I spent £7 million renovating my property and now I can’t sell it – people say it’s cursed
THE misfortune-after-misfortune saga of the “saddest ever” Grand Designs property continues, as the owner won’t be able to sell the house for another decade.
Grand Designs’ ”saddest” property may not sell find a new owner for ten years as “sadness is ingrained into every wall and window,” according to a psychic.
Chesil Cliff House in Devon, the UK, made headlines after it brought owner Edward Short a seemingly never-ending stream of misery for a whopping 12 years.
Not just that, but building the lavish white property by the coast left him with a hefty £7million in debt – and even cost him his marriage.
Edward began working on the picturesque five-bedroom, glass-fronted pad in 2010, with plans to live there with his then-wife Hazel and their two children Nicole and Lauren, now both in their 20s.
With an initial budget of close to £2m, the dad hoped to complete the ambitious project in 18 months – however, development issues meant the building process went on for a long 12 years, with costs spiralling out of control.
However, once the property had finally been complete, it was not to everyone’s taste, as British designer Kevin McCloud described it on Grand Designs as the “carcass” of a seashore wreckage.
Looking back at the time, which had put the family under a lot of stress, especially given the mounting debt, Edward previously said: “The whole project has been a horrendous strain for Hazel, I have sunk our family purse into this and I really feel for her.
”I never meant to put her through any of this,” he told DevonLive.
“There’s a lot of guilt about that.
”But there was no way out, once we started. If we didn’t finish we’d have been in big trouble,” the dad said in a chat with The Sun.
Since then, the lighthouse property has been put up for sale – however, with no luck of potential buyers keen to snap it up.
And according to tarot reader and celebrity psychic Inbaal Honigman, who spoke to the Daily Star, it more bad news for Edward and the £7million mansion.
“The Tarot card which comes up for the house is the very sad seven of Swords,” she said.
“It is a card named ‘futility’, which represents grief, loss and loneliness.
“Houses carry the energy of people and events that existed within them, and the Grand Designs’ saddest house’s history of separation and subsequent loneliness is represented in this Tarot card.”
What’s more, she noted, the sadness is essentially ”ingrained into every wall and window”.
Another card – the 10 of Wands – revealed that the house is most likely to not sell in the next ten years, if it remains as is.
Inbaal added that for the outcome to change, the circumstances have to change – and there are some things the owner could do.
Inbaal pointed out that the house needs to to have its energy uplifted for the property to finally sell – and one way to achieving that is placing rose quartz crystals for love around the mansion.
Work on Chesil Cliff House started with a budget of £1.8m and was supposed to be completed within 18 months.
Last year, the unfinished home was taken off an estate agent’s site during talks with a “serious buyer”, who reportedly backed out at the last minute.