Grand Designs

- Season 4

(2004)

Architect Louise and banker husband Milko Ostendorf convert a Victorian violin factory in built-up London into a luxury home, but neighbours London Festival Orchestra start a bitter battle over incorrectly-coloured bricks in a shared wall.

Kevin McCloud visits and revisits 4 years later to see how a senior couple orders from Germany a specially designed house to be delivered in sections to their site in England. The site originally had their other home on for 40 years. The new home will be built in the factory in Germany and erected on site in 6 days. After erection the interior be be finished within a few months. The couple will live on site in a caravan during the build.

Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have spent 15 years planning their dream home - an exotic and inspired wooden-framed house - but is the New Forest ready for such a Grand Design?

Ruben and April are climbers based in Ediburgh. They buy and gut an old stone schoolhouse, creating a restored period house on the outside with a huge open plan apartment style interior.

David and Anjana live in a tiny coach house with a huge backyard. They propose to build a large modern house curved around a protected chestnut tree. To save money Anjana will be the project manager.

Former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins and his partner Darron have spent years dreaming of building a controversial seaside modernist, Bauhaus-inspired white cube for them and their C20th pop culture collection.

Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have found a plot with a view to die for on the west coast of Scotland. The trouble is, they are not sure what kind of house they want.

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