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[liadnan]

Not sure I've ever seen McLoud quite so unenthused. I rather see his point: what they've done isn't much to my taste either, though the full-height hallway is good. What they've done with the gallery and the swiming pool is a travesty, though I'm not as bothered by the dome on the tower as he is, though it does make it look a bit like a Sikh temple. The whole upper area is a bit weird.

Good to see one where the staggering thing about the money is how little it cost though.

Basil the Cat isn't very impressed either.

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[deililly.livejournal.com]

Having just looked at the video walkthrough it is the living room that really looks odd and constricted to me. The levels are just wrong. No idea how you would make them right and not waste living space but bleurgh. I quite agree with Basil.

[liadnan]

To be fair, they were struggling with rather difficult listed building consent restraints throughout. But I am far from convinced their answer was the best one.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

What would you have liked to see them try?

[liadnan]

Oh god, don't ask me for ideas. But I'd have tried above all to keep the balustrade (I don't see the point of keeping it entombed) and forgot the swimming pool completely.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

I have to agree most swimming pools seem added in because they can be rather than them actually being a good idea. Garden rooms with swimming pools can work but not much else! The walkthrough didn't really show where it was. Was it really in some sort of big cupboard?!

[liadnan]

Sort of, so far as I could make out.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Bah, missed it. Ugly Betty called cos I'm not around on Friday.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

I only saw the last ten minutes or so, but it did seem a bit of a mishmash. The bubble on the top was kind of great to look out of, but did look pretty nasty from the outside. Still, that's the neighbours problem, really.

The rest of it was pretty forgettable, I thought. Not to my taste, certainly. Put me down as agreeing with Basil the Cat too.

[liadnan]

Certainly the least impressive of all those in this series so far, I thought.

[susumu.livejournal.com]

Brummies, innit.