#grand designs

[ginger-by-the-sea]

#grand designs #elegant interiors #archetecture #inspiration

[itsstreetlove]

Grand Designs

Witley Court  ~ 2023

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #black and white photography #witley court #grand designs #architecture

[rowanwillow06]

20th April 2024

I got my exam days wrong!! It’s fine it works in my favour it’s now 30 days until my exam! I have had a busy few days, written a lot of essays and done planning for exam prep. It feels weird how fast it’s all coming to an end. I had work today, and as I was an hour early I just decided to work in the woods before my shift started. I thought it was so pretty and although it was bloody freezing it was still a nice experience lol. I also thought I’d start posting things I do outside of study?? Just bc I think we need to incorporate a balance into our study routines so here’s the plan for today :3

Go to work

Complete a Wuthering Heights essay plan

Do conservatism study

Make flash cards for This Is England

Tidy my room!!

Organise my notes

Things I’ve been enjoying at the moment:

Sherlock & co (an amazinggg podcast pls take a listen, or lmk if you have!)

The Tortured Poets Department

Grand designs 😭

Animal crossing <333

I hope everyone is having a lovely day/ evening 🤍🤍🤍

#a levels #english literature #film studies #literature #politics #study aesthetic #study blog #study motivation #study notes #uk #ttpd #forest #woods #taylor swift #sherlock and co #sherlock & co #calmness #productivity aesthetic #animal crossing #grand designs #Spotify

[life-spire]

Palace of Venaria, Italy (by Lisa van Vliet)

See more of Italy | Europe.

#palace of venaria #venaria #italy #europe #travel #wanderlust #explore #palace #castle #gallery #galleria #historic architecture #architecture #historic #grand designs #photography #travel photography #buildings #li_destinations #curators on tumblr

[mengjue]

Grand Designs NZ, The Checklist

I’ve been watching a lot of Grand Designs New Zealand, and I’ve worked out the official checklist for all the rich Pākehā on the show:

Backgrounds: your choices are exposed wood, grey concrete, and black paint. You can have whatever combo you want of the first two but the black paint must be included. Remember, colour is the enemy. You want to live in the black and white world of a first year photography student. If you want to go crazy maybe some white paint is an option.

Windows: this is what your house is for. It is merely a container for windows. These are floor to ceiling in every room possible. Your bedroom is a glass cube, your bathroom is an open stage. There must always be windows.

Furniture: minimal on minimal. Are there two of you? You will have exactly two disconnected leather chairs in your living room. Your dining table and chairs are made of the hardest uncushioned wood possible. There is a hard limit of 1 side table per room. If you must have bookshelves they are single, isolated shelves with two books you never read and a plant on them. Remember, houses are for showing people how little you have, not for living in.

TV: there is NO TV. TV is for poor people, who do not own brutalist mansions. You spend your time sitting in one of your two isolated chairs, staring out onto the land you won’t allow others to set foot on.

Chandelier: there must be a chandelier. You need to show your fun and colourful side (not with actual colour of course). Pick whatever is hardest to clean and put it somewhere impractical like over a bathtub. After all, your hands won’t be cleaning this, obviously.

Timeframe and Expectations: always remember, you are above others, for you have money. COVID restrictions? Not a consideration. Supply issues? That’s for the poors. Design flaws? You are flawless. Demand the most impractical design you can and ensure everyone knows you expect it finished by Christmas.

Setbacks: always tell everyone how put out you are by any setback. These are personal attacks on you, and your suffering is unmatched within this world. You have sacrificed so much, having to do things like taking the advice of professional builders or god forbid renting for a couple months while the house is built. No one knows pain like yours, and this must be explicitly stated every chance you get.

Completion: finally, it’s done! Make sure you mention how much you compromised your impractical designs and how grand this makes you. Now you can show off your house and exclaim how unique and out of the box your black metal roof is compared to other rich people’s black metal roofs, and how your empty living room with two chairs and a table is the cosiest space imaginable. Now you can enjoy your home for years to come, or at least whenever you aren’t overseas in luxury hotels.

#grand designs New Zealand #grand designs #architecture #building #Aotearoa #new zealand

[thissying]

Ah, a box house with wood cladding. How unique, we sure haven't seen that yet!

#catching up with my recorded eps of #grand designs

[internetbt]

#best of twitter #grand designs

[reniadeb]

🥴 @reniadeb 🥴

#grand designs #kevin mccloud #no context grand designs #meme #funny #memes #relatable #relatable memes #relatable meme #british humour #british memes #british tv shows #twitter

[theworldsafuckingslaughterhouse]

Here is a rant I wrote

The other day I found this angry rant on my laptop I must have written a few years ago, so here it is. (*It's written as though it was being said on stage in much the way a standup comedian might perform it)

Hello yes hi how are we all?

You’re out! In the real world. Experiencing a real thing. Not watching the coloured box of death. The little metal shouty thing that’s invaded all our lives!

I can’t even watch Television anymore, it’s become too out of touch. It’s insane the things they think we should be watching. You see it with marketing you know, these adverts. Once upon a time, advertisements made sense. They were straight forward, using logical people to sell you useful things. You’d be sitting there covered in fresh blood and a woman with big hair would say, “Get the stains out in 2 hours with minimal scrubbing! Ajax” or whatever. So you’d buy the thing. Because it made sense and you needed it anyway and you didn’t feel tricked.

Now they approach it in a different way. It’s much more aggressive and manipulative. You have a woman doing the dishes and then the husband comes home from work or school or wherever they go and he says, “Beverly I don’t love you anymore.” And she turns, this image of Mary Berry in a polka dot dress and says, “I’m sleeping with your father. Hahahaha.” And shoots him in the head. And then it goes, “Ajax, because you deserve better” or something like that and it feels a little… detached from reality. They stopped selling us products and started selling us these dreams of what they think we want. I remember when cooking shows made sense. A woman would come out and show you how to set the timer on your microwave so the chicken didn’t dry out too much or come alive or something. Now they’ve fetishized the baked beans to such an extent that kids turn to their parents at dinner time and say, “Is it fried in truffle oil? No? Then I’m not having it. Would you at least making a fucking effort Mother.”

And all this fetishized nonsense has pushed the price up. I remember when you didn’t need a second mortgage just to afford a bag of onions. I remember when I could by onions and tomatoes in the same month. And they didn’t have to be organic! You used to be able to choose. You could choose between buying organic or not starving, and it was a decision we all got to make each week.

Then there’s these home living shows, do you ever try to watch these? The young couple who had a significant family member die, inherited a few million and decided to convert an abandoned petrol station into a 2 bedroom bungalow with a chocolate swimming pool and walk in freezer. Again, we fetishized houses so the market went crazy and now you have to be a lawyer-prostitute to afford one.

So what do they do to help us deal with the disappointment? Drugs! “Do you ever get thirsty?” a man in a white coat who looks vaguely like the eldest child from Home Improvement asks. Looking up from your jug of rum you say, “Yes! Yes I do.”

Well you might have OLDD or Oral Liquid Digesting Dysfunction.

Shit, you think, what can I do about it?

Next comes a lovely image of a man taking his shoes off at the beach and the voice over goes, “For just the price of a small corvette each year, we can help you feel like this guy with sand between his toes.” And your drunken self struggles with this notion. But meanwhile you’re already signing up to a 12 year subscription and purchasing the loose-your-pills insurance plan at the same time.

So this idea of tv aspirations just isn’t sustainable. You can’t be gods like the presenters you watch. You can never purchase enough shit to be king. And if you try and set your aspirations where they want you to, you’ll end up a withered corpse gripping a box of golden cornflakes in a public bathroom being eaten alive by wolves.

Thank you very much.

#Televsion #aspirations #anger #rants #grand designs #living television #my art

[spacecowboybriony]

Maybe I’ve just watched too much Grand Designs, but it baffles me when people have a ridiculously complex house design and then are surprised when it blows the budget and takes a lot longer than they expect

#grand designs

[ginger-by-the-sea]

#grand designs #dream bath #mountain view #conjuredbyphotoshop #interior design #ai art gallery

[itsstreetlove]

Grand Designs

October ~ 2022

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #black and white photography #great witley #grand designs

[granddesignsoutofcontext]

lesbian couple on grand designs: :D this is gonna be interesting, economical, beautiful, and functional

gay man couple on grand designs: *steels my nerves for the biggest office block monstrosity of an overpriced house ive ever seen in my life*

#grand designs #do i stereotype very well then i stereotype

[spockvarietyhour]

#Columbo #Grand Designs #Peter Falk #Michael McManus #Danny and Renae watch Columbo

[blackberryjambaby]

im watching grand designs

#rj speaks #grand designs #how much do u wanna bet they go over budget too?

[l00r0ll]

this is very niche but I must speak on it - some of the worst people go on Grand Designs. A few that come to mind are: 

1) a man who built his house entirely out of polystyrene,

2) the countless people who find beautiful, picturesque locations to build on, then get surprised when the actual building process destroys so much of the surrounding nature because it’s so inaccessible and impractical,

3) a couple who bought an abandoned building because they loved its history (was a hat factory, printer, then a well-known squatters community who livened the area)... then turned it into a huge 2-part, $2million+ “family home” and then wondered if those past squatters ever walk past and like what they’ve done with the place... like yeah I’m sure the people who painted anarchist graffiti art on the walls you so desperately tried to preserve “for the culture” love the gross demonstration of wealth you’ve contributed to such a gentrified area, beautiful. 

4) a couple who built their house entirely - and i mean entirely, desks and all - from concrete so it looked like a bunker. Didn’t even have rugs. 0 Colour. Had a weird sliding wall to hide the kitchen because they “didn’t want to think of domestic duties” or smthn when not using it...

I could probably write a lengthy essay using case studies from Grand Designs about the intersection of character default and bad taste.

#grand designs #vent #rant #these absolute fools #polystyrene man haunts me #actually horrendous #polystyrene #like wtf #he had so many health complications during the build too #instant karma #they also always underestimate their building-plan scales too #sometimes the architect is evil