\n ****\n<\/p>\n
\n In the words of the old song, they\u2019ve been together now for 25 years, and usually it doesn\u2019t seem a day too long. Phil the cheeky charmer, Kirstie the no-nonsense head girl \u2013 the partnership is one of the most successful on the box.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n But in the first episode of a new series of Love It or List It, the pair seemed to come the closest they have ever been to falling out on screen – and it happened in East Renfrewshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n Julia and Simon were the couple billed as having the stay-or-go argument. In a series first, \u201cserial house shopper\u201d Simon was the one keen to move. And Julia? \u201cWe\u2019ve done six house moves in 10 years. Please don\u2019t make me move again,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The family home in the village of Waterfoot was a four-bed detached, bought when they had one child. There were now four children, plus Julia and Simon.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both running their own businesses from home, the couple had already spent a \u201csubstantial\u201d amount trying to make the house work, but to no avail. The hallway was still a \u201croundabout\u201d, and there was one family bathroom with no bath. Julia was convinced, however, that this house, with its large back garden, was their \u201cforever home\u201d.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Enter Kirstie and Phil. All was well on the drive up, with Phil quizzing his chum on her knowledge of Scottish property phrases. \u201cGaff\u201d was too easy, she was half right with \u201cflitting\u201d, and wholly correct about Phil\u2019s linguistic skills: \u201cI don\u2019t think our Scottish friends are going to thank you for that accent,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Phil thought the house itself was lovely, but couldn\u2019t work with the number of people; Kirstie, however, thought it was eminently doable, and therein lay the spat. Phil had a budget of \u00a3650k to find a new place; Kirstie had \u00a3150k to renovate a house already valued at \u00a3500k.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDon\u2019t spend too much money on this house,\u201d said an unusually adamant Phil.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to spend too much money,\u201d Kirstie batted back.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Read more<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \n Okay, so it was hardly Burton and Taylor going at it in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but there was a definite tension in the air. \u201cMum and Dad\u201d were arguing, and we didn\u2019t like it.\n<\/p>\n \n Kirstie ploughed ahead with an extension, and Phil took the couple on a property hunt. The first stop was Jackton, where a five-bed new build was on offer for over \u00a3550k. They liked the turnkey condition, but the house was overlooked by neighbouring properties.\n<\/p>\n \n A detached villa in East Kilbride<\/a>, offers over \u00a3620k, was huge and well turned out, but Julia wanted more character. For his last roll of the dice, Phil took the pair to Paisley<\/a> and a detached Victorian villa with a modern two-storey extension.\n<\/p>\n \n Phil said it was one of the nicest houses he had filmed in. It was stunning, but would it persuade the couple to up sticks once more?\n<\/p>\n \n See for yourself by catching up on Channel 4 streaming. Enough to say harmony was restored, and all was right in the property world once more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"**** In the words of the old song, they\u2019ve been together now for 25 years, and usually it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-681200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115856985595617983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}