The BEST episodes of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
Every episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces!
George Clarke explores the extraordinary world of small builds, where people turn tiny spaces into the most incredible places to live, work and play. He even tries making a few of his own.
#1 - Narrow Boat, Cream Tea Campervan and 50s Trailer
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/10/2014
George meets two brothers who can't afford to get on the property ladder and plan to transform a fire-damaged narrow boat into a luxury bachelor pad. George also meets a police officer from Somerset who wants to convert an old campervan and caravan into a mobile cream-tea business. And in Texas, George and Will discover an extraordinary 1950s trailer on the edge of the desert.
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#2 - George's Garden Build Unveiled
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/17/2014
In the last episode of the series George's garden build is finally revealed and it's time to see if he's transformed his unloved narrow strip of back garden into a magical and creative family space. In Cambridgeshire, he meets a DIY perfectionist, who's hoping to create the smallest ever campervan for him and his two boys. And in Somerset, he meets a man with a plan for a cheese van.
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#3 - Campervan, Glamping and House of Mud
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/3/2014
George meets a couple who love VW campervans so much they have given up their jobs and sold their home in order to completely drop out of the rat race. They are spending £40,000 renovating an original split screen van which will become their home on the road. George and Will's Texan road trip brings them to the state capital of Austin, where no more than a mile from city hall a woman has handbuilt a £10,000 three bed family home from mud. George attempts to fulfill a lifelong ambition of building a butterfly house. He also meets a glamping enthusiast who, having been made wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, has set about making luxury glamping pods which are accessible to everyone.
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#4 - Old Railway Carriage and Private Jet
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/2014
George meets a man who bought the wreck of a £20 million private jet for just £4000 and plans to transform it into the ultimate crash pad. There's a gypsy tattoo artist who swapped his truck for an old railway carriage, which he hopes to turn into a home for only £7000. George plans a woodland retreat for less than the price of a family holiday and visits a breathtaking property in Italy.
#9 - Pond, Portable Cabin and Floating Pool
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2014
George visits a floating pool in a converted barn in Italy. He meets a couple making a home from portable office cabins and a schoolteacher who found a pond under her garden decking.
#11 - Cliff Top Retreat and Garden Pavilion
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2015
The architect extraordinaire is back for another tour of offbeat small builds, from space-saving retreats to reconditioned vehicles, at home and abroad. He begins by meeting a father and son building an ambitious clifftop retreat and a young architect embarking on his first commission - a garden pavilion for his gran. Master craftsman Will Hardie sets out to transform the humble beach hut into the most unlikely of holiday getaways, and in Germany, George visits a modern house in a medieval town
#12 - Campervan and Escape Pod
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2015
George meets a father-of-three building a campervan for less than £700, made from old CDs and vinyl records, and a single dad who is renovating an oil-rig escape pod to make a home for himself and sons on the water. The presenter also continues his German road trip with a visit to the Tyrolean mountains, where he finds a house that looks like a cross between a large bird and a UFO, and he and Will Hardie save a decrepit old wartime lookout shed to use as the basis for their floating beach hut
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#18 - Horse Box, Milk Float and Balancing Barn
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/2013
George meets a woman who wants to build a shop and a mobile home out of an old horsebox, but she only has £500 to spend. He meets a couple who are creating a holiday let out of a 1960s milk float. He visits an extraordinary 100-foot-long balancing barn, half of which is hanging over the edge of the Sussex countryside. And George and William make plans for a rectangular pod for their tree house.
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#19 - Bus, Horsebox and Loo
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/2012
George meets a couple who have invested their life savings in the hope of converting a wreck of a bus into a holiday let. He also sees how an old underground toilet has been transformed into a stunning apartment and how a horsebox has been given a new lease of life as a family holiday home. And George's own caravan build gets off to a shaky start as his builder fails to see the potential in this hulk of rusting metal from the 1970s.
#20 - Bolt-hole, Shipping Containers and a Caravan
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/2012
George meets a teacher creating a bolt-hole in the Lake District by following an increasingly popular trend in the UK of buying his own plot of countryside and doing the building himself. George visits a community in Hackney who live and work in customized shipping containers and is astounded to find an architect who has moved his kitchen onto the roof of his house. In Oxford, Bernard Fontannaz has lifted a 1971 airstream caravan into his back garden to create the ultimate party palace - and it doesn't break any planning laws. And on his own project, George bids farewell to the nostalgia of his caravan's 70s interior and takes the plunge with a risky but ingenious way of creating extra space for the family.
#21 - Modules, Beach Hut and Gypsy Caravans
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/6/2012
George heads to Scotland to meet Julie and George Nicholson, who take an enormous financial risk and commission local designer Sam Booth to build a truly unforgettable, innovative prototype module holiday home. The stakes are high, as the couple have invested their entire savings of £30,000 on a design that's never been tested before. George also takes a trip to Bournemouth and meets Andrew and Emma Collett, who decided not to spend money on a honeymoon but bought a six foot by six foot beach hut to transform into a multi-function small space that can accommodate up to six guests for lunch. Hungry to find inspiration for his own small space caravan design, George visits Gemma Doyle who has lovingly restored some gypsy caravans back to their former glory. And on his own build, George tries to come up with an ingenious solution that will sleep his family of five in a space barely big enough for one double bed.
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Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/2012
George meets Ruth Tidd, who is attempting to turn an old caravan that was once used as a home for chickens into an ice cream parlour. He also follows the building of the country's first ever tree tent and is lucky enough to get to try it out, as well as getting the chance to visit some very unique offices built from four old tube carriages. Finally, he travels to Barcelona to take a closer look at the tiny studio flat that thinks it's a five room apartment. And on his own caravan build, George designs a sofa that doubles up as a bath.
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Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/20/2012
George meets a man who drunkenly bought a 1920s showman's carriage on eBay, but quickly sobered up when he saw the poor condition it was in. He visits a holiday home built from an old World War II vehicle and follows the build of Britain's most landlocked beach hut, based in Birmingham. And George faces a major setback with his own project to create an ultra-modern holiday home out of a 1970s caravan, when he discovers the windows he's ordered are actually meant for a boat.
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Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2012
George visits a canal boat that's been revamped as the ultimate bachelor pad as he prepares to unveil his deluxe family caravan. Having bought a 1970s caravan for just £300, George and his team have spent months turning it into an extraordinary holiday home for him and his family, including a bespoke kitchen, a wood burning stove, innovative bedrooms as well as a beautiful deck that will enable him and his family to take in the most breathtaking views. And George meets a man whose simple plan of converting a shipping container into a garden office proved anything but.
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#25 - Beehive, Cocktail Bar and Tree Hotel
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/2013
George meets a couple who have remortgaged their house to build a sensational prototype apartment inspired by a beehive. There's also a barman who has bought a dilapidated Land Rover he plans to convert into a cocktail bar. George finds himself in a real life UFO, suspended in the trees at a tree hotel in a Swedish forest. And in Bordeaux, he meets an architect who has created a unique 41-metre-square one-bed apartment behind the façade of a garage.
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