Saddest Episode of Grand Designs

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Oscar and Carl go through the saddest episode of Grand Designs they've ever seen.
Episode: chesil cliff house s17 ep 2

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@gohumberto Жыл бұрын

What a waste of 11 years. He lost 11 years of his daughters growing up into women. He lost his Wife. After all that he just build a stunning house for someone else. All the money in the World can't buy back 11 years with your kids. I couldn't give 2 sh*** about a big house. He gave his kids long-lasting memories of a marriage breakup and a father under constant stress. That's in their subconscious forever. Ego. It's a terrible thing.

@calumstephens9000 Жыл бұрын

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

@ms.x1669 3 ай бұрын

This man's story could be a very good movie, book, song even!

@LyraDavis 11 ай бұрын

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.

@theharringtons2010 11 ай бұрын

Sometimes people should be happy with what they already have

@ivydickson7596 11 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. The other house was fine.

@Haxkarl 3 ай бұрын

Ego ruins so many things in this world

@andreadan-ty7cv Ай бұрын

Could have modified the old house adding portions

@DonHendrickson-xd7jw 11 ай бұрын

The man was building as though he'd be here for a thousand years. Life is short. The end comes too soon. Enjoy what you have today.

@drssexy2142 4 ай бұрын

easy to say that from your mom's basement

@cheeseisdelicious111 Жыл бұрын

I remember this all those years ago. Ego was his problem. And listening to anyone else... just couldn't do it. He's a man of his own making.

@gillesblanchard1699 11 ай бұрын

As Margaret Atwood said so eloquently - “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

@Waywind420 Жыл бұрын

There's something surreal about this episode. 11 years later he's there, ALONE in their dream home, only his girls are now adults and are long gone and his wife's in the arms of another 😬 It's like that feeling when you haven't left your room for hours and you walk out to see your family but nobody's there

@jemmajames6719 11 ай бұрын

No he had a new partner and had sold this house to pay the debts.

@sterlinglewis5700 11 ай бұрын

@@jemmajames6719 ??? According to the narrators, the house was still on the market. Nothing was said about a new partner. Your source?

@jemmajames6719 11 ай бұрын

@@sterlinglewis5700 Grand designs did a catch up programme I’m sure you can find it.

@kutter_ttl6786 11 ай бұрын

I tried posting an article to a Daily Mail article but KZfaq doesn't like it when you do that so it looks like it's been erased. Just Google 'Luxury £10m lighthouse on 'saddest ever' Grand Designs episode is offered for sale as TWO separate homes',published on June 6, 2023. In the article theres a picture of Edward along with his new fiance. The house, on the other, still appears to be still up for sale and has been reduced to £6.5 million as it's still up on the Knight Frank real estate listing.

@user-ir8lw6vq3o 9 ай бұрын

Boy. The pair that put this post together are astonishingly ruthless and cruel. - To happily laugh at this family's misfortune, and suggest the husband's wife might like to sleep with Kevin McCloud instead. The wife had stopped working, and the husband was attempting to provide a better life for her and their daughters. Truly callous remarks. Who hasn't thought of reaching for a better life? - This man was unrealistic, and possibly delusional in his thinking. - He was working, and perhaps socialising with successful rockstars, and hoped his lifestyle would mirror theirs. - He received a harsh wakeup call after many years of striving. This is a lesson for all to learn from, however I don't believe this man, who perhaps suffered from delusions of grandeur, deserves to be mocked and humiliated, and to have his manhood brought into question. - He aimed too high, and failed - publicly - nothing more.

@bluebowser3347 Жыл бұрын

His ambition was so high it cost him everything.

@dianeshelton9592 11 ай бұрын

Oh heavens I have an update , the house is now completely unsalable as there was a huge cliff fall and it is now too close to the edge! Tragedy. Oh poor family and poor man.

@dawnross2514 11 ай бұрын

For real???

@dianeshelton9592 11 ай бұрын

@@dawnross2514 yes

@michellebyrom6551 11 ай бұрын

They knew that would happen when they couldn't drill into the bedrock and had to use steel instead.

@looloo4029 9 ай бұрын

That is devastating, no matter how stupid the guy was to start that house in the first place. 😢

@ericpeterson9110 7 ай бұрын

The piles are designed to act as collums if exposed by a collapse in the upper sandstone deposits.

@Pretellier 11 ай бұрын

Very sad ! Mind you , around 30% of the Grand Design shows end like this . And it's a trap many of us could fall into , wanting to own a dream home . Time flies and it's gone forever .

@lydia3098 11 ай бұрын

All of a sudden, I don't feel so bad about renovating my kitchen😊

@user-oo6lm1un6m 5 ай бұрын

Have you finished it or did it bankrupt you also 😮

@lydia3098 5 ай бұрын

@@user-oo6lm1un6m finished it!! Bankrupted me emotionally

@fionaforward3358 11 ай бұрын

We are only on this planet for a short time.The greed of these people is unbelievable.Simply desecration of a beautiful site.A family is far more important than an over sized monstrosity of a house.

@palace927 11 ай бұрын

They had a beautiful house and then destroyed their life.

@abvmoose87 Жыл бұрын

The place is gorgeous! He should just turn it into a hotel and make bank

@lisametcalfe640 11 ай бұрын

I drove past this house recently. Its still on the market. They've cut the asking price to £6.5m.

@steffenbendel6031 9 ай бұрын

and probably still too expensive for the area.

@Mark-vj7zd 11 ай бұрын

It’s a shite building and still not selling in late 2023. The actual value for the area is probably somewhere around £3million to £4million tops. It is immensely ugly and overblown with very little architectural merit. In contrast the small secondary house is OK and reasonably sympathetic to the site.

@Norfolk250 Жыл бұрын

Truth I thought the boathouse episode was bad, but for sheer costs alone - this one is unbeatable.

@yautja89 Жыл бұрын

It ends like a fucking Black Mirror episode

@juliovillagran4105 11 ай бұрын

Just the maintenance of that pool would be expensive. Crazy

@attackpatterndelta8949 7 ай бұрын

I watched this episode when it was first broadcast. I could never get my head round the idea of building a house on the same site so he can sell it or leverage against a loan from the bank.

@MsColetha Жыл бұрын

What a great lesson! He could have done seven cottages and be done a century ago 😂😂😂😂

@PassiveAgressive319 11 ай бұрын

Wow I remember this, I always reference this my friends as a cautionary tale about vanity and hubris. Brilliant episode

@gillesblanchard1699 11 ай бұрын

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” Confucius

@noeraldinkabam 11 ай бұрын

Even if you have 10 kids this is over the top.

@1unsung971 11 ай бұрын

The schodenfrud here is irresistible. The hubris of this fella is his downfall.

@SquidFiction Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I never heard about this place before, and I live pretty much just down the road from it now!

@QnA22 11 ай бұрын

I'm Dutch, so am not aware of the weather conditions in Devon, but is an outside pool at all worth doing in Devon?

@anthonydowling3356 11 ай бұрын

@@QnA22 They get decent Summers there ,but that's only 4 months out of 12 .I am sure the water is heated .

@michellebyrom6551 11 ай бұрын

@QnA22 I used to live along that coast. On a bright, calm day in the summer the beach is great, but the English Channel is cold with riptide currents. On the cliff tops its rare not to have a cool wind. That's one of the reasons for the glass panels around the pool deck. The idea is worth more than the reality.

@radharcanna 11 ай бұрын

That’s just about every episode of Grand Designs. People spending silly money that they can’t afford on vanity projects, trying to impress family and neighbours.

@sterlinglewis5700 11 ай бұрын

That generalisation won't work. We watch it regularly because we appreciate good design, and most of the projects are for family homes. Just because a design is well-planned and well-executed does not mean that the only objective is to impress. Some of the homes are 'spectacular' and some are rather simple, but still hold to high architectural and artistic standards. In this case, the guy's aspirations were unrealistic to begin with, and he came a cropper over them. But you can't paint every episode with the same brush.

@radharcanna 11 ай бұрын

@@sterlinglewis5700 Didn’t mean to generalise. I do appreciate good architecture myself and most of the houses featured are beautifully designed and built. However, how many ordinary people can afford to spend half a million pounds and upwards on a house of their dreams?

@sterlinglewis5700 11 ай бұрын

@@radharcanna I'll grant you that! Especially since the Middle Class has been just about wiped out both here [USA] and in the UK. Between the Republicans and the Tories we've been 'Royally' screwed.

@radharcanna 11 ай бұрын

@@sterlinglewis5700 Very true.

@vyvienvp3413 11 ай бұрын

Always thought the basic rule of thumb in business. Incredible, never ever over borrow, or expand too quickly in business. So sad.

@abvmoose87 Жыл бұрын

I liked the design slot. I dont get why its funny because it’s in devin in uk? I like the scenery. I feel sorry for the guy, don’t get why youre laughing

@monicabibb4697 11 ай бұрын

I agree, the crass joking is so inappropriate. Sarcasm at its worst. My heart goes to the builder for his fantastic dream that he achieved but along the way lost his way. Bravo builder I wish you well . As for the unprofessional cruel narrative… shameful.

@koozeg 6 ай бұрын

yup their "humour" is beyond distasteful

@bobird6099 11 ай бұрын

I cannot knock this man for trying to achieve his dream. However, it is sad that the property far outweighs the devastating costs to his family and himself. After all, there must have been numerous discussions and disagreements that he failed to heed. He can’t turn the clock back but it is a valuable lesson learnt.

@lobstermash 11 ай бұрын

I knock him for trying to "achieve his dream". I knock him for thinking that his "dream" should leave the world of mediocre daydreams and disrupt the real world for his family. Having "dreams" (that is, unrealistic expectations of some kind of luxury or status or undeserved recognition) should not be encouraged as a good thing. It's selfish fantasising. I definitely knock him and blame him.

@WineShaman 11 ай бұрын

@@lobstermashif you can’t knock a man for sacrificing everything good in his life in order to build a white monolith on the side of a cliff then I don’t know what 😂

@mikemyers8064 11 ай бұрын

A lesson of life to learned and remembered.🤔

@danielpreilly77 11 ай бұрын

Ugh, the projects that people get too deep on are heartbreaking

@anthonyscully2998 Жыл бұрын

there is another episode of a man building a large two story house in northern england . it was surpossed to take about 18 months but ended up taking ten years. the owner builder did not seem to be in a rush even though his young family lived in a small cold bungalow. grand designs showed up dates of the program every few years

@cheeseisdelicious111 Жыл бұрын

That episodes hilarious. They poured $500k into the underground garages or something ridiculous like that.

@gillesblanchard1699 11 ай бұрын

"What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? - Michael Connelly, in "The Last Coyote"

@anniec6420 11 ай бұрын

beautiful home though

@marcuscarana9240 9 ай бұрын

Can't feel sad for spoiled rich people who couldn't be content with a perfectly good, large and beautiful home, demolished it like trash cause they weren't satisfied with already having plenty and having so much.

@dghdavies 11 ай бұрын

It's still up for sale.

@clemlowes9417 11 ай бұрын

Saw this episode when it aired. No Golden Buzzer, no Final Rose. Complete money pit ending in a truly sad way. That's why I enjoy watching Never Too Small videos. More realistic for me and more in line with our budget.

@tyeteames7192 11 ай бұрын

Ken .like so many architects are narcissistic and self-directed. The premise is " for the people " The reality is "I want to re define human society " Great architecture is very quiet, elegant. Ken and this program are far from giving...they are taking. Nothing less, nore anything more.

@abvmoose87 Жыл бұрын

I found it extremly aesthetically pleasing. That is a very nice property.

@jebsails2837 11 ай бұрын

I know some folks can deal with the stark white. I think most would opt for a little warmth in the interior. Call in Roger Hazard from "Sell This House" (US version) to help define it. Narragansett Bay

@SK-lt1so 11 ай бұрын

Completely ridiculous project-so grossly out of scale to the location, they struggled just to access the work site.

@matthewbaynham6286 11 ай бұрын

With that sort of money why live somewhere so cold and windy?

@thequeenmidas Жыл бұрын

Harsh analysis 😢

@SirRobinDeSway 11 ай бұрын

Hubris….THE principle driver of classic Greek tragedy….

@louisecooper5992 11 ай бұрын

Yup the purse didn't natch the ego 😢

@mrg0th1er83 11 ай бұрын

The house looks cold and bland but the view is great.

@MUFC1933 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful though tbf ❤

@okim5512 Жыл бұрын

Do you guys have a podcast or something?

@whowouldwatchthisclips7208 Жыл бұрын

Yes! Who Would Watch This

@okim5512 Жыл бұрын

@@whowouldwatchthisclips7208 oh duh lol thanks

@ludovica8221 11 ай бұрын

serves him right for his horrible muzak

@julianneale6128 2 ай бұрын

I don't know why there's laughter at the fact this place is in Devon, UK? I've been there, and it's a stunning corner of the world!

@LondonEE16 23 күн бұрын

Devon's not the Cote d'Azur. The house and pool would be better suited for a much warmer climate. It's pretty windy there on that cliff as well.

@julianneale6128 23 күн бұрын

Perhaps. It's true that the pool wouldn't be ideal apart from mid summer. But it makes no difference to the rest of the house. The area is stunning! Also, I used to live in Antibes and I can tell you this. If you need anything, anything at all, leave France to get it!

@expressoevangelism80 11 ай бұрын

I recall the first episode I ever watched. There was a similar character man who had the idea of this hi-tech building with a delta wing style roof. He was always trying to get things made cheaper. I don’t know if it ever got finished, can anyone advise me please?

@Ochtendgloren1 6 ай бұрын

The inverted-roof house in Buckinghamshire,season 3 episode 5. The house was put up for sale a few years ago still not being entirely finished.

@jameswise5650 10 ай бұрын

Pyrrhic victory.

@atomicsmith 11 ай бұрын

Barry Lyndon in a Building

@simonmarshall3869 6 ай бұрын

Its just not even that spectacular a house design

@BrothaEwh 11 ай бұрын

His new wife tho

@katicamagdic9049 11 ай бұрын

Šteta zbog kuće uništena obitelj mada vizija genijalna

@donbrashsux Жыл бұрын

Turn it into a Bank

@rkh7904 11 ай бұрын

A new meaning to the word, 'Folly'.Turn it into a Casino with accommodation.

@SuzzyWow 11 ай бұрын

Vanity projects. Ah...

@user-vn3jc6wl7i 9 ай бұрын

It’s such a shame because it’s people like him that push the boundaries or we would all be living in two up two downs. I hope someday he comes back and proves all the neg heads wrong.

@thuan4558 Жыл бұрын

Massive L for sure

@stickyman7585 10 ай бұрын

Now we are stuck with this ugly monstrosity blighting the coastline.

@Xyzabc998 11 ай бұрын

the clip is so much better without Oscar and Carl. Ironic.

@chrisdreyfuswrites 3 ай бұрын

Sad?? A rich man goes broke building a grotesque mausoleum for his ego. How utterly surprising.

@paulgriffiths7348 Жыл бұрын

The guy had a good go.I admire him.The banks problem now. My wife wanted me out,all my working life I tried,the next life I want to be gay,they don't have problems like we do.If he had married a guy they would still be together. Take care my friend.

@devinfraserashpole4753 Жыл бұрын

A good go at shooting himself in the nuts?