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 - Treehouse, Army Truck and a Decadent Bath
Release Date: 2016-09-22George meets a couple turning an old army truck into a mobile holiday home and visits a luxury tree house in Dorset with a sauna, spiral staircase and even a slide
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Episode 2 - Mobile Home and Garden Pub
Release Date: 2016-09-29George meets Sam, a man with spinal muscular atrophy who is designing an accessible mobile home. And work continues on his rotating house project.
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Episode 3 - Mobile Juice Bar and Modernist Tent
Release Date: 2016-10-06George meets Tabitha, who's building a new mobile juice bar out of a horsebox after her last one was stolen. And in New Zealand he visits Waiheke to see a modernist tent.
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Episode 4 - Rare Caravan and a Dog House Conversion
Release Date: 2016-10-13George meets Ali and Rich, who hope to salvage one of the rarest caravans made. And in Devon, Nick wants to build a garden studio for his mother-in-law out of a dog house.
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Episode 5 - Jet, Scorebox and Tree House
Release Date: 2016-10-20George meets a teacher building a classroom in a salvaged jet and a Devon couple turning a cricket scorebox into a garden hang out. There's also a steel tree house in New Zealand.
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Episode 6 - Helicopter and Rare Campervan
Release Date: 2016-10-27In Lincolnshire, a couple are adding a dance floor to a rare campervan, while a small Stirlingshire business converts a Sea King helicopter into luxury overnight accommodation
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Episode 7 - Glass Lodge and a Doggie Campervan
Release Date: 2016-11-03George meets a Dorset couple building a room with great views over Chesil Beach. There's also a doggie campervan, and a remote lodge made almost entirely of glass in New Zealand.
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Episode 8 - Luxury Cliff-Top Home and a Safari Tent
Release Date: 2016-11-10George meets a Cornish couple turning the country's most expensive public loo into a luxury cliff-top holiday home. He also unveils his futuristic rotating home at Pinewood.
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Episode 9 - WWII Special
Release Date: 2016-12-13George and Will Hardie help Jan Fursier bring to life her dad's dream for a caravan, taken from plans found in his secret wartime diaries during his time as a Japanese prisoner of war