Name: Grand Designs Abroad Season 1
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2004

S01 Episode 1

Episode 1 (Malaga)

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

45 mins · Mon, 1 Mar 2004

S01 Episode 2

Episode 2 (Lot)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 8 Mar 2004

S01 Episode 3

Episode 3 (Puglia)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 15 Mar 2004

S01 Episode 4

Episode 4 (Creuse)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 22 Mar 2004

S01 Episode 5

Episode 5 (Ireland)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 29 Mar 2004

S01 Episode 6

Episode 6 (Tuscany)

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

45 mins · Mon, 5 Apr 2004

S01 Episode 7

Episode 7 (Les Gets)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 12 Apr 2004

S01 Episode 8

Episode 8 (Alicante)

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.

45 mins · Mon, 19 Apr 2004

S01 Episode 9

Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

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

45 mins · Wed, 3 May 2006

S01 Episode 10

Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

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

45 mins · Wed, 10 May 2006

S01 Episode 11

Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

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

45 mins · Wed, 9 May 2007

S01 Episode 12

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

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.

45 mins · Wed, 27 Feb 2008

S01 Episode 13

Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

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

45 mins · Wed, 1 Dec 2010

S01 Episode 14

Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

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.

45 mins · Wed, 6 Nov 2013

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