Six years on has this magnificent structure transformed their lives in the way they’d hoped?Spanish architect Jaime and his wife Mimi Fernandez convert a Grade II* listed folly in Buckinghamshire into a family home. But Matt keeps changing the design as he goes along, bewildering his builders.Wood steam benders Tom and Danielle Raffield have just £100k to hand-build a spectacular family home in South Cornwall with curvy wood cladding and twisty handmade furniture. Malvern. Chiropractor Steph Wilson and husband Alex try to build a sleek contemporary family farmhouse on Steph’s grandfather’s old farmland, an ambition she’s held for 20 years. But lack of money leads to extended life in a caravan and a total re-design. With a wildly optimistic deadline to finish before the birth of their second child, it’s not long before they hit trouble. But can he balance high architecture, wife Libby’s need for a comfortable family home and his ongoing health concernsEdward and Hazel Short build a shining white art deco lighthouse, with additional bedroom wing and infinity pool, all on a rugged but beautiful clifftop spot in North Devon.
It proves an epic undertaking as they wrestle their ambitious stepped box design into life 40 feet up in the canopy.Matt and Sophie White from Sussex want to build a giant house of fun for themselves and their three children – featuring secret stairs, hiding places and a fireman’s pole. Desperate to get the timber superstructure watertight before autumn rains hit, extra manpower is thrown at the project. But even more radical is the giant American Modernist house they want to build, inspired by cult 80s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.Elinor and Born Barikor build a hypoallergenic ‘healthy’ home, trying to alleviate their two young sons’ life threatening allergies. Grand Designs S10 E12 Revisited Lot France House From Straw Revisited From Grand Designs Abroad 15 September 2004.
Four years in, the house was still a shell, but Kevin McCloud returned in 2012 to follow Ed’s masterpiece to completion. Then life threatening illness strikes.After recovering from leukaemia Toby is driven to build five interlinked barn structures in a horseshoe around an old oak tree in Suffolk.
Identical twins Nik and Jon Daughtry build two near identical houses next door to each other in Sheffield. But almost immediately their wildly optimistic plan runs into trouble.Kevin McCloud returns to Strathaven in Scotland to see Colin and Marta’s incredible metal home, inspired by aircraft hangars, now it’s finally finished. 2017 Episodes. Chiropractor Steph Wilson and husband Alex try to build a sleek contemporary family farmhouse on Steph’s grandfather’s old farmland, an ambition she’s held for 20 years. Setting themselves just 7 months to do it, this unique technical challenge relies on boundless optimism to pull off.Stuart and Rosie Treasurer from the Wirral try to turn their 60s dormer bungalow into a generous 21st century piece of slick architecture for just £175k. But after battling high winds and pounding rain, will an unexpected emotional shock and a last-minute design change ruin everything they’ve worked for?Paul and Amy Wilkinson build a lakeside home in Lincolnshire made up of five circular timber buildings linked by walkways. But lack of money leads to extended life in a caravan and a total re-design. The schedule slips and costs snowball, leaving Jon struggling to cope. So when he and wife Amy set out to build a giant new home on their 16-acre plot in Lincolnshire, he gives himself only 12 months to do it. Halfway through the build he’s admitted to hospital for an operation that could threaten the entire project.This site requires cookies to function and help us understand how users interact with this site. Constrained by stringent planning conditions, will Chris and Kayo even like their radical home when it’s finished?Designers Beth Dadswell and Andrew Wilbourne rescue a crumbling old Victorian dairy in South East London and convert it into a family house – retaining as much decay as they can.