Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien travel across the UK to find unique items lost in people's homes to fix up for a profit.Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien travel across the UK to find unique items lost in people's homes to fix up for a profit.Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien travel across the UK to find unique items lost in people's homes to fix up for a profit.
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get rid of Gemma
Lovely girl but ruins everything by painting beautiful wood in bilious colours. I wouldn't give her anything to upcycle. Ruined so many lovely things, particularly that old doll's house. Simon is brilliant and I like about 95% of his work. Henry focused too much on cars, bikes and tractors although I like what he does with things like old signs, petrol cans, etc. . Would love to see some old sofas and old chairs reupholstered and brought back to how they were originally. If I wanted wood painted in awful colours I would go to ~Ikea. I also cannot believe what they say they sell the items for. Most of them I wouldn't pay a fraction of the cost on.
Cheap Labour?
These guys turn up some quirky and interesting items for upcycling.
Their ideas are often very good, and similarly the results, but there's no way in 21st century UK that those results could be seriously achieved at their declared costs.
The outlays they claim to have spent are just plain ridiculous, and that sadly undermines that whole idea of the programme.
The achievements remain worthwhile even if the format is badly flawed.
Easy watching fun
Simon and henry travel all over the uk and visit people to dig through junk and unused items in the hope of making money for the owners.
Very enjoyable show and a great cast ,
Its much like american pickers and american restoration in one show,
It intresting to see what people would pay for stuff and you do actully learn a few facts about the areas they visit
Entertaining and perhaps inspiring
I found this during Lockdown and was hooked pretty quickly. It is not just informative yet also has many comedic elements to it too. Simon's clever one liners and Henry's wackiness as they sort through garages and warehouses are often funny. The places they visit are also interesting too from country to manor to residential.
Simon seems the more creative and Henry the more the motor orientated and motorised objects seem to earn the most money. Gemma is an odd one she adds drama and a female touch to what is otherwise a blokes show. Some of her earlier choices of decor were somewhat ill-chosen though I think over time her choices have got better most of the time.
One thing I find odd is when Henry passes up on a motor vehicle to work on a small piece of furniture or a decorative object.
The interaction with the valuers rating their work also brings some interest too when either they have over restored reducing sales value or overspent reducing profit.
Simon seems the more creative and Henry the more the motor orientated and motorised objects seem to earn the most money. Gemma is an odd one she adds drama and a female touch to what is otherwise a blokes show. Some of her earlier choices of decor were somewhat ill-chosen though I think over time her choices have got better most of the time.
One thing I find odd is when Henry passes up on a motor vehicle to work on a small piece of furniture or a decorative object.
The interaction with the valuers rating their work also brings some interest too when either they have over restored reducing sales value or overspent reducing profit.
Easy watching, difficult listening
Whilst the program is fairly easy watching and quite a nice idea that's fine lots of old junk and do it up and flog it.
The biggest issue for me is awful narrator it's virtually unlistenable having someone shouting for the entire program.
Please get a new narrator and make it more enjoyable to watch.
The biggest issue for me is awful narrator it's virtually unlistenable having someone shouting for the entire program.
Please get a new narrator and make it more enjoyable to watch.
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