Grand Designs

- Season 7

(2007)

A heroic battle to save a crumbling, romantic 14th-century castle in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales

After a couple watched their thatched home burn they discovered that their insurance had lapsed. Despite their loss they decide to restore their historic home together with a new modern annexe.

Social workers Sze and Chris can't afford a home for themselves and their children. They decide to buy a barge and plan to convert it to a self-sustainable houseboat using recycled materials and no design plan.

Katrin and James are renovating a grand old Bournemouth hotel-turned-apartment building penthouse. When James leaves Katrin to manage the project she deals with irate neighbours and begins to make her own mark on the project.

Kevin revisits Andrew and Lowri Davies who embarked on a project to build an environmentally friendly farmhouse in rural Wales.

Builder Dean and wife Hilary convert a Georgian listed church into a bizarre family home around a hydrotherapy pool. Dean is determined to follow his own plans without an architect despite Kevin McCloud's representations.

Two pilots design and have built, a 21 st century large home but in the 1930s Art Deco style. They know what they would like on the outside, but had not thought through much of the inside. On a flight to Miami while working, they tour the Miami Beach area Art Deco buildings for inspiration and return to England armed with many ideas to include in their house. Kitchens in the 1930s were not very stylish and were kept out of sight in the back of homes. Our couple work with the cabinetmakers to make a beautiful kitchen with many curves in the style and using Walnut and ...

Engineering whiz Monty Ravenscroft built an extraordinary experimental home in Peckham.

Kevin revisits Tony and Jo, musicians with Scottish Opera, who had long dreamed of a home in the countryside.

Kelly and Masoko Neville build a straw bale insulated house on the Cambridgeshire Fens, which is the term applied to the flat area in the middle of East Anglia. Kelly builds most of it himself, as he has amazing carpentry skills. They install a 20 amp windmill outside and Masoko cultivates a vegetable garden which yields lots of veggies. After 20 months Kevin McLoud revisits to find it 95% finished and it has many beautiful and unique facets like hand carved doors.

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

Kevin meets master carpenter Bill Bradley and his wife Sarah, whose plan is to build two identical timber houses in south London, selling one to finance the building of the other.