The BEST episodes of Grand Designs season 1
Every episode of Grand Designs season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Grand Designs season 1!
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.
#1 - Cornwall, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/10/1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.
#2 - Brighton, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/13/1999
This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.
#3 - Amersham, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/20/1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
#4 - Suffolk, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/3/1999
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
#5 - Newhaven, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/29/1999
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
#6 - Oxford, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/1999
Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!
#7 - Islington, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/17/1999
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
#8 - Doncaster, 1999
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/24/1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.