Grand Designs: The Street is a six-part series following 10 households as they attempt to build a new street from scratch in Oxfordshire. 2/54 Grand Designs: The Street . The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes Light fittings hang from branches of birch grown on site as part of his carbon-neutral renewable fuel strategy. In episode five Garrie and Sue need a home tailored to their needs and want to … It is concrete inside and out, with no conventional finishes like plaster or paint in sight. A COUPLE who dreamt of going back to nature split up half-way through building a barn-like home on Grand Designs: The Street. Jon's girlfriend Ali admits she struggled to accept his heavy usage of raw materials, but quickly fell in love with the result.Nik’s rooms are more defined and cosier, with everything oriented to make the most of the countryside views outside. Viewers were shocked when James, 31, revealed on the Channel 4 … It may be made of unfeeling concrete but it is, at heart, a very human home. Overall, they spent £270,000 — just £20,000 over budget — which they felt was justified after three years climbing up the walls of a glorified tent. It's sizeable, contemporary, stylish and a far cry from the caravan. They used solvent-free paints, formaldehyde-free MDF panels and flooring low in VOCs (volatile organic compounds) which slowly release chemicals and produce a charming cloud of toxicity that ends up in our lungs.Since moving into their stunning contemporary home, the boys have had "only one or two” allergic reactions, as opposed to a minimum of one attack every other week. S olid foundations, unimpeachable structure, but few frills: Grand Designs has been going for 20 years. The first two houses were to be taken on by three senior citizens: married couple Terry and Olwyn, and Lynn, a novice determined to manage the project and get as hands-on as possible. Grand Designs: The Street is a six-part series following 10 households as they attempt to build a new street from scratch in Oxfordshire. "It's been a rollercoaster ride but we feel really proud," says Elinor, explaining that they only went over budget by £60,000.
Five years ago, Kevin visited another Kevin, master builder Kevin ‘King of Cob’ McCabe, who had determined to build a family home from mud and straw in east Devon. It shows that their home is performing over 70 per cent better than the average new build. "Size-wise, it's a manor house, but its running costs are negligible,” says Kevin, proud to have proven that it is possible to "live green” in luxury. "This is an exercise in getting stuff right and proving two minds are better than one,” says Kevin. But they pushed on, with Steph taking on extra hours at work and selling off some of the land to fund the build.The end result was worth the ordeal. Terry and Olwyn’s home was splendid, and, described by McCloud as “unfettered by trendy ideas”.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.
Yet it was impossible not to admire the ambition and graft on both sides. "Speyer was pure glass and perhaps a bit impractical, but it inspired us and this is our version," says Harry proudly. “It’s entirely my fault,” he smiled without any conviction.Budgets were blown, schedules slipped and cracks, both literal and metaphorical, appeared. Finally, six months later than planned and £100,000 over budget, after excavating Anglo Saxon skeletons, securing a loan from family, they get there – and it's beautiful.Jimmy's pride and joy, a spiral staircase made from giant chunks of plywood, leads up the east turret to a roof terrace, giving them the feeling of "being in a treehouse" and playing into the building's sense of magic and romance.Kevin concludes by asking: "Was this fossil of a building a folly to take on?" Plumbing and electrics have been installed through surface mounted tubes, giving the place an edge of industrial chic. Kevin McCloud met more people creating their own homes to form a unique street and community in Britain on Grand Designs.. Tonight’s episode of the Channel 4 … Designed for home builders with little experience, it is simple to put together using basic tools.A couple in Aylesbury Vale were drawn to a miniature folly. Identical twins Nik and Jon were living next door to each other with the same cars and dogs when they decided to build two modern-industrial homes side-by-side for themselves and their families.Overall, they ended up splurging £610,000 which, although extremely impressive for the urban oasis they somehow conjure from a rundown industrial yard, was a whopping £265,000 more than they originally intended to spend. Born and Elinor's young sons Pascal, 5, and Avery, 7, suffer from a smorgasbord of life-threatening allergies, from dust and pollen to the chemicals in certain cleaning products, forcing them to spend a lot of time in hospital.Episode three followed their journey as they built a ‘healthy house’ free from toxins in Richmond, south-west London. Good neighbours and friends before the move, they rapidly slipped into being mean about each other as nicely as possible. Despite never visiting it himself, he seems sure that he can honour it – in just eight months. This passion developed into an appreciation of Brutalist architecture and the obvious next step was to build a concrete house in Lewes, East Sussex for his wife Megan and their young family.Their motto throughout this love-it-or-hate-it, rough and ready build was the rawer and more exposed, the better.
The University of York lent Born and Elinor a VOC monitor to assess their air quality. Find out more They paid £100,000 for it, with no planning permission, in a move some may call brave, others reckless.The miniature castle, in Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, may look like an old Tudor tower, but it wasn't built for defence. 4/54 Grand Designs: The Street - episode 6 . You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. They spent time and money sourcing low-toxin materials and installing a mechanical ventilation system to filter the air.
Floor-to-ceiling glazing floods the dank interior spaces with light, giving the house its soul.The interiors are as bold and brave as the facade, yet warming. Dad of-three Adrian’s long love affair with concrete started as a young BMX biker in Glasgow’s skateparks.