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First Aired: April 29th, 1999
Status: Continuing
Network: Channel 4
Summary: British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Season 3
Episode 1: Peterborough: The Wooden Box
Air Date: February 12nd, 2003
Summary: '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?
Episode 2: The Water-Works, Derbyshire
Air Date: February 19th, 2003
Summary: 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.'
Episode 3: The Woodsman's House, Sussex
Air Date: February 26th, 2003
Summary: 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
Episode 4: The Victorian Threshing Barn, Surrey
Air Date: March 5th, 2003
Summary: 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.
Episode 5: Inverted V Roof, Buckinghamshire
Air Date: March 12nd, 2003
Summary: 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.
Episode 6: The Terrace Conversion, Hackney
Air Date: September 17th, 2003
Summary: 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
Episode 7: The Underground House, Cumbria
Air Date: September 24th, 2003
Summary: '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?
Episode 8: The Traditional Cottage, Herefordshire
Air Date: October 1st, 2003
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Revisited - Buckinghamshire: The Inverted-Roof House
Air Date: February 4th, 2004
Summary: 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?
Episode 10: Revisited - Hackney: The Terrace Conversion
Air Date: May 4th, 2005
Summary: Kevin McCloud takes a trip back to the home of John and Eleni Flood who completely gutted their Victorian terraced house to create an open, light and modern space.
Episode 11: Revisited - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage
Air Date: October 26th, 2005
Summary: Kevin returns to see how Ben Law's woodsman's cottage has changed. The house has bedded down into its landscaped kitchen garden and his life has changed in unexpected ways.
Episode 12: Revisited - Peterborough: The Wooden Box
Air Date: March 5th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Revisited - Surrey: The Victorian Threshing Barn
Air Date: March 19th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: Revisited - Cumbria: The Underground House
Air Date: March 26th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: Revisited (2) - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage
Air Date: April 29th, 2009
Summary: Kevin returns again to see how Ben Law's woodsman's cottage has changed.
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