Kirstie and Phil's Love it or List It viewers slam 'lazy' couple

‘They just needed to tidy up’: Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List It viewers slam ‘lazy’ couple searching for £500,000 house because they had ‘no space’ in their cluttered four bedroom home

  • Emily and Chris , from Cambridgeshire, were on Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It 
  • Couple said they’d debated putting their house on the market for several years
  • However Chris was keen to stay in the property they had lived in for 12 years  
  • Kirstie said they needed to do ‘a good declutter’ rather than build an extension
  • Couple ended up tidying up and moving their bedroom into the ‘junk room’ 
  • Viewers were underwhelmed, with one saying: ‘They need to tidy their house’ 

Viewers of Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List It slammed a couple as ‘lazy and tasteless’ after they insisted they had ‘no space’ in their four-bedroom home – before ‘decluttering’ the rooms and deciding to stay. 

Emily and Chris, from Cambridgeshire, had been locking horns over whether to sell their three-bed semi detached home for four years, having lived in the property for over a decade. 

The couple had allocated £60,000 to transform their home, but also had a £500,000 budget to buy if they listed their property on the market. 

Following Kirstie’s advice on the show, they decluttered several rooms in their home, and spent £12,500 adding a porch extension and £7,500 on a garden shed which they hoped could be used as a study when their children grew older. 

But many of those watching were unimpressed with the couple, with one writing: ‘So this couple want Kirstie and Phil to tidy their house basically?’

Viewers of Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List It slammed Emily and Chris, from Cambridgeshire, as ‘lazy and tasteless’ after they insisted they had ‘no space’ in their four-bedroom home – before ‘decluttering’ the rooms and deciding to stay (pictured, their ‘dumping’ room) 

Following Kirstie’s advice on the show, they decluttered several rooms in their home, moving their bedroom into the former junk room (pictured, after) 

Another added: ‘These are the two, who are lazy and have no taste.’

A third commented: ‘Couple find they have a 4th bedroom by tidying up! It’s a miracle.’ 

At the start of the programme, construction project manager Chris said they were struggling to find space for their growing family in the house.

HE confessed: ‘Everything is just out, because we don’t have space to put things away.’

At the start of the programme, construction project manager Chris said they were struggling to find space for their growing family in the house (pictured, their living room before) 

Instead of spending £50,000 on an upstairs extension, the couple instead ‘decluttered’ the space (pictured, their living room after) 

Meanwhile primary teacher Emily admitted: ‘We can’t make storage to put things away because there’s no space.’

The couple had already spent £35,000 on a large downstairs extension, but confessed the layout still didn’t work.

Chris said he wanted to extend out onto the first floor, but Emily wasn’t convinced, saying: ‘It’s not 100 per cent finished. It does make me nervous to have to go through that again.’

Meanwhile she added: ‘The girls aren’t going to stay 11 forever, there’s got to be something out there to suit our growing older family.’

The couple had allocated £60,000 to transform their home, but also had a £500,000 budget to buy if they listed their property on the market

Chris said: ‘There’s plenty of space for the children to run around, it’s just lacking the bedroom space which can be solved. I need to convince Emily it has the potential in it.’

Emily said: ‘I would like to list the house.  I feel this house has reached the potential it’s got. I’ve never loved this house. We have three bedrooms and there are five of us.’ 

But Kirstie pointed out the couple were ‘quite bad at throwing things away’, saying: ‘I I have loads of clever ways to get rid of stuff without hiring a skip.

‘It’s very, very full. It would feel it was working well for you if it wasn’t cluttered.’ 

Emily and Chris had been locking horns over whether to sell their three-bed semi detached home for four years, having lived in the property for over a decade 

The couple had already spent £35,000 on a large downstairs extension, but confessed the layout still didn’t work (pictured) 

Kirstie said she was keen to maximise the space that the couple had, telling them: ‘This house is an eight out of ten in terms of the clutter problem. I know you would like to have four bedrooms upstairs and turn the dumping room into a study.

‘But repeat after me, if we decluttered this house, we would have a fourth bedroom downstairs. You are trying to spend your way out  of clutter.’

She suggested changing the ‘dumping room’ into a bedroom, converting the current master bedroom into a space for one of their children.

Meanwhile Kirstie also said they could build a storage unit in the garden which they could use as a study when the children got older.

The first property the couple went to see was a four-bedroom in the village of Longstanton, which was on the market for £475,000 (pictured) 

The combination of the modern house and the easy access to the city got both of them thinking (pictured, the open plan kitchen and dining space) 

Emily confessed viewing the property had offered her a glimpse of ‘a whole new avenue’ of social and family life (pictured, the bedroom) 

Five months on, they had decluttered the space and began building a garden shed and a front porch.

Meanwhile Phil began their property search. The first property they went to see was a four-bedroom in the village of Longstanton, which was on the market for £475,000.

The combination of the modern house and the easy access to the city got both of them thinking.

She said: ‘It does open up a whole new avenue of  social life as well as family life.’

The property which really struck a cord with Chris and Emily was a detached 425,000 home in Chatteris

The detached house delivered on all fronts, with a double garage, four good sized double bedrooms, three bathrooms and five reception rooms, including an open plan kitchen diner

And with the price way under budget at £425,000, the couple were blown away, with Emily confessing the house was ‘perfect’ 

But the property which really struck a cord with Chris and Emily was in Chatteris. 

The detached house delivered on all fronts, with a double garage, four good sized double bedrooms, three bathrooms and five reception rooms, including an open plan kitchen diner.

And with the price way under budget at £425,000, the couple were blown away.

Emily said: ‘I think Phil has already won this competition because I think this house is perfect.’

After thirteen months, Chris and Emily welcomed Kirsty and Phil back to their new, decluttered home (pictured) 

Meanwhile the couple also built a £7,500 garden shed which they used as storage space and as a study (pictured) 

Thirteen months after they first met Kirstie and Phil, the pair welcomed them back to their home.

The ground-floor had been transformed into a much more functional space thanks to clever storage solution and new furniture.

Meanwhile the junk room had been repurposed into the fourth bedroom they craved.

Kirstie said: ‘A good old tidy up has saved them £50,000 on an upstairs extension.’ 

While the couple confessed they were blown away by the results of the transformation, viewers said they were underwhelmed 

Emily added: ‘It would have been silly money spent.’ 

They also added a cabin into the bottom of the garden for £7,500. 

Ultimately, the couple decided to stay in the property, with Chris saying: ‘I think we’re going to love it for a few more years, definitely.’

Emily added: ‘The biggest lesson we’ve learnt all this is don’t collect junk that you don’t need.’  

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