Architecture and interior design thread

They even have the layout of your house.

You can just go on the council planning website for this.

You don't have to lay out the inside of the house as per the planning drawings of course, unless it's a listed building. The rich people are always terrified of giving away where their panic room is located.

¿Porque no los dos?

My wife and i always wonder how people get their ££ to buy big places / cars etc when watching TV.
We come from a generation that doesn't really think outside the box and do more traditional jobs whereas there appear to be a lot more ways to earn money these days - quickly and creatively.
Think i'm a bit too hideous to look at to earn some £ from only fans but you never know

probs a fair bit of survivorship bias in the ones we see like in these kinds of vids too - got to wonder how many others have set up as property developers or started buying/selling vans and not made anywhere near as much money - if not losing a load.

Yeah I mean you have the ability to self monitise, so instead of doing kids parties on the weekend you end up like Bounce Patrol. I think that area is a new democratisation in media.

But on the whole I still think you still basically either get someone to pay you lots of money for making them lots of money - e.g. sales, or you get other people to make you money - own your own business. I don't think either are particularly quick. But if you land in the right industry at the right time sales would be the fastest.

The youngest and quickest person out of my list was the property developer. Buying low, selling high and bribing people strikes me as a pretty trad route to wealth 😊

One thing I've learned in life, there's a lot of rich people out there.

I’ve still got to decide where I’m gonna stick your crab and narcissus. Fnar fnar.

Was it this thread folks were chatting recent Hackney grand designs? @Tenderloin ? I know it wasn’t you who was knocking the guy but after watching feel the criticism was pretty unfounded, he was building at a time where costs were an impossible guessing game and he had two companies agree on cost and work for the basement and they both failed him, hardly things within his control. I think it came in at 100k over at a total of around 900k which is pretty decent too.

My take on the build was, it was a fab design for the very limited site they had. My issue was that once they had the larger plot they didn’t revisit the design to lose the money/problem pit, sorry basement. You only go down if you have either no space, or a massive contingency fund and/or are making a point. But yes he was heavily let down by contractors.

Yeah fair point, I do feel once you’ve committed to the design you prob get emotionally attached and they were prob thinking “this is perfect, if only we had a garden” and then bingo… hope they get it finished, they’ve both lost partners and don’t come across particularly smug or annoying, feels a bit mean spirited to mock (not directed at you).

That was partly me - as chaley said got the 2nd garage for peanuts and then decided to go ahead with the basement dig anyway.
Kids didn’t seem that fussed living in a dark hole but pressed on anyway.
Start of the show said we don’t have access to any other funds then borrowed off “family/friends”.
Whilst sad they both lost partners/kid’s parents that shouldn’t stop someone being able to express an opinion on what essentially is an expensive vanity project.

an expensive vanity project

Isn't this the premise of the show though?

When does creating a home cross over to being a vanity project? What’s the cut off? Because to be fair the house was less than they needed on the end due to basement issues (maybe it’s that part?).
I’d take the risk on the basement build to have an actual garden.

Having previously had a house with tanking, never never never again!

Anything more than this is vanity.

Cut off noted. Thanks.

The change in mullion widths is sublime.
They eclipse the fake Georgian glazing bars of it’s neighbour.

Those mullions are all over the parish, and warrant a custodial sentence.
As for the leaded lights on next door's garage.....

While the whole thing is definitely not trying to look anything but shit, the green garage door is already to nice, sorry.

I like the curved wall supporting the window, reminds me of where I worked in Manchester. That had curved walls and I'm sure the windows were curved too.

Yeah it would’ve had curved glass when it was built and looked so much nicer.

Looking for a sheet/offcut of something interesting to make some simple bedside table/shelves - there are no Foresso off cuts big enough (and its maybe a bit ‘trendy’ rn?) -anyone have any ideas? Not looking to spend a lot too!

Find out when your local tops tiles throw out there broken and spares, then make a mosaic.

Maybe something like this: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/erotic-art-of-ancient-egypt-looks-like-mosaic-michal-boubin.jpg

Hmmm, I do like that, I just think it might clash with the Aubrey Beardsley prints on the walls though?