Grand Designs Abroad - Season 1

First aired: 3/1/2004 14 episodes

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Episodes

1. Episode 1 (Malaga)

Aired: 3/1/2004

Kevin McCloud meets architects Gil and Hilary Briffa, who are building their dream retirement home in Andalusia.

2. Episode 2 (Lot)

Aired: 3/8/2004

Kevin travels to the Lot region of France to meet the Sampson family as they prepare to embark on the construction of a hugely ambitious, open, wooden-framed house.

3. Episode 3 (Puglia)

Aired: 3/15/2004

Kevin follows a couple of artists who have moved to the beautiful region of Puglia. Their dream is to turn a derelict olive farm into a home and a summer school for artists.

4. Episode 4 (Creuse)

Aired: 3/22/2004

Kevin visits a couple who have given up everything in the UK to start a new life in a remote part of central France called the Creuse.

5. Episode 5 (Ireland)

Aired: 3/29/2004

Kevin travels to the romantic west coast of Ireland where architect Andrew Lohan is embarking on the conversion of a ruined 150-year-old church into the perfect home.

6. Episode 6 (Tuscany)

Aired: 4/5/2004

Kevin meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.

7. Episode 7 (Les Gets)

Aired: 4/12/2004

Kevin travels to a ski resort in the French Alps where English couple Nicky and James Dobree are turning a 300-year-old farmhouse into an luxurious eight-bedroomed chalet.

8. Episode 8 (Alicante)

Aired: 4/19/2004

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 on a lovely block by a lake.

9. Revisited: Creuse, France: 19th Century Manor House

Aired: 5/3/2006

Kevin McCloud revisits Denise (Deni) Daniel and Doug Ibbs who bought and started renovating a 19th century manor house in Creuse, France.

10. Revisited: Les Gets, France: 300 Year Old Chalet

Aired: 5/10/2006

Kevin McCloud revisits Nicky and James Dobree two years after they bought their Alpine Chalet in Les Gets, France.

11. Revisited: Tuscany, Italy: The Tuscany Castle

Aired: 5/9/2007

Kevin revisits Janne Hoff-Tilley and Howard Smythe whe spend seven years and 700,000 Pounds renovating a castle in Tuscany.

12. Revisited: Puglia, Italy: Masseria Impisi - An Artists' Retreat

Aired: 2/27/2008

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.

13. Revisited: Lot, France: House From Straw

Aired: 12/1/2010

Kevin McCloud returns to see the Sampson family who had build a house from Straw in Lot, France.

14. Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa

Aired: 11/6/2013

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 properties. A few years ago, Gil died, but now Kevin McCloud revisits Hillary to find out whether her residence has settled into its landscape and how life is treating her as a British widow living abroad.