At some point in 2010, Kirstie Allsopp will be back with a second series of Kirstie’s Homemade Home. The lovely team that produces the show are keen to include arts and crafts that you, the viewers, would like to see.
This is your chance to directly influence the series, and to give a platform to a craft or skill close to your heart. It’s all rather exciting, quite frankly.
Post your craft suggestions in the comments form below, and they could feature in series two of Kirstie’s Homemade Home…
Author: |Posted: 5:55 pm on 21/10/09
Category: Buying & Selling, On TV
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Are you ready to move? Are you relocating? Are you looking for two properties; one as your main property and another as a business premises, a holiday home, an investment etc? Do you need Kirstie and Phil’s help?
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You heard it here first – Kirstie Allsopp is looking for contributors to take part in series 2 of Kirstie’s Homemade Home.
If you’re fed up with flat pack, had enough of the high street and want your home to ooze individuality, get in touch and you might be selected to get Kirstie’s help transforming your interior. Kirstie will enlist the services of skilled craftspeople from across the UK, to give your house its own signature homemade style.
You can find out how to apply for Kirstie’s Homemade Home here, and follow the programme’s makers on Twitter.
Author: |Posted: 5:36 pm on 03/08/09
Category: Buying & Selling, On TV
Earlier today, regulatory body Ofcom cleared our 2007 programme, Best & Worst Places To Live In The UK, of any wrongdoing after the formula and statistics used to calculate the list resulted in Middlesbrough being named the worst of the UK’s 434 boroughs. read more
Author: |Posted: 4:14 pm on 05/06/09
Category: craft
Since we launched Rate My Room on 4Homes, we’ve been inundated with readers’ photos of their gardens, kitchens, bathrooms and every other area of the home you’d care to think of.
By far and away the most popular of the Rate My Room galleries is Rate My Homemade Crafts, a photo gallery of user craft projects. This is due in no small part to the runaway success of the crafts extravaganza that is Kirstie’s Homemade Home. We’ve had well over 100 photos submitted so far, all available for you to peruse, rate and leave comments on. The selection ranges from the sublime to the (dare I say) ridiculous, but collectively they make for an entertaining few minutes’ browsing.
This morning I decided to try to choose my top five. Don’t be disheartened if yours didn’t make the cut – there’s no accounting for my own dubious taste. Here, in no particular order, are my five favourite reader craft projects.
1. Chopsticks Accent Lampshade by veryirie
What I like about this project is the way more light penetrates the shade towards the top (the thin end of the chopsticks), creating a nice natural gradient of colour. Its maker included basic instructions on how to make it yourself – sounds dead simple, although there may be a few raised eyebrows when you head to the checkout with 40 pairs of chopsticks in hand.
2. Carved House Sign by CharlieS
Pure, unadulterated envy – I make no secret of the fact that I’m hopeless at working wood, so this just makes me jealous. The level of detail is quite something.
3. ‘The Beat Goes On’ Mosaic by breezyb5
A combination of glass and ceramics, this mosaic tells a story of music in the 60s. Although the colours and design might not be everyone’s cup of tea, the effort and creativity that went into this project are self-evident.
4. Tomato Ball by Rowena
There’s three reasons I like this – firstly it looks very well made. Secondly, it would make an excellent living room football. Finally, there’s the description added by Rowena – ‘I crocheted this tomato ball for my 9 month old niece, who loves throwing it at her parents.’
5. Sushi Bar by Sushi Bar Craft Ornament
Not sure where to start with this one. There’s something delightfully daft about spending your weekend making a mini sushi bar, staffed and frequented entirely by teddy bears dressed in Kimono robes. I’m yet to see this one on Blue Peter, but the list of materials suggests it would make the perfect after-school project for our nation’s youth.
Feel free to leave your comments below, or go to the Rate My Room homepage.
Since the programme started, we’ve been inundated with comments about what’s proving to be a divisive series. At a guess, I’d say 80% of comments have been glowing, with the remaining 20% scathing in the extreme!
Of course, no TV show can please everyone (some people even dislike Grand Designs, would you believe?!) The majority of feedback focuses on the programme giving people the confidence to try crafts themselves. Kirstie’s mission statement was to get more people into traditional crafts, so I think we can be content with a job well done.
The most satisfying comments and emails we’ve had are from people who run craft supplies stores, or teach classes in traditional skills. For example, Megan who runs www.cumbriancountrycrafts.co.uk emailed me to say, ‘Recently my orders have gone through the roof… now my sales are great.’
Similarly, Dorothy from www.sheepishwoolshop.co.uk got in touch with the following: ‘You really have inspired my customers and created such interest in the art of knitting. I own a wool shop and your program is certainly the topic of the moment. Customers who have never knitted and are now hungry to learn. Thank you for the inspiration!’
In times when tales of economic woe prevail, it’s a refreshing escape to hear stories of businesses flourishing in what’s rapidly becoming a mini crafts renaissance.
if you’ve loved the show and would like Kirstie’s help turning your house into a homemade home, you can apply to be on Kirstie’s Homemade Home here.
Catch Kirstie’s Homemade Home tonight at 8 on Channel 4. 4Homes will be tweeting live during the show – join in the conversation at twitter.com/4Homes. You can catch up on any missed episodes over at channel4.com/catchup
Author: |Posted: 4:40 pm on 07/05/09
Category: On TV
Unless you’ve been trapped in the attic for the past couple of years, it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that social networking site Twitter is rapidly taking over the world.
It’s a great way of communicating and the 4Homes team are hooked. If you want to contact any of the staff you can do so, but better than that, you can also send messages to 4Homes presenters Kirstie Allsopp, Sarah Beeny and George Clarke!
Understandably they’re inundated with questions from viewers, but all three of them pull out the stops to reply to as many people as possible about absolutely anything you care to ask.
You can sign up for Twitter here, and use the links below to check out the profiles of the 4Homes team.
4Homes Presenters
Sarah Beeny On Twitter
Kirstie Allsopp On Twitter
George Clarke On Twitter
4Homes Staff
4Homes Twitter Feed
Lelia Ferro, C4 Editor
Lucy Searle, Editor
Rich Payne, Deputy Editor
Emma Jones, Senior Writer
Having spent the last hour watching tonight’s episode of Kirstie’s Homemade Home, I think it’s fair to say that Kirstie’s efforts at interior design this week are more palatable than in the bathrooms episode we saw last Thursday. For me at least, the bathroom suite Kirstie chose was beautiful, but aside from that the style of her bathrooms wasn’t something I would go for. Of course this is purely subjective, and the majority of feedback we’ve had from you viewers has been very positive indeed. read more
The irrepressible Miss Allsopp crams a lot into her show this evening.
I particularly enjoyed this episode because of the art deco theme that runs throughout, from Kirstie’s gorgeous reclaimed bathroom suite (it’s just about my perfect buy) to her Burgh Island Hotel visit. Though I’ve never seen this magnificent building for myself, I remember it featuring on an episode of BBC2’s Coast and falling in love with the place. Kirstie’s there to grab some art deco inspiration from their wonderful interiors, before hot-footing it over to a stained glass maker to have a go herself.
Later in the show Kirstie gets her hands dirty with some wallpaper screen printing, and makes herself some scented candles to fragrance the beautiful bathroom she creates. On top of that, she somehow manages to secure access for a film crew to go inside top designer Anouska Hempel’s home – it’s not to my taste, but then who am I to criticise a woman of such impeccable design credentials?!
It’s a jam-packed extravaganza of craft, and by this evening we’ll have a wide selection of related guides on 4Homes so that you can have a bash at home.
Kirstie’s Homemade Home is on tonight at 8pm on Channel 4.
Since Kirstie’s Homemade Home started, we’ve done our level best to provide step-by-step craft guides to lots of common, fun and relatively simple activities.
Inevitably, there are loads of crafts out there that require equipment and skill only available at dedicated classes. Fortunately, there are countless opportunities for you to get stuck in to everything from glassblowing to pottery. Here’s our advice on how to find a craft course – I hope it can be of some help to anyone who wants to learn or develop arts and crafts skills, but doesn’t know where to start. We’ll be adding to it each week, and within the feature you can find the contact details for the artisans featured in Kirstie’s TV show.
Click here to find out how to find a craft course.
Has Kirstie’s Homemade Home made you want to take up a new hobby? Are you already into crafts, and if so what do you think of the programme? Please leave your comments below…
