Great British Home Restoration
Great British Home Restoration is an eight part series charting couples and families as they take on the unique challenge of transforming some of the world’s most unusual and historic buildings – never originally built to be lived in - into the ultimate dream homes. In each episode, architectural designer Charlie Luxton explores the mix of master crafts and innovative 21st century engineering it takes to convert a historic structure into a unique show-stopping house - from the challenge of re-configuring an abandoned church into a practical family home to the task of transforming a historic windmill into a futuristic house. The series explores the unique design challenges of reconfiguring each unusually shaped structure into practical living spaces - from curved kitchen units that can hug the walls of a circular Oast House to restoring the fragile timber features of a historic barn.
Episodes
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Yazz and Mark restore what they think is a 200-year-old farmhouse
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In Devon, Alice and Shammy discover a novel way to fund the restoration of their religious relic... by transforming a Grade II listed inn into a holiday home
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Architect Anthony and paediatric nurse Sarah are looking to move to the countryside with their growing family and they've got their sights set on a derelict, but structurally sound, former threshing barn in Herefordshire. The barn was once part of a very esteemed estate, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall - King Charles no less.
Runtime: 47m
Charlie Luxton meets a couple who have bought a 174-year-old Methodist chapel, but have no experience with historic renovations or relevant skills to deal with a chapel of this age.
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Architects Marc and his Spanish wife Paula set out to transform a former Victorian carpenter's workshop in Ramsgate, Kent into a pied-à-terre. With a budget of £70,000 Marc aims to turn this small structure into a stylish one-bedroom flat.
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Louisa and John have had enough of London life. Will John's impulsive purchase of a dilapidated church on the Cumbrian coast pay off?
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In Kent, Lucy hopes to transform a 19th-century, Grade II Listed coach house into a modern, luxurious, energy-efficient property. Will it all go to plan?
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Nik takes on the Herculean task of restoring a cottage perched on the cliffs of Guernsey
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Terry turns the shepherd hut that he played in as a child into an extension of his home
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Marc and Paula take on the Herculean challenge of reviving a confectionery factory
