Grand Designs Abroad

Season 12004

Kevin McCloud presents Grand Designs Abroad. The stakes are higher, the risks are multiplied, and the ambition - to build your dream home in the perfect European location - is greater than ever.

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14 Episodes

E01 Episode 1 (Malaga)

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

March 1, 2004

E02 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.

March 8, 2004

E03 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.

March 15, 2004

E04 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.

March 22, 2004

E05 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.

March 29, 2004

E06 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.

April 5, 2004

E07 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.

April 12, 2004

E08 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.

April 19, 2004

E09 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.

May 3, 2006

E10 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.

May 10, 2006

E11 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.

May 9, 2007

E12 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.

February 27, 2008

E13 Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

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

December 1, 2010

E14 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.

November 6, 2013

Grand Designs Abroad

E01 Episode 1 (Malaga)

E02 Episode 2 (Lot)

E03 Episode 3 (Puglia)

E04 Episode 4 (Creuse)

E05 Episode 5 (Ireland)

E06 Episode 6 (Tuscany)

E07 Episode 7 (Les Gets)

E08 Episode 8 (Alicante)

E09 Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

E10 Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

E11 Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

E12 Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

E13 Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

E14 Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

Bakumatsu

I Am Cait

Banshaku no Ryuugi

Quantunque io

The Dragon Dentist

New Zealand from Above

Working Class

Amelia Earhart

Harvest Villa

Great Crimes and Trials

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Lion Country: Night and Day

The Silence

Aranybulla

The Brink

Puzzle & Dragons

Wild Scandinavia

E01 Episode 1 (Malaga)

E02 Episode 2 (Lot)

E03 Episode 3 (Puglia)

E04 Episode 4 (Creuse)

E05 Episode 5 (Ireland)

E06 Episode 6 (Tuscany)

E07 Episode 7 (Les Gets)

E08 Episode 8 (Alicante)

E09 Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

E10 Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

E11 Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

E12 Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

E13 Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

E14 Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa