Grand Designs

Kevin McCloud follows peoples' dream building projects

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Fri 24 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 1 hour left

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Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have found a plot with a view to die for on the west coast of Scotland. The trouble is, they are not sure what kind of house they want.
Thu 20 Nov 5:05 pm More4 50 minutes 28 days left

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Kevin McCloud meets Anjana and David Devoy who, having outgrown their tiny Victorian house in Clapham, plan to build a modern, minimalist home in their back garden.
Wed 19 Nov 5:05 pm More4 50 minutes 27 days left

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Kevin McCloud meets a couple planning to buy a wreck of an old stone building in Leith, Edinburgh, to turn into their dream home, despite a total lack of building experience.
Tue 18 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 26 days left

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Former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins and his partner Darron have spent years dreaming of building a modernist, Bauhaus-inspired white cube, but will it feel like home?
Mon 17 Nov 10:00 pm More4 48 minutes 25 days left

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Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton, who bought a derelict olive farm in Puglia with plans to transform it into a home and Roman-style guest house.
Mon 17 Nov 5:05 pm More4 48 minutes 25 days left

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Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have spent 15 years planning their dream home - an exotic and inspired wooden-framed house - but is the New Forest ready for such a Grand Design?
Fri 14 Nov 5:05 pm More4 50 minutes 22 days left

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Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have built houses before, but never on this scale. Their new 'Huf Haus' is designed and made in Germany but delivered for assembly in Surrey.
Thu 13 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 21 days left

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Kevin McCloud looks at a couple's plans to turn a crumbling, disused violin factory in central London into a Manhattan loft-style living space.
Wed 12 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 20 days left

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Having already made one programme about amateur self-builder Tom Perry, Kevin McCloud returns to find out the latest about his extraordinary project, now a year behind schedule.
Tue 11 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 19 days left

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Kevin McCloud revisits retired couple Denys and Marjorie Randolph from Berkshire, who had decided to embark on their final building project, a brand new, green oak, barn-style house.
Mon 10 Nov 10:00 pm More4 48 minutes 18 days left

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Bath may be famous for its Georgian architecture, but Tiffany Wood and her husband Jonny have chosen it as the location to build themselves a striking Modernist home.
Mon 10 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 18 days left

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Kevin McCloud catches up with a couple he met three years ago when they set about the task of converting a disused electricity substation in Sunderland into a four-bed family home.
Fri 7 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 15 days left

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Islington: Kevin McCloud revisits the improbable Islington home of two architects who built their avant-garde north-east London house out of straw bales, springs, nappy cladding and silver tin.
Thu 6 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 14 days left

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Lambourn: Kevin McCloud catches up on a previous Grand Design, returning to the Lambourn Valley to meet a couple who took three years to finish building their dream home on the Berkshire Downs.
Wed 5 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 13 days left

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Kevin McCloud visits a couple who are looking to build their hi-tech modern house in a quiet north London street.
Tue 4 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 12 days left

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Kevin McCloud travels to Wales to visit a couple who have decided that their first home will be a 300-year-old ruin in the Brecon Beacons.
Mon 3 Nov 10:00 pm More4 48 minutes 11 days left

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Pru and Richard Irvine plan to build a bespoke family home in the Midlothian countryside, but the plot of land is an old industrial site with lime kilns and they come with conditions.
Mon 3 Nov 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 11 days left

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Kevin McCloud travels to south Devon to meet Sue and Martin whose dream is to create a family home which feels part of the earth, using old English building techniques.
Sat 1 Nov 4:25 pm More4 48 minutes 9 days left

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Denise Daniel and Doug Ibbs gave up everything to start a new life in central France. Having fallen in love with a massive, dilapidated manor house, can they convert it into a B&B?
Sat 1 Nov 3:20 pm More4 49 minutes 9 days left

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Previously, Anjana and David Devoy started building a contemporary home that curved around a protected chestnut tree in their garden. Kevin McCloud returns to see if their plan worked.
Sat 1 Nov 2:15 pm More4 48 minutes 8 days left

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Kevin McCloud meets master carpenter Bill Bradley and his wife Sarah, who are building two high-spec finished timber houses in south London on the site of Bill's old wood workshop.
Fri 31 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 8 days left

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Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have found a virgin building plot in the Lambourn Valley and are prepared to take their chances on building a very expensive and very experimental idea.
Thu 30 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 7 days left

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Kevin McCloud follows the construction of a New England style kit house built on the Sussex Downs that was bought and designed entirely on the internet.
Wed 29 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 6 days left

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Kevin McCloud follows a couple in Farnham who don't foresee too many problems, but once the house gets underway, their dream soon turns into a nightmare.
Tue 28 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 5 days left

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Kevin McCloud checks out an innovative housing scheme in Birmingham that allows a group of people, who cannot afford to buy their own home, to build one instead.
Mon 27 Oct 10:00 pm More4 48 minutes 4 days left

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Inspired by their love of gothic architecture and horror movies, Jo and Shaun Bennett decide to build an Addams Family-style house, but they soon realise this is a big challenge.
Mon 27 Oct 5:05 pm More4 49 minutes 4 days left

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A deserted textile mill in Leverton is the focus of this programme. The new owners have a dream of turning it into a light, modern interior but there's a lot of work required.