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The canicule aback bodies lived in dark, clammy and alone holes in Britain are, thankfully, continued gone. But one above agent has autonomous to acknowledgment to underground active by architecture his dream home in a cavern - in a bid to cure his Multiple Sclerosis.
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Grand Designs man spends £100k carving a CAVE into his dream house ... | Cave House Grand DesignsAngelo Mastropietro, 37, spent eight months alone transforming the 800-year-old hobbit aperture in the Wyre Forest in Worcestershire into a 21st aeon man cave, complete with active water, underfloor heating and alike wi-fi.
The above application bang-up was aggressive to buy the cavern afterwards actuality diagnosed with MS at the age of 29, a agitator which affected him to amend his high-flying career and the accent and ailing affairs that came forth with it.
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A above agent has alternate to underground active by converting a cavern in the Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, into his dream home
Angelo Mastropietro, 37, spent eight months alone transforming the 800-year-old hobbit aperture into a 21st aeon affluence bolthole
The father-of-two biconcave 70 tonnes of bean by duke afore axis his dream into a reality. This is the accomplished dining allowance in the cave
Mr Mastropietro, who advised and created this kitchen, spotted the cavern aback he and some accompany begin apartment during a backing bike ride
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Grand Designs man spends £100k carving a CAVE into his dream house ... | Cave House Grand DesignsAlthough he capital a calm and peaceful home Mr Mastropietro did not avoid all the accouterment of avant-garde activity and has electricity and water
He again set about carving, acid and conduct into the sandstone hillside - including excavating 70 tonnes of bean by duke - to accomplish his dream a reality.
Describing the activity on tonight's adventure of Grand Designs, he said: 'MS was triggered by bloom and affairs and that was the agitator I bare to admonish me that I bare to be alert of my bloom and be admiring of my lifestyle. I capital to be in a abode breadth I had a happier and convalescent life.
'It's in a admirable location, it's uplifting, it makes you feel good, it's actual relaxing. While you are a mile from the abutting pub or supermarket, you're a thousand afar aback in history.'
The father-of-two, who alternate to Britain in 2010 afterwards added than a decade active in Australia, aboriginal came beyond the cavern in 1999 aback he and some accompany were affected to acquisition apartment during a backing bike ride.
He bought the cavern (pictured from alfresco afore the makeover) for £62,000 afterwards seeing it advertised in the bounded acreage supplement
The aphotic and bedimmed amplitude bare to be absolutely renovated, with bags of man hours actuality put into abrading through the stone
Incredibly, while he was flicking through a acreage supplement added than ten years later, he noticed the actual aforementioned cavern was up for auction for £62,000.
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Grand Designs man spends £100k carving a CAVE into his dream house ... | Cave House Grand DesignsBelieving it was fate, Mr Mastropieto bought the bolthole. Then, with a account of aloof £100,000, he began active assignment to burrow the cavern afore acid and conduct into the hillside to actualize his backcountry retreat.
Mr Mastropieto did not charge planning permission and had no advice of how to catechumen the space, with the alone artist actuality his abundant imagination.
And, with the connected blackmail of his affliction - which already larboard him paralysed - the all-encompassing chiral labour was a bigger application than usual.
The completed home, which appearance on tonight's Grand Designs, has a huge terrace, affectionate apartment and white walls to brighten it up
Last lived in added than seven decades ago, the cavern is cut into 50ft aerial sandstone cliffs in an breadth which allegedly aggressive JRR Tolkien to actualize Middle Earth. Pictured larboard is the newly-installed chase for Mr Mastropietro's wood-burning stoves
Mr Mastropieto did not charge planning permission and had no advice of how to catechumen the space. He spent £100,000 on the conversion
'If I anticipate about it, I do get scared,' he tells the Channel 4 show. 'I accept actually been paralysed afore and it does put the abhorrence of God into you really.'
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Grand Designs cave house - Grand Designs Magazine | Cave House Grand DesignsLast lived in added than seven decades ago, the cavern is cut into 50ft aerial sandstone cliffs in an breadth which allegedly aggressive JRR Tolkien to actualize Middle Earth and its acclaimed fabulous creatures.
The cavern - which has been in its accepted four-bedroom anatomy for 300 years - was alone in the backward 1940s and has been falling into busted anytime since. It is allotment of a row of caves advised to be the oldest inhabited bedrock houses in the accomplished of Europe - archaeological architects accept it was about in its ancient anatomy about 800 years ago.
Mr Mastropieto (pictured) said that his analysis fabricated him realise that he bare to account his anatomy and alive a beneath demanding lifestyle
With the connected blackmail of his affliction - which already larboard him paralysed - the all-encompassing chiral labour was a bigger application than usual
The cavern was alone in the backward 1940s and has been falling into busted anytime since. Pictured: Presenter Kevin McCloud helps Mr Mastropieto actualize a congenital apparel in what will eventually become one of the cave's bedrooms
But although he capital a calm and peaceful home - and to accumulate the aspect of the cavern - Mr Mastropietro did not avoid all the accouterment of avant-garde activity and instead brought baptize and electricity to the cavern abode for the aboriginal time.
'I appetite to bless that it is a cavern dwellings, but I appetite to add avant-garde day luxuries,' he says. 'It absolutely has a avant-garde feel but hopefully retains some cavern charm.'
The completed home has a huge terrace, affectionate apartment and white walls to brighten up the cave. He additionally installed huge bottle doors and oak-framed windows to let in the light.
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