Episode guide
Grand Designs: Season 1
8 episodes · premiered Apr 29, 1999
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- Episode 1: The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex Apr 29, 1999 · 45m A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
- Episode 2: The English Barn, Oxfordshire May 6, 1999 · 45m Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!
- Episode 3: The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton May 13, 1999 · 45m This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families…
- Episode 4: The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham May 20, 1999 · 45m Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
- Episode 5: The Eco-House, Suffolk Jun 3, 1999 · 45m A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
- Episode 6: The Chapel, Cornwall Jun 10, 1999 · 45m Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.
- Episode 7: The House of Straw, Islington, North London Jun 17, 1999 · 45m Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
- Episode 8: The Glass-House, Town Fields, Doncaster Jun 24, 1999 · 45m Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.