Episode 1 Wye Valley
Rosa and Craig convert a decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home. Faced with a pandemic, numerous money crises, pregnancy and a schedule that balloons from 1 year to over 3 years - will it all be worth it?
Rosa and Craig convert a decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home. Faced with a pandemic, numerous money crises, pregnancy and a schedule that balloons from 1 year to over 3 years - will it all be worth it?
Rosa and Craig convert a decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a home. Faced with a pandemic, numerous money crises, pregnancy and a schedule that balloons from 1 year to over 3 years - will it all be worth it?
Devoted dad Danny wants to build a sustainable but affordable house with bedroom pods on stilts up among the trees. But with no self-build experience and spiralling costs, can he do it on ambition alone?
Graeme and Melanie want their new home in Hackney to celebrate their blended family. But squeezing the bright red-clad house Graeme has designed, complete with a basement, onto their tiny garage plot proves a huge challenge.
Furniture maker Lucinda, along with her son and daughter decide to build a wooden armadillo house in a woodland, without heavy machinery and by inventing ways to transport materials without damaging tree roots.
Duncan and Liz build a revolutionary eco home in the picturesque Cotswolds. It will not only use very little energy, it'll also produce four times the energy it needs - effectively a mini-power station!
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.