The Restoration Man
I can’t thank you all enough for taking the time to watch my series, The Restoration Man. Its been an incredible success. Please keep watching and coming back to the website. I love reading all of the comments you leave and the healthy debates on the forum…all great stuff!
Take care! and thanks again
George x
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As an architect I’m passionate about all buildings but the most important and unique piece of architecture in all of our lives is our home.
Whether you live in a Georgian villa, a Victorian semi or a bungalow by the sea, your home is a very special place and any changes you are thinking of making should be carefully considered.
This website is a place you can drop into anytime to source advice and information about improvements to your home. Whether you are thinking of replanning a room, knocking down walls or adding an extension I’ll do everything I can to give you the advice you need.
The site is regularly updated by me, with valuable information to get you started and to keep you on track – whatever the scale of your ambitions.
While I’m running around the country transforming Britain’s homes I’ll be updating my blog, leaving you messages in ‘George’s World’ via Twitter and trying my best to respond to your messages.
With your help, over the next few months my home on the web will build and build and will become a fantastic resource to all those out there who are as passionate about their home as I am. Please feel free to have a look around and to leave any queries or comments you have.
Love your Home!
George x
P.S. Watch my new series The Restoration Man on Channel 4 or my old series, The Home Show, on More4 and 4OD
Gary smith
on Jul 9th, 2009
@ 8:20 pm:
George hi love the show mate and I have a very important question for you. I’m arguing with the misses, I think you are from Durham way but Debbie thinks north yorks nr selby. Sorry it’s not a house query this time mate. We are prob both wrong but just a bit of fun. All the best Gary and Debbie
Mary Dickens
on Jul 12th, 2009
@ 6:24 pm:
Hi George,
Saw your programme for the first time last week and very impressed. I live on my own now as my husband died and since I know nothing about building I thought you might be able to help. My Mother now 94 years old lives in Wimbledon and would like to have her loft converted into a bedroom so I could visit her more often and eventually would live with her, but ofcourse the whole place needs doing if I am to live with her. I want to make it as far as possible maintenance free. Is it possible you could visit and give me a quote. Would be very grateful for any help. My phone No.01274865789 and I can explain what I would like done.
Hope to hear from you. Mary
Emmy
on Jul 16th, 2009
@ 7:51 pm:
George, just had to write you a message to say what a sexy man you are!!!!!!!!!!Single? Just lovely, cn not stop watching the show but not just for DIY ideas. Although, it is a great show. You are warm and compassionate and any family gaining your help are lucky. If I had the money I myself would call on your services. Unfortunantly I am a mature student , training to ba a teacher, but maybe one day…………
tina fincham
on Jul 25th, 2009
@ 3:15 pm:
i think you did a fantastic job on that last house. how ungrateful can some people be! i wish i could afford for you to come and ‘do’ my house, perhaps one day. I would be VERY grateful, as i think you are amazing and the work you do is superb. Keep on changing peoples lives George. Also i think it’s so sweet when you cry, you almost have me in tears too!. best wishes from tina
Gillian Bridgman
on Jul 28th, 2009
@ 4:41 pm:
HELP!! So many people are telling me our house is a higgeldy piggeldy mess after various additions but we fell in love with it for it’s character and farmhouse feel. We want to re-organise the living space to accommodate our two girls as they grow up and the friends they bring home and also family who come and stay. I’ve started to have builders and architects round but don’t really know what we can do and how to visualise it. There is also the problem that I am a terrible hoarder and like to keep things as it makes me feel safe. My husband, however, is finding it difficult to live with the accumulation of 18 years of stuff. Not all of it is mine some of it belongs to our daughters (10 and 13). We’re going round in circles and need someone to take us in hand and sort us out. We have a great loft space but no one seems to be able to come up with a suitable staircase and access.
Some advice and ideas would be great. Or if you’d like to take on your biggest challenge yet we’d be interested (although scared at the same time) to hear from you. Are you up for it?
rachel
on Jul 29th, 2009
@ 9:33 pm:
loving the show. loving the website, loving you.
and yes good to see aha again x
Anthony Cheetham
on Aug 4th, 2009
@ 4:51 pm:
Hi
As you have probably heard before, your programs are great and fill me with fear and inspiration, fear of what i will see you do and then want to do myself and inspiration (comes after the fear subsides) to do my own low budget version in my own victorian semi.
One question: I would like to reduce the sound from the party wall with my neighbors in the kitchen of our house but do not want to loose to much width from the room, other than a stud wall built off the wall and back filled with insulation ( i estimate up to 100mm lost off the room) can you suggest any materials that will do the same but thinner
fiona whitley
on Aug 8th, 2009
@ 3:04 pm:
You recently mentioned using a glass floor in your own home. This sounds a great solution but do you have any names to contact for info?
Thanks
George Clarke
on Aug 9th, 2009
@ 7:22 am:
Hi Fiona, there are so many glass companies out there. I used CSGS Glass to do my house. They are an Essex based company. George x
Nikki
on Aug 10th, 2009
@ 8:52 pm:
From a design perspective, which do you feel it is better to do – invest money to make the house you currently live in the ‘forever house’ or move to a forever house? To make our current house the house of our dreams we would need to:
Extend kitchen
Put in downstairs loo
Move boiler upstairs, upgrade boiler system and move soil pipe from the middle of the house (yes, its in the middle!! How daft is that!!) to er…well somewhere else were it works- house is 70’s style and obviously people were asleep when they designed it!!
Love the show by the way and the way you listen to what people want from their house – so refreshing to see that
Suzy
on Aug 14th, 2009
@ 8:19 am:
Hi
Having been ready and waiting last night for my weekly dose of the soflty spoken northern lad – who is quite pleasant on the eye, imagine my horror when I got Kim and Aggie!! I’m a bit of a late comer to the phenomenon that is Mr. Clarke – after searching the web found who you are etc. Brilliant show, ( as everyone on here has said). Your ‘realness’ and sincerety are what make it work – don’t let the TV go to your head!
Thought I might be able to find re-runs on one of the gazillion E4 channels – no such luck.
Keep up the good work – can’t wait for the next series – it really is compulsive veiwing – can’t help myself now, in always critiquing every ’space’ I find myself in – nothing worse than a ‘know nothing know it all’
Enjoy the summer
Suzy
Sarah Westwood
on Aug 14th, 2009
@ 7:26 pm:
Hi George, I am involved in our family property development business and am also passionate about architecture and interior design. My partner and I are in the process of building our own home and find it exciting along with, I must say very stressfull, and at the moment it is all we seem to think about. As I personally are very fond of old properties, we have tried to influence the Victorian, Edwardian and also a little Georgian period into the house and have been given lots of ideas of how to add the modern twist from your goodself. We think your programme is absolutely fantasitc and would like to thank you for the influence and inspiration you have given us. Sarah and Alan .
lynn scott
on Aug 18th, 2009
@ 8:57 am:
George what can i say i love love love your show. Every property you have done has been fantastic you seem to see what no one else can. I only wish i had cash to get your expertise for my house. i look forward to your new show as you inspire me much to my husbands dismay x
christine craig
on Sep 23rd, 2009
@ 5:48 pm:
We have lived in our large Edwardian house for 10 years. Everything you say people do, we’ve done…lived with the old carpets and wallpaper and done little. The children have grown up and we want to refurbish. We’ve gutted the sitting room and hall and are stuck. How on earth do we make decisions about curtains, furniture, carpet, lighting, colours etc. As an ex army family, we have never had to decorate and always had to make do. It is difficult to envisage what things would look like. Budget, up to a point, is not an issue. Help! Christine and Andrew
PS Love the programme and your excellent taste.
George Clarke
on Jan 2nd, 2010
@ 9:15 am:
Dear Emmy…thanks for your lovely message…really appreciate it. George x
George Clarke
on Jan 2nd, 2010
@ 9:17 am:
Hello Mary…my office will be in touch with you…happy new year! George x
George Clarke
on Jan 2nd, 2010
@ 9:20 am:
Hi Gary and Debbie…you are both wrong…but Gary you are definitely closer than Debbie…I was born in Sunderland and lived most of my years in Washington (the new town between sunderland and newcastle)…nowhere near Yorkshire but very close to Durham! I hope that settles the argument! Happy new year! George x
Michelle Cummins
on Jan 23rd, 2010
@ 9:06 am:
Hi George,
I’m from Australia and LOVE your show, do you thing you will ever come and do a show in Australia?
I would say i’m addicted to most of the lifestyle shows, however, The Home show is by far my favourite.
Please make more episodes, i hate waiting so long to see the new sessions shows!
cheers
George Clarke
on Jan 28th, 2010
@ 10:06 am:
Hi Michelle. Thanks for watching. From all of the emails it seems like the show has gone down very well in Australia. Maybe I should come out and make a series! I’ll look into it. Look out for my new series ‘Restoration Man’, which will be out in the uk in April. Hopefully it will be in Oz soon. George x