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00:12So, this little box is very exciting. We can have power, finally.
00:18This is going to be the first time Lane's power has been on in here in probably eight years.
00:22Let's talk more, more switch on, Ray.
00:25Okay.
00:28Yeah.
00:29You're joking.
00:30There's light.
00:32No, amazing. Thanks so much.
00:36It's just daft how excited I am about this.
00:38It's just when you don't have a refrigerator to cool your food or plug in a washing machine and wash
00:43your clothes.
00:44You can plug in a phone charger. You can plug in a telly.
00:47Grandpa, what's that?
00:48It's light.
01:09With an income now coming in from the boathouse, Banjo and Roe turn their attentions back to the restoration of
01:16Ulva House with what remains of the initial budget.
01:19Not only does the property now have cold running water, it's finally been connected to Maine's power too.
01:28But the recent weeks of restoration have led to some dramatic change.
01:35The roof is off in this section of the house, which is great, and the contractors are well on their
01:39way.
01:40What I'm worried about is the weather.
01:41I'm absolutely pet fried of the weather.
01:44This is going to be done in stages.
01:45The contractors are doing all the carpentry work, building it, putting all the trusses back in.
01:50Next week is horrific weather.
01:53It's going to be wet.
01:54I'm really worried.
01:55This is one of six rooms that's exposed and doesn't have a ceiling on it.
01:59And I'm just worried about, you know, if the place gets damp again, you know, it was completely dried out.
02:06What's that mean for those rooms, you know?
02:09It's meant to be awful.
02:10It's not just like normal Scottish rain.
02:13It's meant to be awful.
02:15On the south-easterly corner of Alva House lies what was once the drawing room.
02:21Banjo and Ro will tackle this room next, transforming it into a social space for hotel guests.
02:30I love this room.
02:32It's my favourite room.
02:33This room is going to get people here.
02:35Yeah.
02:36It's the main event.
02:37We want to make sure the room still feels like it's old and grand.
02:42Yeah.
02:42It would be really easy just to repaint it.
02:45We want to preserve that faded glamour.
02:47Yeah.
02:48Want the walls to be an arrested decay.
02:52Even this, even the kind of crackled timber, the doors, it's about keeping the feeling of faded grandeur.
03:00Rather than utterly reinvent this space, Banjo wants to capture the historic charm baked into the crumbling walls of this
03:09room.
03:09He plans to fill it with eclectic furnishings from his collection on Mull, while an orderly riot of verdant planting
03:16will counterbalance this dignified glamour and transform a drawing room into the Orangery.
03:52What's an Orangery?
03:53Yeah, I'll stay back here.
03:55Aw, sad to say goodbye to our indoor plan.
04:05Yeah!
04:07That is crazy.
04:08That was a couple of metres long.
04:14I want to capture the romance of the room.
04:17I think Barry is the man to invite over to learn more about the room because he remembers it from
04:23its heyday.
04:27I have a lot of fond memories of all the house.
04:30It was a very nice house.
04:31I hope the house is renovated and it can become what I remember it being.
04:39He's a tough cookie.
04:40He's the man to please or disappoint.
04:43Oh, you must have some memories of this place.
04:45Well, I remember it as being a beautifully decorated room.
04:50It was very lightly furnished.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Lots of space.
04:54It was a place where people had gatherings.
04:57Yeah.
04:58It's the social centre of the house.
05:00I want to make sure that it's a space for everyone so you can come over.
05:05What kind of events?
05:06What would get you over?
05:07Christmas.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Halloween.
05:10Halloween.
05:11What about high tea?
05:15Oh, definitely.
05:16Oh, yes.
05:18I found in the barn the record collection from 1906.
05:25So if we could get a record player which could clear them, we could have an Edwardian high tea from
05:331906.
05:34We'll put our Sunday best on.
05:35Yeah.
05:36All right.
05:36Shirt and tie.
05:37Oh, okay.
05:38Fancy.
05:39Yeah.
05:39All right.
05:42To transport tradesfolk and materials to the house when the ferry is not running, Banjo and Roe have invested in
05:49a small motorboat and a familiar face has returned to the quayside.
05:56Zoe is magic.
05:59She is a scenic artist for film and television and theatre.
06:04She specialises in arrested decay.
06:06How many times have you done this?
06:08A couple.
06:08Is it too late to get off?
06:13All right.
06:14So, this is the laundry.
06:17Okay.
06:18This is stunning.
06:20Yeah, we want to preserve that.
06:21That could stay, for sure.
06:23Yeah.
06:23This area is going to be the easiest to preserve because it's really stuck.
06:28So that's just a case of cleaning and putting a glaze on.
06:31Okay.
06:32So that's easy.
06:33That's easy.
06:37These shelves were just plain wood.
06:39I'm going to try and make them match this crackle.
06:42So I've matched the brown in the cracks to the brown on there.
06:45And then I use something called crackle glaze and I just brush it on and I leave it for 20
06:52minutes and then I put this colour, which I've colour matched, on top.
06:57It will crackle and reveal what's underneath.
07:00And then, yeah, anyone can do it.
07:04Alongside the 27 crumbling rooms of Ulver House, Banjo and Roe have inherited a vast walled garden with its own
07:13troop of volunteer gardeners, all dedicated to its upkeep.
07:18Can I have another sod over here, please?
07:23We come one day a week with gardeners, serious gardeners, clever gardeners and those who are full of enthusiasm, like
07:34myself.
07:35This garden has been somewhat neglected, but there's just a bit of a magic about it.
07:40All it needs is a gang to crack on and do something.
07:46And I open my big mouth and I said, we could do that.
07:52I mean, look at them.
07:53They're so cute, Ulver's Garden Force.
07:56I call them the grey gardeners.
07:58They're a wild little bunch and they come over every Monday.
08:01I'm rescuing a hydrangea.
08:04Right, you go rescue a hydrangea.
08:08I'm so inspired by the landscape here.
08:11It's so wild and beautiful and I really want to bring that inside the orangery.
08:16To seek inspiration, Banjo has ventured to mull for the Tobermory Horticultural Society's Summer Flower Show, a standout event in
08:26the local society calendar that has been running for 135 years.
08:32Hey, big legs.
08:35And for Banjo, this event also provides an opportunity for redemption.
08:40It's been 10 years since I entered the flower show and was robbed of victory.
08:45I did have...
08:46Allegedly.
08:46I got disqualified for having an illegal vessel.
08:49I've been absolutely too scarred to enter for the last 10 years.
08:54Honestly, it wrecked me.
08:5610 years ago, maybe they weren't ready for me.
08:58Maybe they've caught up.
08:59And that day, I...
09:02I made a very powerful enemy.
09:04The mighty Mary McGregor.
09:06Well, well, well, what do you know?
09:10Mary, my flower nemesis.
09:13I can't remember why you were disqualified.
09:15You blamed me for it, but it wasn't anything to do with me.
09:18I beat you.
09:19That's where the grudge comes.
09:21Mary swept up all the awards last year.
09:24I thought she was away, and I thought this was my year to shine.
09:33I'm having a wobble.
09:37Who are these people?
09:38Where did they come from?
09:40Oh!
09:41Yes, this needs a stage.
09:43There we go.
09:47Back on Olver, with the crackle glaze complete,
09:50the delicate operation on the walls has begun.
09:54So I'm just trying to colour match it.
09:56He likes this worn effect.
09:59I don't know if I'm going to be able to achieve this.
10:01Let's see what happens.
10:02Just trial and error.
10:04Might work.
10:05Not too bad.
10:07As a scenic, if it's in a film or if it's on theatre,
10:10I have to make things look like they're worn and that they're used.
10:13So, yeah, I do a lot of this.
10:15And it's kind of Banjo's aesthetic.
10:21Meanwhile, on Mull, the judge's decision is final.
10:29Where's your down here?
10:31Okay.
10:32I'm so nervous.
10:33I don't want to look.
10:34It smells beautiful.
10:35It smells beautiful, but does it smell like victory?
10:38Well, I think you're in some stiff competition.
10:41Okay, I'm not seeing nothing.
10:47That's stunning.
10:49Yours is beautiful.
10:50Who comes first?
10:54Mary McGregor.
10:58Congratulations, Mary.
11:02Mary.
11:03Mary, Mary, Mary.
11:04Well, I have been doing it for a while.
11:062004, Mary McGregor.
11:072005, Mary.
11:08Barbara White.
11:09Barbara White.
11:10Oh, 2008, you let Barbara Wee have a win.
11:12One day, Mary, my name's going to be on that trophy.
11:19I thought it was my year.
11:23All right, if Mary wants to play that game, I'm bringing in reinforcement for the hotel
11:28because I want to have the best blooms in the whole of the Hebrides.
11:40I've invited Louis Steiner and Lauren.
11:42They are growers and florists, and they're going to show me how it's really done.
11:54All right.
12:02You all right?
12:05Slow it, please.
12:06All right.
12:08All right.
12:08It's all too beautiful.
12:11It's all too beautiful.
12:15It's all too beautiful.
12:19It's all too beautiful.
12:23It's all too beautiful.
12:27It's all too beautiful.
12:29He's fine.
12:34So these big, gorgeous urns are going to go in the lovely niches.
12:39They'll be the centerpiece of the room.
12:41So I just want them bursting with life.
12:43Basically, what you're doing is you're building layers.
12:46So you want to build background to foreground.
12:48If you get your foliage right, then the flowers come.
12:50Yeah.
12:51Foliage first.
12:52Foliage first.
12:52Okay.
12:53If you sort of think about it like a fan.
12:55Yeah.
12:56So...
12:56Coming out like that.
12:57Coming out, yeah.
12:58She's found a home.
12:59Yeah.
13:00You don't want to necessarily see stems.
13:02Mm-hmm.
13:02So at the back here, it might be quite nice if we just added...
13:05Some wee ones.
13:06Like some of the little ones.
13:07We want really, really clean stems.
13:10Yes.
13:12Beautiful.
13:13Wow.
13:14We made that.
13:18I've got so many beautiful pieces to go in this room.
13:22I've got a boulangerie shelf, a museum case that's going to be my ottoman, some gorgeous urns, and a lantern
13:29from Paris, France.
13:30I have delusions of grandeur, so I've always imagined that one day I'll have an orangery.
13:36So I've been shopping for this imaginary room my whole life.
13:39And finally, I have somewhere to put everything I've collected at car boots sales, charity shops, antique fairs.
13:46It's all going into the orangery.
13:48Oh, yeah.
13:50That's nice.
13:52That's from Paris, France.
13:54Maybe it was an old street light.
13:56She looks flash.
13:58While Banjo starts to fill the room with curiosities from his collection, outside, a storm is brewing.
14:06We've got tarpaulins down covering both the flat roofs, so hopefully there were the holes.
14:13Ro must depart the island in search of supplementary build materials.
14:20I got this plinth at auction from the British Museum.
14:26It would have had some kind of exhibit in it, maybe a baby woolly mammoth, a dodo.
14:31I'm thinking it would make a gorgeous ottoman.
14:34I'm going to cut a piece of timber to fit inside the niche, and then we'll wrap that with some
14:40wadding,
14:40and then some of this holstery.
14:45Then it'll be a gorgeous kind of poof.
14:51Ro woke up really early to cut this for me.
15:02But as the day folds neatly into night, the storm hits, and Ro has been stranded on Mull.
15:17Day four, mate.
15:19Yeah, I ended up spending a night in the shed last night.
15:21Yeah.
15:22Bloody hell.
15:22Wasn't worth the risk.
15:23Yeah, it was one of the windiest nights in a long, long time last night.
15:26I didn't sleep at all.
15:28We'll see if we can make it over today.
15:38But back at the house, Ro's problems have only just begun.
15:46Oh, my gosh.
15:58At either end of the flat roof is where the top is, and the roof is exposed.
16:03So it's just funneling it into this room, and it's funneling into the end room.
16:07And I don't know what I'm going to do about that.
16:09The water level's climbing.
16:11Yeah.
16:11Yeah, I know.
16:13And we need to get rid of it.
16:19Because there's more coming in to what you're getting out.
16:22But I'm not sure what the solution is.
16:24I'll go up and have a look.
16:30It's just all pooling into this channel.
16:32Once that channel fills up, it's got nowhere to go.
16:34The only place it can go is inside.
16:36I'm going to have to send all this water somewhere.
16:38I don't know what to do.
16:43If I lower you down this black plastic, can you try and feed it out the window?
16:46I'll try.
16:48Just keep it really slow.
16:53Oh, God.
16:56I'm trying.
16:57Now it's...
16:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:59It's coming in the pantry.
17:01It's coming in the pantry.
17:01Yeah, I'm trying.
17:02I'm trying.
17:27Oh, my God.
17:30Is this a small victory?
17:32Is this a small victory?
17:32We've got it going out the window?
17:34Sometimes I think we make things for the hards even harder.
17:44God, I'm trying to pull.
17:46Yeah?
17:46Can you get me a jug or something?
17:47i have to do this section by hand why didn't we do that before oh because i'm working on a
17:53different
17:53area who pizza if you could just grab a container or something not as wide as a bucket i just
18:01have
18:01to bail this section out by hand i've got a chinese takeaway cup or uh my german pottery throw the
18:07plastic up bigger okay i mean this is bad in any situation extra bad because tomorrow we're
18:21opening the orangery and now we've got a flood i'm gonna have to tell them to bring their wellies
18:27it's still raining i don't know if either of us are good in a crisis all right heather yeah i'm
18:35gonna
18:35try and send some more down oh my gosh oh god oh god
18:52is this the last bit
19:01okay well that's all the water off the thing now
19:05hello zazy what was emptying a bucket oh you did well sweetie nothing like a cross is to bring you
19:16together
19:33we're a little bit broken i think yeah it's hard that's hard there's so many challenges it's very
19:41hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel and you think have we made the biggest mistake
19:46of our
19:46life
19:52would i do it again at this stage
20:08that was too much water in inside a house i think largely we came away unscathed with all that water
20:15coming through from the storm yeah are we ready for our grand opening
20:21no i have had a terrible 18 hours why i slipped in the shed last night because it was too
20:30windy to
20:30get across all of that water came in through the roof i've just finished now there's no way i can
20:35there's no way you can do it tomorrow can we just push it back even a day we can't i've
20:40invited the
20:41gardeners barry the deer stalkers even mary mcgregor you need to bake pastries i am not baking pastries
20:49you are a qualified baker pastry chef honestly we can't have our grand opening and you can't phone
20:56it in so we need teacups saucers a white tablecloth you know what i think we had a white tablecloth
21:04and
21:04i used it to mop up all that water you're joking no i'm not joking what else what else
21:12i've got a lot on i'm stressed yeah we've both got a lot on dear it'll be lovely it'll be
21:18beautiful
21:18when it's all said and done just need to get it done yeah
21:27how beautiful is this stuff this is an 18th century boulangerie show yeah this is actually
21:33probably one of my favorite pieces you've ever ever bought really yeah all right beautiful
21:38i spent a bit of money on that don't tell me it looks beautiful don't tell me what the price
21:43is i
21:43prefer 1800 for that i got carried away she got ripped off gramophone tick
22:00happy days wow that is an illusion i'm not necessarily known for my hosting skills
22:11rose left me on my own i've got to get this place ready okay the guys are coming they're on
22:18route and i'm making tea do you know i've never really made a pot of tea before um the tarp
22:25came
22:25off the flat roofs last night oh anyway it was a fun day so what's on to do then well
22:30benj wants to
22:31have a tea party this afternoon he wants laminated pastries so he wants croissants he wants danishes
22:37okay okay okay yeah you've not got enough to do yeah i'm gonna go over to gary's and raid the
22:43honesty
22:43box i'll snaffle yourself okay um i think they're like 10 minutes away to pour tea hey do you know
22:55how long a tea should stay in the cup the ballygowan honesty box on mull is operated by esteemed pastry
23:03chef
23:03gary serving delectable delicacies to the local community
23:10the fact that you can get freshly made laminated pastries on the side of the road
23:15on the isle of mull is beyond this will be sold out in about 20 minutes people know to come
23:21here
23:21to get these these um like they're still warm like i honestly haven't had time to make this many
23:28pastries it's ridiculous as if i'm a bench he's a visionary sandwiches
23:41i'm actually quite stressed because i don't have any food yet
23:49oh a man of your work thank you very much
23:56very good
24:00okay come on in here we are barry that's lovely very nice
24:22very nice very nice
24:29the whole place is friendly again it's looking loved that's what i said yes it is anybody for some tea
24:37oh yes please paint a chocolate
24:43whoops whoops and then you know the alcoves and the light coming up that is new because it was just
24:49fantastic yeah yeah just so unexpected oh mary oh this is your house warming present or your garden
24:57warming presents is that an olive branch in there just kidding what do you think of my arrangement i think
25:03your arrangements are absolutely beautiful i took my time doing it i took your advice yeah and i'm
25:09loving the light light box underneath okay now colin the stalker here is our sparky as well so he lit
25:16these up i think this room light is the key ingredient in this room for the plants lighting up the
25:23plants
25:24barry yeah what do you remember it being like back it's a bit more crowded than it was and definitely
25:29a lot
25:30more plant leaf than there was it's got the atmosphere it's got the warmth but the room hard
25:37it's very good we've got a surprise we've got a record player all right the record barry found in here
25:53wow that's beautiful barry
25:57very nice they've done it really well um a tad too many plants for me i think
26:05the plants are overwhelming i like what they're doing with the house
26:08some of it and i'm still skeptical about hotel i just i'm just worried about them being booked up
26:18come october the whole place shuts down the whole emuls shuts down there's nobody here
26:26and i don't know what they're going to do over the winter
26:33the orangery transformation is complete and post storm the tradesmen have returned to patch the flat
26:41roof and seal the water damage well nothing great was easy so you just got to sort of remember that
26:47i
26:47think once we get the kitchen locked down and we finally get the bedroom locked down it'll feel like
26:51a home i think at the moment it doesn't feel like a home at all there's no hot water still
26:55we have
26:56a building that's not finished and no money in the bank and no guests so yeah
27:06do you regret it of course i do this is the biggest regret of my life
27:14it's horrible well but we're too far in yeah when you're too deep and you're drowning uh you just got
27:22to keep swimming yeah uh so we keep going
27:27so what becomes
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