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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
12:19It's all too beautiful
12:23It's all too beautiful
12:26It'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 centrepiece of the room
12:41So I just want them bursting with life
12:43Basically what you're doing is you're building layers
12:45So you're going to build background to foreground
12:48If you get your foliage right then the flowers come
12:50Yeah
12:51Foliage first
12:52If you sort of think about it like a fan
12:55Yeah
12:56Coming out like that
12:57Coming out, yeah
12:58She's found a home
12:59Yeah
12:59You don't want to necessarily see stems
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
13:12Wow
13:13We made that
13:18I've got so many beautiful pieces to go in this room
13:21I've got a boulangerie shelf
13:23A museum case that's going to be my ottoman
13:26Some gorgeous urns
13:28And a lantern from Paris, France
13:30I have delusions of grandeur
13:32So I've always imagined that one day I'll have an orangery
13:35So I've been shopping for this imaginary room my whole life
13:39And finally I have somewhere to put everything I've collected
13:42At car boot sales, charity shops, antique fares
13:46It's all going into the orangery
13:48Oh yeah
13:49That's nice
13:51That's from Paris, France
13:54Maybe it was an old street light
13:55She looks flash
13:58While Banjo starts to fill the room with curiosities from his collection
14:02Outside, a storm is brewing
14:06We've got tarpaulins down covering both the flat roofs
14:10So hopefully there were the holes
14:13Roe must depart the island in search of supplementary build materials
14:20I got this plinth at auction from the British Museum
14:25It would have had some kind of exhibit in it
14:29Maybe a baby woolly mammoth, a dodo
14:31I'm thinking it would make a gorgeous ottoman
14:34Gonna cut a piece of timber to fit inside the niche
14:37And then we'll wrap that with some wadding
14:40And then some of this holstery
14:45Then it'll be a gorgeous kind of poof
14:51Roe woke up really early to cut this for me
15:02But as the day folds neatly into night
15:05The storm hits
15:07And Roe has been stranded on Mull
15:17Day four, mate
15:18Yeah, 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
15:39Roe's problems have only just begun
15:46Oh my god
15:50Oh my god
15:51Oh my gosh
15:58At either end of the flat roof
16:00Is where the tarp is
16:01And the roof is exposed
16:03So it's just funneling it into this room
16:05And it's funneling into the end room
16:07And I don't know what I'm going to do about that
16:09The water levels climbing
16:11Yeah
16:12And 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
16:30Just 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
16:42If I lower you down this black plastic
16:45Can you try and feed it out the window
16:46I'll try
16:48Just keep it really slow
16:53Oh god
16:55Roe, I'm sorry
16:56Now it's
16:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
16:59It's coming in the pantry
17:00Yeah, I'm trying
17:02Oh my god
17:08God, that's going to explode
17:11Okay
17:16Oh no
17:17Yeah, I'm trying
17:19I know
17:29Is this a small victory
17:32We've got it going out the window
17:34Sometimes I think we make things that are hard even harder
17:40Ah!
17:44Hover?
17:44Yeah?
17:45Can you get me a jug or something?
17:47I have to do this section by hand
17:49Why didn't we do that before?
17:52Oh, because I'm working on a different area
17:54Ooh, pizza
17:55If you could just grab a container or something
17:58Not as wide as a bucket
18:00I just have to bail this section out by hand
18:03I've got a Chinese takeaway cup
18:05Or my German pottery
18:07Throw the plastic up
18:10There you go
18:11Okay
18:15I mean, this is bad
18:16In any situation
18:18Extra bad because
18:20Tomorrow we're opening the orangery
18:23And now we've got a flood
18:25I'm going to have to tell them to bring their wellies
18:27It's still raining
18:29I don't know if either of us are good in a crisis
18:33All right, Hover?
18:35Yeah
18:35I'm going to try and thin some more down
18:38Oh my gosh
18:39Oh my gosh
18:43Oh god
18:43Oh god
18:53Is this the last bit?
19:01Okay, well that's all the water off the thing now
19:05Oh, that was easy
19:07What was it?
19:08Emptying a bucket?
19:11Oh, you did well, sweetie
19:13Nothing 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
19:35Yeah
19:36It'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
19:44Have we made the biggest mistake of our life?
19:52Would I do it again?
19:53At this stage?
19:56Yeah, that's a good question
19:57I'm not sure
19:58I don't think I would
20:08That was too much water inside our house
20:11I think largely we came away unscathed with all that water coming through from the storm
20:17Yeah
20:18Are we ready for our grand opening?
20:20No
20:22I have had
20:24A terrible
20:2518 hours
20:26Why?
20:27I slept in the shed
20:28Last night because it was too windy to get across
20:30All of that water came in through the roof
20:32I've just finished now
20:34There's no way
20:35I can
20:35There'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
20:42Barry
20:42The deerstalkers
20:44Even Mary McGregor
20:45You need to bake pastries
20:47I am not baking pastries
20:49You are a qualified baker pastry chef
20:52Honestly, we can't have our grand opening
20:54And you can't phone it in
20:56So we need teacups
20:58Sauces
20:59A 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
21:13I'm stressed
21:15Yeah, we've both got a lot on, dear
21:17It'll be lovely
21:18It'll be beautiful
21:18When it's all said and done
21:19Just 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
21:35Ever 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
21:43$1,800
21:45But that
21:46I got carried away
21:48She got ripped off
21:50Gramophone tick
21:59Happy days
22:01Wow
22:01That 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
22:20Do you know I've never really made a pot of tea before?
22:23Um, the tarp came off the flat roofs last night
22:26Oh, anyway, it was a fun day
22:28So what's on to do then?
22:30Well, Benj wants to have a tea party this afternoon
22:33He wants laminated pastries
22:34So he wants croissants
22:35He wants danishes
22:37Okay, okay
22:38Okay, yeah
22:39You're not got enough to do
22:40Yeah
22:40I'm going to go over to Gary's
22:42And raid the honesty box
22:44I'll snaffle you some
22:45Okay
22:47Um, I think they're like 10 minutes away
22:51Too poor tea
22:53Hey, do you know
22:54How long a tea should stay in the cup?
22:58The Ballygowan honesty box on Mull
23:01Is operated by esteemed pastry chef Gary
23:04Serving delectable delicacies to the local community
23:10The fact that you can get
23:11Freshly made laminated pastries
23:13On the side of the road
23:15On the Isle of Mull
23:16Is beyond
23:18This will be sold out in about 20 minutes
23:19People know to come here to get these
23:21These, um, like
23:23They're still warm
23:23Like
23:25I honestly haven't had time
23:27To make this many pastries
23:29It's ridiculous
23:29As if
23:30Oh my God
23:30Benj
23:33He's a visionary
23:36Sandwiches
23:41I'm actually quite stressed
23:42Because I don't have any food yet
23:49Oh, a man of your work
23:51Thank you very much
23:56Very good
24:01Okay, come on in
24:04Here we are, Barry
24:05Lovely, very nice
24:22Very nice
24:23Very nice
24:24Wow
24:25Yes
24:30The whole place is friendly again
24:32It's looking loved
24:34That's what I said
24:35Yes, it is
24:36Anybody for some tea?
24:38Oh, yes, please
24:38Pain of chocolate
24:42Whoops
24:43Whoops
24:44And then, you know, the alcoves
24:46And the light coming up
24:47That is new
24:48The lighting is fantastic
24:49Yeah
24:49Yeah, it's really nice
24:50Just so unexpected
24:52Oh, Mary
24:54Aw
24:54Is it your housewarming present
24:56Or your gardenwarming present?
24:58Is that an olive branch in there?
25:00Just kidding
25:00What do you think of my arrangement?
25:03I think your arrangements are absolutely beautiful
25:05I took my time doing it
25:07Mm-hmm
25:07I took your advice
25:09Yeah, and I love the light box underneath
25:11Okay, now Colin, the stalker here, is our sparky as well
25:15So he lit these up
25:17Yeah
25:17I think this room, light is the key ingredient in this room
25:21For 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
25:29And definitely a lot more plant life than there was
25:33It's got the atmosphere
25:34It's got the warmth that the room had
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
25:57Very nice
25:58They've done it really well
26:01A tad too many plants for me
26:04I think the plants are overwhelming
26:06I like what they're doing with the house
26:08Some of it
26:11And I'm still sceptible about hotel
26:14I just
26:15I'm just worried about them being booked up
26:18Come October
26:19The whole place shuts down
26:21The whole emulter shuts down
26:23There's nobody here
26:26And I don't know what they're going to do
26:28Over the winter
26:33The orangery transformation is complete
26:36And post-storm
26:38The tradesmen have returned to patch the flat roof
26:41And 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
26:49And we finally get the bedroom locked down
26:51It'll feel like a home
26:52I think at the moment
26:52It doesn't feel like a home at all
26:54There's no hot water still
26:55We have a building that's not finished
26:58And no money in the bank
26:59And 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
27:15But we're too far in
27:17Yeah
27:17When you're too deep
27:19And you're drowning
27:20You've just got to keep swimming
27:22Yeah
27:24So, we keep going
27:26So, what becomes of you, my love
27:34When I finally stripped you off
27:39The handbags and the flag drives
27:43That's your poor old man
27:45I'd have to sweat to buy you
27:59I'd have to sweat to buy you
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