New Home Design Programme
Jayinthegarden
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I really enjoyed this programme on BBC2 last night. Nothing like Changing Rooms..no false rush to finish, no hype, briefs discussed with the homeowner, realsitic time frame.
I enjoyed the historical bits and learned something about the area.
I even got one or two design / decorating tips.
I shall certainly watch the whole series. Well done BBC2
I really enjoyed this programme on BBC2 last night. Nothing like Changing Rooms..no false rush to finish, no hype, briefs discussed with the homeowner, realsitic time frame.
I enjoyed the historical bits and learned something about the area.
I even got one or two design / decorating tips.
I shall certainly watch the whole series. Well done BBC2
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An unrealistic 3 day deadline and a meagre £1000 budget are just more of the same kind of artificial restrictions programme-makers impose in order to create "drama". Give them a week and £2000 and maybe the end result wouldn`t look like it was done in 72 hours for peanuts.
If you ask me it was clear the producers had begged all the homeowners to be complimentary to the designers after the reveal regardless of what they thought. Surprised Dyckoff is involved in something so gimmicky and contrived.
It was watchable but all too obviously a slave to the current telly conventions for this sort of guff.
I didn't like any of the rooms - the painted floors, clashing patterns and faux trompe l'oeil were awful and while the reupholstered chair looked nicer I wonder how well it was done in such a short time with no experience.
I'd like to know if the homeowners have changed anything yet.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the series to see what other horrors can be created. I'd never let any of them loose in my home, that's for sure.
Were we watching the same programme? The time frame was hugely unrealistic and produced three rough-around-the-edges rooms. I was reminded of the late, great Changing Rooms throughout, particularly when the bloke whipped out the MDF and made that stupid giant picture frame around the bed filled with the cat-sick yellow wallpaper. And that hand-painted bed head was very Linda Barker circa 1996.
I did vaguely enjoy it though. I also liked the history-lite bits, particularly as my mum lives in an almost identical street of Edwardian houses in London. They are pretty houses.
I really didn't like any of the rooms.
(Although I did like that roller gadget thingy, especially if you could create your own designs.)
On the plus side, at least they didn't go for that 'hotel-room chic' bowlocks.
Logs in a hole in the wall?. Logs on shelves?.. Fairy lights in the logs?
But for a design programme I find it greatly lacking in functional design - in one of the bedrooms last time they removed all of the storage and didn't replace it. Just like back in the quick/cheap makeover day when they'd effectively remove everything from the room to make it look bigger, give it some paint, faff around with some strange effect, and leave everything else in a shed somewhere.
I was quite surprised at the amount of grey used throughout both sets of rooms.
Also I wonder how they find these people who want their rooms doing all on one street... I think if you were employing a professional designer and paying them as well as paying for the whole job, you'd probably be quite particular with what you wanted. The clients on this show seem to go along with most things (apart from the single guy in the terrace) because they're getting a free makeover.
I noticed quite a lot of MDF furniture being built as well. I understand this is sometimes necessary to get it fitted to the room, however I was disappointed that such supposedly passionate interior designers weren't interested in sourcing proper furniture.
One more thing: that blue table painted by the winner this week was DREADFUL. It looked like a failed art project from 1992.
The only things I like are seeing the client consultation (though this isn't very authentic IMO), some bits and bobs about the history of the design of the houses, and initially seeing all three transform the same object. However the object challenge turned out to be a complete failure in most cases.
Haven't caught last night's offering yet but I love Art Deco and am looking forward to seeing the results
I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you because most of the furniture she used wasn't Art Deco and she didn't finish what she planned to do to make it look more Art Deco in style.
I'm not very impressed with many of the contestants or the finished rooms, but still like to look in.
It was a change for me last night as I actually did like two out of the three finished rooms and yet it was the one I didn't think much of that won >:(
My question is whether anyone knows what they're competing for? a title? a prize?
I haven't heard it mentioned and can't see on any of the BBC websites about the show.
I think they get a feature in Home & Garden magazine. The Pamela Anderson lookalikee was so funny.
Yes I was quite
ETA: Find it very interesting seeing some unusual architecture. I for one haven't seen many of those art deco style houses knocking around, nor the 50s/60s (?) ones of next week. I would have thought they'd struggle to find a row where they could find three willing participants.
In this week's London episode, I found the first client (Anna) intensely annoying and in a way it didn't make the task fair as the designer couldn't really do much, whereas the others could do more or less what they wanted. Inevitably she'd therefore end up with the worst room. Still it was a bit countrified... however the client really didn't seem the Parisian chic type - especially with her ideas about painting the table legs and chair bright blue. I don't think she knew what she wanted. Felt sorry for the designer.
Yes they should make it clear to the 'client' that the designer should have more input on the finished product. If someone keeps changing their minds all the time like she did, then the designer doesn't stand a chance. All this poncey nonsense of using 'client' and 'sticking to brief' gets on my nerves.
Thanks AFT.
Purple and gold anyone?
Pistachio if you don't mind.
I'm liking the programme though not all the designs.
:kitty:
The finishes are always awful.
Patchy paint and appalling painting methods. Camera shots hide a lot.