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 98 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2025.
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The 100th episode of Grand Designs follows a couple in central London converting a water tower into a four-bed luxury home over nine floors, crowned with a 360-degree viewing room.
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1:00:00In 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 can pull it off and redefine accessible design?
Series 12
1:05:00
1:05:00Kevin McCloud returns to Somerset to catch up with Ed and Vicky and find out the latest on their off-grid cowshed conversion, which they turned into a home and business space.
Series 13 1:05:00
1:05:00Confirmed city dwellers Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer have moved to the country to run a farm, start a microbrewery and create a vast, dramatic 21st-century farmhouse to live in.
Series 21 1:00:00
1:00:00Can Colin and Adele overcome contractor issues and financial ruin to build their eye-popping curved glass home in south Manchester?
Series 13 1:05:00
1:05:00In Devon's stunning Blackdown Hills, engineer Stephen and horticulturalist Elizabeth take inspiration from a shell, to build one of the most ambitious homes ever seen on Grand Designs.
Series 22 1:00:00
1:00:00Rosa and Craig want to live in a steam railway reservoir in the Wye Valley. But their ambitious plans face multiple challenges.
Series 13 1:05:00
1:05:00Gwyn and Kate don't know much about renovation but set out to convert a decaying 1920s cinema in South Yorkshire into a family home. The dramatic overhaul requires a leap of faith.
1:05:00Kevin McCloud meets flying instructor Colin Mackinnon and trapeze artist Marta Briongos, who are building an incredible metal home next to their very own airfield in Scotland.
Series 23 55:00
55:00In Derbyshire, Mike and Sarah set out to build a multigenerational longhouse. But with a complicated roof, a shortage of materials and an unexpected bereavement, it proves far from easy...
Series 12 1:05:00
1:05:00Kevin McCloud returns to north Cornwall, to catch up with one of his favourite Grand Designs: Rebecca and Gregory's radical, experimental timber refurb of an old bungalow.
Series 23 1:00:00
1:00:00Master carpenter Olaf faces the biggest challenge of his career: creating an oasis for himself and his partner Fritha on a sliver of land in Sussex squeezed between a railway and an A-road.
Series 12 1:05:00
1:05:00Kevin McCloud returns to one of the most ambitious Grand Designs ever: a million-pound amphibious house on the Thames. Now that it's finished, does it actually float?
Series 22 1:00:00
1:00:00Can Zahid and Ferzana transform an old coastguard station on an exposed East Yorkshire headland into a bold, three-storey glass box of a family home?
Series 12 1:05:00
1:05:00Kevin McCloud catches up with the story of a daring modernist home that Gil and Hillary Briffa started building 10 years previously in the Andalusian hills in southern Spain.
1:05:00Kevin McCloud returns to Creuse in France and the story of a dilapidated manor house that was demolished by the Nazis. Has the 11-year restoration project finally been completed?
1:05:00Kevin McCloud meets Kevin McCabe, an exponent of the ancient art of cob building, who wants to construct a castle entirely of mud. The huge scale of the task soon becomes clear.
Series 24 1:00:00
1:00:00Kate and Rob replace their 1940s past-it prefab with a bespoke, modern, factory-built home using volumetric modular construction. But will it feel like the characterful home they dream of?
Series 12 1:05:00
1:05:00On the Isle of Skye, one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain, Rebecca and Indi are building a turf-roofed contemporary home to withstand gale-force winds and some sceptical locals.
Series 23 1:00:00
1:00:00Duncan and Liz build a revolutionary Passivhaus Premium powerhouse of a home in the Cotswolds. But with a spiralling schedule and lonesome living, will it all be worth it in the end?