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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.
12:10It's all too beautiful.
12:28He's fine.
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're going to build background to foreground if you get your foliage right then
12:50the flowers come yeah foliage first okay if you sort of think about it like a fan yeah so coming
12:56out coming out yeah she's found a home yeah you don't want to necessarily see stems so at the back
13:03here it might be quite nice if we just added some wee ones like some of the little ones we
13:07want really
13:08really clean stems yes beautiful wow we made that i've got so many beautiful pieces to go in this
13:21room i've got a boulangerie shelf a museum case that's going to be my ottoman some gorgeous urns
13:28and a lantern from paris france i have delusions of grandeur so i've always imagined that one day i'll
13:35have an orangery so i've been shopping for this imaginary room my whole life and finally i have
13:40somewhere to put everything i've collected at car boot sales charity shops antique fairs it's all going
13:47into the orangery oh yeah that's nice that's from paris france maybe it was an old street light 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
14:13roe must depart the island in search of supplementary build materials
14:20i got this plinth that auction from the british museum it would have had a some kind of exhibit
14:28in it maybe a baby woolly mammoth a dodo i'm thinking it would make a gorgeous ottoman gonna
14:34cut a piece of timber to fit inside the niche and then we'll wrap that with some wadding and then
14:41some of this holstery then it'll be a gorgeous kind of puff
14:51roe woke up really early to cut this for me
15:02but as the day folds neatly into night the storm hits and roe has been stranded on mull
15:16so day four 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
15:26night i didn't sleep at all we'll see if we can make it over today
15:38but back at the house rose 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 so it's just
16:04funneling it
16:04into this room and it's funneling into the end room um and i don't know what i'm going to do
16:08about that
16:10the water levels climbing yeah um and we need to get rid of it
16:19because there's more coming in to what you're getting out uh but i'm not sure what the solution
16:24is i'll go up and have a look just all pooling into this channel once that channel fills up it's
16:33got
16:33nowhere to go the only place it can go is inside i'm going to have to send all this water
16:37somewhere
16:38i don't i 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 just keep it really slow
16:53oh god no i'm sorry now it's it's no no no no no no no no no it's coming in
17:00the pantry
17:00yeah i'm crying oh my god god god that's gonna explode okay
17:16oh no yeah i'm trying i know
17:30it's just a small victory we've got it going out the window sometimes i think we make things for the
17:37hard even harder
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 oh pizza if you could just
17:56grab
17:56a container or something not as wide as a bucket i just have to bail this section out by hand
18:03i've got
18:03a chinese takeaway cup or uh my german pottery throw the plastic up
18:10bigger okay
18:15i mean this is bad in any situation extra bad because tomorrow we're opening the orangery and
18:23now we've got a flood i'm gonna have to tell them to bring their wellies it's still raining i don't
18:30know if either of us are good in a crisis all right heather yeah i'm gonna try and send some
18:37more down
18:42oh god oh god
18:53oh that's the last bit
19:01okay well that's all the water off the thing now oh that was easy what was emptying a bucket
19:11oh you did well sweetie nothing like a crisis to bring you together
19:23i'm cooked i'm so tired
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 life
19:52would i do it again at this stage yeah that's a good question i'm not sure i don't think i
20:00would
20:08that was too much water in inside a house i think largely we came away unscathed with all that
20:15water coming through from the storm yeah are we ready for our grand opening no i have had
20:24a terrible 18 hours why i slept in the shed last night because it was too windy to get across
20:30all of
20:31that water came in through the roof i've just finished now there's no way i can there's no way
20:36you can do it tomorrow can we just push it back even a day we can't i've invited the gardeners
20:42barry
20:42the deer stalkers even mary mcgregor you need to bake pastries i am not baking pastries you are a
20:50qualified baker pastry chef honestly we can't have our grand opening and you can't phone it in
20:56so we need teacups sauces a white tablecloth you know what i think we had a white tablecloth
21:04and i 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 i'm stressed yeah we've both got a lot on dear it'll be lovely it'll be beautiful
21:18when
21:19it's all said and done just need to get it done yeah how beautiful is this stuff this is an
21:3018th
21:30century boulangerie show yeah this is actually probably one of my favorite pieces you've ever
21:36really yeah all right beautiful i spent a bit of money on that don't tell me it looks beautiful
21:42don't tell me what the price is i prefer not 1800 that i got carried away she got ripped off
21:50gramophone 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 joe i've never really made a pot of tea before um the tarp came off
22:25the
22:25flat roofs last night oh anyway it's a fun day so what's on to do then well bench wants to
22:31have
22:31a tea party this afternoon he wants laminated pastries so he wants croissants he wants danishes
22:37okay okay yeah you're not gonna have to do yeah i'm gonna go over to gary's and raid the odyssey
22:43box i'll snaffle yourself okay um i think they're like 10 minutes away too poor tea
22:53hey do you know how long a tea should stay in the cup the ballygowan honesty box on mull is
23:01operated
23:01by esteemed pastry chef gary serving delectable delicacies to the local community
23:10the fact that you can get freshly made laminated pastries on the side of the road on the isle of
23:16mull is beyond this will be sold out in about 20 minutes people know to come here to get these
23:21these um like they're still warm like i honestly haven't had time to make this many pastries it's
23:29ridiculous as if oh my bench he's a visionary sandwiches i'm actually quite stressed because
23:43i don't have any food yet oh a man of your work thank you very much
23:56very good okay come on in here we are barry that's lovely very nice
24:22very nice very nice wow yeah
24:30the 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 pain of chocolate
24:43and then you know the alcoves and the light coming up that's as new as it was just fantastic yeah
24:49yeah
24:50just so unexpected oh mary oh this is your house warming present or your garden warming presents is
24:58that an olive branch in there just kidding what do you think of my arrangement i think your arrangements
25:04are absolutely beautiful i took my time doing it i took your advice yeah and i'm loving the light
25:10light box under okay now colin the stalker here is our sparky as well so he he lit these up
25:17i think this
25:18room light is the key ingredient in this room for the plants lighting up the plants barry yeah what
25:25do you remember it being like back it's a bit more crowded than it was and definitely a lot more
25:30plant
25:30leaf than there was it's got the atmosphere it's got the warmth that the room had it's very good
25:39we'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
26:04the plants are overwhelming i like what they're doing with the house some of it and i'm still
26:12sceptible about hotel i just i'm just worried about them being booked up come october the whole place
26:20shuts down the whole amul shuts down there's nobody here and i don't know what they're going to do over
26:28the winter
26:33the orangery transformation is complete and post storm the tradesmen have returned to patch the
26:40flat roof and seal the water damage well nothing great was easy so you're just going to sort of
26:46remember that i think once we get the kitchen locked down and we finally get the bedroom locked
26:50down it'll feel like a home i think at the moment it doesn't feel like a home at all there's
26:54hot water still we have a building that's not finished and no money in the bank and no guests so
27:03yeah
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
27:29so what becomes
27:30you my love
27:35when love finally strips you
27:38how much time your blood drives that's your poor old brand
27:45i'd have to sweat to buy you
27:52so
27:57you
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