{"id":1681,"date":"2025-03-26T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:36:46","slug":"grand-designs-ugliest-house-ever-is-actually-made-from-polystyrene-and-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/grand-designs-ugliest-house-ever-is-actually-made-from-polystyrene-and-glue\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Designs\u2019 \u2018ugliest house ever\u2019 is actually made from polystyrene and glue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grand Designs viewers have made their thoughts clear on a groundbreaking build (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grand Designs<\/a> viewers have expressed their disbelief over a ‘gloriously mad’ project that has never been attempted before.<\/p>\n

Airing since 1999<\/a>, the Channel 4<\/a> series presented by Kevin McCloud follows unique property builds, often taking several years and presenting plenty of challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tonight it returned for its 23rd<\/sup> season<\/a>, with the first episode following a groundbreaking project that has never been tackled in the property renovation programme’s 26-year history.<\/p>\n

Over the past 30 years, Howard and Sarah have embarked on several ambitious building designs together, but on Grand Designs took on their most radical yet \u2013 a sleek, angled, metallic floating home on a tidal estuary near Worthing.<\/p>\n

However, it’s fair to say that the finished property was not to every viewer’s taste, with @MillieJonesView making the bold claim on X: ‘Could this be the ugliest home ever on #GrandDesigns? I think so…’<\/p>\n

Echoing their sentiment, @stryder444 said: ‘Doesn’t look very homely. All the comfort of a visitor centre. #granddesigns.’<\/p>\n

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Many said the home featured on last night’s season return was ‘hideous’ (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a savage takedown, @truly_woolie wrote: ‘It looks like a child of Elon\u2019s Cybertruck. Hideous. #GrandDesigns.’<\/a><\/p>\n

@Jasonharvey70g1 added: It\u2019s a massive cyber truck #GrandDesigns.’<\/p>\n

Some Grand Designs viewers, though, were in awe of the scale and the ambition of Howard and Sarah’s project.<\/p>\n

@Toady exclaimed: ‘Oh this looks gloriously mad #GrandDesigns.’<\/p>\n

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Couple Howard and Sarah built the home using ‘surfboard technology’ (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

@TheMizzCBB said: ‘This one is very bonkers. I like the design but how will the bottom look like in a few years? #granddesigns.’<\/p>\n

@arrmstronski commented: ‘Well, this looks ambitious. #granddesigns<\/p>\n

Designed to look like a boat, and nestled within a houseboat community, the structure sits on an experimental, prefabricated, polystyrene slab to deal with high tides alternating with hours sitting in the mud.<\/p>\n

On top of the floating polystyrene will is steel frame strong enough to resist the stresses of a moving structure, covered in composite, insulated steel cladding.<\/p>\n

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It features an open-plan living space on one level looking out across the water (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upstairs there is a soaring, open-plan living space with an outer deck and views of the estuary, while below deck made accommodation for them and their teenage children, a home office and a cinema room.<\/p>\n

The couple set aside \u00a3385,000 to spend across an 18-month schedule, also planning to do much of the work themselves and finalising the engineering as they went.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the episode, a clip showed the pair in the early stages of the process. In one Howard explained their plan to use \u2018surfboard technology\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The home was made with blocks of polystyrene connected by glue (Picture: Channel 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Showing a paddleboard, he made 15 years ago, he said the construction is \u2018very light and can be lifted really easily\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018We can make them in a workshop which means we can control the quality, and it also manages the cost because we aren\u2019t having to rent a huge shipyard to make it in one piece,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018But as far as we are aware, no-one has actually used this technology to make a floating home before. We are in the unfortunate position of being the experimenters\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a voice-over, Kevin said the \u2018radical ethos of this project is hardcore self-build territory\u2019.<\/p>\n

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