Monday, October 09, 2006

Grand Designs on your bank balance

On Saturday, Ben, Mike, Paul and myself went to Birmingham to the NEC to see Grand Designs Live. A spin off from the "popular Channel 4 show" Grand designs. http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/grand-designs/index.html
Basically we paid £12.00 (+ booking fee) to visit an aircraft hanger where people tried tomake us buy things for home and garden. I'm selling this well aren't I? :)

There were some fantastic design ideas, usually at astronomical prices, and some down right daft ones...
The office in a bag .. the office, ceiling, walls, lights and seating were all inflatable and so would roll up into a bag for transportation..... Here we see Ben, taking the weight off his wallet.










A company who made designer radiators.... you could tell what this was meant to be even before you read the name to the side of it. In case you can't make it out.. the name says "Madonna". well an interesting place to dry your bath towel I guess :)





It was an interesting and enjoyable day, but I didn't buy anything. Mainly because I may have needed to re-mortgage my house in order to afford something :)

1 comment:

DanProject76 said...

That could be the gayest thing you've ever done...


Was it a double date road trip? :-)