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Season 1

Grand Designs Season 1

April. 29,1999
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8.5
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TV-PG
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British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.

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Grand Designs Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 8 - The Glass-House, Doncaster
First Aired: June. 24,1999

Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.

Episode 7 - The House of Straw, Islington
First Aired: June. 17,1999

Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.

Episode 6 - The Chapel, Cornwall
First Aired: June. 10,1999

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 5 - The Eco-House, Suffolk
First Aired: June. 03,1999

A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.

Episode 4 - The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
First Aired: May. 20,1999

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 3 - The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton
First Aired: May. 13,1999

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, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.

Episode 2 - The English Barn, Berkshire
First Aired: May. 06,1999

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 1 - The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven
First Aired: April. 29,1999

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.

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