Grand Designs

- Season 14

(2014)

Rob Hodgson and Kay Ralph plan to build a very modern white home on a cliff top in North Wales. This cliff is eroding and once they start the project a very bad storm washes away up to 15 hears of normal erosion. They feel that the cliff will outlast their lifetime and that seems to be all they worry about.

Rebecca and Gregory attempt to transform a single storey bungalow into a cutting edge home in Cornwall, on a budget originally of £80,000. The house is set on top of the original cottage ground level. The top level is clad with black stained timber.

Peter Berkin has a problem. His hobbyist ambitions have outgrown his workshop which can't accommodate the airplane he's building. But that's not his problem. He'll just build a bigger workshop. The problem is he needs a house to go with it. Or is that another project for his hobby. Which will he finish first; house, workshop or airplane?

Just because people have lived in shipping containers from time to time doesn't mean they're architecturally desirable. Patrick Bradley disagrees. But the location he plans to build on is naturally beautiful and requires a home much more beautiful than a lowly shipping container.

Tracy and Steve Fox have rehabilitated and sold several houses in the course of their lifetimes. Finally they're ready to build their own home. They plan an urban industrial style using conventional cinder block covered with corrugated cement fiber and polycarbonate. What could be cheaper. As it turns out, just about anything else.

Planning constraints arise when Natasha tries to build a periscope-shaped house.

Dreaming of a river front house Andy Bruce has finally found a house he can afford. But it's not the greatest. It's terribly run down because it's on an island in the Thames that is totally submerged every now and then. But does Andy walk, or should I say swim, away. No. He'll just build a house the floats.

Kevin visits Denny and Doug who, on a whim, paid 36,000 Euros for a bombed out manor house in Creuse, France. It was a centre for resistance workers during WW2, so it was destroyed by the a Germans and has remained so until the early 2000s when they bought it. Then Kevin revisits the house in ten years' time to discover it it truly finished and running as a guest house. The village loves the finished project and the couple finally marry there.

Kevin McCloud returns to a unique Japanese-Welsh fusion home in the Wye Valley.

Kevin McCloud returns to Devon for an update on one of the most inspirational builds he has ever witnessed.