Build Your Dream Home in the Country - Season 1

Mark Millar helps people around Britain who are building their dream homes. He begins by assisting a family on a tight budget who are turning a timber house into their ideal abode, and creating a magical garden for their children to enjoy.

Mark Millar helps a family building their ideal abode on a hillside in the heart of the beautiful Cornwall countryside. To make the most of the views, they are building an 'upside down' house, with the living spaces upstairs and the bedrooms on the ground floor.

Mark Millar helps a family transforming a dilapidated metal barn in a field into a dream luxury abode with two kitchens and a main bedroom. The structure opens onto a rooftop terrace with an outdoors hot tub looking over beautiful Nottinghamshire countryside. Mark meets them as the builders are just getting started, stripping back the old sheep shed to transform it into a luxury home.

Mark Millar helps ex-police workers Paul and Leigh transform a small and ugly house into a stunning home twice the size. It's the only way they can afford their dream of a beautiful home in a country village. But building a double height extension and completely renovating the original interior is a serious challenge

Mark Millar helps a city couple rebuild a dilapidated, damp country cottage and transform it into their dream home for a new life in the Gloucestershire countryside. The first-time renovators have a budget of £65,000 to do all the essential jobs, but soon they learn they are expecting their first baby. The clock starts ticking to create a safe, comfortable home in time for the new arrival.

Mark Millar helps a couple beset by problems building their own home in Warwickshire, battling with unfinished jobs, sub-standard work and disappearing builders. Mark helps the couple with practical advice, encouragement and step-by-step problem-solving, and also gives viewers his expert advice on how to choose builders, and just as importantly, how to contract them, and what payment terms to agree.