‘Inspiring’ couple Greg and Georgie remodeled a barn into their dream dwelling (Image: Channel 4)
Grand Designs followers have described the most recent episode as one of many ‘greatest ever’ after an ‘inspirational’ couple efficiently transformed a barn into their dream dwelling whereas dealing with well being struggles.
Within the newest episode of the Channel 4 TV sequence, hosted by Kevin McCloud, viewers are launched to Greg and Georgie, a married couple striving to assemble a homely property in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Greg and Georgie, who first met at a charity occasion, have each skilled main well being points of their lives. In his early twenties, Greg suffered from a mind tumour, whereas Georgie has acquired therapies for a number of types of cancer all through her life.
All through tonight’s programme, Grand Designs viewers shared their hope that Greg and Georgie would realise their dream of changing the 35-year-old barn within the yard of Georgie’s dad and mom’ dwelling, the place they’ve been dwelling.
Early on, the couple are met with a number of obstacles, one of many largest setbacks being the large value of their undertaking, because the groundwork quantities to roughly a 3rd of their £250,000 finances.
Greg additionally finally ends up taking over the specialist work himself with the intention to preserve prices down, regardless of his missing expertise in building.
Greg and Georgie have formidable plans (Image: Channel 4)
To throw one other spanner within the works, the coronavirus pandemic creates much more hurdles for Greg and Georgie to leap over, main Kevin to query whether or not they’ll handle to construct their dwelling as they’ve imagined it.
Months after final seeing the couple in particular person, the Grand Designs host is ready to go to them in September 2020 and is amazed by their efforts.
After inspecting their unrecognisable creation, he states that they’ve succeeded in giving the barn an ‘exemplary transformation’ and turning it into an ‘inspiring dwelling’.
What a shocking inside (Image: Channel 4)
An image-perfect end (Image: Channel 4)
A number of Grand Designs viewers praised Greg and Georgie on their extraordinary achievement.
‘That have to be one of many biggest transformations I’ve ever seen, all made by a pair and their mates with little expertise. Astonishingly good!’ one particular person tweeted.
‘Inspirational couple and an inspirational home,’ one other stated.
Another person stated that the episode was ‘among the best #GrandDesigns I’ve seen in a very long time’.
‘Inspirational younger couple who’ve overcome unimaginable well being issues and constructed a tremendous dwelling,’ they added.
‘It’s not usually I’ve a bit cry at Grand Designs. I hope Greg & Georgie have many pleased years of their stunning dwelling,’ one other viewer commented.
Earlier this month, viewers of the present had been left in awe by a £4.5m ‘goth house’ in-built a graveyard in London.
Nonetheless, quite a few individuals known as out the ‘ridiculous’ spending on the undertaking, with one particular person stating: ‘Placed on #GrandDesigns to try to take my thoughts off every little thing however all I’m pondering is “nobody ought to have this sum of money”.’
Grand Designs returns subsequent Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 4.