Grand Designs
Series 1
Series Summary
The very first Grand Designs, the series about people who design their dreams homes - and then build them. Presenter Kevin McCloud follows a different project in each episode - from a barn-style oak house in Oxfordshire, to a modern glass and concrete construction in Doncaster, to a straw bale house in Islington.
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Episodes (8)
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A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their…
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Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it…
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Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both…
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Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding…
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A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
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Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a…
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Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
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Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of…
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