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 June 2025.
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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?
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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 23
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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?
1:00:00Furniture maker Lucinda wants to construct a beautifully crafted, two-storey, highly-insulated timber home in woodland in South Herefordshire... without using heavy machinery.
Series 22 1:05:00
1:05:00Tony and Ara want to create a house of healing dedicated to health and wellbeing, on a beautiful woodland clearing near Henley-on-Thames. But the site is fraught with emotional landmines...
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 23 55:00
55:00In 2011, Edward and Hazel set out to build a lighthouse on the north Devon coast. By 2019, they were near bankruptcy with just a rusting shell. Three years on, has anything has changed?
55:00Zimbabwean-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?
1:00:00Retired racehorse breeder John builds a million-pound, high-tech, accessible glass pavilion with a wildlife garden for him and his wife Helen, whose mobility was badly affected by a stroke.
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 26 1:00:00
1:00:00Does good architecture have the power to heal? Kevin revisits Elinor and Born, who in 2017 built a clean-aired, hypoallergenic house, motivated by the extreme allergies of their two boys.
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 19 1:00:00
1:00:00Harry 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.
Series 24 1:00:00
1:00:00In 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?
Series 19 1:05:00
1:05:00In Devon, Joe and Claire hope to create 'one of the greatest homes on the planet' that looks like a huge work of art. But from the start, the expensive build faces mind-boggling problems.
Series 24 1:00:00
1:00:00Kevin McCloud's back, as he follows more ambitious self-building projects. Howard and Sarah build a radical metallic floating home on a tidal estuary near Worthing. Will it sink or swim?
Series 19 1:05:00
1:05:00Ship'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?
1:05:00Kevin 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 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 13 1:00:00
1:00:00Tracy and Steve Fox want to build an 'urban shed' out of industrial materials in an old milk yard in south east London. But their choice of unorthodox materials proves challenging.