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Grand Designs Abroad Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2004 - 2004
Episode 1
Modernist Villa
49 mins
Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia
Episode 2
House from Straw
48 mins
Kevin McCloud follows a couple of artists who have moved to the beautiful Italian region of Puglia. Their dream is to turn a derelict olive farm into a home and a luxurious summer school.
Episode 3
Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat
49 mins
Kevin McCloud visits a couple who have given up everything in the UK to start a new life in a remote part of central France, restoring a massive dilapidated 18th-century manor house
Episode 4
19th Century Manor House
48 mins
Kevin McCloud meets a couple who bought a ruin in Tuscany in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home, but have spent four years alone just obtaining planning permission
Episode 5
Church Conversion
49 mins
Kevin McCloud meets the Sampson family as they embark on the construction of an ambitious open, wooden-framed house partly made out of straw bales in Lot, France
Episode 6
The Tuscan Castle
49 mins
Kevin McCloud travels to the ski resort of Les Gets in the French Alps, where Nicky and James Dobree are turning a traditional 300-year-old farmhouse into a luxurious chalet
Episode 7
300 Year Old Chalet
48 mins
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
Episode 8
Florida Villa
49 mins
Kevin McCloud travels to Ireland where architect Andrew Lohan is embarking on the most important project of his life: converting a ruined 150-year-old church into a family home
