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 98 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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Can 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?
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1:05:00While recovering from leukaemia, Toby planned a radical new home - wrapped around an ancient oak tree - to improve his health and provide for his family. But building it isn't easy.
1:05:00Geoff'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?
1:05:00Dan 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?
Series 23
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1:05:00In 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?
1:05:00Graeme and Melanie want their new home in Hackney to celebrate their blended family. But squeezing the bright red-clad house onto their tiny garage plot proves a huge challenge.
1:00:00Devoted dad Danny builds a sustainable but affordable stilted house up among the trees in his garden. But with no self-build experience and spiralling costs, can he do it on ambition alone?
1:05:00Zimbabwean-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?
1:05:00In 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...
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.
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?
1:05:00Furniture maker Lucinda wants to construct a beautifully crafted, two-storey, highly-insulated timber home in woodland in South Herefordshire... without using heavy machinery.
1:05:00Master 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.
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1:00:00In 2019, Olaf and Fritha set out to build on a tricky slice of land in West Sussex, boxed in by an A-road and a train line. Kevin returns to see how their triangular triumph is faring.
Series 22 1:05:00
1:05:00Rosa and Craig want to live in a steam railway reservoir in the Wye Valley. But their ambitious plans face multiple challenges.
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1:00:00Jon and Noreen dreamt of living in a giant treehouse in Gloucestershire. But three years into the build, the money ran out. Are they finally living up in the trees?
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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...
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1:05:00Corinne plans to build a beautifully crafted, wedge-shaped home on a sliver of garden down the side of the house she's lived in for 24 years. But it sits in a strict conservation area...
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.
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.