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Architect Richard Hawkes and his wife Sophie have plans for the good life in Kent. Their dream house is an ambitious eco project that will…
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Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje are keen to build an earth-sheltered home from recycled materials in Brittany. The house is a very low tech…
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Kevin McCloud meets dairy farmer Andrew Ainslie and his artist wife Meryl, who run a gallery on their farm in Wiltshire and want to build a…
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Jonathan and Lindsay want to build a house that's exciting to look at, cheap to run, and ecologically sound. But the build proves to be a…
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Claire and Ian try to build a home big enough for a disco on a small plot at the end of a London mews. But as angry locals begin to object…
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This edition follows the extraordinary story of estate manager Ed Waghorn and his wife Rowena, who live a virtually self-sufficient…
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Kevin catches up with Daren and Adi in France, and their extraordinary, earth-sheltered home.
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Kevin catches up with master carpenter Bill in south London to see if his dream of a mortgage-free existence has come true.
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Kevin revisits Mark and Debbie in the Lot region of France.
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Kevin returns to the Weald of Kent and one of the most innovative houses ever featured on Grand Designs - a highly experimental arch-shaped…
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Kevin revisits Robert and Milla a year after their ambitious Lake District eco home seemed on the verge of disaster.
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Mimi d'Costa and her husband Andre have moved to the Kent countryside and bought a large plot of land to build a home on it that is…
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Two architects attempt to build England's first accredited passive house, underneath a ruined 300-year-old barn in the Cotswolds…
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Kevin meets Alan who has invented his own revolutionay way of making a house where every piece is put together on site in days.
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Artists Freddie Robins and Ben Coode-Adams are leaving their modest urban flat to convert a huge Grade II-listed timber-framed barn in…
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Stonemason Adam Purchase and his partner Nicola Brennan have 12 months to convert a silver-mine engine-house in Cornwall into a home, in…
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Tired of living in draughty Victorian houses in the city, Lucie Fairweather and Nat McBride have returned to their home town of Woodbridge…
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There aren't many people who would take on the role of project managing an ambitious, minimalist eco-build with little previous experience…
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Kevin revisits Alan and Judith, who in 2009 began constructing their prototype prefab home in Cumbria. Was Alan able to create a unique…
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Kevin revisits Denise and Bruno Del Tufo who six years ago set about transforming a concrete water tower in their back garden into an…
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Architectural designer Lincoln Miles and his wife, artist Lisa Traxler, take on a very ambitious bungalow conversion on the Isle of Wight.
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In Suffolk Simon and Jill hope to restore one of the country's smallest surviving medieval guild halls to its original state.
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Robert and Milla are redeveloping an 80s house overlooking Lake Windermere in the Lake District. But the radical build is risky and their…
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Interior designer Kathryn Tyler has decided that the best way to get onto the property ladder is to design and build her own house
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The old lifeboat station in Tenby was home to the brave souls of the RNLI for over 100 years.
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Paul and Penny are tearing down their million pound home in south London to build a contemporary mansion. But the challenge of building a…
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