Episode 1
The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex
1999-04-29 • 45 min
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
TV season
1999-04-29
Episode 1
1999-04-29 • 45 min
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
Episode 2
1999-05-06 • 45 min
Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!
Episode 3
1999-05-13 • 45 min
This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.
Episode 4
1999-05-20 • 45 min
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
Episode 5
1999-06-03 • 45 min
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
Episode 6
1999-06-10 • 45 min
Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.
Episode 7
1999-06-17 • 45 min
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
Episode 8
1999-06-24 • 45 min
Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.