Craig has an air about him that he thinks he should win each week. I think it was the right decision based on this week only, seems unfair on Bryony last week somehow thought.
Rita to win!
Rita to win!
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I think that Craig completely lost his way this week. He was so patronising about what your Nana's front room would look like. My Nana had Ercol furniture and a skandi chic vibe that would fetch a fortune nowadays. Looking forward to next Thursday
Craig was my favourite overall but he lost the plot with this one.
I said before that his 50s Mad Men vibe would have been perfect in that space. The last one just looked quite tatty. I didn't like John's much (just not my taste) but it was impressive and I did love the bar area and background.
I said before that his 50s Mad Men vibe would have been perfect in that space. The last one just looked quite tatty. I didn't like John's much (just not my taste) but it was impressive and I did love the bar area and background.
When I started watching the episode, I was so sure John would be out - biggest venue, highest ceilings - but his design was great. Craig's was awful downstairs, those chairs looked so uncomfortable. I had a look at the instagram pages of the venues and it looks like Craig's has had the most changes to it since they were all redesigned too.
Do you have any photos of Rita’s now because all I can see that they’ve changed is the brick background with their logo
If you go on tagged you can see other angles
That looks like before the renovations?
I’m just starting now … the royal fool is my absolute fav place in Edinburgh. I hope it’s not ducked up. Though that said I was there during the fringe last year I don’t remember it being changed.
edit: I do remember the bar being done and being a bit meh about it , I wasn’t in the other room.
edit: I do remember the bar being done and being a bit meh about it , I wasn’t in the other room.
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Did anyone notice when John did his bit where the family speak about him etc and he’s at his school writing on the white board and talking to his class there was no one actually in the class? The reflection shows he was talking to an empty room.
Craig would never bend or compromise his style for the brief, and he definitely had an air of superiority about him.
Even the dog episode, it was super impressive but ignored a lot of the brief and client. the whole cartoon style added nothing for the dogs and in many ways was wasted time and energy. It was very well done, but irrelevant. The door idea and furniture scale helped him there.
i dont like the change of prize in the last two series as it immediately benefits the soft furnishings/interior decoration based designers rather than the construction/interior design designers.
Even the dog episode, it was super impressive but ignored a lot of the brief and client. the whole cartoon style added nothing for the dogs and in many ways was wasted time and energy. It was very well done, but irrelevant. The door idea and furniture scale helped him there.
i dont like the change of prize in the last two series as it immediately benefits the soft furnishings/interior decoration based designers rather than the construction/interior design designers.
I didn’t see the reflection but thought it was to an empty room because it just felt awkward and unnatural
Was Baby Reindeer filmed there? When he's doing his disastrous Edinburgh run?
It looked vaguely familiar.
According to Wikipedia:
In Edinburgh, the Hoppy pub in Meadowbank, Edinburgh served as the exterior of the Festival Fringe venue for Donny's comedy show (interior scenes were filmed in the Army & Navy pub in Stoke Newington, London).
Alan mentioned Baby Reindeer on the episode.
I'll miss watching Craig & Alan flirt innocently.
I'll miss watching Craig & Alan flirt innocently.
Yeah that little frisson was cute.
The stage show of Baby Reindeer had a run in summer hall in 2019. The really bad year in hoppers was 2014/2015ish I think.
This is some weak tea but I was talking to my friend who's a bookkeeper earlier today and apparently Craig never had or owned a shop in Clapham. He worked for a lovely woman called Lisa and was sacked after running up thousands of pounds worth of debts...apparently Lisa is still working as an interior designer to try and pay it off.
My friend is going to get some more information tomorrow.
My friend is going to get some more information tomorrow.
If he worked for someone how did he rack up debt for her business?
He is listed as director of Kitschen Sync on the company check website. No Lisa is mentioned
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Here’s an interview from 1999 about the shop
Design & Shopping: Kitsch - Art or artefacts perceived as being of
There is a fine line, say Craig Masson and Andrew McMinn, between kitsch and tat, a line which their year-old South London shop Kitschen Sync treads carefully: "We won't have any knobs," says Andrew, resolutely, "or big willies that turn into things. That's tacky." What they do have in abundance...
and another article
They were also on a tv show called ‘Our House’ which aired in 2001 which mentions their shop.
Final just starting now. C'mon Rita. 