A bloke’s £700,000 house was shredded by Grand Designs viewers who reckoned it looked like an Asda supermarket or a warehouse.
Geoff Wood, 63, was on Wednesday’s (October 13) episode of the Channel 4 show which saw him build a “bungalow on stilts” on an Essex flood plain.
He told presenter Kevin McCloud that he was so invested in his dream he’d sold his £1.5million Spanish villa and his London home to fund the project and moved into a caravan on the building site.
Geoff struggled emotionally when the project dragged on for years longer than he expected, and he spent two Christmases in the “cold and damp” caravan.
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In the end, though, he was delighted with how his home turned out, although viewers at home were skeptical.
Kevin McCloud noted the land the house was on still looked like a building site and it was covered with churned-up dirt.
The designer was a bit more generous when it came to describing the outside of the property.
As he approached, he said: “Geoff’s new beginning hovers above the scarred earth, a clean island in the mud.
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“The closer you get to it the kind of wilder, the kind of bolder it is.
“That overhang from here looks impossible, it looks as though it shouldn’t be there, it looks as though it’s floating.”
One viewer blasted that the new build should be named “Costa Del Asda”.
“It looks more like they’re constructing a new Aldi warehouse rather than a house,” commented another.
A more sympathetic viewer said: “Must be heartbreaking when a design you put so much into isn’t executed well.
“Cost-cutting and removing key design elements.”
Someone else moaned: “Overpriced bungalow on a box. Worst Grand Designs ever. Never missed an episode since 1999.”
Even the interior was mocked, with some calling it an “old people’s home” and another claiming it was “like my grandma’s place”.
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