Merry's family have been Herefordshire builders for generations, so she knew that the county was rich in traditional building crafts. She and Ben decided to combine these with technology for a new house with a genuinely rural feel. Her father drew up a design that followed the traditional cottage layout while incorporating modern comforts.

Grand Designs Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Peterborough: The Wooden Box
• s03e02 - Chesterfield: The Water-Works
• s03e03 - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage
• s03e04 - Surrey: The Victorian Threshing Barn
• s03e05 - Buckinghamshire: The Inverted-Roof House
• s03e06 - Hackney: The Terrace Conversion
• s03e07 - Cumbria: The Underground House
• s03e08 - The Traditional Cottage, Herefordshire
• s03e09 - Revisited - Buckinghamshire: The Inverted-Roof House
• s03e10 - Revisited - Hackney: The Terrace Conversion
• s03e11 - The Former Electricity Sub-Station: Revisited
• s03e12 - Revisited - Peterborough: The Wooden Box
• s03e13 - Revisited - Surrey: The Victorian Threshing Barn
• s03e14 - Revisited - Cumbria: The Underground House
• s03e15 - Revisited (2) - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage

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.