Grand Designs
Grand Designs is a living & home improvement program on 4seven. Kevin McCloud follows 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 2025. A total of 101 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2026.
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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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With only £500 in the bank, Simon and Jasmine plan to build a three-bed Grand Design on a hill in rural Pembrokeshire and become self-sufficient within five years. Is it really possible?
1:05:00Tracy 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.
1:05:00Peter and Chard are building a new home. But he wants it to be round while she says it should be square. They're envisaging vastly different budgets. Oh, and it needs a plane workshop.
1:05:00When he lost three limbs in Afghanistan, Jon's life changed forever. Now he wants to build a house that allows him to live independently. The design's cutting edge, but the budget spirals.
1:05:00The 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.
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.
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 24
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1:00:00Howard and Sarah build a sleek, angled, metallic floating home on a tidal estuary near Worthing. But with the constant tidal shifts disrupting construction, will it sink or swim?
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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 15 1:05:00
1:05:00Rebecca 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.
1:05:00Chris 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?
1:05:00Architect 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.
Series 25 1:00:00
1:00:00On a nostalgic revisit to the first ever Grand Design, from back in 1999, Kevin finds out if Tim and Jules are still flying high in their timber-framed home on the cliffs above Newhaven.
Series 15
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1:05:00Andy 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.
1:05:00After 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 23 1:00:00
1:00:00Zimbabwean-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?
Series 21 1:00:00
1:00:00Dan and Nina want to build a unique family home, but their plot is dominated by a pond filled with local drainage. Will their West Sussex house be sublime and sleek or a Shrek-like swamp?
1:00:00Geoff's selling up in Spain to build a flood-resistant architectural marvel on a flood plain on the Essex coast. Will he sink or swim when Covid hits and Spain's property market collapses?