Charlie Luxton meets families transforming unusual and historic buildings into dream homes, beginning with a couple who bought a Grade II listed church in Yorkshire.
Charlie Luxton meets 79-year old Hazel, who has been living in her farmhouse in Kent since 1962, but is now moving house for the first time in over 50 years.
Charlie Luxton meets a couple who are transforming a 19th-century chapel in the Devon countryside, preserving as much of the original design, structure and fittings as possible.
Charlie Luxton meets a Staffordshire couple who plan to transform a 200-year-old derelict cattle barn into a sustainable four-bed family home, doing all the work themselves.
A couple transforms a West Yorkshire church into a family home, retaining original features as well as adding a two-storey extension and doubling the footprint of the property.
A retired couple work to rebuild and restore a 200-year-old disused and derelict watermill on the banks of the River Severn, but discover underground tunnels beneath the property.
A retired doctor puts his carpentry skills to use converting a deserted barn, combining industrial features with traditional elements such as a handcrafted woodwork.
In Brisbane, Australia, an ambitious three-year project uproots an old Salvation Army hall to a new site, where it's transformed into a spectacular 21st-century home
Teacher Yazz and landscape gardener Mark have sold up in London and moved back to Devon to restore a large but run-down farmhouse while living in a static caravan or the duration of the build. But their plans go awry when they find out that their farmhouse isn't 200 years old but actually much older, and, consequently, they find themselves owning a listed building with many stipulations.
The programme follows Alice and Daniel as they renovate a former Christian gospel hall in Devon, only to realise they will have to come up with some ingenious and money-saving ideas to pay homage to the building's art deco past. In order to boost their finances to help fund the restoration, they also take on a job for a local publican, transforming a Grade II listed, 15th-century inn into a luxury holiday home.
Retired forester Terry is taking on a unique and sentimental project: a dilapidated and rotten 1880s shepherd hut which he wants to fully restore and turn into an extension to his Devon home. The ruin holds Terry's fondest memories as his childhood - but now has no roof, no walls and no real floor. However, a blacksmith helps to bring it back to its former glory, with the same tools and techniques used hundreds of years ago
In Ramsgate, Marc and Paula take on their most ambitious project and Herculean challenge yet: reviving a vast, derelict confectionery factory into eight contemporary apartments