I’ve just spent the last hour or so wandering round the main exhibition space, which is split into several themed areas: Grand Build, Grand Interiors, Grand Gardens, and Grand Kitchens + Bathrooms. There is a lot of stuff here – far too much to see in one day.
I’m also slightly hampered by not having clear goals for the exhibition. Being at the pre-planning stage, it’s not like I have a need to figure out which windows to fit or what brand of hot tub I want. Instead, my eye has been generally caught by things like the shipping container rooms, or the oak beam construction companies.
But there’s pretty much everything here you could want. From furniture to soft furnishings, from glasshouses to glass houses, it’s all here. Small thatched gazebos seem to be a theme too, although why someone would want a Polynesian-style gazebo in rainy Britain is beyond me! Still… time for a seminar now.