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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. The lodge is listed; he is building just next to a burial ground; the cemetery itself is a sensitive place for a huge-scale building project to take place, and requires special permits for the necessary machinery. But Justin and the workers persevered and pulled it off four years after beginning the build, despite going over his budget. Each email has a link to unsubscribe. Grand Designs Kevin McCloud has joked hes got quite good at being rude to people approaching him in the street. Were having to deal with the real-time issues that people are encountering and that makes all of the stories a little rawer. 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. He raised the first part through savings and a loan from his mother; the second part is from a labyrinthine tangle of mortgages that I failed to understand. If he worried that he may find himself staring down a catastrophic financial black hole in 2016, well, wait and see what happens when the pandemic rolls around. Appearing on Channel 4's Grand Designs, dad-of-one Justin revealed his plans to transform the derelict land. The house is in a graveyard on a busy London road but this room is so peaceful. Former army captain Justin, who now runs extreme fishing expeditions, decides to do something really off the beaten track, converting the original neo-Gothic lodge and derelict public toilet next door into a dramatic modern home within the cemetery gates which are locked at night. He hails from an aristocratic Scottish family who can trace their lineage directly back to Mary Queen of Scots yes, he is one of those Stuarts and he grew up in a 1,000-year-old grand house ('so I'm used to living in old buildings') and estate in Peeblesshire. 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. So, to have the leaf motif and the blue greens running throughout the rooms creates a cohesive look throughout the house. Image: Jefferson Smith, I was lucky in that I came on board at the very beginning. 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. get a bigger potential return on my investment. The work was painstakingly slow as well as costly. He also rents out the house in Mustique (about 10,000 a week in high season), which he also rebuilt from scratch. It is a fascinating insight into the strange economics of the aristocracy. A series of gardens around an innovative property in Fulham Cemetery - the house is soon to be featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs. We did not have to buy a single bit of meat for five months,' he roars. rand Designs returns to our screens tonight for its 21st series just as we need it most. And replacing the 1960s block with an extension for Justins ground-floor living spaces. These include a kitchen/dining area, snug, living room, and a basement with a subterranean swimming pool. The final bill for the five-bedroom home, designed by architect Simon Gill, was 4.2 million, making it one of the most expensive projects in Grand Designs' two-decade history. The neo-Gothic house will have a moat and a chainmail water feature. When he said he had 60% in savings. As well as the initial purchase, Maxwell Stuart has estimated that the work will cost an additional 1.6m. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The original scheme didnt make the most of the possibilities, says Simon. Im quite bad walking down the street now. I just imagined the show would slip onto daytime TV with no fuss, but the opposite has happened. As we were already halfway there, I decided we should go ahead because space is money, especially in London. 'I know!' Jeremy Clarkson shuts down claim hes been sacked from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? You can opt-out at any time by signing in to your account to manage your preferences. Theres a need to bring a house together with an overarching view. 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,. Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations. However, work on building the house, which initially costs 1.6 million, was halted due to finances, before the coronavirus pandemic intervened. Died on 29 Jul 1969. 2023 Grand Designs Magazine | Site by Media 10 Ltd, Image: Justins bedroom is tucked under the exposed roof timbers on the upper floor of the lodge. Justin Maxwell-Stuart, 50, from London, appeared on Grand Designs with to transform cemetery lodge Father-of-one wanted to transform abandoned, derelict house into a family home for 1.6. Grand Designs houses Interior design secrets of the Grand Designs cemetery house The interior designer of this stunning home describes how she created the luxurious interiors By Hugh Metcalf | 18 January 2021 Perfectly polished and fully furnished interiors are not always a given during the final reveal of a Grand Designs episode. He is full of surprises and has lived a life that has included three tours of duty in Northern Ireland, one in Iraq and running a salmon fly-tying business in Thailand. 'My publicity estimate was way lower than what transpired but I have had the most marvellous experience. 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Thrust inside once again, those of us who are finding our homes less than ideal can take comfort in the trials of the foolhardy self-builders who were unlucky enough to come up against a global pandemic, alongside the issues of budget and marital dis-harmony were used to enjoying on the Channel 4 show. 'Jan, you won't be expected to wrestle with grizzly bears every morning,' he says, and I worry that we are digressing too far, but there is no stopping him now. Find out more about how we use your information in our privacy policy and cookie policy. Despite being in a "bit of a shock" at the overall cost of the project, Justin plowed on with plans. Theres beautiful green space just outside, so this is definitely my favourite space. ", And another wrote: "I rarely post on here now as whatever I think [there are] always people with opposing and genuine views but #GrandDesigns wtf is a single parent spending millions on a ridiculously huge house. 'Inside was a giant oyster shell I recovered from the Seychelles, and inside was the ring,' he says. 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. 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. It was a chaotic period in my life, I signed my divorce papers and the contract for the house practically on the same day. Fans of the show headed to Twitter to give their. Appearing on Channel 4's Grand Designs, dad-of-one Justin revealed his plans to transform the derelict land. 22:38 GMT 15 Jan 2021 With many in debt, loosing their jobs and homes, struggling to feed their kids; GD show some numpty millionaire spending nearly 4 mill on a cemetery lodge. Justin called on interior designer Gretchen Trusted. The controversial Chesil Cliff House at Croyde - which is. But Justin Maxwell Stuarts big budget cemetery wardens lodge renovation was a notable exception. Meanwhile, on the night they moved into The Lodge back in November, Justin asked Hideko to marry him. 22:38 GMT 15 Jan 2021. That was mad, beautiful and very, very funny. Don't stint on the cushions, Morag! Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud observed one of the most unique builds in the history of the show on Wednesday evening, which saw a 4.5m house go up in a south-west London graveyard. The basement den is a cosy space to watch TV and drink cocktails. Ive never built a pool in a cemetery before, says one builder. But, I have watched enough, The already-stretched budget was in jeopardy when the contractors began to dig beneath a section of the lodge ready for the pool installation. 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. Fans of the show headed to Twitter to give their. He wanted warmth and colour. You can download it on Android here and Apple here. Following our socially distanced chat under the exploding acorns in the kitchen, Justin takes me on a tour of The Lodge, which he plans to rent out on short-term Airbnb-type lets once the world is back to normal. 'After my fifth attempt to shove some peanuts down her throat, she said: "Thank you very much, dear boy. '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. Grand Designs continues on Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 4. However, Justin is seen struggling to keep his budget under control, and later says he is staring down a catastrophic financial black hole. Justin then plans to replace the adjoining blocks with a huge luxury extension on its ground floor, with a basement swimming pool and moat. I now own a house in London thats steeped in history and has 13 acres of green space around it, he said. A third also added: "Possibly the greatest #GrandDesigns ever. Surely nobody would build on such a place, out of respect, for fear of desecration, says McCloud, hamming up the potential for gothic drama. Justin has forked out 1.8million and counting on the neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge, as . Get involved in exciting, inspiring conversations with other readers. Meanwhile, Grand Designs Kevin McCloud recently joked hes got quite good at being rude to people approaching him in the street. Aspiring self-builders rejoice Kevin McCloud is back on our screens with a new set of extraordinary new homes to ogle. Visit www.f. It took months, a metre at a time, but it has added a huge amount of value to the property, said Simon. 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. The stone is a defining part of the build and despite the massive price tag, it was crucial as it would marry both parts together., Dark wood cabinets run from the kitchen into the dining area. Watch Grand Designs - January 2021 Series . 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. Cant wait for the new series of @granddesigns @Kevin_McCloud. With a comprehensive slate of services under a single roof, The LA Group minimizes impact, maximizes value, and ensures every project begins and ends on solid ground. This show refuses to be coy about money, which is a significant reason for its success. One thing that ties all these projects together has been the extraordinary dedication of the people involved, he says. From Kanazawa in Japan, Hideko moved to the UK and has worked for Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal, running the latter's celebrated experimental kitchen. Grand Designs returns this week with Kevin following a huge new project by army captain Justin, who has forked out 1.8million on his new home. "Worst case scenario is we find one of Henry VIII's wives.". Every time I walk out that gate someone says hello or asks me how Thunder is. This suggests he is more hard-nosed property developer than the wide-eyed dreamer who insists a home isn't really a home unless it has a moat. 'Not our thing,' said Justin's father, who tended to avoid celebrities and 'didn't fancy getting dressed up in gold Lycra anyway'. It wasn't just that his development was situated inside a West London cemetery, cheek-by-trowel with tombstones and crypts. Born in 1951. 'Have I made a terrible mistake?' But it appeared to. Justin, who is related to Mary Queen of Scots, drew inspiration from his family's 50-room mansion, Traquair House, which is Scotland's oldest inhabited house. Let us know in the comments below. He said: "I don't think of them as my dead neighbours, they're just my neighbours. Instead, says McCloud, the projects that managed to complete in 2020 are those where people have been able to find ingenious solutions to the global problem of coronavirus. The trick of this whole series, though, is that, despite yourself, you mostly end up hoping it will happen, and rooting for the person who has dared to take on such a task, who has dared to assume that they can do it quickly and relatively cheaply, and who might just, thanks to the absolute dedication of the workers they employ, pull it off. Where is cemetery house in Grand Designs? Grand Designs returns! The blind is in Rolling Hills fabric and teamed with blue hexagonal tiles. Each space benefits from an open terrace onto the cemetery and its wooded landscape, with the upper level terrace facing south with views through the treetops to the City skyline. The issues facing Maxwell Stuart are floodlit from the very start. I wouldget a bigger potential return on my investment. The work was painstakingly slow as well as costly. On my own.'. 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. But, I have watched enough episodes of Grand Designs to know this might not have worked. A 4.5m 'Gothic' house built in the grounds of a Victorian graveyard and featured on Grand Designs is causing quite the buzz on social media. I would watch a compilation of Kevin McClouds attempts to suppress any sort of facial response to the wildly gung-ho plans and financial implications laid out every few minutes. The story of the Prendergast Mansion begins with the history of James Prendergast, founder of Jamestown, and how he came to settle here. he would ask himself in the dead of night. Open the doors to the courtyard and doors and the sunshine pours in. Grand Designs Show Summary Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud. But I've had enough peanuts and I don't even like peanuts anyway." One hell of a house but with one hell of a price tag as well. 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. into a majestic modern home with a mega man-cave playboy basement, complete with outdoor moat, indoor chainmail waterfall, subterranean swimming pool, wine cellar and all mod cons including underfloor heating and a pair of forged steel chandeliers shaped like bursting seed pods. '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. And she cooked it all superbly. After dinner they had a cocktail in the downstairs bar and he gave Hideko a key to the safe he'd built into one of the York stone walls. The ground floor living room is so fabulous. 'We don't like to promote ourselves. 'I did think about proposing to her actually on Grand Designs,' he says. To decorate and furnish a house that had two distinct sections the new wing with open spaces and the smaller lodge with original features. The blue tones and natural light make it calm and serene. The worksurfaces are Dekton Opera, a composite that looks like marble. Work was also forced to stop for a full three months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Be Covid compliant. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. I think it would be fair to say that he had grave misgivings about the whole thing. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. He wants to restore the lodge and demolish the toilet blocks. 'When the for sale sign went up on The Lodge, I pounced. 2023 Grand Designs Magazine | Site by Media 10 Ltd, Simon proposed renovating the lodge, deemed a Building of Merit, to give two bedrooms and a study. By We have Covid compliance officers with us at all times, checking out here, making sure we are all being good.. Left to my own devices, I would probably have built the extension in a gothic style. No, he was worried about something else, something much closer to home. Theyre not smaller in terms of vision at all because weve got some really exciting stuff but theyre not the really big almost commercially run things that we sometimes feature.. Grand Designs houses Graveyard lodge renovation A spacious extension replaced a 1960s building adjacent to the Victorian lodge By Hugh Metcalf | 5 January 2021 Ex-army officer Justin Maxwell Stuart was at a crossroads in his life when he spotted a run down cemetery lodge for sale. 'One bit of a wife of Henry VIII and it would have been curtains,' is how he puts it. Gretchen Trusted of Shake the Sky, is responsible for the stunning scheme. 'Oh, the thrill of catching a salmon,' he continues, cradling an imaginary one in his arms. But fans were beyond impressed with the outcome as one said: "Bloody love #GrandDesigns and what an episode to start the new series. Justin and I spent some time discussing ways to inject warmth into these new spaces where. Enter your password to log in. "And come the witching hour, when they close the gates to the cemetery then it really is my area. He clears his throat. Ex-army captain Justin has a dream of transforming a home which is surrounded by graves, and loves the south west London cemetery lodge. But soon after he started the project in October 2016, he ran into difficulties, with one of the most challenging being getting planning permission to build an entrance to the graveyard from his garden. Memory Gardens Cemetery and Memorial Park 983 Watervliet-Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12205 USA, Phone: 518-869-9506, Fax: 518-869-0818 We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Memory Gardens Cemetery and Memorial Park 983 Watervliet-Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12205 USA, Phone: 518-869-9506, Fax: 518-869-0818 The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way. A trip to Maxwell Stuarts 900-year-old ancestral home on the Scottish borders reveals why his ambitions are so grand. People have had to build during alongside or either side of the lockdowns so thats meant that this year we havent got many of the larger projects, the ones with dozens of contractors crawling all over the site, because theyre the ones that have been really heavily delayed by Covid. Open the ground-floor terrace doors, and you can reach out and touch. Channel 4's Grand Designs saw father-of-one Justin attempt to transform an idyllic Neo-Gothic building located in a cemetery into his dream home.On the show, Justin revealed his desire to . Grand Designs 2021: inside the new homes on the C4 series, You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number, I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from Evening Standard. 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. The project took four years and cost a whopping 4.5 million - a sum that Justin admits he wouldn't have paid had he have known at the start. Picture: Channel 4. The TV presenter, 61, is in the vulnerable category amid the pandemic, so as a result needs to be extra careful when around other people and keep a distance at all times. "I just know there's going to be a balancing equation between selling this and a larger mortgage and working harder.". 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