The BEST episodes of Grand Designs season 10
Every episode of Grand Designs season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Grand Designs season 10!
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 - Revisit: Brittany, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/2010
Kevin returns to see how Daren Howarth and Adi Nortje's project has fared four years after they decided to build an earth-sheltered home in Brittany.
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#2 - Lizard Peninsula, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/2010
Kevin meets interior designer Kathryn Tyler, who has decided the best way onto the property ladder is to design and build her own house in her parents' back garden in Falmouth.
#3 - Revisit: Belfast, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/2010
Kevin catches up with Thomas and Dervla O'Hare who built a spectacular home on a hillside in Belfast.
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#4 - Revisit: Lot, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/2010
Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family in France. Mark and Deborah (Debbie) Sampson and daughter, Tilley, like to practice an ecologically sound way of life. Together, the family's over-riding desire is to make a statement about who they are and how they choose to live their life, and to be accepted for the way they are by the local people.
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#5 - West Cumbria, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/2010
Alan Dawson has invented his own way of making a house, with every piece put together on site in days. But it must all fit perfectly. Only then will Alan know if his unique house works.
#6 - Lake District, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/2010
When Robert and Milla Gaukroger find a plot overlooking Lake Windermere in the Lake District National Park, they reckon they've hit gold.
#7 - Ipswich, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/2010
Jonathan and Lindsay want to build a house that's exciting to look at, cheap to run, and ecologically sound. But the build is a battle, with technologies that don't work and a tight budget.
#8 - Woodbridge, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/2010
Kevin McCloud follows the efforts of Lucie Fairweather to build an eco-friendly house in Woodbridge, Suffolk. After the death of her partner 18 months earlier, and not having a large budget, Lucie is determined to create a beautiful and affordable family home with the help of Jerry Tate, an architect who was involved in the design of the Eden Project
#9 - Revisit: London, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/2010
Kevin returns to see whether Bill Bradley has completed the work on his two timber houses in south London.
#10 - Isle of Wight, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/2010
Kevin McCloud follows the progress of architectural designer Lincoln Miles and his wife, artist Lisa Traxler, who want to create their own home on the Isle of Wight. They have bought a property on a prime piece of land and set out to transform it into a creative structure that complements the unspoilt woodland setting.
#11 - Revisit: Amersham Water Tower, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/2010
Kevin is in Amersham for a second update on a project taken on by Deborah and architect Andrew. Their venture involved designing an 'invisible' house that blended in with the surrounding reservoirs.
#12 - Cotswolds, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/2010
Helen and Chris Seymour Smith are architects who are planning to build a subterranean, eco-friendly house underneath a ruined 300-year-old barn in the Cotswolds. Kevin McCloud follows their progress as they set out to create a building that is airtight and needs no heating, but whose spartan interior raises questions of habitability
#13 - Stowmarket, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/2010
Kevin McCloud follows the progress of Simon Bennett and his wife Jill as they try to restore two timber-framed barns in Suffolk. The couple found out that one of the buildings is among the smallest surviving medieval guildhalls in the country, and while Kevin advises the pair to conserve it in its present state, Simon is determined to restore it to its former glory.
#14 - Revisit: Midlothian, 2010
Season 10 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/2010
Kevin returns to see how Pru and Richard Irvine fared one-and-a-half years after they began building their bespoke home in the Midlothian countryside.