Grand Designs Abroad - Season 1

Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.