George Clarke's Building Home
2025 · 46m · Documentary · Reality
Architect George Clarke meets people taking on challenging huge builds for powerful emotional reasons. He follows them as they uproot their lives, stretch their finances and test their relationships, all in order to build wonderful homes of their dreams.
Episodes
1. Ribble Valley, Lancashire47m · Young married couple Chris and Ellie have returned to where Chris grew up, in Lancashire's beautiful Ribble Valley, to build a home together. After months of struggling to find the perfect property, they ended up buying a run-down bungalow from Chris's grandparents, in sight of his old primary school but what they thought was a 'doer-upper' has turned out to be a 'knocker-downer', and so began the months-long process of building a new house from scratch. Despite terrible weather and all the complications of a new build - from bricklaying mistakes to broken feature windows and decision fatigue inside - the couple are determined to hit their schedule and be in by Christmas. For Chris and Ellie, more than other home builders, time is of the essence, as Chris has been diagnosed with stage four cancer.
2. Dunoon46m · Keith and Kate decided to up sticks with their children from their home in Glasgow and move to Dunoon on the Firth of Clyde where they're turning a castle-like tower built in 1878, that has been both a house and a hotel, into their dream home.
3. Solihull, West Midlands47m · Solihull, West Midlands: Kazal and Eleena are ditching Dubai and moving back home to Solihull to be close to extended family. Can they overcome building blunders to create the ultimate hosting hub?
4. Mersea Island, Essex47m · Laura and Daniel want their son to have the same idyllic childhood that Laura had on Mersea Island in Essex. But the dream of converting an old beach house on a tiny budget turns into a nightmare.More Like This
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