Kevin McCloud
Himself - Presenter
Grand Designs Abroad (2004)
Season 1
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.
Released March 1, 2004
Episode 45 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.house, tmdb.architecture, tmdb.self-build, tmdb.grand-designs, imdb.dream
Production Companies: Boundless
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode 1 (Malaga)
Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.
March 1, 2004, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2 (Lot)
Kevin 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.
March 8, 2004, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3 (Puglia)
Kevin 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.
March 15, 2004, midnight
S1E4 - Episode 4 (Creuse)
Kevin 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.
March 22, 2004, midnight
S1E5 - Episode 5 (Ireland)
Kevin 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.
March 29, 2004, midnight
S1E6 - Episode 6 (Tuscany)
Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.
April 5, 2004, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7 (Les Gets)
Kevin 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.
April 12, 2004, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8 (Alicante)
Kevin 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.
April 19, 2004, midnight
S1E9 - Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.
May 3, 2006, midnight
S1E10 - Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.
May 10, 2006, midnight
S1E11 - Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.
May 9, 2007, midnight
S1E12 - Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
Kevin 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.
Feb. 27, 2008, midnight
S1E13 - Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw
Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.
Dec. 1, 2010, midnight
S1E14 - Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Ten 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.
Nov. 6, 2013, midnight
Channel 4
45 min/ep
630 min
March 1, 2004
Nov. 6, 2013, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
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