Kirstie Allsopps homemade home - OS opinions?

Valli

have to say I agree with

rachbc wrote: »

I was hugely disappointed - she tried something for 5 minutes then got someone else to do it for her, no practical tips and all v £££.

and

choille wrote: »

I just thought it was all a bit eye candy with not much that 'normal' people can relate to.

Although there were some nice ideas throwing your own pots and blowing your own glass isn't an option available to many of us - and she didn't even 'knock up' all the cushion covers...
so she bought (or was bought) the house, got a TV crew in to film it being done up and her pottering about making odd bits and got paid for it and then got artisans and craftspeople to make stuff for her who presumably also got well paid.
And now is making a profit renting it out...
Me? Jealous?

Now years ago there used to be a programme on Channel 4 where a bloke went diving in skips and showed you how to turn finds into useful things - it was really good and might have began with an S...
(Ray Brooks narrated it I think)
Anyway they showed how to use pallets wood and finish it off to make good stuff, pointing out that it was pine (or whatever) and there was one bloke who had made a kitchen from it if I recall correctly. Real OS stuff, people really scrimping...

Ooh it might have been called scrimping...or scrimpers***wanders off to google***

they should bring THAT back...

yep Scrimpers

Now that's something they could do again...
Scrimpers thread here

vivw_2

Seakay wrote: »

I also noticed that not only was someone else making her curtains etc (with no tips for the viewer) but when the extra cushions arrived then the one that Kirsty was supposedly done suddenly had different buttons so I now wonder if she really made anything at all.

I didn't notice that ............

tomterm8

Valli wrote: »

have to say I agree with

and

Although there were some nice ideas throwing your own pots and blowing your own glass isn't an option available to many of us - and she didn't even 'knock up' all the cushion covers...

It's much more open than you think, local colleges often do both for a few pounds a session, and if you're unemployed you get in for free.

choille

Now years ago there used to be a programme on Channel 4 where a bloke went diving in skips and showed you how to turn finds into useful things - it was really good and might have began with an S...
(Ray Brooks narrated it I think)
Anyway they showed how to use pallets wood and finish it off to make good stuff, pointing out that it was pine (or whatever) and there was one bloke who had made a kitchen from it if I recall correctly. Real OS stuff, people really scrimping...

Ooh it might have been called scrimping...or scrimpers***wanders off to google***

Yeh - that was good.

What got me was her reckoning on she'd learned all these skills - they take years to learn.
Her new range probably costs more than we are spending on our DIY house build - sigh.

vivw_2

I have just re-watched it and the buttons were different also when Kirstie left that woman Kirstie was carrying a cushion with no buttons sewn on

Rummer

I really want a sewing machine now!

makeup

I agree with a lot of the comments. She was so 'proud' of herself for making one cushion!

However I guess it was aimed more at people who would never think of doing something like that for themselves, at all.

I wish she had gone a bit more in-depth into some of the items like the sewing, I mean glass-blowing looked fun and it would be interesting to learn all about how that is made but you aren't going to take it up in order to save on buying glasses or vases.

But sewing and doing up bits from skips sounds like a real money saving skill.

I saw an interview with her, on GMTV I think??? And she said her partner and his business partner bought the house at auction and she only found out when they told her she had to sort it all out. I think they were intending to use it as a holiday home for their two families.

Although sounds like the plan has changed if they are now renting.

I do like shows like that for interiors ideas though and I was really interested to see inside Cath Kidston's house! (was expecting real old farmhouse style, not all that modern white kitchen!!)

gratefulforhelp_2

I really like her, but was really disappointed. You knew when the recession hit, there would be loads of make-do-and-mend telly programmes, but this was a cheat.

"I got these chairs for a fiver each and had them reupholstered" yeah, in really expensive fabric at a cost of a hundred quid a chair"

and her homemade home contained at least 18k worth of Aga...

Love Kirstie though, cant blame her for jumping on the bandwagon. Have to say I winced as she talked about her green credentials, jumping into a land rover that prob does 25mpg :rolleyes:

Also, the word patronising springs to mind...

rachbc

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's much more open than you think, local colleges often do both for a few pounds a session, and if you're unemployed you get in for free.

Mmm not neccessarily - our local colleges ceramics courses are £150 for 10 weeks - plus materials costs. And due to the government deciding that 'leisure' courses shouldn't be funded anymore there are far less concessions for people in receipt of benefits than there used to be.

sillyvixen

Rummer wrote: »

I For example if she had shown how the mirror could have been upgraded.

still a lot of rooms to go - maybe the mirror will make an apearance later in the series!

on the plus side.. i have been meaning to make some cusion covers out of the material i have left over from covering my free second hand dining chairs, but have been put off as i have no idea how to put in a zip!! kirsty's cusion covers are zipless!! so i have learned somthing .. i have covered cusions that dont match my home in the spare room - just need to buy some cotton and borrow my mums sewing machine and i will be on my way.

not all bad then:T