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There is a sort of
universal truth in self-build,
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a golden piece of advice,
which is that you should spend
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as little time as possible
building your house
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in order to spend the maximum amount
of time living in it, enjoying it.
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Of course, some people
get that the wrong way round.
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They become addicted to the process.
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They spend years digging
and delving and constructing,
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enjoying the process of
putting something together,
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often to the detriment
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of the quality of life
of their family.
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You have to ask, you know,
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are there any exceptional
circumstances in which
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that approach is somehow allowable?
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And I can only think of
one circumstance -
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where the family's way of life,
their culture, if you like,
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is all about digging and
delving and making and doing,
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where the entire family collaborate
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towards producing a masterpiece.
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Ten years ago,
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Ed and Rowena Waghorn embarked
on one of the most ambitious
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and long-running projects
Grand Designs has ever undertaken.
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I've been dipping in and out
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of their lives
and their project ever since,
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in it for the long haul,
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following their story
all the way to its conclusion.
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Back in 2007,
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they'd bought an eight-acre
smallholding in Herefordshire
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on which Ed had already built
some temporary accommodation.
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They lived almost exclusively
off the land,
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with sheep for wool, chickens
for eggs and goats for milk.
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Having so much to do outside
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is hugely important
for the children.
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The jobs have to be done.
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Doesn't matter whether it's
beautiful sunshine
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or pouring with rain.
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I think they have
a really good grounding
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in the things which, I suppose,
Ed and I put a value on,
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which is your home
and feeding yourself
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and what we deem to be
the important things in life.
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They had life savings
of just £100,000
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and yet they wanted to build
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an extraordinary handcrafted
family home on their land,
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using skills Ed picked up
years ago as a furniture maker.
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I've always liked making things
anyway, with whatever,
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with all sorts of different
materials, so I'm very happy
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building things, so I feel
fine about building a house.
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From the start, it was clear
that Ed and Rowena's house
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was going to reflect them
and every aspect of their lives.
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It's quite organic in nature
and very much of the ground.
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We're sort of amassing
materials all the time.
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We have chestnut from a woodland,
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we have a certain amount of stone
that's on site that we can use.
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Have you got a budget? Um...
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In a vague sort of way.
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This was unlike
any other project I'd seen.
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No hard-and-fast schedule and an
approach best described as fluid.
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It might be that we don't
finish for another five years
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but it's all part of life, isn't it?
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Ed and Rowena's handmade house
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will be tucked into the hillside.
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The structural frame
will be locally sourced timber
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and in-filled with straw and clay.
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Downstairs, family life will revolve
around a rough and ready kitchen,
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hand-built by Ed, of course.
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This sits next to
the heart of the house,
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best described as a medieval hall,
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heated by a great stone hearth
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and lit by a cathedral-scale
cruck-framed window
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that'll enjoy the vast panoramas
across their Herefordshire valley.
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Behind the hall will sit a snug
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and a small workroom for Rowena.
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In the centre of this arrangement,
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a sculpted timber staircase
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will lead to a first-floor
gallery-cum-landing.
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On one side of this, Ed will build
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three bedrooms for the children
and a shower room...
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..and on the other, two more
bedrooms and a family bathroom.
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Above this handcrafted building,
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Ed plans a dummy thatched
mansard roof.
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The plan was to build with as much
found material as possible -
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economical as well as
ecologically sound.
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And it all started with
timber from the local woods.
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It feels really good just to be
getting it from two miles away,
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cutting it, sawing it
and building it at home.
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The children see this happening and
really, for them, it's quite normal.
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It's so much how we live
and how our lives are.
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That's it.
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By exploiting his carpentry skills,
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Ed knew he could save money
and do most of the work himself.
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A noble ambition, of course,
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but the result was
a glacially slow project.
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How much do I get into building
a lovely dry stone wall?
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How much do I get on with
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getting the house built
so everyone can move in?
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The latter.
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That would be my advice.
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When building work began,
the kids were young...
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I'm having that one.
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..and keen to get into their
new house and their new bedrooms.
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When will it be done?
Oh, no time at all.
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When?
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You said at the end of this summer.
I know.
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When we're leaving home you'll be
like, "The house is finished!"
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Rome wasn't built in a day, and nor
is anything else worth having.
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But this is smaller than Rome, so...
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It's smaller! ..it should be able to
be made in a day.
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One reason why
everything took so long
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was Ed's desire to recycle
and re-use materials.
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Ed's quite good at sort of
scavenging things.
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He's a great collector of things
that might one day become useful.
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This was helpful in stretching
their modest 100-grand budget,
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especially after Ed had been made
redundant as an estate manager.
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Progress on the project
was leisurely.
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One year stretched to two.
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It's going to be magnificent,
isn't it?
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But it's not going to be done
by September, is it?
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Because we're in September.
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Then three...and four.
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So when do you suppose
you'll have all these done,
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ready for the...working surface?
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Um... Well, um,
hopefully by Christmas.
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Do you think that Ed
is going to deliver? Yes.
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You say that very confidently.
I am very confident.
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But four years after starting,
the house was still a shell
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with no internal walls.
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It looked as though Ed and Rowena
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might never have a finished home
for their family.
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What's "finished"?
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There's finished
and there's finished.
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I'm just looking for finished.
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I don't... I don't need...
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No, I... Ed will have little
somethings, you know,
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he'll have... There always will be
something. Exactly.
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But this project and the ideas
behind it are powerful,
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and I've wanted from day one
to see what original delights
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will spring from Ed's idiosyncratic,
highly creative mind.
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I think this project is so special
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that I'm back
to pick up their story again
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and follow it to the end.
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It has been some time
since I was last here,
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which means I've now, um,
sort of forgotten where it is.
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The big question, of course,
is whether Ed and Rowena
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have... Oh, is that it? That's it.
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I missed it.
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Whether Ed and Rowena
have done anything.
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Oh, here we are.
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Hello, goats, hello, sheep.
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Hello! Hello! Hello!
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Hi, Kevin. Hi, how are you?
Good to see you. And you.
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Hello, Rowena. Hello. How are you?
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Good. Very good to see you.
Nice to see you've dressed up.
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For the occasion!
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Yes. You've done the animals,
I guess, this morning.
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Yeah, I've been doing a bit of work.
Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Good. Is the kettle on? It is.
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Come on.
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That's the most important question
I had to ask you.
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The house is still
wrapped in scaffolding,
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but the scale is already impressive.
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Ah, yeah.
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What a lovely space.
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Just as I remember it.
It makes for a great workshop.
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Yeah, it's a great workshop!
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However, that's not its purpose.
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No, of course not!
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I keep forgetting. Yeah.
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I can see incremental progress.
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Walls are beginning to emerge
and floors are appearing.
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The beautiful oak floor is down.
Or is it chestnut again?
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Chestnut. Hard to tell in this
light, but it's fantastic.
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I've chosen to put them just down
as sawn boards.
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And then we'll...
And then we'll sand it afterwards.
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Meanwhile, the children
are growing up
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and the family are still living in
their "temporary home"
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as Ed fashions his masterpiece.
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I understand
you're perfectly comfortable here
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and life can go on here
for as long as you need it to,
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but at the same time, it would be
good to be living there.
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It would be. Yes. It would be great.
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It's hard to explain, really,
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the...the sort of dynamic
within the family.
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I mean, it's been happening
all their lives!
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So... So it's just... "Daddy's
building something on the hill,
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"and we're going to live in it
one day."
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So, money.
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Any left?
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Yes, a little bit left,
but we're eking it out.
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So are you still working full-time
on the project?
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Er, yes. Really, yes. So no income.
Yeah.
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But it's eking out
surprisingly well.
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To have made the money last so long
is surprising.
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But that's because Ed and Rowena
aren't like other self-builders,
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or other people, for that matter.
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I mean, on most projects,
there's insurance,
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there's some kind of welfare unit
for the builders
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and there's a site toilet to hire
and scaffolding and fencing,
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but here, there's none of that.
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They've got somewhere to live,
they're all happy.
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And the project actually benefits
from a slower approach
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because it allows Ed to solve
problems as he goes along.
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There is another way, isn't there,
in construction? And this is it.
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Let me take you back to 2013.
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At this point, the Waghorn family
have already
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been building their house
for a whopping six years.
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It's of a scale, scope,
design and schedule
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that very few would contemplate
attempting.
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A friend came round and said
he always describes it as,
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"Oh, he's building a cathedral."
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But the reason he said that
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was because cathedrals take
more than one generation to build.
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And I thought, oh, nice.
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LAUGHS
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One of the most daunting jobs,
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just because of its sheer scale,
is the roof.
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Ed has jettisoned thatch
in favour of long wooden shingles.
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He can make them himself,
shaping each one individually
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and overlaying them like tiles.
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Lovely,
but of course labour intensive.
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To shape the planks that will
fit around the dormer windows,
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Ed starts by steaming them,
eight at the time.
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Then they get very hot
and then the cells soften
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and that's when I can twist them.
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I did watch a YouTube video,
and you get sort of Americans
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in the middle of nowhere, you know,
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just saying,
you do this, you do that.
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And it's great.
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And so you can learn lots from that.
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There we are.
Whooph, and it's alight.
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So now we just leave it
for two and a half hours
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and then we take it out
and put it in the jig.
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The jig holds eight wooden tiles.
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And they stay clamped
for about three days.
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Ed will need 2,000 of them.
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Oh, this is beautiful!
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They look, from down there,
like super shingles
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and that's what they are - they're
an inch and a half thick, mind.
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I like the fact
that they're staggered.
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And these are made from what -
is this cedar?
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Yeah, Western red cedar.
Western red cedar.
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It's surprisingly soft,
but extraordinarily durable.
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You're fixing them to conventional
battens on cross-battens.
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It's quite tricky round the dormers.
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The cedar boards are in twists,
they have to be in twists,
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to get round the dormers.
Oh, Ed, this is beautiful!
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I'm looking at a piece
of finished building.
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We are, almost. And if there were
no scaffolding there,
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I'd imagine that this was all done.
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It's quite something.
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You're halfway there, aren't you?
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Maybe a third. Yeah, a third.
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It's just a matter of motoring on
and getting it done now.
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Just a matter of motoring on
and getting it done.
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Motoring at Ed's speed, of course.
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It's taken him three months
to cover a third of the roof.
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The floorboards are going down.
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Oh, right, these are the real...
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Yeah, these are floorboards.
Yeah. These are the ones.
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What are you insulating with?
It's cork.
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Oh, it's granulated cork. Yeah.
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It looks like rat droppings.
It's nice, though, isn't it?
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It's good stuff, isn't it? Yeah.
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It doesn't compact in the same way
that some materials do.
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And when it does, it springs back,
doesn't it, cork?
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Yeah, so if there's any spillage or
anything in the kitchen,
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it could get wet,
but it can dry out again.
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It can dry out. Nice.
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So, in terms of insulating,
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going into the building to keep you
warm, you've got this stuff,
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the cork underfloor, you've got this
stuff, that's newspaper, isn't it?
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Yes. I can tell because
something's been at it there.
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And you put that through a machine
and blow it in. Yeah.
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There's the machine. Oh, there's
the machine. Have you been blowing?
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We've already got
quite a lot on the back wall.
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On the back wall? For all
the wavy edge stuff, which I love,
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and it's brilliant at doing,
and it's exciting to see,
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I'm as excited by that back wall
insulation.
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Because that says to me -
properly-made, airtight building
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that's going to be insulated.
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Everything in this house has
Ed's fingerprints on it.
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From idea to execution.
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In every detail, from the building's
technology to its construction,
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this is one man's hand-made house,
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exemplified by the enormous
cathedral window.
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It took three years for Ed and
his part-time carpenter, Sylvain,
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to choose the right-shaped cruck
timbers and put them into place.
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OK, one, two, three.
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For Ed, so much of this project
has been about the pleasure
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of making a beautiful object,
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however long it takes.
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One, two, three.
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Ooh!
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This has taken rather a long time,
making this window.
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So I do believe in getting attached
to the materials we're working with,
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but perhaps not quite as attached
as we've had to,
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with this particular window.
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But it is a very important window.
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Oh, that was all right, wasn't it?
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What impresses me most
about this, Ed,
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is the symmetry of the window,
left to right.
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And I'm guessing you've done that
by splitting...
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Yeah, that's one tree
that grew that way
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and we've just sawn it
down the middle.
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But what's interesting is,
yeah, it grew that way,
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but it sort of fits in an almost
perfect parabolic shape.
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It's now almost seven years
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since I first met Ed and Rowena.
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Inside the house,
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Ed's divided the vast interior
into recognisable rooms.
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And upstairs, the partition walls
are plastered
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to make three spacious, very
longed-for bedrooms for the girls.
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True to form,
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Ed can't resist spending weeks
on the smallest of details.
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This is a stand for a basin.
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So the basin is upside down
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and I'm building the stand...
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the wrong way up.
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And the stand is made of
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loads of little bits of off-cut
off the floorboards.
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I'm building it like this in little
chunks and that will taper up
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and then I'll sand
the whole thing off.
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I probably could have bought in some
sort of base for that basin as well.
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But, for me,
that would have been a bit boring.
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Everything is hand made,
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Ed made...
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and nothing goes to waste.
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A commendable principle
that extends to every corner
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of Ed and Rowena's lives here.
328
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Ed is very much
the builder and the house.
329
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And mine is very much more
the land and the animals.
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There's a daily routine.
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There's a weekly routine.
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There's a seasonal routine.
And we live by it.
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Choosing to live like this
slows down the pace of everything,
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including the project,
335
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as Ed continues to craft
every element from scratch.
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It's the collar that goes
around the top of the post
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just before the sort of petals,
as I call them.
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And it just needed something
to just stop before branching out.
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So that's all it is, really.
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It's like a little necklace, really,
that just makes the head better.
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Seven years since building began,
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the day I had doubted
would ever arrive
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finally does.
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The children are now teenagers,
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and the family are leaving their
old place and moving up the hill
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to the new house and doing it
their way - very, very slowly.
347
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I said I wanted a big kitchen,
a larder and a veranda.
348
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That was it,
that was my requirements.
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And I've got my big kitchen
and I will have a larder.
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And I will have a veranda...
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..when that end is done.
352
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There's still
a mountain of work for Ed to do,
353
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but mains electricity, solar panels
and water are now in place.
354
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The house is warm and the children
are getting used to the space.
355
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I've never had my own room,
356
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so I'm not having to share
with other people.
357
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Cos that's been quite annoying.
358
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A door would be nice,
a wall would also be nice,
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I'm missing a wall on one side.
360
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Yeah, I don't really mind.
361
00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,520
Now the girls have rooms,
they want to paint them.
362
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They're used to making
and doing things themselves,
363
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so they're mixing the paint
from raw pigment.
364
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That's nice. Is it a bit bathroomy?
365
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I think I should put a bit more
green in. A bit more green.
366
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,879
Shall I show you how to cut it
into the wood?
367
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So you just drag it with
the bristles pointing in towards
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the... OK, I'll try.
Then you can stroke out
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with the weight of paint behind it.
370
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I'll start off
doing it in the middle
371
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so there'll be too much to go on
the edge. Yeah, that's right, yes.
372
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So a bit close to that.
That's exactly it.
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You see how what a good line
you can get? Yeah.
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There's one very large wall that
needs more than a coat of paint.
375
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Yeah, that looks lovely.
376
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As you come in through the door
into the hall,
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you're presented with this wall.
378
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So it's a really important
wall in an important space.
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This space will be probably
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the most beautiful space
in the building.
381
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It's a lime render going on. So it
breathes nicely and it looks lovely.
382
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It looks soft, it almost looks like
a sort of porcelain as it goes on,
383
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but it'll dry much lighter.
384
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Over the next year, work progresses
at the usual slow and steady pace.
385
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But the meagre budget is
running out.
386
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And the bigger jobs,
like the floor and ceiling,
387
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can't be completed by Ed alone.
388
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:08,280
So, now we're at a point where we're
not finished on the main house,
389
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but this part
that we were living in,
390
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we need to make use of that,
we need to probably have people
391
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,399
come and stay and have people
pay us to come and stay
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cos we need to just raise
a bit of money
393
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to make the main house
moved on and completed.
394
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Ed can now only spend two days
a week on the new house.
395
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For the other five, he's here,
396
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,280
renovating the old one with the
same meticulous attention to detail.
397
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Concealed within this wall,
there's the chimney flue
398
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and this is the vent
from the bathroom.
399
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So I'm just making a little guard
to go on the end of the vent,
400
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so that little field mice
don't fall in.
401
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This is classic Ed, spending
precious time on the tiniest detail.
402
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,279
And now, with two projects
to see through,
403
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,239
I'm starting to think
that it's purely
404
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the pleasure he takes in building,
405
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:13,000
not the finishing,
that's driving Ed.
406
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,680
Ed and Rowena have now been living
in their new place for two years.
407
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I enjoy myself
so much on this project.
408
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,559
For once, I've found myself not
saying to the self-builder,
409
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"Hurry up, get on with it,
because life's about living
410
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"in a completed house
and enjoying what you've built."
411
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Here instead,
it's about something else.
412
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It's about finding
the pleasure in the making
413
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rather than in the having.
414
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Hello. Hello!
415
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How are you? Good. Very good to see
you both. You're cold.
416
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,439
Well, hello, Ed, how are you?
417
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,239
Good, yeah. Very good to see you.
418
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,639
I mean, look, it's been three years
since past I came.
419
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,640
So the house is still unfinished,
but you're here and happy, yeah?
420
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,159
Yeah. Using the space.
421
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,359
I know you've got great plans
for this space, haven't you? Yeah.
422
00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:14,279
We're going to have... The ceiling
is going to be going in.
423
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,479
That's going to be a domed,
vaulted ceiling, which is going to
424
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,039
be very beautiful.
How do you work out the design?
425
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,040
Is it all done with paper
and calculation, or is it...?
426
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,639
I can't imagine it's your way.
427
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,640
No, I'm just going to...tink it up.
What? What?!
428
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,480
Well, I've already experimented with
the idea with the chicken run.
429
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,719
It is basically a geodesic
dome principle.
430
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,999
Unlike the chicken run, which is
just, you know,
431
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,119
form follows function, at each
joint, there will have to be,
432
00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,120
like, a boss just to conceal or
detail that joint.
433
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,600
Just like in a piece of Medieval
fan tracery. Yeah, exactly, yeah.
434
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,479
But in a, sort of, woody more rustic
way. Obviously not quite as...
435
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,480
Yeah, you're obviously not expecting
to do heads of the saints, no. No.
436
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,960
No, that might take too long.
437
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,999
The ceiling may still be
a work in progress,
438
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000
but the staircase is a testament to
what Ed is capable of
439
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,799
and why it's worth
waiting for his magic touch.
440
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,679
Wow.
441
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,439
This is, em... This is spectacular.
442
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,679
It's unfinished,
but it's spectacular.
443
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,879
Presumably there'll be
plaster on this board, yeah?
444
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,519
And there might even be a handrail.
445
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,520
This is all beautifully knifed,
this is scraped. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
446
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,359
Drawn timber. Really exciting.
447
00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:44,079
That kind of spans contemporary
design,
448
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,679
craftsmanship, medieval design.
449
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,159
Everything - it just crosses
all of those boundaries.
450
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,199
Can we go up? Yeah, let's go. Yeah?
451
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,199
These are very generous
and beautiful. Is this oiled?
452
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,200
It must be. Is it?
It feels very silky underfoot. Yeah.
453
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,959
So where are we now? These must be
the girls' bedrooms. Right.
454
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,559
Robert's bedroom is where?
He's down there. Little stairs.
455
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,679
You're over there? Yeah.
We're in the middle.
456
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,680
So through the arch window.
Arch window.
457
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,359
Great.
458
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,879
Of course, it doesn't matter hugely
to Ed, Rowena or the kids
459
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,759
that doors are missing or
the plaster isn't finished.
460
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,319
This place is such a major
improvement on where
461
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,199
they were living,
with the added luxury of space.
462
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,639
The electrics aren't completely in
and all the switching
463
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,239
isn't completely where we'd want it.
464
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,919
The floors aren't all in
and we've had lots of fun doing
465
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,439
decorative things with the floors.
466
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,079
Forgive me for asking, I can't even
remember if there was a budget
467
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,359
for this project, whether or
not there was a kind of...
468
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:45,719
We played around with
it in the early days, didn't we?
469
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,119
It's probably still in budget.
470
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,799
So much of what's here isn't bought.
471
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,679
It is just made out of what's
here... Yes, exactly.
472
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,319
..or what you've found or scavenged
or bought in such a raw
473
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,320
state that it was pence, as it were.
474
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:02,799
Is that still the case?
475
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,800
Are you still able to
get your chestnut cheap? Yeah.
476
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,999
Actually,
this chestnut was firewood grade,
477
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,759
but I just selected out the bits
that were useful.
478
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,839
Just picking out he nice bits.
479
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,559
So that's how it is.
480
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,399
The doors for the girls' bedrooms,
which I am now...
481
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,999
They're starting to happen.
That's off-cuts from the roof.
482
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,719
I just hang on to all the bits
and pieces
483
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,199
and they just come in for something.
484
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,519
The smallest cut offs
go in the wood burner, presumably.
485
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,520
They have to be very small.
486
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,319
Doors have been low down on Ed's
list of priorities,
487
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:40,839
but he's finally made one.
488
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,239
It's for Manie's room.
489
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,359
I've lived without a bedroom
door for so long.
490
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,159
Now, obviously,
a bedroom door is going to be nice.
491
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,239
The first thing is
we bang these two bits in.
492
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,240
Bits in? The hinges.
Can I see these?
493
00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:01,120
These you've made. This is a split
pin, rather like a clothes peg.
494
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,039
Once it's in, we bang a wedge in.
495
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,599
Wedge in the top, then it can't come
back out again.
496
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,159
Exactly. Have you got a mallet,
then? I have a mallet, yes. Good.
497
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,160
In fact, I think
I'll probably use a hammer.
498
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,760
May I? Thank you.
499
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,160
So now we slide the other
parts of the hinge into the door.
500
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,839
That's in. Wow.
It's really elegant, that dovetail.
501
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,840
So now we lift this up.
Drop the pins in. Exactly. Yeah.
502
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,239
That's it.
503
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,240
So that now, in theory,
should just open and swing.
504
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,799
There we are.
505
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,800
Door. Lovely.
506
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,839
Across ten years of building
and making,
507
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,359
Ed has tenaciously held on to
his vision for the most dramatic
508
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:04,439
space in the house,
the double-height living room,
509
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,279
to be crowned with a vaulted
ceiling,
510
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,879
first trialled in his chicken run.
511
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,639
I'm not quite sure where the
idea for this came from.
512
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,599
I just can't resist experimenting
with pretty well everything.
513
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,039
That's sort of my nature. I think
it's going to work brilliantly here.
514
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,919
The panels are obviously
plastered in.
515
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,920
But I think it's going to be really,
really exciting.
516
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,879
Ed's crafting a hand-worked
lattice across the ceiling
517
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,880
from very low-grade chestnut.
518
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,159
It's fantastically cheap.
I mean, it's firewood, effectively.
519
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,160
Then split down the grain and it
splits in whatever way it sees fit.
520
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,239
All that grain is intact.
521
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,119
It's very strong and obviously very
lovely and very shapely.
522
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,319
Quite difficult to fit,
523
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,320
but it is a lovely looking thing
when it's done, you know.
524
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,360
I reckon, on a good day,
I can maybe fit eight of these.
525
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,879
There's 40 pieces in each quarter.
526
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,599
So that's five days.
527
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,599
That's on a good day.
528
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,600
So, um, I reckon it may be
taking about a week, I suppose,
529
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,439
to get all the pieces into one
quarter.
530
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,440
So once I have this lattice
completely in place,
531
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,119
I'll then roll out a reed
mat on top of the lattice,
532
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,039
and then plaster the little
sections between the chestnut.
533
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,199
Then that will obviously be
beautifully painted.
534
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,799
It's going to actually just
completely make the space.
535
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,399
To complement the ceiling of almost
gothic complexity,
536
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,599
Ed plans a robust medieval
floor here.
537
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,799
We're planning on doing
a rammed earth floor.
538
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,800
So that's just earth from outside
with some gritty material
539
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,799
laid in and rammed, and oils.
540
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,959
It's a lovely, lovely finish.
541
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,559
There's one area of floor that will
receive a more lavish treatment -
542
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,679
the triangular
section at the centre of the house.
543
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,439
Thank you.
544
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,119
OK. That's for the centre, actually.
545
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,359
These stones are just...
546
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,359
It's just bits of slab that have
come out of a hill.
547
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,360
They all have to be cut to
fit into my puzzle.
548
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,920
My brother Will is out there
cutting the stones for me to place.
549
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,599
It is a local sandstone, but quite
a good, solid one, which is
550
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,319
quite good for a floor.
551
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,879
It made sense to do it life-size,
full-scale,
552
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,319
rather than just with little
bits of paper or with drawings.
553
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,159
I'd have just got through
loads of paper.
554
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,159
I wouldn't have ever quite seen how
it was going to look.
555
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,119
With this level of craftsmanship,
556
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,120
it's no surprise it's taken ten
years to get to this point.
557
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,999
As the house has grown up,
so too have the family.
558
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,919
They've all caught Ed's
bug for making things.
559
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,799
Dad's asked me to make these light
surrounds
560
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,999
aesthetically more pleasing.
561
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,639
I've made them out of stonework and
clay, then he sort of set me
562
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,640
free with the designs that
I choose to put on them.
563
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,919
As he renovates their old place,
564
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,399
Ed is even reinventing
the humble light switch.
565
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,239
Where we used to live,
that's turning into a great place to
566
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:27,240
trial some of these ideas
that are perhaps more experimental.
567
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,559
One of the things that I'm working
on at the moment is switching
568
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,519
all the lightings on pulley systems.
569
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,520
This is the rope that
operates the switch.
570
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,200
So basically I tie that off in the
right place. It's the switch.
571
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,039
That's on, that's off.
572
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,040
It's just the joy of having the rope
running round and everything.
573
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,999
This action is transferred
through the rope,
574
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,879
through to the switch over there,
and then the cable to the
575
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,679
light comes off that and goes to the
light. It's all very visual.
576
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,680
It's all very visual
and all very experiential.
577
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,119
I'm not sure I dare say it,
578
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:19,120
but it almost feels like the end
is in sight.
579
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,999
Ed's now finishing
the ceiling of the new house.
580
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,799
Given the scale
and difficulty of plastering it,
581
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,359
he's brought in a master of the art,
Jonathan Gilbert.
582
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,239
It's been a challenge, because it's
all different shapes within
583
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,119
one panel, which means you can't...
584
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,759
I mean, Jonathan would just love to
get his trowel and just smooth
585
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,599
the whole thing off with a trowel
like a plasterer would normally do.
586
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,719
We can't do that.
587
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,479
We have to actually work in to all
the shapes that the curve is
588
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,359
presenting, which is challenging.
But it's fine.
589
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,719
We've managed to get a finish that
we're happy with.
590
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,279
For a decade of building,
I've watched this family grow up
591
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,319
and flourish alongside this project.
592
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,399
I now have one more visit to
make to mark what
593
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,399
I hope is the culmination of
Ed and Rowena's long,
594
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,119
epic journey through a world of
craftsmanship
595
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,159
to their final destination -
596
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:19,000
a beautiful, permanent home.
597
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,119
It's over ten years
since I first met
598
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,439
Ed and Rowena on their
Herefordshire hillside,
599
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,440
now marked by
a very substantial house.
600
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,599
Well...
601
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,600
It is so gratifying to see what
looks like a finished house.
602
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,840
It's sort of like something
from a fairy tale, this building.
603
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,999
Mrs Tiggy Winkle's mansion.
604
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000
The woodcutter's stately home.
605
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,039
Now, that is a surprise.
606
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,999
I don't know if you remember,
607
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,879
but the dugout where they lived
had no roof on it to speak of.
608
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,839
Now look at it, it's manicured,
it's beautiful.
609
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,840
It sort of promises great things
up the hill, doesn't it?
610
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,919
It now commands the hillside,
611
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,999
and at the same time looks
as if it's been here for ever.
612
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,000
And so far, it's all
looking beautifully spruce.
613
00:34:44,720 --> 00:34:48,079
That looks like
a door within a door,
614
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,719
in the finest
tradition of medieval castles.
615
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:54,559
Inside a frame, which is inside a
window, which is inside the opening.
616
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,439
It's magnificent, isn't it?
617
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,039
How do you get in?
618
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,919
Hello! Hello!
619
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,119
Hello! Hello!
620
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,159
How are you? Good.
621
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,679
Very good to see you both! Good to
see you. It's lovely to see you too.
622
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,199
Thank you, it's great to be here.
How's your house? It's coming on.
623
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,200
I can sort of begin to see.
Come on in. Can I? Yes, thank you.
624
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,480
Straight off the entrance
is the great hall.
625
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,239
The experience of the ground floor
626
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:29,119
is now a seamless juxtaposition
of hall and kitchen.
627
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,519
Oh!
628
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,239
HE CHUCKLES
629
00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:34,999
How extraordinary.
630
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,199
It's glorious, Ed.
631
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,359
The most striking thing is
the great hall's vaulted ceiling.
632
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,559
At six metres,
633
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,399
a real crowning glory.
634
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,959
Without doubt,
technically accomplished
635
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,519
and visually remarkable.
636
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,799
And unequalled on the planet.
637
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,800
Every joint is
covered by a little boss,
638
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,479
but the boss is like a timber rope.
639
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,079
Yes. We thought
they looked like ribbons.
640
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:03,879
I'm overwhelmed by this.
641
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,679
I've never
been in a building like it.
642
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,079
I don't think another
building like this exists.
643
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,719
I don't think so, Kevin, no.
644
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,959
Is it like roof structures
should be, is it stronger?
645
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,599
It's really robust actually.
It's really robust. Remarkable.
646
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,359
Yes, so that's encouraging.
The window.
647
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,360
The window I always admired seems
completely right and appropriate.
648
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,880
Before, the inside was quite chaotic
and darker, so you were kind
649
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,440
of drawn to this as sort of relief,
but now it's a proper fourth wall.
650
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,799
The main window is another wonderful
piece of handcrafted joinery,
651
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,800
built on the same scale
as the tree it came from.
652
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,879
The big window is part of that
big statement. The big room.
653
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,880
There's something gorgeous about its
proportions, and its grand scale.
654
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,399
I'm clutching onto medieval fan
vaulting, but frankly it seems...
655
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,319
I suppose with those grander
buildings, they always had
656
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,559
the best materials and the most
perfect timbers and stones.
657
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,560
We've created those forms
with the poorest materials.
658
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,719
But equal levels of craftsmanship.
I suppose.
659
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:14,399
It's a different craft, isn't it?
660
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,319
What they were doing
was very beautiful,
661
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,320
and they were very skilled,
but this is a different craft.
662
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:26,240
Despite the baronial scale,
this building still feels domestic,
663
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,839
thanks, I think,
to its wibbly handmade nature.
664
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,399
Although it still needs
665
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,639
to be honoured with some crafted
wibbly Ed-made furniture.
666
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,039
It's hard to know how to furnish
a space, so we thought...
667
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,839
Yes, I can see that!
668
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,879
It sort of suggests though, Ed,
that the next and final
669
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,199
remaining thing for you to do
is to make some...
670
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,239
I can't wait. I can't wait!
671
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:51,399
Yes, we're all waiting for that.
672
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,400
It needs big chic sofas. He's
got some really interesting designs.
673
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,439
We're now getting to that point,
which is good. Yes.
674
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,399
I didn't think
you would pull this off.
675
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,400
Ye of little faith!
676
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,480
So, this floor, which wasn't here,
this is earth, is that right?
677
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,239
Yes. It is.
678
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:15,240
The pressed earth floor comprises
sand, straw and clay, dug up from
679
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,360
the nearby fields, with a hardening
topcoat of linseed oil and beeswax.
680
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Underfloor heated. Yes.
And these are your stones.
681
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,399
I view it as sort of the centre of
the building. It has a different...
682
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,279
Such a very rigid
and demanding quality,
683
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,879
compared to the wandering nature
of the split chestnut. Yes.
684
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,919
If you look at the colours
of the stones...
685
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,639
And then you look outside,
it's all in keeping.
686
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,640
More coherent as a result. Yes. And
the kitchen, too, is lovely, homely.
687
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,559
Wood burner, and a post.
688
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,560
Although the post itself
is very, very unusual, Ed. Yes.
689
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,319
It started out as one thing?
690
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,320
Yes, that is one tree, but it
has been split, cleft, exactly.
691
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:06,159
The trunk was split into four,
and then clamped back together.
692
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,839
An engineering experiment,
open and seemingly light,
693
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,039
but strong enough
to support the floor above.
694
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,639
What I really like about it
is that it has this space.
695
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,640
You see through it. So it suddenly
isn't this sort of lump.
696
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,279
What's this?
697
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,759
That's our calendar. Turn it from
the top. We just keep adding to it.
698
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,239
And it goes both ways?
699
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:28,759
Yes, well it's a prototype, Kevin,
700
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,479
but I would like to have one that
you could wind from just one end,
701
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,039
but you have to change the handle,
702
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,519
so you keep winding it
and you will see history.
703
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,520
If I wind back 10 years,
perhaps I will see a slab.
704
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,519
It's wonderful.
705
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,239
Other people buy a small book
in which to write things,
706
00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:50,240
but I like that. It's analogue.
707
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,319
Ed's wild designs
are practical, too.
708
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,439
He made the worktops from sycamore,
709
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,559
a wood with supposedly
antibacterial qualities.
710
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,439
The supports are
the familiar split chestnut.
711
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,599
Having a circular counter...
If you come this way, walk round it
712
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,839
and you just follow it round,
there is no hard...
713
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,199
To the sink to do the washing up!
You can do that later!
714
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:17,039
But the sink itself is also curved.
That follows the same curve.
715
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,039
That's not a common thing, is it?
716
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,759
A great big Belfast sink
with a curved edge to it.
717
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,119
No, it is unusual.
718
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,519
The stove, though, a more familiar
rectangular shape. That's kind of...
719
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:27,959
That looks very new.
720
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,279
A family that we've known for
many, many years make those stoves.
721
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,239
Seriously? I love that the one thing
you buy that's new in the house,
722
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:35,399
the one bit of bling,
723
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,639
still actually has a very
strong personal connection.
724
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,679
It's great. It's great.
725
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,680
Not everything, though,
has the same degree of finish.
726
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:48,079
What's behind the door?, That's
the... That's the sitting room.
727
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,639
That's the sitting room in there,
Kevin.
728
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,640
But at the moment,
it is the workshop. Yes, I see.
729
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,799
That's not a sitting room,
that's a spares store.
730
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,399
All the little bits
that didn't quite make it.
731
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,400
Every bit of the house
is sort of here, almost.
732
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,520
You never know when it might come
in useful though. That's your motto.
733
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,479
When I was last here, this was
as it is - beautiful.
734
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,639
But this is... Actually,
this is very different up here.
735
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,640
Flooring is down. The balcony is in.
736
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,959
This is quite...
737
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,960
This is quite a special moment,
isn't it, in the building, this?
738
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,639
So we now see almost entirely land,
a little sky.
739
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,999
As opposed to...
740
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,839
Actually, probably three quarters
sky and a little sliver of land.
741
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,840
I noticed that.
That's a very interesting change.
742
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,759
Tell me, up here,
how many have you got -
743
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,839
one, two, three bedrooms there?
744
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,239
Three. And the bathroom.
745
00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:00,119
Two that side. Five.
746
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,519
My question here is,
you've been building for ten years,
747
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,119
you started building when they were
kids and they're now...
748
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,239
The youngest is 17.
749
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,919
So it's not long before you find
yourselves with quite
750
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,439
a lot of empty bedrooms quite
a lot of the time.
751
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,519
Has this happened too late?
752
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,520
No. It's hard to, sort of...
753
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,519
..talk about that concept of,
754
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,199
"Oh, you've built your house and
they've all left."
755
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,799
It doesn't really matter, does it?
756
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,999
The experience of them growing up
757
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,279
and it all happening around them
I think is incredibly valuable.
758
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,239
Can you see a time
when one of them moves in here
759
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:35,039
and you're down in the...?
Absolutely.
760
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,959
I mean, there's no reason why
we should be hanging around in here
761
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,439
if they have families,
or a few of them. Whatever.
762
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,439
I think the future just takes
care of itself.
763
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,440
Things that'll happen...
We don't fret about that, do we?
764
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,320
So all this time, Ed has, it seems,
been building an adaptable home
765
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,319
to suit the family both now and down
through the generations.
766
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,320
That long view, taking time to
think, has defined this project.
767
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,160
This house is more than a home.
They want it to be their legacy.
768
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,239
At this point, I normally ask people
how much they've spent
769
00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:15,199
and how long it took, but I have the
feeling you have the right
770
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,399
to tick the "not applicable" box
in this case.
771
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,479
Although you did start by saying,
772
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,239
"We think we have about ?100,000 to
spend on this."
773
00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:25,119
Do you have a notion of how
much you have spent?
774
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,199
To be honest with you,
775
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,639
we've never actually just gone
through counting it up.
776
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,039
We tend to spend
when we can afford it.
777
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,439
So this is living within your means.
Yes. It is, yes.
778
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,319
That does mean it takes longer,
779
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,959
but it means that it feels
comfortable, what we're doing.
780
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,639
It's not scary.
781
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,999
So you spent, obviously,
the original 100,000.
782
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,839
That's gone, presumably.
Yeah. Yeah.
783
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,359
You spent money from income,
784
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,360
but how have you earned the income
looking after pigs?
785
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,919
Well, I do get little jobs here
and there.
786
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,919
I designed things for people
along the way, so that's helpful.
787
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,639
So what happens now to the dugout?
Does it get rented out or what?
788
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,799
Yeah. We would really like people to
be able to come
789
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:07,759
and experience how it is to be here.
790
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,039
I think it would be really
fun to share that with people.
791
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,559
In the meantime, the small holding
continues to feed you. Yes.
792
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,560
We don't... We're not big spenders.
No, I guessed that.
793
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,479
In fact, the house is furnished
794
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,480
and decorated with the work of both
family and friends, in keeping with
795
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,880
their passion for keeping things
personal, hand-crafted and slow.
796
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:40,200
Rowena, what sacrifices, if any,
have you made in the past ten years?
797
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,359
What do you miss?
Oh, I don't miss anything.
798
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,439
That's a good answer, isn't it?
799
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,199
What is there to miss?
800
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,479
Holidays.
801
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,319
We've got animals.
802
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,320
We're tied because of a lifestyle
that we've chosen.
803
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,839
So it's not a tie, then?
No. We're not tied, it's a choice.
804
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,679
We don't really have that
yearning to get away.
805
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,999
Yearning to stay!
806
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,759
I feel pretty happy with things.
807
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,719
Yeah, I feel pretty happy
with things.
808
00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:11,759
Has the building shaped and
changed you?
809
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,159
Has it changed your family?
810
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,239
Has it changed the dynamic between
you and the kids
811
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:16,359
since you moved here?
812
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,959
It's bound to has changed us,
isn't it?
813
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,079
But you want to know how,
and I don't know how.
814
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,079
You tell me.
815
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,080
Like everything, it's happened
slowly and you haven't noticed.
816
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,920
I supposed timing-wise, moving into
here from the dugout, it was timely,
817
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,919
because they were getting to an age
where they needed their own space.
818
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,920
From each other and from us,
and vice versa. So that was great.
819
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,440
Moving up here and there being space
was very exciting for everybody.
820
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,639
I was going to ask you what happens
when the project's finished,
821
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:49,799
but first of all,
822
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,719
I don't think it's going to be ever
completely finished. Secondly...
823
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:56,720
What's the confines of the project
as well? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
824
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,599
It's the grand universal
project of life, isn't it?
825
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,600
Maybe it is, yeah.
826
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,759
I had wondered,
over the past decade,
827
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,239
whether this project would
ever finish,
828
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:18,240
but now I realise that Ed and Rowena
have never really wanted it to,
829
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,079
never really intended it to end.
830
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:27,080
After all, why,
when life itself is defined by,
831
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,760
bound up with the ideas
of craftsmanship and utility,
832
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,520
by the acts of making and doing,
why would you want it to ever end?
833
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,600
You know, it's lessons like that
that, over the past ten years,
834
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,840
have made it such a privilege to
follow this project.
835
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,400
Come on. Come on.
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