Returning: Grand Designs

New episodes of Grand Designs have their Australian Premiere next week on the LifeStyle channel.

Nine episodes with Kevin McCloud have aired in the UK, premiering there in September.

The new series of ‘Grand Designs UK’ is as enthralling and diverse as ever. It opens with one of the largest builds featured so far – a magnificent modernist pavilion in Sussex built by a man obsessed with every detail. To follow there’s a young couple wrangling a derelict cowshed into their first home in Somerset, a rusty ‘floating’ barn overcoming local opposition in Lewes and a giant fortress of a house on the beach in the Isle of Wight. There’s an outback-style stilt house on the marshes in East Sussex, for a builder who loves boats and hates houses, and a sweeping curved straw-bale conversion of an old forge for a family in County Antrim. And that’s not forgetting the man determined to make a damp dark cave in the Wyre Forest into a home fit for 21st-century living. Kevin McCloud is on hand to witness the trials and tribulations of those willing to put everything on the line to build homes they hope will transform their lives.

Thursdays from January 14 at 8.30pm.