Couple revamp their gloomy 1970s pad on Your Home Made Perfect but viewers are left baffled after the TV is put above the sink
A COUPLE have spent the past five years arguing over how to update their house as they have completely different tastes – but bizarrely ended up with a TV above their sink.
Vicky, 40, and James, 39, can barely agree on dinner, and so have been locked in a stalemate over how to update their four-bedroom detached home in Kent.
Vicky, a civil servant, and James, a catering manager, share their home in Faversham with Lottie, seven, and Freddie, five, but they spend most of their time apart.
The pair are the latest couple to appear on BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect.
With James “obsessed” with cooking and always in the kitchen, the family are separated by an awkwardly designed house, which features a fridge in the hallway.
They enlisted the help of rival architects Laura Jane Clark, and Robert Jamison, to try and come up with a vision which suits both their tastes after remortgaging their home for £100,000.
Presenter Angela Scanlon tells the pair they’re the ultimate “opposites attract couple”.
She said: “It seems to me the house is completely divided, your tastes are completely divided, everything is divided apart from the fact it doesn’t work.”
Describing her dream home, Vicky says: “I would paint everything white and simple.
“Bright, light, with lots of storage for stuff to be put away so it’s not all clutter everywhere.”
Whereas James says: “If you took that and switched that completely around, I like dark and rich and tactile.
“I want rich colours, I want reclaimed wood, metal.”
Vicky added: “The fact that we disagree on everything has halted us, just meant we haven’t got anywhere.
“Instead of progressing we spend the entire time arguing about what we should be doing.
“We’ve had five years of stalemate.”
As the professionals set out their vision, with James wanting a huge kitchen and Vicky not even cooking, they’ve got their work cut out.
Both set out their vision using virtual reality, allowing Vicky and James to see the designs come to life.
In the end they go with Laura’s open plan vision, which involves adding another extension and opening up the garage – but they blow their budget by spending £125,000.
With a large kitchen island, dining table and different ‘zones’, viewers couldn’t help but notice one odd placement – the TV above the sink.
Normally the focal point of a room, the couple decided to put their flat-screen in the middle of the kitchen.
Taking to Twitter, one person said: “Why is the TV above the sink.
“‘You can’t watch Bing dear mummy is washing up’.”
Another tweeted: “You’ve turned your whole downstairs into a kitchen & watching your TV above the sink.”
A third said: “Why would you have a TV right above your sink?”
While someone else thought: “Trying to get my head around the widescreen TV being above the sink ???”
The next episode BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect airs next Tuesday at 9pm.
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