McCloud explains that old money types are often asset-rich but cash-poor, and as the lodge project stretches on, and on, there is a real question of whether it will be completed at all, particularly when the owner keeps embellishing his plans. Watch Grand Designs - January 2021 Series. Work was also forced to stop for a full three months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This show refuses to be coy about money, which is a significant reason for its success. As well as the initial purchase, Maxwell Stuart has estimated that the work will cost an additional 1.6m. Genres Special Interest Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages The build is one of the biggest budget projects on this series, with the property costing 1.8 million and a further 1.6 million budgeted for the renovation work, but costs mount rapidly, leaving. The concrete itself wasnt expensive, but holding up the old building while we dug underneath it was another matter entirely. It is amazing what you can achieve when you've got millions sluicing about in your sporran. Grand Designs returns! He said: "I don't think of them as my dead neighbours, they're just my neighbours. Does he remember her? As series 20 of the ever-soothing, ever-ambitious show begins, we learn that Grand Designs latest builder/dreamer/victim has spent 1.8m on the wardens lodge in a Victorian cemetery and an old toilet block next door to it. I listened to Justin who told me how he loves the outdoors, being near the sea, and blue tones. A dad left Grand Designs viewers open-mouthed after the "craziest episode ever". For instance, its not just about having the pipework in the right place. Justin has forked out 1.8million and counting on the neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge, as . And when it comes to posh, they don't come much posher than 47-year-old Ampleforth-educated Justin a former captain in the Scots Guards who now runs a company specialising in adventure fishing expeditions in Russia, Iceland and elsewhere. 'Yah, lovely acorns,' says Justin, admiring their dazzling lustre while giving the impression he can't remember how much they cost (4,000 each). For more news and features about London, directly to your inbox sign up to our newsletter here. Im quite bad walking down the street now. A dad stunned Grand Designs viewers in the 'craziest episode ever' after spending four years and 4.2 million on transforming a cemetery into his dream home. 'We make the best flies in the world,' says Justin, who knows the lyrics to only one song Happy Birthday. He is seen buying the wardens lodge and a nearby ruined 1960s council toilet block which adjoins onto the building, which costs him 1.8 million. . Financial issues were followed by the coronavirus pandemic, which led to work on the lodge being halted for months. A third also added: "Possibly the greatest #GrandDesigns ever. What is cuckooing and why do people want it to be criminalised? Justin then plans to replace the adjoining blocks with a huge luxury extension on its ground floor, with a basement swimming pool and moat. Justin Maxwell-Stuart, 47, from London, bought an abandoned lodge and the adjoining ex-council toilet block in Fulham cemetery for 1.8 million in 2016, the Mirror reports. He was going through a divorce from his 'lovely' Brazilian-born wife Tania, whom he met in 2004 when they were neighbours. Follow Gretchen on Instagram at @shake.the.sky. 22:38 GMT 15 Jan 2021. They would take regular walks through the cemetery with their dog, a gorgeous mutt called Thunder. ". Open the ground-floor terrace doors, and you can reach out and touch. Almost overnight, this man and this house have become a huge local attraction but like father, like son he does not notice the starry hubbub at all. Is it extreme fishing, I find myself wondering? And there are certainly twittish moments when striding around his building site in his padded gilet or counting up the mounting cost of his project, when Justin gives off an unmistakably upper class, full-on Rupert, Tim-Nice-But-Dim vibe. It was a chaotic period in my life, I signed my divorce papers and the contract for the house practically on the same day. 'It was so romantic,' says Hideko, who shows me the stunning inky sapphire which Justin had commissioned from an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a jeweller. If you live one kilometre down the road, you will think it is bloody good value. Hollyoaks pictures reveal major return, custody shock and exit. South West London | Grand Designs South West London 6th January 2021 9pm Channel 4 Suppliers list watch episode South West London Not many of us would even think about building their new home within a cemetery, but that's precisely the madcap mission former army captain Justin sets out on. What do you think of the revamped London pad? Grace Galloway died Nov. 2, 1898, at the age of 27She was taken ill with tuberculosis while studying music in Boston, Mass., and died in less than a yearShe had gone south to Asheville, N.C., for her health, and had also been a patient at Saranac, and was returning south when she died in Pittsburgh, PaFuneral services were held at the . The aim was to knock down the toilet block and replace it with a ground floor extension, a moat and a basement with a swimming pool. Owner with a 1million budget is left shocked by 4million quote to turn abandoned Neo-Gothic cemetery lodge into his dream home with a swimming pool and a MOAT Justin,. I was fighting in that corner the whole time., Brass pendants hang above the elegant dining table. The worksurfaces are Dekton Opera, a composite that looks like marble. The aim was to knock down the toilet block and replace it with a ground floor extension, a moat and a basement with a swimming pool. Scarily, the project goes 500,000 over budget before work even starts. Where are these parties where you meet handsome, eligible, ex-army officer aristocratic millionaires? Every time I walk out that gate someone says hello or asks me how Thunder is. I just imagined the show would slip onto daytime TV with no fuss, but the opposite has happened. I fantasise about how many could be helped instead, Jackie Milton (@JaxMilton) January 6, 2021, Put on #GrandDesigns to try and take my mind off everything but all I am thinking is no one should have this amount of money. The garden spaces required a sensitive treatment, a design which would enhance the bold, contemporary architecture whilst paying respect to the original Neo-Gothic building. We want to hear all about it. It is simply not the Maxwell Stuart way, darling. It had already been bought by a developer who had gained planning permission to convert them into a house. 'I now own a house in London that is steeped in history and surrounded by 13 acres of green space,' he says and you've got to give him credit for that, despite the thunderously busy main road on its western border. Grand Designs Kevin McCloud has joked hes got quite good at being rude to people approaching him in the street. Walking into the new wing from the cosy rooms in the lodge could easily have felt like stepping into the freezer aisle in a supermarket, said Gretchen. He recalls being told by his parents to keep her royal personage supplied with cocktail snacks during pre-dinner drinks when she came over to supper one balmy evening. Photo:Jefferson Smith, The question was if the extension should mirror the style of the stone-built lodge or whether it should be something different. 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No, he was worried about something else, something much closer to home. But Justin asked architect Simon Gill to cast a fresh eye over the plans. Jan Moir for the Daily Mail The issues facing Maxwell Stuart are floodlit from the very start. I was brought up in Scotland where houses have so much character, and I liked the idea of recreating that in London, Justin explains. "That was mad, beautiful and very, very funny.". Although Justin remembers seeing the likes of David Bowie and Mick Jagger on the island, his parents always kept a low-key presence. At one point, The Lodge was propped up by steel girders as they excavated underneath for the pool, while Justin was terrified the build would be stopped if they unearthed human bones. Left to my own devices, I would probably have built the extension in a gothic style. Buried in Lakewood, New York, USA. A dad stunned Grand Designs viewers in the 'craziest episode ever' after spending four years and 4.2 million on transforming a cemetery into his dream home. Image: Jefferson Smith. Ex-army captain Justin has a dream of transforming a home which is surrounded by graves, and loves the south west London cemetery lodge. The original scheme didnt make the most of the possibilities, says Simon. But in November 2020, the four-bed home, complete with a huge master suite, dressing room, kitchen-diner, reading room, a large lounge, as well as a cellar, a TV room with a bar and the 13-metre swimming pool, was finished. He bought the property for 2.2 million in February 2015 when he was a single dad living nearby with his son George, now aged nine. 'I was brought up in Scotland where everyone's houses have so much character,' he booms onscreen, which suggests a refreshing lack of familiarity with the kind of Scottish council estate where I was brought up, but no umbrage taken because Justin is such a delightful person and about as snobbish as a burst haggis. A series of gardens around an innovative property in Fulham Cemetery - the house is soon to be featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. Of course! GRAND Designs revamp labelled the best of all time, Justin's dream home comes complete with a swimming pool and moat. MORE : Grand Designs returns with disaster as most surreal project yet is rocked by Covid, MORE : Grand Designs Kevin McCloud embraces telling people to back off to keep Covid compliant, Billie Shepherd and Sam Faiers call out b****y Phillip Schofield over This Morning behaviour. Grand Designs Show Summary Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud. Get the latest London news straight on your phone without having to open your browser - and get all the latest breaking news as notifications on your screen. 'The Maxwell Stuarts are very understated,' he says. Image: Jefferson Smith, I was lucky in that I came on board at the very beginning. 'My publicity estimate was way lower than what transpired but I have had the most marvellous experience. When Simon suggested that the new section should be contemporary, built from Bath stone to form a link between the two halves, I followed his lead. Even if he is a little less chipper and bright-eyed by 2020. A six-metre basement extension complete with 13-metre swimming pool is planned but its hard to find contractors willing to dig down in a cemetery. Have something to tell us about this article? 'But that's not all she can do,' says Justin, explaining that during the first lockdown they were holed up on his 2,500 acre Scottish estate, feeding themselves from a freezer full of game. The blue tones and natural light make it calm and serene. Appearing on Channel 4's Grand Designs, dad-of-one Justin revealed his plans to transform the derelict land. ex-army captain Justin restores a Neo-Gothic cemetery lodge and converts its toilet block into a huge extension with moat and basement swimming pool. Winter Love Island 2023 final date confirmed and its just around the corner, Clarksons Farm star in shock as fans raise tens of thousands for TB-hit farm, BBC officially drops long-awaited Race Across the World series 3 trailer, Grand Designs returns with disaster as most surreal project yet is rocked by Covid, Grand Designs Kevin McCloud embraces telling people to back off to keep Covid compliant, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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