Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
In south east London, Beth and Andrew hope to turn a crumbling Victorian dairy into a shabby chic family home fit for modern life. But is it too derelict? [AD,S]
Furniture maker Lucinda wants to construct a beautifully crafted, two-storey, highly-insulated timber home in woodland in South Herefordshire... without using heavy machinery. [AD,S]
Furniture maker Lucinda wants to construct a beautifully crafted, two-storey, highly-insulated timber home in woodland in South Herefordshire... without using heavy machinery. [AD,S]
In West Yorkshire's rolling hills, Kara and Jonny build a striking stone and zinc home. The challenges come in thick and fast, but can they pull it off and redefine accessible design? [AD,S]
Design engineer Mark, who uses a wheelchair, plans to build a cutting-edge, accessible family home for £600k. But it's a huge emotional strain for him and his wife Penny. [AD,S,SL]
In West Yorkshire's rolling hills, Kara and Jonny build a striking stone and zinc home. The challenges come in thick and fast, but can they pull it off and redefine accessible design? [AD,S]
Design engineer Mark, who uses a wheelchair, plans to build a cutting-edge, accessible family home for £600k. But it's a huge emotional strain for him and his wife Penny. [AD,S,SL]
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
Kevin revisits Stuart and Rosie on the Wirral, who turned their 60s bungalow into an ultra-modern wooden family home for £175k. Is it finished yet? And have the neighbours grown to like it? [AD,S]
Kevin revisits Stuart and Rosie on the Wirral, who turned their 60s bungalow into an ultra-modern wooden family home for £175k. Is it finished yet? And have the neighbours grown to like it? [AD,S]
Furniture maker Lucinda wants to construct a beautifully crafted, two-storey, highly-insulated timber home in woodland in South Herefordshire... without using heavy machinery. [AD,S]
In south east London, Beth and Andrew hope to turn a crumbling Victorian dairy into a shabby chic family home fit for modern life. But is it too derelict? [AD,S,SL]
Corinne plans to build a beautifully crafted, wedge-shaped home on a sliver of garden down the side of the house she's lived in for 24 years. But it sits in a strict conservation area... [AD,S,SL]
Peter and Emily plan to convert an old vicarage into two 'cloud houses' painted strawberry-ice-cream pink, covered in arches, with turquoise-rimmed windows. But there's a storm gathering... [AD,S]
Artist Sarah returns to her roots in the Durham Dales to build a cannabis-based home. But costs go through the roof. Can she get her hempcrete hub of a home over the line? [AD,S]
The ambitious self-builders are back! Disco balls, surfboards and laundry that sorts itself - what more do you want? For Bryony and Matt: to finish their California-chic home within a year. [AD,S]
Ordering a factory-built house was a no-brainer for manufacturing maestro Pete. But, in true self-building style, even a near-finished project brings challenges like a bat out of hell. [AD,S]
Four years after Leigh and Richard set out to turn a derelict Cornish flour mill into their home, it was still unfinished. Has the grind finally paid off?
Pep and Malene are building a modern Viking Hall in the Surrey Hills. Following Pep's cancer diagnosis, it's a race to create a house that cherishes their memories and life together. [AD,S]
In Lincolnshire, high-flyers Zara and Giuliano set out to build a 400-square-metre malthouse-inspired home, but run into problems from the get-go. Can they get the project off the ground? [AD,S]
In West Yorkshire's rolling hills, Kara and Jonny build a striking stone and zinc home. The challenges come in thick and fast, but can they pull it off and redefine accessible design? [AD,S]
Kathryn, who's lived on the same London street for 60 years, is building a mirror image of her Edwardian home right next door, but with a 21st-century twist. [AD,S]
Paul and Amy build a home made up of five circular timber buildings linked by raised walkways, beside a Lincolnshire lake. But Paul's health suffers as he struggles to finish it in a year. [AD,S,SL]
Energy conservationist Andrew plans to build a radical, self-heating home by storing the warmth of the summer sun in insulated earth banks. But will this gigantic thermal experiment work? [AD,S]
Harry and Briony are relocating to Cornwall and building an American modernist house inspired by 1980s teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But it's a huge and challenging project. [AD,S,SL]
Geoff's selling up in Spain to build a flood-resistant architectural marvel on a flood plain on the Essex coast. Will he sink or swim when Covid hits and Spain's property market collapses? [AD,S,SL]
While recovering from leukaemia, Toby planned a radical new home - wrapped around an ancient oak tree - to improve his health and provide for his family. But building it isn't easy. [AD,S,SL]
Pep and Malene are building a modern Viking Hall in the Surrey Hills. Following Pep's cancer diagnosis, it's a race to create a house that cherishes their memories and life together. [AD,S]
Can Leigh and Richard transform a derelict 17th-century Cornish flour mill, which is full of rotten timbers and riddled with structural cracks, into a warm, contemporary four-storey home? [AD,S]
Greg and Georgie plan to convert a cavernous, dilapidated, 35-year-old barn in Georgie's parents' garden in Kent into a peaceful safe haven. But costs start to spiral almost immediately. [AD,S,SL]
Ordering a factory-built house was a no-brainer for manufacturing maestro Pete. But, in true self-building style, even a near-finished project brings challenges like a bat out of hell. [AD,S]
Artist Sarah returns to her roots in the Durham Dales to build a cannabis-based home. But costs go through the roof. Can she get her hempcrete hub of a home over the line? [AD,S]
In 2019, Greg and Georgie set out to transform an old barn in Georgie's parents' garden in Sevenoaks. But unexpected underpinning and the COVID pandemic had other ideas. Is it now complete? [AD,S]
Kevin revisits Stuart and Rosie on the Wirral, who turned their 60s bungalow into an ultra-modern wooden family home for £175k. Is it finished yet? And have the neighbours grown to like it? [AD,S]
Piers and Emma build the first new listed castle in the UK for 100 years, complete with a moat and futuristic tech. It's the biggest ever Grand Design, so is even their £2m budget enough? [AD,S]
Pep and Malene are building a modern Viking Hall in the Surrey Hills. Following Pep's cancer diagnosis, it's a race to create a house that cherishes their memories and life together. [AD,S]
Jon and Noreen dreamt of living in a giant treehouse in Gloucestershire. But three years into the build, the money ran out. Are they finally living up in the trees? [AD,S]
Armed with £100k and nothing but determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building an off-grid home with no detailed plans in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland. [AD,S]
In 2019, Olaf and Fritha set out to build on a tricky slice of land in West Sussex, boxed in by an A-road and a train line. Kevin returns to see how their triangular triumph is faring. [AD,S]
Ordering a factory-built house was a no-brainer for manufacturing maestro Pete. But, in true self-building style, even a near-finished project brings challenges like a bat out of hell. [AD,S]
A new run of ambitious self-building projects. Artist Sarah returns home to the Durham Dales to build a cannabis-based home. But costs go through the roof. Can she finish her hempcrete hub? [AD,S]
In West Yorkshire's rolling hills, Kara and Jonny build a striking stone and zinc home. The challenges come in thick and fast, but can they pull it off and redefine accessible design? [AD,S]
Howard and Sarah build a sleek, angled, metallic floating home on a tidal estuary near Worthing. But with the constant tidal shifts disrupting construction, will it sink or swim? [AD,S]
Does good architecture have the power to heal? Kevin revisits Elinor and Born, who in 2017 built a clean-aired, hypoallergenic house, motivated by their two sons' extreme allergies.
Adam and Tassy convert a 20-metre-high Northamptonshire water tower into a fun family home with curved walls, slides, secret rooms, a firefighter's pole, a swimming pool and a sky garden. [AD,S]
Kathryn, who's lived on the same London street for 60 years, is building a mirror image of her Edwardian home right next door, but with a 21st-century twist. [AD,S]
In Lincolnshire, high-flyers Zara and Giuliano set out to build a 400-square-metre malthouse-inspired home, but run into problems from the get-go. Can they get the project off the ground? [AD,S]
In 2017, Leigh and Richard bought a derelict Cornish flour mill to restore and turn into their home. By 2021 the rooms and landscaping were still unfinished. Has the grind finally paid off? [AD,S]
On a nostalgic revisit to the first ever Grand Design, from back in 1999, Kevin finds out if Tim and Jules are still flying high in their timber-framed home on the cliffs above Newhaven. [AD,S]
In 2015, Vicky and Ed set out to transform a derelict Somerset cowshed into a 21st-century smallholding. Now Kevin returns. How much did this wildly ambitious project change their lives? [AD,S,SL]
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while also transforming it into a sleek, modern home? [AD,S]
Zimbabwean-born Davi and Matt from Australia set out to build a house in Home Counties suburbia with a radical multicultural design. Can they successfully balance a wide range of looks? [AD,S,SL]