Thread: Grand Designs
View Single Post
  #11   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Grimly Curmudgeon[_3_] Grimly Curmudgeon[_3_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,461
Default Grand Designs

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:44:23 +0100, Tim Watts
wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

New series starts in half an hour (or an hour and a half on +1)

"epic bid to turn a castle ruins in Ireland into a spectacular fantasy
home without an architect and in the middle of a recession."


Nothing can go wrong then...


Surprisingly little did, in the end. Apart from running out of money,
of course.
The whole thing was a fantasy and it's the type of project that, if it
had been done at the start of the boom, would have worked well and
perhaps even paid for itself by time of the collapse. As in so many
things, timing was wrong.
Cracking place to live, though.