Is it a sort of Grand Designs for historic architectural treasures?
It’s different from Grand Designs in the sense that some of the Grand Designs budgets make your eyes water – which is great, I love what Grand Designs does, and Kevin is brilliant, but the budgets can be incredibly high. Most of ours are much, much lower. We’ve got one or two, to be honest, which are quite high. We’ve got a couple which are mad. One couple bought a mansion in Wales for £1.5 million. So that gets us up to the Grand Designs crazy levels, but most of them, to be honest, are very affordable, very accessible buildings that most people who are able to get on the property ladder can afford to buy. One of them, the chapel in Wales, was £55,000 and he did all the work himself. The total cost of raw materials was £40-£50,000. If you think the cost of the average house in Britain today is £160,000 and Gareth has got his dream home for £100,000, that’s amazing. And in another of our stories, there’s a guy who’s got an old ice house in Scotland, by a loch. He bought it off the farm
