Season 1

2004-03-01 · 45m

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

2004-03-08 · 45m

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.

2004-03-15 · 45m

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.

2004-03-22 · 45m

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.

2004-03-29 · 45m

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.

2004-04-05 · 45m

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

2004-04-12 · 45m

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.

2004-04-19 · 45m

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.

2006-05-03 · 45m

Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.

2006-05-10 · 45m

Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.

2007-05-09 · 45m

Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.

2008-02-27 · 45m

Kevin 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 budget of £25,000.

2010-12-01 · 45m

Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.

2013-11-06 · 45m

Ten 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 traditional properties. A few years ago, Gil died, but now Kevin McCloud revisits Hillary to find out whether her residence has settled into its landscape and how life is treating her as a British widow living abroad.