Grand Designs
TV-PG
8.5
1999
Documentary
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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- Cast:
- Kevin McCloud
Episode 9 : Revisited – Monmouthshire: Japanese House
October. 29,2014
Kevin McCloud returns to a unique Japanese-Welsh fusion home in the Wye Valley to see how the improvised building weathered one of the wettest winters on record.
Tamayo Hussey has missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK 15 years ago with her husband Nigel. To stave off the homesickness they decided to transform their home into a one-of-a-kind Japanese house - complete with Japanese roof bath, tatami room and paper sliding walls.
Kevin finds out if it has brought the calm and tranquillity Tamayo remembers from her childhood in Japan.
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Episode 4 : County Derry: Shipping Container House
September. 24,2014
A young farmer and architect in Northern Ireland hopes to make a home out of four large shipping containers welded together to form a giant cross.
Patrick Bradley has come up with a pounds 100k house design to be built out of four 45-foot shipping containers, welded together to form a giant cross and cantilevered over the top of a stream at a beautiful secluded spot on the family farm.
His mum is hoping his new home will get Patrick a girlfriend. But his tiny budget is soon under threat.
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Episode 2 : North Cornwall: The Cross-Laminated Timber House
September. 10,2014
Rebecca Sturrock has returned to her family home in Cornwall with her partner Gregory Kewish and a highly ambitious plan. Together they will transform a small, damp, single-storey bungalow into a cutting-edge home on a budget of just pounds 80,000. With rain and wind hammering the site, however, it soon becomes dangerously clear they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
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