The BEST episodes of Grand Designs season 8
Every episode of Grand Designs season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Grand Designs season 8!
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: Surrey, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/2008
Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old threshing barn after Philip was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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#2 - Maidstone, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/2008
In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototype steel foundations. The project would test even the most accomplished workmen, but is left to their daughter and son-in-law, who have little building experience and have to make personal sacrifices.
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#3 - Revisit: Cumbria, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2008
Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their ecologically sound earth-sheltered home.
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#4 - Bristol, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2008
An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials. He ends up using stuff more commonly used in commercial buildings.
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#5 - Revisit: Puglia, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/2008
Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and planned to convert it into a home on a budget of £25,000. The project proved difficult due to their lack of experience and problems with Italian planning laws. When the presenter last visited they had built a guest house but their own residence was untouched.
#6 - Revisit: Peterborough, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/5/2008
Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made entirely of glass and great views across open countryside near Peterborough.
#7 - Bath, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2008
Bath may be famous for its Georgian architecture, but Tiffany Wood and her husband Jonny have chosen it as the location to build themselves a striking Modernist home.
#8 - Cheltenham, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2008
A couple who live in a Regency house in Cheltenham that is expensive to run decide to sell up and build a modern low maintenance house in their back garden. However, height restrictions mean they have to build 60 per cent of their new home underground and neighbours make 90 complaints about their planning application. Undeterred, the pair continue as planned, but the project encounters further problems including the departure of the builders.
#9 - Oxfordshire, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2008
Henry Chopping finds his plans to build a new home in Oxford hampered by a listed wall and planning restrictions. With a budget of over three quarters of a million Henry is determined to make his dream home a reality.
#10 - Midlothian, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2008
Pru and Richard Irvine plan to build a bespoke family home in the Midlothian countryside, but the plot of land is an old industrial site with lime kilns and they come with conditions.
#11 - Monmouth, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2008
Jo and Shaun Bennett want to build an Addams Family style Gothic house with a £400,000 budget. With the challenge growing bigger than they ever imagined they face financial problems and struggle to stay within their budget.
#12 - Revisit: Esher, 2008
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/12/2008
Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.