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Grand Designs Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
The Underground House, Cheltenham
Architect Tim and shopaholic Zoe live in a Cheltenham regency terrace, but want something more efficient. They decide to beat local restrictions for a new house by going down one storey and then building up -- in their own backyard.
Episode 2
The Decagon House, Oxford
Henry Chopping plans to write a new chapter in the laws of architectural geometry by building his new house with decagon shaped rooms.
Episode 3
The Modernist Sugar Cube, Sneyd Park, Bristol
An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials.
Episode 4
The Gothic House, Herefordshire
Jo and Shaun Bennett want to build an Addams Family style Gothic house with a £400,000 budget.
Episode 5
The Lime Kiln House, Midlothian, Scotland
Pru and Richard Irvine plan to build a bespoke family home in the Midlothian countryside, but the plot of land is an old industrial site with lime kilns and they come with conditions.
Episode 6
The Bath Kit House, Bathwick Hill, Bath, Somerset
Bath may be famous for its Georgian architecture, but Tiffany Wood and her husband Jonny have chosen it as the location to build themselves a striking Modernist home.
Episode 7
Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat Revisited
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.
Episode 8
The Wooden Box: Revisited
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
Customised German Kit House: Revisited
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
The Victorian Threshing Barn: Revisited
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 tumor.
Episode 11
The Underground House: Revisited
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
The Hi Tech Bungalow, Maidstone, Kent
In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototype steel foundations.
