
Grand Designs is a leisure hobbies series airing on UK television.
Kevin McCloud visits a couple planning to build a home that looks like a work of art overlooking a valley in south Devon. Joe and Claire's new home will be a giant sculpture inspired by the local landscape, 70 metres long and featuring 34 enormous angled zinc shards jutting out in all directions. It will also be complicated to build and equally as expensive. And although Joe is wealthy, ambitious and fearless, his team quickly come up against problems and the budget virtually doubles the first walls go up. Is his dream home in danger of become a nightmare?
Kevin McCloud meets Andy Stakes and Jeanette Hardy, who are building a new house on top of a sheer cliff on the west coast of Scotland
Kevin McCloud meets Andy Stakes and Jeanette Hardy, who are building a new house on top of a sheer cliff on the west coast of Scotland
Kevin McCloud meets a couple planning to create a hybrid structure by slotting in an entirely new home within the walls of a 200-year-old former blacking mill in Cumbria
A couple of designers converting a Victorian dairy in south-east London into a family home, while retaining as much of the decay and crumbling brickwork as possible
A couple of designers converting a Victorian dairy in south-east London into a family home, while retaining as much of the decay and crumbling brickwork as possible
Kevin McCloud revisits a home built on an airfield in Strathaven in Scotland to check on the progress made by Colin MacKinnon and his partner Marta Briongos
Kevin McCloud meets Kate and Rob, who have plans to build a volumetric modular home, constructed in a factory in just six weeks
Kevin McCloud revisits a home built on an airfield in Strathaven in Scotland to check on the progress made by Colin MacKinnon and his partner Marta Briongos
Kevin McCloud meets Kate and Rob, who have plans to build a volumetric modular home, constructed in a factory in just six weeks
Kevin McCloud follows the progress of a dual-purpose family and wheelchair-friendly home built by design engineer and former Paralympic swimmer, Mark Butler
Kevin McCloud meets architect and shed fanatic Micah Jones, who plans to transform an old agricultural building in Co Down
Kevin McCloud follows the progress of a dual-purpose family and wheelchair-friendly home built by design engineer and former Paralympic swimmer, Mark Butler
Kevin McCloud meets architect and shed fanatic Micah Jones, who plans to transform an old agricultural building in Co Down
Kevin McCloud meets a former army captain who is restoring a neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge in south-west London with a luxury ground-floor extension
A couple plan to build a new family home in rural East Sussex almost entirely out of concrete, with construction involving cutting-edge technologies conceived in Switzerland
Kevin McCloud meets a former army captain who is restoring a neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge in south-west London with a luxury ground-floor extension
A couple plan to build a new family home in rural East Sussex almost entirely out of concrete, with construction involving cutting-edge technologies conceived in Switzerland
Gallery owner Elinor and fitness entrepreneur Born set themselves the task of creating Britain's first hypoallergenic house in a leafy back garden plot in south-west London
Kevin meets south London chef Corinne, who loves to entertain and is rustling up plans for a beautifully crafted, double-kitchen home designed around her love of cooking
Gallery owner Elinor and fitness entrepreneur Born set themselves the task of creating Britain's first hypoallergenic house in a leafy back garden plot in south-west London
Kevin meets south London chef Corinne, who loves to entertain and is rustling up plans for a beautifully crafted, double-kitchen home designed around her love of cooking
Kevin McCloud returns to Gloucestershire to see the progress made by Jon and Noreen who set out in 2013 to build a three-bed treehouse on a budget of £250,000
Physical therapist Ara and researcher Tony set out to create a home focused on health and wellbeing near Henley-on-Thames while they live on site and manage the project themselves
Kevin McCloud returns to Gloucestershire to see the progress made by Jon and Noreen who set out in 2013 to build a three-bed treehouse on a budget of £250,000
Physical therapist Ara and researcher Tony set out to create a home focused on health and wellbeing near Henley-on-Thames while they live on site and manage the project themselves
Kevin McCloud returns to West Sussex to meet with Olaf and Fritha who set out to build a home on a small piece of land that is boxed in by a railway line and an A-road in 2019
Kevin McCloud meets Rosa and Craig who plan on turning a decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home with a budget of £700,000 in 12 months
Kevin McCloud returns to West Sussex to meet with Olaf and Fritha who set out to build a home on a small piece of land that is boxed in by a railway line and an A-road in 2019
Kevin McCloud meets Rosa and Craig who plan on turning a decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home with a budget of £700,000 in 12 months