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The true and very funny story of how journalist, Geraldine Bedell and her husband Charlie Leadbeater, with no savings and no knowledge of architecture nearly make themselves bankrupt in an attempt to build their dream home. Love all the fabrics you used. Oh, and LOVE the table! You are amazing! Never Spammy! Lots of ideas I hope to implement in the future. What I would give to have a little space from the neighbors.
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Showing Rating details. Sort order. Sep 27, Cyndi rated it liked it.
I think this might have been more funny if I had an understanding of how property is bought and sold in England. It also kind of just ran out at the end.
But there were some exceptionally funny parts and it was quite realistic about the experience of building or renovating a house. Jul 19, Michele rated it liked it Shelves: nonfiction , memoirs. Aug 15, Ali rated it really liked it. Very enjoyable glimpses into an intensely personal and stressful journey.
Exciting and terrifying in equal measure. The sheer surfaces - concrete for walls, limestone for floors - are serene, and the dark timber - also used throughout for fitted furniture, cupboards and bookcases - is a perfect foil for the concrete, adding richness and warmth.
Bedell and writer husband, Charles Leadbeater, are now confirmed concrete converts. The house story began around the Millennium when the family, with four children, now aged 21, 17, nine and five, was bursting out of its home in Hackney.
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Inspired by the cleverly remodelled kitchen at a friend's house, Bedell contacted the architects responsible for the work - Ferhan Azman and Joyce Owens, of Azman Owens Architects. Since completion of the project Joyce Owens has returned to practise in her native America and the company has been renamed Azman Architects.
After months of trawling estate agents and looking at unsuitable places, there came a call one day that every property-absorbed Londoner dreams of. She then called the architects to see if they would be interested in designing a new house. Owens's response, in her Chicago drawl, was affirmative: "Are you kidding me? With the help of a sympathetic bank manager, the plot, measuring 55 feet by 70 feet, was bought for the princely sum of [pounds sterling],, which even Bedell describes as "a ridiculous sum of money".
The bridging loan cost [pounds sterling]87 a day. The plot was bought with planning permission for two small houses, but the local planners at the London Borough of Islington agreed to give permission for a single family home if the architects could deliver an outstanding piece of design.
They relished the challenge. And won. The brief was for a family house, a bedroom for everyone, and "masses of light, lots of glass, limestone floors".