Press & Grand Designs
Camera Crew
What's this? Jac and Dylan seem to have formed their own production crew and are filming our build progress. But for who?
telly
So, Kate really didn't want to do it, but when I accidentally let slip to the kids that they could be on the telly, erm.... sorry about that Kate. It was an accident. Honest. So the Grand Designs crew have been down a co
Sir Kev is our new best friend!
Loads to talk about but we're all a bit overcome with it all at the moment, so we're going out in Leeds tonight with our family to get back to normality! So, to summarise, the whole gallery seating came out, and I was pe
A 'grand' design
Yeah, so I sneaked an email out to Grand Designs ages ago, before we even got planning. I really didn't think our plans were 'grand' enough! They replied saying they were interested, but we'd have to have planning permis
Formwork
We finally sorted the details for pouring our board marked concrete wall, and ordered the formwork from RMD Kwikform . This is big stuff, and will allow us to build the structure of our house in a few weeks. The thing wi
Press
Now that me and Kate are the Posh and Becks of Thorne, we often get the 'paps' round, so we like to get our best pout on. As you can see from the photo below, we always try to look our best....
More press...
Rich Wilson... Action Hero!
We had to cut away some of the original slab on the top floor / roof to make way for the stairwell and new concrete structure. Here's Rich hammering away at a particularly stubborn cross beam. Took him about two days! Tr
A few glimpses...
We've got a week to our moving in date. My birthday, 27th July! Here are a few glimpses of what our new home looks like....
A few more glimpses...
We've now moved in, and gradually finishing off the details. It was a bit like camping for the first few days, and then stressful when you're trying to live normally while the builders are still in your house! Anyway, it
Heroes of the month!
Rich, Paul and Gary worked fastidiously to get our decking round our pool ready for the shoot the next day. Beyond the call of duty, they worked until the job was done. No excuses! Guys! We salute you! Your golden wristb
Our Projector Room
It was always our plan to turn the old projector room (the one room at the top of our building) into a home cinema, but as you can imagine with a project like this, cash flow gets tight, and we just didn't have the funds
Grand Designs
Apparently, unless something goes wrong, we're the first programme on the new Series of Grand Designs Wednesday September 4th at 9pm! We'll be watching it in our new home. In the projector room. Behind the sofa... Aaaarg
In the news...
The Sunday Times The Daily Mail Some tasty comments under the Mail article! I'm just going to ignore the silly ones... I'd just like to say THANK YOU! to all the amazingly nice and positive comments and emails people are
Announcing the launch of the "Gwindow"
We absolutely love our window / wall / door / canopy that Kevin McCloud christened the " Gwindow ". We constructed ours from a steel hydraulic frame and then clad it with a beautifully constructed window by Graham Ball J
Our "Crapper!"
Grand Designs can't include everything, and although we filmed at Hatfield Church and talked a lot about Thomas Crapper , the famous toilet man from Thorne (You did know he was from Thorne, right?), and filmed Kevin flus
Suppliers and other stuff
If you liked the look of what we did and who we got to do it and where from, look to the right hand side of this page, or click the link below: http://scrapbook.channel4.com/bookmarkBar/52275a91e4b076c79f875228