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Virtual reality shows people how their home could look, before building it in reality.

Transforming problematic pads into heavenly homes. Cutting edge technology and innovative architects reveal the design dream ordinary houses could become. With Angela Scanlon.

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Laura Clark

Robert Jamison

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Your Home Made Perfect: Series 1: Episode 4

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A couple test drive two radical new designs for their home using virtual reality.

Two ingenious designs come to life using virtual reality, helping a couple from Grantham realise their dream home.

Imagine stepping inside your home, but suddenly it is transformed beyond your wildest dreams. Angela Scanlon presents a property makeover show with a difference: cutting-edge virtual reality and visual effects enable people to see what the future of their home could look like, before building it in reality. Never before have plans come to life like this: people can instantly explore a stunning transformation of their bedroom, walk around an incredible double-height kitchen or see how adding a gigantic picture window will turn a dingy lounge into a stunning sitting room with a wow-factor. In each episode, a family is presented with two radically different designs by two extraordinary architects - before we discover which they have chosen to build in reality.

Accountants Mimi and Luke have lived in their terraced house in Grantham for five years with their two-year-old daughter and Mimi’s 10-year-old son. With Luke’s two older children often there too, the house is bursting at the seams, yet the layout is entirely unpractical. They fell in love with the home because of its large garden, but the living areas are a rabbit warren of small disjointed rooms. There is barely enough space for the couple and their growing children to all be in one room together. Perhaps worse still, there is no view of the big garden from the house! With a budget of £30k, two competing architects have their work cut out to rethink the layout and improve family life.

Laura Jane Clark specialises in residential architecture, believing our homes are integral to our relationships. Robert Jamison draws inspiration from around the world and tries to capture those influences in his work.  

At the design studio, Mimi and Luke have the extraordinary opportunity to step inside the radical new visions thought up by the two architects, using virtual reality.  

Laura presents her design first. Mimi and Luke watch in awe as the existing walls of their awkward and cramped dining room disappear. Then, Laura makes her first move – an ingenious plan to move the stairs from the centre to the rear. Next, vital storage solutions appear, and finally floor to ceiling folding doors that finally unite the home with the garden beyond. 

Then, it is Robert’s turn. He begins by using a series of extraordinary transformations to show how hard it is to make a narrow, extended Victorian home suit the needs of a modern family. Robert concludes that they do need to extend, however he is acutely aware the budget won’t allow it using conventional means. Mimi and Luke’s nerves are running high as Robert unveils his astonishing new design. Walls and doors begin to transform. A brand new layout is revealed which Mimi and Luke could never have imagined. Rather than a completely new extension, Robert has opted for a lightweight timber system that could work with the existing foundations creating a space full of unusual angles. The new kitchen offers a huge amount of seating and big windows out on the garden. 

Mimi and Luke are blown away by Laura and Robert’s visions but now they face a difficult decision – which one will they decide to build?

As the episode nears the end, the final, and most important reveal is yet to come. Angela and the chosen architect travel to see what Mimi and Luke have actually built and the result is stunning. Rivalling the extraordinary digital reveals, the space is incredible.  Mimi and Luke are delighted with their new home, and family life has been transformed far beyond what they ever thought possible.

Your Home Made Perfect: Series 1

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New visions for homes are revealed by virtual reality, but which will be built in reality?

Angela Scanlon helps couples try before they buy as two rival architects reveal radical new visions for homes using virtual reality, but which will be built in the real world?

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