Couple of things from this.
The pic from the left is this years house. The right is the BB5 house from around the same time.
You can see the garden looks much bigger this year!
Also, I was a tad worried about the ucky orange outter walls. But i don't think we need worry, the walls were orange at the same time last year.
God only knows what the camoflage is hiding, but there seems a lot of it...Chicken coupe?
Another thing I wanted to say, is looking at the 'exclusive' star houseplan...it doesn't actually work. Where is bedroom two? (Look at the plan, and then work it out from the arial footage...see?)

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dont worry about the orange walls, lol, basically, the orange wall used to be the colour behind the wood on the bb3 wall, where it says "Secret Garden" on the bb5 photo, that was the old part of the garden from bb3. The actual wall was covered in planks of wood with orange underneath it rather then just been a blank wall, if you look back at a bb3 garden clip you will see what i mean. All they have done is taken the layers of wood off which means that they are beggining to work on that side of the garden again, they will probably re-paint it soon!

Thanks for that comparison!

I really wish they weren't being so secretive, I'm desperate to see what they're up to

I've only just noticed they've painted the outside walls of the house a dusty sliver colour, whereas in previous years it was just plain white with the occasional stripe. Very space-age!

I was going to say the outer walls look different. Also I'm starting to think we may indeed see a rich/poor scenario or some sort of house split. The BB3 garden has remained untouched until now - yet for BB6 they do seem to be doing some work on it. Unless it's going to become a crew relaxation area!?

ii think they are definatly going for the unknown theme this year, hence them not telling us a thing, they wont start advertisin anything or letting a gthing slip untill the housemates are in hiding, when you think about it there is a lot of rumors this year about a secret room 2 bedrooms 2 houses it lasting all summer and they havnt said a thing, i say about 2 weeks before the series begins is when we will get all the info ... and im glad to see they have made the garden alot bigger this year!

another thing, im definatly thinking that the camo is covering some sort of building! and possibly a divide on the garden area!

this is no diffrent from last year we heard nothing at all its not a theme just a tactic

But it would be crap if all the new HMs knew all the house secrets before they set foot in the place. "Expect the unexpected" is fine. We know there will be a garden, a living room with kitchen, 1 or more bedrooms, the diary room, a toilet & a shower. Anthing else we will have to wait and see, as will the HMs.

i liked last years compact house it forced everybody to talk or fight or BITCH(yey) i hope they keep the 1 bedroom aswell.it shouldnt be all open again (just look at bb4).I CARNT WAIT !!!!

no we need to move forward not back weve done cramped and weve done open so its time for a change(lol what else is left) but from the looks of the overhead shot its open plan this year YEY

Hopefully we'll see something better this Sunday. C'mon, it's a Sunday and it's May 1st - could there be a more perfect day to release BB info?

I wish they would do an hour show just before BB starts to take you through the changes they make to the house..... BB does changing rooms

Maybe they could get craig in to present it seeing as it his line of work.

I'd love that, Rachel. Complete with Grand Designs-stylee 3D house tour!

Grand Degins Does Big Brother or Grand Designs Goes Big.

I can see it now...!

I wouldnt like a preview show! i think its part of the "opening night" excitement! Coz everyone wants to see what BB has done this year to the house!

If they keep the preview show for the hour before the housemates enter that would ok

they should just have the preview show eith on e4 for the people who want it or just have it on c4 as part of launce night 1st hour look around house and see it being built 2nd hour the usualy introduce the housemates

this may be true but i don't think we will ive just been talking to somebody and theyh said that we probebly wont here anything until the housemates go into hideing
makes sence to me

Well, not anything official, but I'm expecting something from the Sunday rags. Ads and house pics won't be until two weeks before, when the HMs go into hiding as you said. It doesn't matter if they see the logo or not, though. Something like that...a perhaps a better aerial shot...that bridge is intriguing...

hmm i know know what you mean fingers crossed the basic eye shouldn't be far away and how about the relanch of the new bb6 official site when did it come back online last year from memory im sure it didn't come back until launch night

They just stick it online when they can be bothered. No point looking at dates - it launches when it launches.