Watched an episode of the Australian version of Grand Designs this afternoon, the programme in which various folks decide to build houses that are a bit out of the ordinary and have the cameras following the generally painful progress to a generally triumphant end. Today's 'build' (as they seem to say these days) was actually not that much out of the ordinary, except for the size of the place, a house that could have been home to a small tribe intended for a family of four, somewhere out on the Gold Coast.
It all looked quite nice in the closing sequence, but I found it difficult to imagine anyone enjoying living in a place that had so much in the way of empty space about it. It looked suspiciously like a show house in the most negative sense. And it must have taken forever to keep any thing like clean. Give me compact cosiness any and every time - and since that's all we'll ever be able to afford it's a case of good taste matching the not-so-good budget.
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