George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (2012)
For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.
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Episode 1 - Campervan, Aquarium and Floating Egg
Release Date: 2013-10-24George meets a couple planning to transform a tiny 1960s ambulance into a campervan where the family of six can cook, eat and sleep
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Episode 2 - Beehive, Cocktail Bar and Tree Hotel
Release Date: 2013-10-31George visits an apartment inspired by a beehive, a cocktail bar made out of a dilapidated Land Rover and a real life UFO suspended in the trees at a tree hotel in a Swedish forest
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Episode 3 - Double Decker Retreat and Boat Hotel
Release Date: 2013-11-07George meets a carpenter hoping to turn a double decker bus into a holiday retreat, and a couple who have quit their jobs and thrown their life savings into designing a boat hotel
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Episode 4 - Horse Box, Milk Float and Balancing Barn
Release Date: 2013-11-14George meets a woman who wants to build a shop and mobile home out of an old horsebox, but she only has £500 to spend
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Episode 5 - Yo! Home and Beach Hut
Release Date: 2013-11-21George visits a futuristic living space at YO! Home, where the double bed rises up out of the floor and into the ceiling, and the kitchen and bathrooms are cleverly hidden from view
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Episode 6 - Citroen Van, Railway Station and Double Decker
Release Date: 2013-11-28George is invited onboard a blinged-up double-decker bus that's been converted into a posh restaurant and bar. He meets a couple living in a railway station and sees their plans for the waiting room.
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Episode 7 - Mobile Cinema, Caravan and Shipping Container
Release Date: 2013-12-05George catches up with designer Max McMurdo, who is making a classroom out of two rusting shipping containers. And there's also a garden office and a beauty emporium run from a rare 1947 caravan.
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Episode 8 - George's Tree House and Garden Shed Pub
Release Date: 2013-12-12George prepares to unveil his own small-space project, an ambitious, accessible, multi-functional tree house within the Calvert Trust, an outward bound activities centre for families with disabilities
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Episode 9 - George Clarke's Amazing Christmas Spaces
Release Date: 2013-12-19In this festive special, George visits an incredible man-made stalactite crystal grotto in Surrey and meets a small spaces enthusiast who has rebuilt and renovated a Victorian flatpack tin chapel in Shropshire to create a magical holiday home. George catches up with carpenter Adam, who created a double-decker bus holiday home on the Brighton coastline, with Jay and Jonathan at their ambulance-turned-campervan in Norfolk, and Barry at his hexagonal home in Lancashire. Meanwhile, it's Christmas in the tree house with Rew from the Land Rover cocktail bar helping to get the celebrations started.