - are now polluting the air of our towns, cities, homes and gardens. E.g. that 'nostalgic' and 'sweet' smell from wood smoke is benzene, a carcinogen. Only 8% of UK homes burn wood (almost all of those homes are middle or higher income homes on-grid and/or with a cleaner fuel source - leccy, gas and even oil are all much cleaner), yet this is now the biggest source of harmful particulate matter (soot) - more than traffic. We've sleep walked into a serious air pollution problem. Smoke harms and kills, it always has. Please don't burn wood if you have a cleaner alternative.
Wow!
Wow!
oh no, TWO DECADES??!! what a pair of numptys!
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MAGNIFICENT!!! I remember watching that episode all those years ago too!
A heating nightmare with all of those huge windows , high ceilings and skylights .
Hats off! Well done that's something not everyone would even have the determination to complete.
Brilliant I remember the original episode going to air all those years ago . Simply brilliant
Love the vision and belief
Amazingly good looking 🥰
Wonderful
Those poor kids, living on a building site for 20 years!