Grand Designs Abroad - Season 1

Season 1
Episodes

Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.

Lot, France: House From Straw
Kevin 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.

Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
Kevin 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.

Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
Kevin 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.

Ireland: Church Conversion
Kevin 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.

Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.

Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
Kevin 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.

Alicante, Spain: Florida Villa
Kevin 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.
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