A pair have been slammed by George Clarke’s Outdated Home, New Residence viewers for ‘destroying’ their £850,000 Edwardian house with a ‘hideous’ £300,000 extension.
Showing in final night time’s episode of the Channel 4 present, amount analyst Johnny and his accountant accomplice Laura, snapped up a £850,000 indifferent Edwardian house in Straftord-Upon-Avon 14 months in the past, which they hoped to remodel into their dream household house.
Filled with authentic options, the DIY novices mentioned they wished to convey the property into the twenty first century by demolishing the dodgy ’80s extension and reconfiguring the weird inside format downstairs for £250,000.
The couple informed George they have been overjoyed with the renovation, regardless of confessing they’d spent over £50,000 greater than their authentic funds.
And viewers confessed they have been baffled by the couple’s decisions, with one saying: ‘Oh my god. Have a look at that hideous extension. The architect slags off inappropriate additions then provides one in all his personal. What a bloody mess.’
Johnny and his accountant accomplice Laura, have been slammed by George Clarke’s Outdated Home, New Residence viewers for ‘destroying’ their £850,000 Edwardian house with a ‘hideous’ £300,000 extension (pictured, their eating room earlier than)
The couple informed George they have been overjoyed with the renovation, regardless of confessing they’d spent over £50,000 greater than their authentic funds (pictured, the eating room living-space afterwards)
Filled with authentic options, the DIY novices mentioned they wished to convey the property into the twenty first century by demolishing the dodgy ’80s extension and reconfiguring the weird inside format downstairs (pictured, the kitchen earlier than)
Throughout the renovation, the couple demolished the unique 80s extension on the property and constructed their very own kitchen-diner as an alternative
One other wrote: ‘Edwardian home spoilt by 80s extension. Now trashed by 20s extension.’
At first of the renovation, Laura defined: ‘We hadn’t been on the lookout for a venture in any respect. It was simply the right location and the appropriate measurement of home and the appropriate interval.
‘So, we have taken it on. Hopefully we cannot reside to remorse that.’
It was a frightening venture for the rookie renovators, however the couple deliberate to be in the home for the subsequent 30 years.
They snapped up a £850,000 indifferent Edwardian house in Stratford-Upon-Avon 14 months in the past, which they hoped to remodel into their dream household house (pictured, after the renovation)
The couple informed George they have been overjoyed with the renovation, regardless of confessing they’d spent over £50,000 greater than their authentic funds
Laura mentioned: ‘How can we alter it so the home modifications however we preserve the interval options and we preserve the appeal?’
Johnny added: ‘I suppose the most important fear can be if we get the fundamentals unsuitable.’
The house was giant however simply wasn’t working because it presently stood, with a dodgy 80s extension which left the kitchen darkish and tunnel like.
Laura mentioned: ‘The house would not actually work for us in the mean time, you are available in and also you stroll onto this clean wall.’
The couple complained that the block extension left by the earlier house owners left their house with an uncommon format and made the backyard really feel inaccessible
Nevertheless viewers questioned their determination to demolish the unique extension merely so as to add their very own trendy block in it is place, with some saying it ‘destroyed’ the character of the property
Johnny mentioned he was eager to maintain the leaded glass in the home, whereas Laura mentioned: ‘I actually like interval properties, all that character that goes with it.’
George praised the house, however added: ‘It is the traditional factor of the room feeling utterly remoted.’
In the meantime the couple identified upside plug-points within the house which had been left by the earlier house owners.
George described the kitchen as ‘a protracted hall’ and identified the ‘half blocked up’ home windows.
Filled with authentic options, the DIY novices initially mentioned they wished to convey the property into the twenty first century by reconfiguring the weird inside format downstairs for £250,000 (pictured, the entrance of the home)
Laura and Johnny admitted they felt their spacious hallway was an unused house, which frequently felt darkish and dingy because of the format of the bottom flooring
After the renovation, the couple knocked down inside partitions and changed them with glass bifold doorways to convey gentle into the hallway and open up the bottom flooring
The couple additionally had a small utility room, with George saying: ‘It is simply utterly unsuitable on each single degree.’
They mentioned their funds for the renovation was £250,000, with Laura including: ‘It is some huge cash to us! We wish to get on with it and get it accomplished whereas the kids are nonetheless little, and never ceaselessly doing the home.’
Nevertheless George thought of the funds ‘wholesome.’
He prompt reconfiguring the whole lot of the downstairs, suggesting a glazed wall to open up the house.
In the meantime in addition they revealed how the kitchen felt like ‘one lengthy hall’ with blocked in home windows which left the house darkish and dingy (pictured, earlier than)
Laura and Johnny have been fast to demolish their previous extension containing their darkish kitchen and rebuild it, making a a lot bigger open-plan residing house for the household to get pleasure from
The architect additionally informed the couple they need to demolish their extension, saying: ‘You construct a brand new extension on the identical line, and in that house we have to get a kitchen, diner and residing house.’
In addition to changing the extension, the couple deliberate to take away the wall between the eating room and the kitchen.
They deliberate to construct doorways working alongside the again of the brand new extension to present the home entry to the backyard.
In the meantime George prompt the household construct a big terrace into the backyard with an prolonged outside kitchen.
Upstairs, the household rest room had been poorly renovated, with a stand alone tub which appeared to have been incorrectly put in (pictured)
The couple gave the house a recent lick of paint and stylish new flooring, earlier than including a free standing tub under the skylight (pictured)
And it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the extension received the chop, whereas inside, partitions have been knocked all the way down to open up the house.
However for a pair who’re new to renovating, it was an enormous venture – and so as to add tp the stress the household determined to reside on web site.
Laura mentioned: ‘I feel we in all probability underestimated simply how a lot disruption and mess there can be however equally, I feel we’re actually understanding what’s taking place.’
In the meantime the couple additionally created an outside kitchen space the place Johnny deliberate to BBQ which they hoped to get pleasure from as a household (pictured)
George returned to the house to see the massive terrace, saying: ‘The problem now could be how we combine this monumental terrace with the remainder of the backyard.’
He mentioned he wished to design amphitheater steps to combine the house with the remainder of the backyard.
Six months into the renovation and the mock-Tudor house was lastly being made watertight.
However regardless of the transformation transferring ahead, the couple have been struggling to agree on furnish the home.
And upstairs, the main bedroom was additionally renovated to revive it to its authentic grandness, with an enormous mattress and have lighting (pictured)
Laura mentioned: ‘Johnny would flip it into an previous folks’s house, with chairs dotted across the exterior.’
After 12 months, George returned to see the property and confessed he was blown away by the couple’s efforts to remodel their house.
Laura mentioned: ‘Having this as a household house, it is simply remodeled. It is labored, it has labored. We did all the pieces you drew and I hope we did your drawings justice.’
George mentioned: ‘For me, it is like an extension of the home.’
And when George questioned them on the funds, they mentioned: ‘We spent greater than that, undoubtedly. We’re on the opposite facet of £300,000. However we have accomplished all the pieces and far more with it, and we have accomplished all the pieces we have to do.
Nevertheless regardless of the couple’s enthusiasm for his or her new house, a lot of these watching have been left baffled by their decisions and mentioned the Edwardian property had been ‘trashed’
‘We did not wish to take shortcuts. We wished to do issues to do the home justice.’
Johnny added: ‘If you are going to do it, you are going to do it as soon as.’
Nevertheless regardless of the couple’s enthusiasm for his or her new house, a lot of these watching have been left baffled by their decisions.
One commented: ‘As I mentioned, they’re dropping an enormous chunk of backyard. Solely then does the architect take into consideration how backyard and terrace are built-in. On the expense of a bit extra backyard.’
‘That new extension destroys a superbly proportioned Edwardian home,’ one other added.