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Grand Designs Abroad

Season 1

2004 · 14 episodes

  1. 1. Episode 1 (Malaga)

    2004-03-01 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.

  2. 2. Episode 2 (Lot)

    2004-03-08 · 45m

    Kevin travels to the Lot region of France to meet the Sampson family as they prepare to embark on the construction of a hugely ambitious, open, wooden-framed house.

  3. 3. Episode 3 (Puglia)

    2004-03-15 · 45m

    Kevin follows a couple of artists who have moved to the beautiful region of Puglia. Their dream is to turn a derelict olive farm into a home and a summer school for artists.

  4. 4. Episode 4 (Creuse)

    2004-03-22 · 45m

    Kevin visits a couple who have given up everything in the UK to start a new life in a remote part of central France called the Creuse.

  5. 5. Episode 5 (Ireland)

    2004-03-29 · 45m

    Kevin travels to the romantic west coast of Ireland where architect Andrew Lohan is embarking on the conversion of a ruined 150-year-old church into the perfect home.

  6. 6. Episode 6 (Tuscany)

    2004-04-05 · 45m

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

  7. 7. Episode 7 (Les Gets)

    2004-04-12 · 45m

    Kevin travels to a ski resort in the French Alps where English couple Nicky and James Dobree are turning a 300-year-old farmhouse into an luxurious eight-bedroomed chalet.

  8. 8. Episode 8 (Alicante)

    2004-04-19 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud travels to Spain to meet a family who have moved lock, stock and barrel from London to start a new life in Alicante on a lovely block by a lake.

  9. 9. Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

    2006-05-03 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.

  10. 10. Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

    2006-05-10 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.

  11. 11. Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

    2007-05-09 · 45m

    Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.

  12. 12. Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

    2008-02-27 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and planned to convert it into a home on a budget of £25,000.

  13. 13. Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

    2010-12-01 · 45m

    Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.

  14. 14. Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

    2013-11-06 · 45m

    Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain, where they planned to build a contemporary home in the Andalusian hills against the backdrop of more traditional properties. A few years ago, Gil died, but now Kevin McCloud revisits Hillary to find out whether her residence has settled into its landscape and how life is treating her as a British widow living abroad.

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