Seasons & episodes
S26 · E1Worthing 2025 2025-03-26 · 47 min
Howard and Sarah build a radical metallic floating home designed to look like a boat, nestled within an idiosyncratic houseboat community on a tidal estuary near Worthing. But will it sink or swim?
S26 · E2Bedfordshire 2025 2025-04-02 · 47 min
Sarah and Pip are smitten with a 150-year-old Bedfordshire barn that's keeling over. Can they retain its charm and spirit, while at the same time transform it into a sleek, modern home?
S26 · E3North London 2025 2025-04-09 · 47 min
Kathryn, 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
S26 · E4Hackney Revisit 2025 2025-04-16 · 47 min
Kevin 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?
S26 · E5Richmond Revisit 2025 2025-04-23 · 47 min
Does good architecture have the power to heal? Kevin revisits Elinor and Born, who built a clean-aired, hypoallergenic house, motivated by their two boys' extreme allergies.
S27 · E1Durham Dales 2025 2025-10-01 · 47 min
A new run of ambitious self-building projects. Artist Sarah returns to her roots in the Durham Dales to create a radical, cannabis-based house. But as costs go through the roof, can she get her hempcrete hub of a home over the line?
S27 · E2Southwater 2025 2025-10-08 · 47 min
Ordering a factory-built house was a no-brainer for manufacturing maestro Pete. But, in true self-building style, even a near-finished project brings challenges like a bat out of hell.
S27 · E3Pembrokeshire 2025 2025-10-15 · 47 min
Armed with £100k and nothing but determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building an off-grid home with no detailed plans in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland.
S27 · E4Surrey Hills 2025 2025-10-22 · 47 min
Pep and Malene are building a modern Viking Hall in the Surrey Hills. Following Pep's cancer diagnosis, it's a race to create a house that cherishes their memories and life together.
S27 · E5Stratford-upon-Avon 2025 2025-10-29 · 47 min
Piers and Emma build the first new listed castle in the UK for 100 years, complete with a moat and futuristic tech. It's the biggest ever Grand Design, so is even their £2m budget enough?
S27 · E6Revisited – The Wirral 2025-11-05 · 47 min
Kevin revisits Stuart and Rosie on the Wirral, who turned their 60s bungalow into an ultra-modern wooden family home for £175k in series 17 in 2016. Is it finished yet? And have the neighbours grown to like it?
S27 · E7Revisited – Kent: Converted Barn 2025-11-12 · 47 min
In 2019, Greg and Georgie set out to transform an old barn in Georgie's parents' garden in Sevenoaks for series 21 in 2021. But unexpected underpinning and the COVID pandemic had other ideas. Is it now complete?