Kevin meets Mimi and Jaime Fernandez who are converting a listed folly in Buckinghamshire into a family home. The folly is built on an ancient Saxon burial ground and throws up some macabre surprises.
Harry and Briani want to build a house that echoes the house on the American movie, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Harry is a TV journalist and has a Production Company but wants to move from London to Padstow, Cornwall and open a 2 nd office there. They buy a former dairy farm for £490,000 and start the build. It takes 8 months longer and costs £200,000 more than they had budgeted.
This episode takes place in Richmond, London where a young couple with 3 children want to build a home with natural materials that will help their children with their allergies. Dust free concert floors, bamboo carpeting, non off gassing cabinets.
Steph Wilson and husband Alex try to build a contemporary farmhouse on her grandfather's old farmland. But lack of money leads to a long spell in a caravan and a total re-design.
Twin brothers in England's steel center buy an abandoned concrete yard behind the homes they are renting, with plans to build themselves two houses. Their designs incorporate local steel and are raised to take advantage of the view of a mill pond behind their planned homes, which they also purchased. One brother is married and the other divorced, but acquires a girlfriend and her children during the three year build (mostly spent in trying to line up finances and builders on their small budget.)
A married couple buy and demolish a house in order to build another. The husband is a deep sea diver who has always loved the look and feel of concrete. His dream house is to be made entirely of concrete using a formulation from a Swiss firm that has never been used in constructing a family home. Having to go away for work periodically, his wife oversees the project at times. The result is a stark building with few windows.
