Grand Designs

- Season 6

(2006)

Kevin meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a private loch in Scotland

Kevin McCloud meets Jane and Robert Ellis who are planning a mouth-wateringly contemporary conversion of a 300-year-old barn into a stunning modern home using steel and glass

World travellers Theo and Elaine are building a cedar-clad ecologically-friendly three storey cedar-clad cuboid house with materials coming from America, Canada and Europe and finding that adds to the complications of building a home.

Kevin McCloud meets Denise and Bruno Del Tufo, who have ambitious plans for a concrete water tower sitting in their back garden, with a strict budget of £250,000

This house is in Creuse France, in the centre of the country. It was originally used as a house for the French Resistance folk, so the Germans bombed it. In November 2004 they have enough renovated to open 2 rooms for paying guests.

The journey moving the family, including their two young sons, Fabian and Felix, from South London to a renovated 300-year-old farmhouse in Les Gets was to have its ups and downs.

Kevin McCloud meets Peter and Christine Benjamin who live in an Edwardian manor house but have decided to downsize and build a smaller home in the grounds

Kevin meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a private loch in Scotland