Steve and Celine, of Claverdon, Warwickshire, were branded ungrateful after calling the home they were gifted a 'monstrosity'
Couple who spent £350K renovating the ‘monstrosity’ 1960s home they inherited from a family friend are branded ‘ungrateful’ by Ugly House to Lovely House viewers
A couple who called their gifted home ‘a monstrosity’ that brings them ‘dreadful shame’ were branded ‘ungrateful’ last night by furious Ugly House to Lovely House viewers.
Steve and Celine, of Claverdon, Warwickshire, inherited the 1960s family home 18 months ago from a family friend but admitted they found the property ’embarrassing’ as it was the ‘shabbiest on the street’.
They enlisted the help of George Clark and his team to bring the A-line building up to date, with a hefty £150,000 set aside to spend on the job.
But by adhering to the designs
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The couple said they had a £150,000 budget to spend on bringing the 1960s A-line home up-to-date
Full-time mum-of-three Celine said the house had sentimental value as she grew up two doors down and spent much of her childhood visiting their family friend Sheila.
But having inherited it, she admitted she felt a ‘sense of dreadful shame’ every time she
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Graeme suggested cladding the home all in one material, which didn’t go down well with Celine
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George Clark warned he thought the project could go way over budget as it was a ‘big job’
Another remarked: ‘Right I am 10 mins in #UglyHouse and it is p****** me off! “Oh I hate my gifted house, it’s ugly” Gifted!!!!! Maybe, just maybe do more than take a door off before you get a TV show in, ya snob!’
And one wrote: ‘Oh so you don’t like the house you’ve inherited? Ya boo sucks to be you doesn’t it.’
Celine’s husband Steve, a financial operations manager, said they were keen to find an innovative way to bring the house bang up to date.
Many took to Twitter to suggest they should have sold the house and bought a new one for the amount of money they spent on it.