Your Home Made Perfect
Picture this: you're standing in your all-too-familiar, far from perfect living room. But suddenly, the walls, furniture and everyday clutter all vanish, to be replaced by a radical reboot of your home. That open plan layout you've always struggled to visualise is made real. Your dream extension unfurls brick-by-brick before your eyes. You can even see how the sunlight will move around the space from daybreak to dusk. It's your home : but not as you've ever been able to imagine it. And all without a single skip, scaffold or spirit level. Angela Scanlon presents Your Home Made Perfect: the only home makeover series that allows people to try before they buy. Rival architects Laura Jane Clark and Robert Jamison use photo-real virtual reality technology and visual effects to pitch their dramatically different ideas to families who have fallen out of love with their homes. With sleep pods, garden temples, secret doors and indoor climbing walls in their back catalogue, what will Laura and Robert come up with next? In each episode, the homeowners must choose just one of the architect's ground- breaking visions to build in real life. Wiltshire couple Rachel and Mike, both teachers, thought they'd hit the jackpot when they found a reasonably priced, spacious home in which to raise their three children. It seemed full of potential : but it didn't take much experience actually living in the place to discover its flaws. With four bedrooms and a generous footprint, space isn't a problem. But the layout couldn't be worse. The previous owner ran a hair salon from the house, leaving Rachel and Mike with two front doors and a ground floor that feels like two separate homes. A previous extension to the back has left the kitchen marooned in the middle of the house, with no window on the outside world. The only dining space is in a poorly insulated conservatory that forces the kids to wrap themselves in blankets for winter breakfasts. With a relatively modest renovation budget and a sprawling property, Mike believes they need to focus their efforts on the entrance hall to sort out the confused circulation and make the house somewhere they want to come home to. But Rachel just wants somewhere for family and friends to cook, eat and socialise. The result? Stalemate: 'To avoid an argument, we're just not doing anything.' Enter architects Laura Jane Clark and Robert Jamison, who both pitch eye-opening solutions to the bizarre layout in virtual reality. Laura's unerring instinct for balancing beauty and practicality gives Mike the uplifting entrance he's been craving while also providing the family-friendly function Rachel's after. Meanwhile Robert takes a typically radical and counterintuitive approach to the problem, dreaming up a remodelled interior that actually reduces the floor area : but which he believes could change the way the family lives. Having had their breath taken away by the two virtual visions for their home, Rachel and Mike face a difficult decision : and then, the real work begins, as they set about building the winning design out of real bricks and mortar. Angela and the victorious architect return to Wiltshire to see the end result, to be confronted with a stunning transformation that renders the house practically unrecognisable. The unliveable layout has been swept away and replaced with a stunning contemporary living space. And having had a little help to realise its buried potential, Rachel and Mike are finally on the same page about their home.
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