Room to Improve.

deisemum

I was out for a walk with a friend yesterday and she pointed out a house that's going to feature on Room To Improve. She said the only original features from the old house are the 2 gable walls, the rest was knocked. They're about a year working on the house.

The house is in a great location with fantastic views over the bay so the home owners will have a fabulous view from their glass cube. The house looks like a cube within a cube and currently looks like a blot on the landscape compared to the other houses in the area but it will be interesting to see the end result.

meeeeh

Charlie19 wrote: »

I watched an episode of Grand Designs from 2014 were an architect from Derry built his own home on the family farm out of 4 shipping containers.

This project finished off at the highest level of standard and came in at £135000. He did spend £16000 on a hammock styled bath but overall the home was special.

Some difference in the price compared to what Dermot would offer.

An average price for house in Ireland in 2014 was about 185k. The build cost of 135k in Euro for 2014 is 166k. I don't know about other businesses but I know wage cost in our business was at least 20% lower (we compete for some employees with building sector) in 2014 so were insurance and other similar cost.

You are comparing prices to 5 years ago when we were all still recovering from recession. I'm sure it was an interesting project, those on Grand Designs tend to be more interesting but the comparison to today's prices is nonsense. And I'm sure that prices will increase further considering the planned energy rating requirements for returns where an extension is more than 25%.

Humour Me

Charlie19 wrote: »

I watched an episode of Grand Designs from 2014 were an architect from Derry built his own home on the family farm out of 4 shipping containers.

This project finished off at the highest level of standard and came in at £135000. He did spend £16000 on a hammock styled bath but overall the home was special.

Some difference in the price compared to what Dermot would offer.

Grand Designs recently had a special anniversary episode where they went back to a number of properties. The lad who built the container house was an architect himself and built it as a concept house for his architecture business. Said he got loads of interest from all over the world but he hasn’t been involved in another because people can’t get planning permission, or by the time the design meets codes, it cheaper to build a standard house.

Technique

Humour Me wrote: »

Grand Designs recently had a special anniversary episode where they went back to a number of properties. The lad who built the container house was an architect himself and built it as a concept house for his architecture business. Said he got loads of interest from all over the world but he hasn’t been involved in another because people can’t get planning permission, or by the time the design meets codes, it cheaper to build a standard house.

I think that the problem that most people had was with getting a mortgage for a container house?

seannash

Technique wrote: »

I think that the problem that most people had was with getting a mortgage for a container house?

Yeah i dont recall anything about it being more expensive than a regular build

meeeeh

I remember reading about someone else building a container house and the advantage was that they could squeeze it on small site and it was cheaper than conventional build on that site. It cost 300k + 50k for site and they wanted to ad another floor that would cost 75k but they had to save for it because banks would not loan to them.

There are lots of different factors when you are comparing different builds, it depends what site is like, the access, materials, quality and so on.

Anyway link to the article:

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/interiors/best-of-2017-seven-shipping-containers-become-a-family-home-1.2983804?mode=amp

Muahahaha

Humour Me wrote: »

Grand Designs recently had a special anniversary episode where they went back to a number of properties. The lad who built the container house was an architect himself and built it as a concept house for his architecture business. Said he got loads of interest from all over the world but he hasn’t been involved in another because people can’t get planning permission, or by the time the design meets codes, it cheaper to build a standard house.

Yeah that was architect Patrick Bradley, he was also a judge on Home of the Year up until last year. I miss him on Home of the Year as he has a real infectious enthusiasm for good design and architecture. He was also great at winding up 'design legend' Hugh Wallace

The Grand Designs special was Kevin McCloud picking his 5 most favourite projects across 180 episodes, of which Bradleys container home was one
https://www.pb-architects.com/

Technique wrote: »

I think that the problem that most people had was with getting a mortgage for a container house?

Yeah from the special program Bradley was saying that loads of people contacted him looking to build a similar container home but the problem was you could only build one for cash as the British banks wouldnt give a mortgage on them. Im not sure if the couple in Ringend who built a container home did it for cash or not but I think it ended up costing slightly more than a traditional build of the same size.

ChikiChiki

Muahahaha wrote: »

The exact same comment was made in my house while watching it on Sunday- if they were your friends and you visited their new house you would be saying you like the pebble dash on the inside. But as soon as you're in the car driving away you're saying 'what the hell were they thinking'. It might be two faced but thats the reality of it, no-one is going to critique their friends houses like that.

I would have no problem critiquing a mates house like that but then again I suspect I may be on some sort of spectrum:D

honeybear

Sounds like tonight’s house has a very big budget

touts

honeybear wrote: »

Sounds like tonight’s house has a very big budget

They just set it up before the news with the words "the boom is back". If RTE is saying that it must be fecking HUGE!!!!!

This is going to break the internet. I predict no one likes her (whoever she is).

HeidiHeidi

Oh lordy, the intro alone is slightly alarming :eek:

HeidiHeidi

That flat Wickla accent

Autosport

It's going to be fun

LirW

Just imagine living on the road with all your siblings next door. Welcome to Wicklow.

ted1

I’m saying it now , just knock it down and start again

HeidiHeidi

That house is a black hole. Depressing or what! With 7 people living in it.

neris

LirW wrote: »

Just imagine living on the road with all your siblings next door. Welcome to Wicklow.

Sounds like hell

Addle

His pants are tight... or something.

neris

Think she goes there for a smoke not yoga

HeidiHeidi

Lose the mock-Georgian windows for starters

BettePorter

Budget is 450k ????? Wtf....u could knock it and build a new mansion

Needs Must

Tis grand as is, mad budget!!

touts

She wants a two story glass wall. Dermot must think he has died and went to heaven.

LirW

Fair play to invest now what they didn't have back then, they clearly love where they are and Ashford is a lovely spot.

Design seems not bad either.

ChikiChiki

Whats the odds on a spend of 650k plus by the end?

HeidiHeidi

BettePorter wrote: »

Budget is 450k ????? Wtf....u could knock it and build a new mansion

I seriously doubt that

Lisha

touts wrote: »

They just set it up before the news with the words "the boom is back". If RTE is saying that it must be fecking HUGE!!!!!

This is going to break the internet. I predict no one likes her (whoever she is).

I think she’s lovely but the budget is jealous making

Addle

All that money, and no separate reception room.
Teenagers and visitors all in one open plan room. What a waste.

HeidiHeidi

Needs Must wrote: »

Tis grand as is, mad budget!!

It's SO not!!

ShamoBuc

Looks nice, 50k under budget, so far!