Episode guide
Grand Designs: Season 8
12 episodes · premiered Jan 16, 2008
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- Episode 1: Cheltenham: The Underground House Jan 16, 2008 · 45m A couple who live in a Regency house in Cheltenham that is expensive to run decide to sell up and build a modern low maintenance house in their back garden. However, height restrictions…
- Episode 2: Oxford: The Decagon House Jan 23, 2008 · 45m Henry Chopping finds his plans to build a new home in Oxford hampered by a listed wall and planning restrictions. With a budget of over three quarters of a million Henry is determined to…
- Episode 3: Bristol: The Modernist Sugar Cube Jan 30, 2008 · 45m An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials. He ends up using stuff more commonly used in commercial buildings.
- Episode 4: The Gothic House Feb 6, 2008 · 45m Jo and Shaun Bennett want to build an Addams Family style Gothic house with a £400,000 budget. With the challenge growing bigger than they ever imagined they face financial problems and…
- Episode 5: Midlothian: The Lime Kiln House Feb 13, 2008 · 45m Pru and Richard make plans to build a bespoke family home on an industrial site in the middle of the Midlothian countryside. However, the plot of land, an old industrial site complete with…
- Episode 6: The Bath Kit House Feb 20, 2008 · 45m Kevin attempts to help Tiffany and Jonny with their dream of creating an ultra-modern, eco-friendly home in Bath in the west country. Rather than go down the traditional building route…
- Episode 7: Revisited - Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat Feb 27, 2008 · 45m 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…
- Episode 8: Revisited - Peterborough- The Wooden Box Mar 5, 2008 · 45m Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made entirely of glass and great views across open countryside near Peterborough.
- Episode 9: Revisited - German Kit House Mar 12, 2008 · 45m Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.
- Episode 10: Revisited - Surrey- The Victorian Threshing Barn Mar 19, 2008 · 45m Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old threshing barn after Philip was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
- Episode 11: Cumbria Underground House Revisited Mar 26, 2008 · 45m Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their ecologically sound earth-sheltered home.
- Episode 12: Maidstone: The Hi Tech Bungalow Apr 2, 2008 · 45m In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototype steel foundations. The project would test…