Super-size my house
PASS Out rapper and singer Tinie Tempah seems to have successfully added documentary host to his impressive CV.
He has presented arts programme Extraordinary Portraits, motoring show Bangers: Mad for Cars, and now returns with a second run of this property series.
A property developer himself, he follows as brave homeowners build extraordinary extensions.
People make radical changes, sometimes gambling their life savings, but is it all worth it?
Travelling around the country, Tinie meets the people realising their dreams by expanding their homes upwards, downwards or outwards with jaw-dropping results.
From big budgets to ambitious architectural aims, we see miraculous, and sometimes emotional, stories of diverse designs coming to life.
This time, in Warwickshire,
Tinie follows a couple taking on a £1million retirement project of adding an underground swimming pool and spa extension to their curved mega home.
Tinie says: “When you reach the end of your working life and you have the time and hopefully the cash to put your feet up, you might actually think ‘Now what?’”
So John and Heather are supersizing instead of downsizing, but they face a battle with the property’s curves and the desire to somehow make it eco-friendly.
Tinie says: “People don’t have angles, so why do so many of us live in boxes? Curves are sexy, but they can make design and construction a total nightmare.”
On the lookout for inspiration, Tinie also visits two other super-luxe subterranean extensions devoted entirely to lives of leisure.