The BEST episodes written by Kevin Mccloud
#1 - Lizard Peninsula, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 6
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.
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#2 - Sussex, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 3
For 10 years, Ben lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees. But after a battle with planning he finally got permission to build himself a house with more creature comforts. He invited volunteers to help him build one by hand, from the materials growing around him.
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#3 - South Somerset Revisit 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 9
In 2015, Vicky and Ed set out to transform a derelict cowshed into a 21st-century smallholding in Somerset. Six years on, how much has this wildly ambitious project changed their lives?
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#4 - Surrey, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 4
For Philip and Angela, the build was part of a life change that had begun two years earlier. Just after their second daughter was born, Philip fell seriously ill, prompting the family to leave London and move back to his parents' village. Acquiring the site was easy, as Philip's parents owned it. Getting planning permission took longer, and a crucial factor in their success was that they would be restoring the outside of the barn and keeping the innovation hidden
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#5 - Hard-to-Build Houses
Grand Designs: House of the Year - Season 7 - Episode 1
Kevin McCloud explores the homes in the running to win the RIBA House of the Year award 2022, starting with five hard-to-build houses, including a pink beach house.
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#6 - Cumbria, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 7
The old quarry stood on a slope of the Eden valley and commanded beautiful views. Local architect John Bodger designed a two-storey house that burrowed backwards into the rock and made maximum use of natural resources for light, warmth and power
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#7 - Dunstable 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 6
In Dunstable, John and his wife Helen demolish an old, dilapidated house and in its place build a million-pound, high-tech, accessible glass pavilion, complete with wildlife garden.
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#8 - North Devon Revisit 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 8
In 2011, Edward and Hazel set out to build a lighthouse on the north Devon coast. By 2019, they were near bankruptcy with just a rusting shell. Three years on, has anything changed?
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#9 - Scunthorpe 2023
Grand Designs - Season 24 - Episode 2
Devoted dad Danny builds a sustainable but affordable house with bedroom pods on stilts up among the trees. But with no self-build experience and spiralling costs, can he do it on ambition alone?
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#10 - Gloucestershire Revisit 2023
Grand Designs - Season 24 - Episode 3
In 2013, Jon and Noreen started building a giant tree house in Gloucestershire. By 2016, the money ran out. Are they finally living up in the trees? (Revisited from Season 17 Episode 1)
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#11 - Hereford, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 8
Merry's family have been Herefordshire builders for generations, so she knew that the county was rich in traditional building crafts. She and Ben decided to combine these with technology for a new house with a genuinely rural feel. Her father drew up a design that followed the traditional cottage layout while incorporating modern comforts.
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#12 - West Cumbria, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 7
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.
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#13 - Sydenham Hill, London 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 7
Corinne plans to build a beautifully crafted, wedge-shaped home on a slither of garden down the side of the house she’s lived in for 24 years. But it sits in a strict conservation area…
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#14 - Lake District, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 8
When Robert and Milla Gaukroger find a plot overlooking Lake Windermere in the Lake District National Park, they reckon they've hit gold.
#15 - Ipswich, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 5
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.
#16 - South Manchester 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 1
Kevin McCloud follows more ambitious self-builds. In south Manchester, can Colin and Adele overcome contractor issues and financial ruin to build their eye-popping curved glass home?
#17 - Chesterfield, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 2
The 1930s derelict water-works Chris and Leanne fell in love with was huge and its design had clearly been inspired by Gilbert Scott's Bankside power station, now better known as the Tate Modern. But nothing would deter the couple. 'We looked at it,' said Chris, 'and saw our home.'
#18 - Woodbridge, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 3
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
#19 - Chess Valley 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 4
Zimbabwean-born Davi and Matt from Australia set out to build a house in the Chess Valley with a radical multicultural design. Can they deliver, or will it end up just a mishmash of ideas?
#20 - Canterbury 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 3
Ship’s captain Dorran promised his family he’d build a super-modern underground lair on a hill outside Canterbury. But as the epic build hits choppy waters, will Dorran fulfil their dream?
#21 - Derbyshire 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 5
In Derbyshire, Mike and Sarah set out to build a multigenerational longhouse. But with a complicated roof, a shortage of materials and an unexpected bereavement, it proves far from easy…
#22 - Wye Valley 2023
Grand Designs - Season 24 - Episode 1
In the Wye Valley, Rosa and Craig battle the never-ending elements to convert a family-owned, century-old, decommissioned steam railway reservoir into a unique living space.
#23 - Materials and Craftsmanship
Grand Designs: House of the Year - Season 7 - Episode 4
Kevin McCloud looks at a meticulously crafted barn conversion and a timber-framed, timber-clad eco home, before the winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2022 is announced.
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#24 - Pioneers
Grand Designs: House of the Year - Season 7 - Episode 3
In the pioneering houses category, Kevin McCloud and the experts explore a home that fuses mock-Tudor with industrial chic, and a home with a mountain on the roof.
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#25 - Tunbridge Wells 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 2
Kate and Rob replace their 1940s past-it prefab with a bespoke, modern, factory-built home using volumetric modular construction. But will it feel like the characterful home they dream of?
#26 - Isle of Wight, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 1
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.
#27 - Bolton Revisit 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 10
In 2015, Paul and Carol’s plans to build a fortress-like home on the edge of the wild West Pennine Moors were thwarted when they ran out of money and time. Have the finally finished it?
#28 - Devon Revisit 2022
Grand Designs - Season 23 - Episode 11
In the longest revisit in Grand Designs history, Kevin McCloud returns to Devon to see if Sue and Martin’s renovation of two ancient barns has finally come to fruition, two decades on.
#29 - Buckinghamshire, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 5
Tom and Judy wanted more than just a home for themselves and their two children. On a site of outstanding natural beauty in Buckinghamshire, they set out to build an ambitious house - a symphony of angles, glass walls and exposed steel, with a dramatic inverted roof. Tom made himself site manager and main contractor. He had no experience but he liked a challenge - and, after all, how difficult could it be?
#30 - Stowmarket, 2010
Grand Designs - Season 10 - Episode 4
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.
#31 - Peterborough, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 1
'Is it a bold contemporary design or a garden shed?' John and Terri found themselves asking, halfway into their build. They had knocked down a derelict house in a beautiful rural setting and commissioned commercial architects to build them a new one. But was it too small for them, their young son and the baby on the way?
#32 - Incredible House Transformations
Grand Designs: House of the Year - Season 7 - Episode 2
Kevin McCloud and the experts visit five homes that have undergone incredible transformations, from a factory reborn to a library hidden within a former cowshed.
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#33 - Hackney, 2003
Grand Designs - Season 3 - Episode 6
After 10 years of living in a small house in east London, John and Eleni hankered after modern, open-plan living. They didn't want to move, so they decided to give their Victorian terrace home a radical redesign. The house was in a conservation area, so the outside had to remain unchanged. Inside, however, they decided to rip out everything including walls, ceilings, floors and start again.
#34 - Lewes 2018
Grand Designs - Season 19 - Episode 6
Professional deep-sea diver Adrian Corrigall and his wife Megan plan to build their new family home in rural East Sussex almost entirely out of concrete, with construction involving cutting-edge technologies conceived in Switzerland and never used to build a house before. However, the perils of being a pioneer soon become evident, and with both schedule and budget under strain, Adrian is forced to resume work as a diver, taking him away from the project for a month at a time.