For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.
George meets a Cornish couple turning the country's most expensive public loo into a luxury cliff-top holiday home. He also unveils his futuristic rotating home at Pinewood.
George is back with more ingenious builds. He meets a couple who are turning an old fire engine into a bar, and a 23-year-old building a shepherd's hut from scratch.
George meets a master craftsman saving a Victorian circus wagon, and discovers a small hotel that's disguised as a tree and a camping pod that looks like a giant conker.
George meets one couple converting a camper into a mini HGV caravan and another turning a railway carriage into a retreat. And George and Will learn how to take photos with a beer can.
George meets a man who plans to make a barn out of discarded windows and old driftwood, and a novice builder who's creating a retirement home in a minivan for her and her cat.
George looks back at his most ambitious big build - a 360-degree, gravity defying rotating house! In search of inspiration, George goes to Holland, Germany and the local fairground.
George looks back at his first ever big build - converting a £300 dilapidated caravan into a stylish holiday hideout for him and his kids, inspired by other ingenious conversions.
George and Will Hardie take inspiration from an 1830s camera obscura and a futuristic planetarium to create an observatory in honour of George's star-loving late father
George and Will Hardie take their amphibious camper for a maiden voyage in Hastings. There's also a chill-out den, a sphere, and a revolutionary studio in Spain.
George meets Sam, a conservation worker from Somerset who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and is 30 years old. George is determined to change Sam's life by designing a fully accessible mobile home, allowing him to move freely inside as well as taking it on the road to travel the country. In Derbyshire, George meets James, a former pub landlord, who's building his new girlfriend a surprise house warming gift - a pub in their back garden. In New Zealand, George's travels to the island of Waiheke to see a modernist tent. And George and Will look for engineering inspiration for their futuristic rotating home.
The ingenious builds this time include a gin bar made from a rail wagon, a narrowboat conversion, and an epic cathedral near Madrid, hand built over 50 years by one man
George meets a mum who's turning a shed into a haven and a couple creating a luxury home on a houseboat. He also visits a temple in Chile and continues to build his observatory.
George meets car nut Mark from Coventry, who's planning to build a camping trailer from an old Saab, and Busola who's making a mobile classroom out of a double-decker bus
George visits a cattle carriage made into a luxury holiday pad. There's a retro caravanette in east London and a picture-perfect home in southern Andalucía.
George meets a couple who turn a coach into a mobile home and a pilot who creates a garden den from a plane, and his observatory takes him to one of the world's largest telescopes.
George travels to Yorkshire to meet Jasmine and Rupert, who plan to convert an old German fire truck into a cabin on wheels to take around Europe
George visits a river barge conversion, an ingenious swimming pool restoration and a futuristic lakeside house in Germany
In West Sussex young couple Becky and Joe plan to build their first home together: a tiny house on an old trailer, enabling them to live debt-free
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. A lifeboat is converted into a camping pod, a mum and three daughters create a charming straw bale house, and George enjoys an oriental delight on the Isle of Wight
A couple create an ambitious floating home, George and Will make a magical vista in their garden flat, and two siblings build their own mobile homes away from home
George meets a couple crafting a magical den and an aircraft technician who's turning a jet engine into a supersonic camper. He also discovers some lip-smacking designs in a winery.
George meets a teacher building a classroom in a salvaged jet and a Devon couple turning a cricket scorebox into a garden hang out. There's also a steel treehouse in New Zealand.
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