George Clarke's Beautiful Builds
Architect George teams up with garden designer Luke Millard to offer people two design solutions - one for the kitchen and one for the outside - before the homeowners' decide how much of their budget to allocate to each improvement.
Episodes
George helps people across the country make the most of their space and design innovative homes. In Bromley, south London, George comes up with a stunning extension to include a gorgeous kitchen featuring curved arches for seasoned renovators Mitch and Elliot. An inspirational garden design is also part of their ambitious dream, but even for the most experienced home renovators, the best-laid plans can go awry as a flood scuppers their plans.
George is in the north-east London suburb of Woodford Green, where he meets widow Shaz and her two growing children in their classic Victorian terrace home. After the death of husband and father David, the family are determined to stay in the house they all shared, so George is called upon to confront what needs to change while preserving the family's memories of David in the house and garden and futureproofing the home for Shaz and her children.
Runtime: 47m
In Worsley in Greater Manchester, George helps Katherine and Andrew to renovate their new home's awkward extension and split-level living space, and reveal the home's stunning view, while landscaper Luke tackles the steeply sloped, hazardous rear garden.
In Windsor, marketing executive Michelle has been living in an undesirable bungalow, or as she describes it, 'her hovel' for almost a decade. It was intended as a doer-upper, but with no experience of renovation and no idea where to start, she's come unstuck. George steps in to design a new scheme tackling a horrific plastic lean-to and a cobbled together kitchen with an uncomfortably placed loo. George's solution is an inspirational multifunctional extension, a complete renovation into a superbly beautiful new home that inspires Michelle to turn her hovel into a home.
In Bedfordshire, Charlene and Matt have moved house three times in the last five years, unable to decide how to restructure their spaces. Now, they're desperate to stay put and renovate their totally dysfunctional ground floor and steep back garden. After a year of disruption, a ferociously wet winter, and a huge amount of perseverance, will George's design scheme finally deliver Charlene and Matt's forever home?
