Grand Designs Abroad

  • Premiered: Sep 2004
  • Episodes: 14
  • Followers: 33
  • Ended
  • Channel 4
  • Wednesday at 21
  • Documentary Home and garden Reality

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Season 1
1x1
Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
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Air date
Sep 08, 2004
Gil Briffa, an architect, and his wife Hilary, from St Albans, Herts, wanted a house they could retire to in southern Spain, but not just any old place would do. High in the Andalucian .. show full overview
1x2
Lot, France: House From Straw
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Sep 15, 2004
Mark and Deborah (Debbie) Sampson and daughter, Tilley, like to practice an ecologically sound way of life. Deborah works as an aromatherapist, while Mark is a writer of training .. show full overview
1x3
Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
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Sep 22, 2004
Puglia, in Italy’s deep south, where the country's heel rounds to the foot’s arch, is a land of shimmering heat, olive groves and artists’ dreams. It is also the place where artists, .. show full overview
1x4
Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
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Sep 29, 2004
Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs don't hang around. The couple, in their mid-50's and from Dorset, bought a 19th century manor house in Creuse, Limousin - in central France - on a .. show full overview
1x5
Ireland: Church Conversion
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Oct 06, 2004
A chance encounter, childhood memories and a desire to split their time between Dublin and County Mayo was all the inspiration Andrew and Jackie Lohan required to go about buying and .. show full overview
1x6
Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
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Oct 13, 2004
This week Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany. Since then they've spent all their time trying to .. show full overview
1x7
Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
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Oct 20, 2004
Nicky and James Dobree were raised in France and in a mountainous area respectively. Nicky was raised in France, James in Beirut – both have fond memories of the mountains as children. .. show full overview
1x8
Alicante, Spain: Florida Villa
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Oct 27, 2004
Spain is the first choice of many Britons planning to build a new life abroad, but it is a little more unusual for South Africans to settle on the Iberian Peninsula. Ten years living .. show full overview
1x9
Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House
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May 03, 2006
Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.
1x10
Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet
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May 10, 2006
Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.
1x11
Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle
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May 09, 2007
Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.
1x12
Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat
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Feb 27, 2008
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.
1x13
Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw
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Dec 01, 2010
Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.
1x14 Show finale
Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
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Nov 06, 2013
Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain, where they planned to build a contemporary home in the Andalusian hills against the backdrop of more traditional .. show full overview

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