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00:12So this little box is very exciting. We can have power finally. This is going to be the first time
00:19Lane's power has been on in here in probably eight years. Let's talk more and more switch on, Ray.
00:25Okay. You're joking. There's lights. Amazing. Thanks so much. It's just daft how excited I am about this. It's just
00:38when you don't have a refrigerator to cool your food or plug in a washing machine and wash your clothes.
00:44You can plug in a phone charger. You can plug in a telly. Grandpa, what's that? It'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 mains power too. But the
01:28recent 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. What I'm worried about is the weather. I'm absolutely pet fraud of the weather. This is going to be
01:44done in stages. The contractors are doing all the carpentry work, building it, putting all the trusses back in.
01:50Next week is horrific weather. It's going to be wet. I'm really worried. This is one of six rooms that's
01:58exposed and doesn't have a ceiling on it. And I'm just worried about, you know, if the place gets damp
02:03again, you know, it was completely dried out.
02:05What's that mean for those rooms? You know, it's going to be awful. It's not just like normal Scottish rain.
02:13It's going to be awful.
02:15On the south easterly corner of Ulva House lies what was once the drawing room. Banjo and Roe will tackle
02:22this room next, transforming it into a social space for hotel guests.
02:30I love this room. It's my favorite room. This room is going to get people here. Yeah. It's the main
02:36event. We want to make sure the room still feels like it's old and grand. Yeah. It would be really
02:43easy just to repaint it. We want to preserve that faded glamour. Yeah. Want the walls to be an arrested
02:51decay.
02:51Even 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 orangerie.
03:25What's an orangerie?
03:26Like a greenhouse, an herbarium, full of plants. This room needs to feel alive. It already does, since that's not
03:36just the mould.
03:37All the plants growing through the window.
03:38Yeah.
03:46You want those things? Stress. Stress me out.
03:49Just don't get in the way between a man and his secretary.
03:53Yeah, I'll stay back here.
03:55Aw, sad to say goodbye to our indoor plant.
04:05Yeah!
04:07That is crazy. That was a couple of metres.
04:09Too 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 of our house. It was a very nice house. I hope
04:31the house is renovated and it can become what I remember it being.
04:39He's a tough cookie. He'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. It was very lightly furnished.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Lots of space. It 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? What would get you over?
05:07Christmas.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Halloween.
05:10Halloween.
05:11What about high tea?
05:15Oh, definitely. Oh, yes. I found in the barn the record collection from 1906.
05:25So if we could get a record player which could play a dam, we could have an Edwardian high tea
05:32from 1906.
05:34We'll put our Sunday best on.
05:35Yeah.
05:36All right.
05:36Certain tie.
05:37Oh, okay. Fancy.
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's 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 rondelle.
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.
06:45Then I use something called crackle glaze and I just brush it on and I leave it for 20 minutes
06:53and then I put this colour, which I've colour matched, on top.
06:57It will crackle and reveal what's underneath.
07:01And 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 opened my big mouth and I said, we could do that.
07:52I mean, look at them.
07:53They're so cute.
07:54Ulver'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.
08:12And 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.
08:24A standout event in the local society calendar that has been running for 135 years.
08:32Hey, big legs.
08:34And 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 a legal 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...
09:01I made a very powerful enemy.
09:04The mighty Mary McGregor.
09:06Well, well, well, what do you know it?
09:09Mary.
09:11My 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...
10:43Nothing.
10:47That's stunning.
10:49Yours is beautiful.
10:50Who comes first?
10:54Mary McGregor.
10:58Congratulations, Mary.
11:02Mary, 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.
11:16Oh, I thought it was my year.
11:23All right, if Mary wants to play that game,
11:26I'm bringing in reinforcement for the hotel
11:28because I want to have the best blooms
11:30in the whole of the Hebrides.
11:40I've invited Lewisina and Lauren.
11:42They are growers and florists,
11:45and they're going to show me how it's really done.
11:49Under dreaming spots
11:52to Ichiku Park
11:54at the square...
11:54All right.
11:56Oh, no!
11:59Oh, no!
12:01Fuck!
12:02You all right?
12:05Flower, please!
12:07It's all too beautiful.
12:11It's all too beautiful.
12:15It's all too beautiful.
12:22It's all too beautiful.
12:27It's all too beautiful.
12:28It's all too beautiful.
12:29He's fine.
12:31It's all too beautiful.
12:34so these big gorgeous urns are gonna go in the lovely niches they'll be the centerpiece of the
12:41room so I just want them bursting with life basically what you're doing is you're building
12:45layers so you want to build background to foreground if you get your foliage right
12:49then the flowers come yeah college first okay if you sort of think about it like a fan yeah
12:55so coming out coming out yeah she's found at home yeah you don't want to necessarily see stems so
13:02at the back here it might be quite nice if we just added some we want like some of the
13:06little
13:07ones we want really really clean stems yes we made that I've got so many beautiful pieces to go in
13:21this room I've got a boulangerie shelf a museum case that's gonna be my ottoman some gorgeous urns and a
13:29lantern from Paris France I have delusions of grandeur so I've always imagined that one day
13:34I'll have an orangery so I've been shopping for this imaginary room my whole life and finally I
13:40have somewhere to put everything I've collected at car boot sales charity shops antique fares it's all
13:47going into the orangery oh yeah that's nice that's from Paris France maybe it was an old streetlight she
13:57looks flash while Banjo starts to fill the room with curiosities from his collection outside a storm is
14:05brewing we've got our tarpaulins down covering both the flat roofs so hopefully there were the holes
14:14roe must depart the island in search of supplementary build materials
14:21I got this plinth that auction from the British Museum it would have had a some kind of exhibit in
14:29it maybe a baby woolly mammoth a dodo I'm thinking it would make a gorgeous ottoman gonna cut a piece
14:35of
14:35timber to fit inside the niche and then we'll wrap that with some wadding and then some of this
14:44holstery then it'll be a gorgeous kind of poof
14:51roe woke up really early to cut this for me
15:01but as the day folds neatly into night the storm hits and roe has been stranded on mull
15:17day boring all right yeah I ended up spending a night in the shed last night yeah bloody hell
15:22wasn't worth the risk yeah it was one of the windiest nights in a long long time last night
15:26I didn't sleep at all I'll see if we can make it over today
15:37but back at the house roe's problems have only just begun
15:45oh my god oh my god
15:58at either end of the flat roof is where the tarp is and the roof is exposed so it's just
16:04funneling it into this room and it's funneling into the end room um and I don't know what I'm
16:08going to do about that the water levels climbing yeah um and we need we need to get rid of
16:14it
16:19but there's more coming into what you're getting out uh but I'm not sure what the solution is I'll
16:24go up and have a look
16:30just all pooling into this channel once that channel fills up it's got nowhere to go the
16:34only place it can go is inside I'm gonna have to send all this water somewhere I don't I don't
16:39know
16:39what to do if 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
17:02oh my god
17:08oh my god that's gonna explode okay
17:16oh no yeah I'm trying I know
17:30is this a small victory we've got it going out the window
17:34sometimes I think we make things for the hard even harder
17:40ah
17:44how about yeah can you get me a jug or something I have to do this section by hand
17:49why didn't we do that before oh because I'm working on a different area
17:54oh pizza if you could just grab a container or something not as wide as a bucket I just have
18:01to bail this section out by hand I've got a Chinese takeaway car for my German pottery throw the plastic
18:08up
18:10there you go
18:11I mean this is bad in any situation extra bad because tomorrow we're opening the orange roof and now we've
18:24got a flood I'm gonna have to tell them to bring their wellies it's still raining I don't know if
18:30either of us are good in a crisis
18:33all right Heather yeah I'm gonna try and send some more down
18:37oh my gosh oh my gosh
18:42oh my god oh my god
18:53that's the last bit
19:01okay well that's all the water off the thing now
19:05Oh, that was easy.
19:07What was?
19:08Emptying a f***ing bucket?
19:11Oh, you did well, sweetie.
19:14Nothing like a crisis to bring you together.
19:23I'm cooked.
19:25I'm so tired.
19:33We're a little bit broken, I think.
19:36Yeah.
19:37It's hard.
19:38It's hard.
19:38There's so many challenges.
19:40It's very hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
19:43And you think, have we made the biggest mistake of our life?
19:52Would I do it again at this stage?
19:56Yeah, that's a good question.
19:58I'm not sure.
19:59I don't think I would.
20:08That was too much water inside our house.
20:12I think largely we came away unscathed
20:15with all that water coming through from the storm.
20:17Yeah.
20:18Are we ready for our grand opening?
20:20No.
20:22I have had a terrible 18 hours.
20:26Why?
20:27I slipped in the shed last night
20:29because it was too windy to get across.
20:31All of that water came in through the roof.
20:33I've just finished now.
20:34There's no way I can...
20:36There's no way we can do it tomorrow.
20:37Can we just push it back even a day?
20:39We can't.
20:40I've invited the gardeners, Barry, the deer stalkers,
20:44even Mary McGregor.
20:45You need to bake pastries?
20:48I am not baking pastries.
20:50You are a qualified baker pastry chef.
20:52Honestly, we can't have our grand opening
20:55and you can't phone it in.
20:57So we need teacups, sauces, a white tablecloth.
21:02You know what?
21:03I think we had a white tablecloth
21:04and I used it to mop up all that water.
21:06You're joking.
21:07No, I'm not joking.
21:08What else?
21:09What else?
21:12I've got a lot on.
21:13I'm stressed.
21:15Yeah, we've both got a lot on, dear.
21:17It'll be lovely.
21:18It'll be beautiful when it's all said and done.
21:20Just need to get it done.
21:22Yeah.
21:27How beautiful is this stuff?
21:29This is an 18th century boulangerie chef.
21:32Yeah.
21:32This is actually probably one of my favourite pieces
21:34you've ever bought.
21:36Really?
21:37Yeah.
21:37All right, beautiful.
21:38I spent a bit of money on that.
21:40Don't tell me.
21:41It looks beautiful.
21:42Don't tell me what the price is.
21:43I'd prefer not to know.
21:43$1,800.
21:46But that...
21:47I got carried away.
21:49She got ripped off.
21:51Gramophone tick?
22:00Happy days.
22:01Wow.
22:03That is an illusion.
22:06I'm not necessarily known for my hosting skills.
22:11Rose left me on my own.
22:13I've got to get this place ready.
22:15Okay, the guys are coming.
22:17They're en route.
22:18And I'm making tea.
22:21Do you know I've never really made a pot of tea before?
22:24The tarp came off the flat roofs last night.
22:27Anyway, it was a fun day.
22:29So what's on to do then?
22:30Well, Benj wants to have a tea party this afternoon.
22:33He wants laminated pastries, so he wants croissants.
22:36He wants danishes.
22:37Okay, okay.
22:38Yeah.
22:39You've not got enough to do.
22:40Yeah.
22:41I'm going to go over to Gary's and raid the Odyssey Box.
22:44I'll snaffle you some.
22:45Okay.
22:47I think they're, like, ten minutes away.
22:51Too poor tea.
22:53Hey, do you know how long a tea should stay in the cup?
22:58The Ballygowan Honesty Box on Mull is operated by esteemed pastry chef Gary,
23:04serving 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 Malle, is beyond.
23:18This will be sold out in about 20 minutes.
23:20People know to come here to get these.
23:21These are, like, they're still warm.
23:24Like, I honestly haven't had time to make this many pastries.
23:29It's ridiculous.
23:30As if, oh my God, Benj.
23:34He's a visionary.
23:35So, sandwiches.
23:41I'm actually quite stressed because I don't have any food yet.
23:50Oh, a man of your work.
23:51Thank you very much.
23:55Mmm.
23:56Very good.
24:01Okay, come on in.
24:04Here we are, Barry.
24:05That was lovely.
24:06Very nice.
24:22Very nice.
24:23Very nice.
24:24Oh, wow.
24:30The whole place is friendly again.
24:33It's looking loved.
24:34That's what I said.
24:35Yes, it is.
24:36Anybody for some tea?
24:38Oh, yes, please.
24:39Pain of chocolate.
24:41Hey.
24:43Whoops.
24:44Whoops.
24:44And then, you know, the alcoves and the light coming up.
24:47The lighting, yes.
24:47That is new.
24:48The lighting is fantastic, yeah.
24:50Yeah, it's really nice.
24:50Just so unexpected.
24:52Oh, Mary.
24:54Aw.
24:55Is it your housewarming present or your gardenwarming presents?
24:58Is that an olive branch in there?
25:00Just kidding.
25:01What do you think of my arrangement?
25:03I think your arrangements are absolutely beautiful.
25:05I took my time doing it.
25:07Mm-hmm.
25:08I took your advice.
25:09Yeah, and I love the light, the light box underneath.
25:11Okay.
25:12Now, Colin, the stalker here, is our sparky as well.
25:15So, he lit these up.
25:17I think this room, light is the key ingredient in this room for the plants, lighting up the plants.
25:24Barry?
25:25Yeah, what do you remember it being like, Barry?
25:27It's a bit more crowded than it was and definitely a lot more plant life than there was.
25:33It's got the atmosphere, it's got the warmth, but the room hard.
25:37It's very good.
25:39We've got a surprise.
25:41We've got a record player.
25:42All right.
25:43The record Barry found in here.
25:53Wow.
25:54That's beautiful, Barry.
25:58Very nice.
25:59They've done it really well.
26:02It's a tad too many plants for me.
26:04I think the plants are overwhelming.
26:06I like what they're doing with the house, some of it, and I'm still sceptible about hotel.
26:14I just, I'm just worried about them being booked up.
26:18Come October, the whole place shuts down.
26:22The whole emulps shuts down.
26:23There's nobody here.
26:26And I don't know what they're going to do over the winter.
26:33The Orangery transformation is complete.
26:36And post-storm, the tradesmen have returned to patch the flat roof and seal the water damage.
26:43Well, nothing great was easy.
26:45So you've just got to sort of remember that.
26:47I think once we get the kitchen locked down and we finally get the bedroom locked down,
26:51it'll feel like a home.
26:52I think at the moment it doesn't feel like a home at all.
26:54There's no hot water still.
26:55We have a building that's not finished and no money in the bank and no guests.
27:02So, yeah.
27:06Do you regret it?
27:08Of course I do.
27:10This is the biggest regret of my life.
27:14It's horrible.
27:16But we're too far in.
27:17Yeah, when you're too deep and you're drowning, you've just got to keep swimming.
27:23Yeah.
27:24So we keep going.
27:27So what becomes of you, my love?
27:34When love finally strips you up?
27:40How much time you fly drives?
27:43That's your poor old man.
27:45I'm not half the sweat tomorrow.
27:51Yeah.
27:53Yeah.
27:54Yeah.
27:55Yeah.
27:56Yeah.
27:57Yeah.
27:58Yeah.
27:58Yeah.
27:59Yeah.
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