German upmarket timber frame manufacturer Huf Haus was bracing itself for sales enquiries after one of its properties featured on the Channel 4 Grand Designs series.
Last week the programme showed a retired couple in Surrey selecting the £450,000 design to replace their old house, which they’d had demolished. It covered their visit to the Huf Haus factory in Germany and the construction of the shell of the property in just four days. It then followed the interior finishing work.
Afra Bindewald, who handles Huf Haus’s UK marketing and business development from its Leatherhead office, said the company had already received a lot of enquiries following the programme and was expecting more. “We even had a housing association enquiring whether we’d be able to handle a development of 1,000 dwellings. We had to say no as our factory’s capacity is 200 a year.”
Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud was effusive in his praise of the quality of the Huf Haus which he also said was “a home with soul”.
