Building the Dream

The new series starts off in West Yorkshire, where Emma and Martin are battling snow while building a stone home on a hilltop.

Charlie Luxton is with Christine and Frank in rural Cambridgeshire, a couple determined to build a huge barn-style home fit for big family get-togethers, but don't appreciate the sheer scale of the undertaking until it's too late

Charlie Luxton is with Christine and Frank in rural Cambridgeshire, a couple determined to build a huge barn-style home fit for big family get-togethers, but don't appreciate the sheer scale of the undertaking until it's too late.

Charlie Luxton meets a Sussex couple who plan to build a sizeable four-bedroom home on a small budget by doing most of the work themselves. But the project soon gets out of hand.

Charlie Luxton catches up with a Leicestershire couple previously featured on the show to see how their plan to build a four-bed place in their garden has progressed two years on.

A Cambridgeshire couple plan to build a four-bed detached house for the cost of a tiny terrace - which requires working round the clock and calling in a lot of favours.

Charlie Luxton meets a Suffolk family with a love of horses that plans to build an oak-framed cottage - but who are struggling to keep their modest budget under control.

A couple in Shrewsbury comes up with a modern take on a Victorian terrace, but a growing family and a series of delays caused by planning regulations threaten their plans.

Charlie Luxton meets a couple planning to build an oak-framed retirement home in the New Forest, but the project throws up no end of problems.

A couple in Essex with five daughters plan to build a smart contemporary home in a woodland clearing, but the budgets and schedules soon get out of control.

Charlie Luxton meets a Cambridgeshire couple with plans to build a four-bed cottage, whose budget has turned out to be less accommodating than originally planned for.