Kevin McCloud meets Tom and Danielle Raffield, whose lifelong passion has been steam-bending wood. They've used the technique to create extraordinary furniture and lighting, but now plan to use it on a larger scale. In an attempt to escape the confines of their tiny gamekeeper's lodge, they have decided to build a wavy wooden house in South Cornwall, completed with curved cladding, twisted furniture and interior walls covered with weathered timber. With a £100,000 budget, the pair have decided to do a lot of the building themselves, and Kevin is on hand to discover whether they're up to the challenge.

Grand Designs Season 17 Episodes...

• s17e01 - Gloucestershire: Treehouse
• s17e02 - Horsham: Fun House
• s17e03 - South Cornwall: Wavy Wooden House
• s17e04 - Essex: Black House
• s17e05 - Bolton: Ultra-Modern House
• s17e06 - Pembrokeshire: Low-Impact House
• s17e07 - Devon: Plough-Shaped House
• s17e08 - The Wirral: Floating 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.