Grand Designs
Grand Designs is a living & home improvement program on 4seven. Presenter Kevin McCloud follows some of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individuals attempt to design and construct the home of their dreams. The popular program has been available since 2024. A total of 106 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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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.
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1:00:00Ship's captain Dorran promised his family he'd build a super-modern underground lair on a hill outside Canterbury. But as the epic build hits choppy waters, will Dorran fulfil their dream?
Series 26
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1:05:00Does 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.
Series 19 1:00:00
1:00:00Kevin McCloud meets Jaime and his wife Mimi, who are converting a listed mini castle in Buckinghamshire into a family home. But will their wildly optimistic schedule be a problem?
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Natasha Cargill wants to build a home shaped like two enormous periscopes near Norwich. But a limited budget and tight planning restrictions take their toll.
Series 25 1:00:00
1:00:00In 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?
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Jon and Noreen take on an epic self-build, creating a modern house on stilts, up among 27 protected trees on a half-acre site in the heart of a Gloucestershire town.
1:00:00In Northern Ireland, young farmer and architect Patrick hopes to make a home out of four large shipping containers welded together to form a giant cross. But his budget is under threat.
1:00:00Rebecca and Gregory have a highly ambitious plan to transform a small, damp, single-storey bungalow in Cornwall into a cutting-edge home, and are determined to do much of it by themselves.
Series 21 1:00:00
1:00:00Adam 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.
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Chris and Kayo build an intricate, radical and complicated home on protected land close to one of Britain's most historic abbeys. But do they actually like what they've built?
1:00:00Architect Ben Hebblethwaite builds a nautically styled home that floats on stilts for his boat-loving uncle James Strangeways. But a contractor problem puts the entire project at risk.
1:00:00Andy and Nicki Bruce try to build an experimental flood-proof, floating house on an island in the River Thames. But building such a complex design on a site with limited access isn't easy.
1:00:00After recovering from a brain haemorrhage, Bram Vis and his wife Lisa want to build a beautiful, cutting-edge family house on the Isle of Wight. But the budget starts to spiral...
Series 18 1:00:00
1:00:00In south west London, Elinor and Born plan to build Britain's first hypoallergenic house, to alleviate their two young sons' life-threatening allergies, in a race against time.
Series 26 1:00:00
1:00:00Kathryn, 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.
Series 18 1:00:00
1:00:00In south west London, Kevin McCloud meets Justin, who's restoring a neo-Gothic cemetery keeper's lodge and converting its toilet into a luxury ground-floor extension with a moat and pool.
1:00:00Design engineer Mark, who has paralysis from the waist down, plans to build a cutting-edge, accessible family home for £600k. But it's a huge emotional strain for him and his wife Penny.
Series 25 1:00:00
1:00:00Kevin revisits Graeme and Melanie, whose hugely ambitious Hackney haven was hampered by a basement bombshell. Have they finally got out of the red and into their modernist home?
Series 18 1:00:00
1:00:00In south east London, Beth and Andrew rescue a crumbling Victorian dairy, hoping to turn it into a shabby chic family home fit for modern life. But is the building too derelict?