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 31 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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Kevin 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.
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1:05:00In Brixton, design-mad couple Mary and Carl want to build a home that resembles a giant stack of glass cubes and offers a Zen retreat from the noise and chaos of the capital.
Series 21
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1:00:00Can Leigh and Richard transform a derelict 17th-century Cornish flour mill, which is full of rotten timbers and riddled with structural cracks, into a warm, contemporary four-storey home?
Series 12 1:05:00
1:05:00Lysette and Nigel's plan to build a dramatic, cutting-edge home by the River Thames proves difficult, costly and not very popular with their neighbours.
1:05:00Can a pair of first-timers really turn a cowshed into a warm, cosy home by learning how to do everything from the internet? Kevin McCloud visits their extraordinary build in Somerset.
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.
1:05:00Jonathan and Deborah are building a semi-subterranean, Hollywood Hills-style mansion with a swimming pool on a hemmed-in site in north London. But what will the neighbours think?
Series 22 55:00
55:00Gretta plans to build a Malaysian-inspired pavilion, designed by her nephew, on her sister and brother-in-law's land in Ely. Will this family affair and story of renewal end in harmony?
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.
1:05:00This episode follows actor Sean Simons' epic bid to turn castle ruins in Ireland into a spectacular fantasy home the hard way: with no architect and in the middle of a recession.
Series 24 1:05:00
1:05:00In 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.
1:05:00In 2013, Jon and Noreen started building a giant treehouse in Gloucestershire. By 2016, the money ran out. Are they finally living up in the trees?
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?
Series 24 1:05:00
1:05:00In 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 22 1:00:00
1:00:00Kevin McCloud revisits Adrian and Megan, whose cutting-edge concrete bunker became a nightmare build. With the house now complete, what's it like to live in such a raw, exposed home?
Series 24 1:05:00
1:05:00Kate 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 23 1:05:00
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?
1:05:00Zimbabwean-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...
Series 22 1:00:00
1:00:00Iain and Jenny build an enormous black minimalist rectangular building in the middle of a 19th-century country estate in the dramatic Scottish countryside. What will the neighbours say?