Grand Designs Abroad (2004)
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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Episode 1 - Episode 1 (Malaga)
Release Date: 2004-03-01Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2 (Lot)
Release Date: 2004-03-08Kevin 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.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3 (Puglia)
Release Date: 2004-03-15Kevin 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.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4 (Creuse)
Release Date: 2004-03-22Kevin 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.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5 (Ireland)
Release Date: 2004-03-29Kevin 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.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6 (Tuscany)
Release Date: 2004-04-05Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7 (Les Gets)
Release Date: 2004-04-12Kevin 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.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8 (Alicante)
Release Date: 2004-04-19Kevin 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.
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Episode 9 - Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
Release Date: 2006-05-03Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.
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Episode 10 - Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
Release Date: 2006-05-10Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.
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Episode 11 - Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
Release Date: 2007-05-09Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.
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Episode 12 - Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
Release Date: 2008-02-27Kevin 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.
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Episode 13 - Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw
Release Date: 2010-12-01Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.
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Episode 14 - Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Release Date: 2013-11-06Ten 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.