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Your Home Made Perfect

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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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Angela Scanlon

Sarah Knight

Laura Clark

Zoe Page

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Kitty Walshe

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Your Home Made Perfect: Series 1: Episode 7

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Architects compete using virtual reality for a commission to remodel a home in Teesside.

Two architects compete using virtual reality to win a commission to remodel a home in Teesside. Will the finished build live up to the hopes of the family who live there?

Imagine you are standing in your house - suddenly the home makeover of your wildest dreams takes place. Once dark corners are flooded with light, a tired kitchen is suddenly tailor-made for your family and a breathtaking picture window finally connects you to the world beyond. You don’t just have a new home, you have a whole new way of living – all without opening a can of paint or touching a single brick.

Angela Scanlon presents a property makeover series like no other. This series allows homeowners to see ingenious new plans for their homes in an instant. 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.

Homeowners can instantly experience how bravely flipping bedrooms and living areas in a two storey house could transform the way they live, or how radically ripping out a ceiling can turn a boring lounge into a show-stopping sitting room. In each episode, a family is presented with two radically different designs by two extraordinary architects. Having experienced both designs virtually, the homeowners must then decide which vision to construct in real life. 

Ruth and Lindsey live in a 1990s developer home near Middlesbrough. Their focus in recent years has been achieving their goal of having a family. Now, with two young daughters, it is time for Lindsey and Ruth to tackle their home, which fails to meet the needs of their family. The problems begin the moment they come through the door. The tiny hallway barely allows for a buggy to be brought into the house. When inside, it has to be brought through almost every room on the ground floor before it can be put away. Meanwhile, the kitchen has almost no storage and is disconnected from the living spaces where the children play, so the family are rarely all in the same room at the same time. 

Ruth and Lindsey are both desperate to solve the problems of their home but cannot agree how.  Ruth thinks they should extend into the garage, Lindsey is worried the value of the house will drop if they do, so is keen to extend into Ruth’s beloved garden.  

Desperate to finally break the stalemate, they have handed over control to two competing architects - Laura Jane Clark’s speciality is the ingenious reimagining of homes so that they perfectly fit the needs of their owners. She goes head to head with Robert Jamison. Robert has a reputation for the unconventional and draws on his time living on the Indian sub-continent to constantly challenge how we live in our homes. 
 
Each architect interprets the brief in wildly different ways and pitches their vision to Ruth and Lindsey using virtual reality. Laura suggests a bold reimagining of the layout centred around that awkward entrance hall, but has cleverly found a way to link the front of the house to the forgotten garden at the rear. Robert meanwhile offers them a design that would completely alter how they arrive and move through the house, it is also rich in natural materials which makes Lindsey believe she’s been transported to a different country. Ruth and Lindsey are wowed by both designs, so how can they possibly decide which to go with?

Having experienced both ideas in virtual reality, there is one final reveal yet to come: what Ruth and Lindsey choose to build in real life. Angela and the winning architect arrive at the once divided and awkward home. They are faced with the most extraordinary transformation, even more amazing than the one in virtual reality. But they also discover that the most significant change here is not in the bricks and mortar, but the ease with which Ruth, Lindsey and their girls can now live together in their incredible new home.

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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