
Grand Designs
Season 1
19998 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex
1999-04-29 · 45m
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
- E2
The English Barn, Oxfordshire
1999-05-06 · 45m
Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!
- E3
The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton
1999-05-13 · 45m
This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.
- E4
The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
1999-05-20 · 45m
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
- E5
The Eco-House, Suffolk
1999-06-03 · 45m
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
- E6
The Chapel, Cornwall
1999-06-10 · 45m
Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.
- E7
The House of Straw, Islington, North London
1999-06-17 · 45m
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
- E8
The Glass-House, Town Fields, Doncaster
1999-06-24 · 45m
Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.
