Grand Designs

- Season 5

(2005)

Kevin returns to see whether the couple's solo attempts to transform a wreck of an old stone building in Leith, with no previous building experience, has been successful.

When Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe began looking for a house to buy in London they soon realized that the only affordable option was to build one themselves.

A couple are determined to restore and renovate a grade 2 listed Elizabethan farmhouse. They must protect unique features and save the building after terrible depredations by the death watch beetle.

John, a carpenter, rolled his sleeves up and decided to build a house for his family with his bare hands.

Know what this is about? Be the first one to add a plot.

Kevin McCloud revisits Louise and Milko Ostendorf, whose project to convert an old violin factory in the heart of London into a luxury home resulted in a bitter battle with their neighbours over a jointly-owned wall.

Kevin McCloud meets Pat Becker, who lives in a large Georgian house in Devon. But now that her family have flown the nest, she's building a new home at the bottom of the garden.

Kevin returns to see how Ben Law's woodsman's cottage has changed.

Thomas and Dervla O'Hare are building a spectacular split-level home cascading down an almost vertical hillside in Belfast. But is their vertiginous grand design a step too far?

Kevin McCloud meets Julie and Mark Veysey, whose Grand Design is a stunning Miami-style beach house on a beachfront plot overlooking the south Devon coast

Andrew Teilo and Lowri Davies want an eco-house in the Welsh countryside. Their wishes and their architect's evangelical eco insistence create a steep learning curve for all trades and a dramatic break between clients and architect.