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Definitely enjoy those more too. That one where the kids were hyper allergic to everything was really interesting.
Got to say though, if I were building a house I'd go as big as my budget and space would allow. It's so nice when you go to countries where space isn't the issue it is here and you've just got room to move and breath.
You also leave scope for your kids to flog it to a developer to convert to "luxury" flats once they move you into a home because you didn't properly think though mobility issues before building.
hugo7-
If there's space for it, then you'd really be a fool not to make the home bigger, but most of the big houses on grand designs have so much waste in them, so many tv rooms, and gyms, and spa rooms, and other extraneous bullshit, as if they're building a boutique hotel rather than a home to live in.
I think the house I've envied the most was this one, built by a woman in the bottom of her mum's garden, she was an interior designer or something like that, and it had so many nice touches, and used the limited space so well, and was really well planned and run, rather than some of the get the money gun out, or we can't afford builders so we're going to do it ourselves, even though we've got no building experience.https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/on-demand/46761-029
cornelius_blackfoot
Liked the finished house on grand designs, but not the process.
Also why do people build such big fucking houses? Half the problems in grand designs would be eliminated if the house was half the size.
Find I like the houses which are more constrained by issues with the site and that have to come up with creative solutions to overcome them.