Grand Designs Abroad
Kevin McCloud presents Grand Designs Abroad. The stakes are higher, the risks are multiplied, and the ambition - to build your dream home in the perfect European location - is greater than ever.
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Seasons
1.Episode 1 (Malaga)
01-03-200445 minKevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.
2.Episode 2 (Lot)
08-03-200445 minKevin travels to the Lot region of France to meet the Sampson family as they prepare to embark on the construction of a hugely ambitious, open, wooden-framed house.
- Ep 3
3.Episode 3 (Puglia)
15-03-200445 minKevin follows a couple of artists who have moved to the beautiful region of Puglia. Their dream is to turn a derelict olive farm into a home and a summer school for artists.
- Ep 4
4.Episode 4 (Creuse)
22-03-200445 minKevin visits a couple who have given up everything in the UK to start a new life in a remote part of central France called the Creuse.
- Ep 5
5.Episode 5 (Ireland)
29-03-200445 minKevin travels to the romantic west coast of Ireland where architect Andrew Lohan is embarking on the conversion of a ruined 150-year-old church into the perfect home.
- Ep 6
6.Episode 6 (Tuscany)
05-04-200445 minKevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.
- Ep 7
7.Episode 7 (Les Gets)
12-04-200445 minKevin travels to a ski resort in the French Alps where English couple Nicky and James Dobree are turning a 300-year-old farmhouse into an luxurious eight-bedroomed chalet.
- Ep 8
8.Episode 8 (Alicante)
19-04-200445 minKevin McCloud travels to Spain to meet a family who have moved lock, stock and barrel from London to start a new life in Alicante on a lovely block by a lake.
9.Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
03-05-200645 minKevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.
10.Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
10-05-200645 minKevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.
11.Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
09-05-200745 minKevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.
12.Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
27-02-200845 minKevin 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...
13.Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw
01-12-201045 minKevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.
- Ep 14
14.Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
06-11-201345 minTen years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain, where they planned to build a contemporary home in the Andalusian hills against the backdrop of more tradi...
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