Kevin McCloud follows the progress of private chef Ed Versluys and pilates instructor Vicky Anderson, who want to convert a concrete cowshed in the Somerset countryside into a three bedroom home. With the help of one young builder and the knowledge they can learn from the internet, the couple plan to project manage the conversion themselves. However, they have only eight months and a budget of just over £200k to make a warm and comfortable home with straw bale walls and wide expanses of glass.

Grand Designs Season 16 Episodes...

• s16e01 - Largest ever home, West Sussex
• s16e02 - The un-houselike boat house, East Sussex
• s16e03 - Seaside Plot, Isle of Wight
• s16e04 - Abandoned Cave, Worcestershire
• s16e05 - Blacksmith, County Antrim
• s16e06 - Concrete Cowshed, Somerset
• s16e07 - Post-Industrial house, South Downs
• s16e08 - Revisited - River Thames: Floating House
• s16e09 - Revisited - North Cornwall: The Cross-Laminated Timber House

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.