Channel 4 series Grand Designs has returned to West Kirby to catch up with a family who transformed their dormer bungalow into a wooden clad house.
Presenter Kevin McCloud followed Stuart and Rosie Treasurer in 2016 as they turned their home into a striking piece of modern architecture featuring a floating timber box, designed by Bromilow Architects.
At the time, it divided opinion, with some local people interviewed by the show expressing their concern over the structure.
Now, almost a decade on, the programme has returned to see how it now fits in to its surroundings.
As he revisits the home, Kevin McCloud says: “Approaching it, I don’t see what the fuss was about – I really don’t.
“The semi-cantilevered box now sits much more comfortably among its older neighbours. This house was never intended to stick out. It just needed an age-old ingredient – time – to silver it down.”
Rosie told him: “I think the general comment now is your house doesn’t look as bad now. I think it was a big change and that took a while for people [to get used to].”
The programme shows how they have completed work on the property, and that their grown-up children, Molly and Ben, who were aged just 10 and seven when the original episode was filmed, influenced a new extension and recently installed a sedum roof on top of it.
Molly said: “I think we’ve been very lucky to do this whole thing as a family. I’ve enjoyed the fact we’ve been so close together working on this.”
Ben added: “It’s nice that when we’re around in the space we can look round and think I helped with that, we did all that together and we did all this, so it’s nice.”
The programme is available on catch-up on the Channel 4 website at https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/on-demand/76838-008