The old house was more real it was more like a house and less like a studio it had a real garden with a vegetable patch,chickens and a real lawn way better than plastic grass layed on concrete with plastic chairs.
Plus it really was isolated on the other side of a river contained in its own compound.
and it was even wrapped in foil.
i think they probably regretted making it like a real house as having hallways to get to certain rooms and things like that just made things harder for themselves to make sure they covered every bit of the house so a really open plan house for the new one was no suprise.
this was davinas first ever appearence.
the compound