Tony and Jo, musicians with Scottish Opera, had long dreamed of a home in the countryside. They found a perfect site on the Clyde estuary in Argyll and Bute. Located in a small village on a hillside, it had glorious views as far as the isle of Arran and was less than an hour's drive from Glasgow. Inspired by local oak-framed barns, they gave architect Andy McAvoy an open brief. In return, he gave them a design that fused medieval and modern and promised a beautifully simple interior. However, the construction was anything but simple...

Grand Designs Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Waterloo: The Violin Factory
• s04e02 - Customised German Kit House, Surrey
• s04e03 - Edinburgh: 19th Century Sandstone House
• s04e04 - 19th-Century Sandstone House, Edinburgh
• s04e05 - Sussex: The Modernist Sugar Cube
• s04e06 - Modernist Sugar Cube, Sussex
• s04e07 - Dorset: An Idiosyncratic Home
• s04e08 - Revisited - Edinburgh: 19th Century Sandstone House
• s04e09 - Revisited - Waterloo: The Violin Factory
• s04e10 - Revisited - Clapham: The Curved House
• s04e11 - Revisited - Walton: The German Huf Haus
• s04e12 - Revisited - Argyll: The Oak-Framed 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.