Kevin meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a private loch in Scotland

Kevin McCloud meets Jane and Robert Ellis who are planning a mouth-wateringly contemporary conversion of a 300-year-old barn into a stunning modern home using steel and glass

World travellers Theo and Elaine are building a cedar-clad ecologically-friendly three storey cedar-clad cuboid house with materials coming from America, Canada and Europe and finding that adds to the complications of building a home.

Kevin McCloud meets Denise and Bruno Del Tufo, who have ambitious plans for a concrete water tower sitting in their back garden, with a strict budget of £250,000

This house is in Creuse France, in the centre of the country. It was originally used as a house for the French Resistance folk, so the Germans bombed it. In November 2004 they have enough renovated to open 2 rooms for paying guests.

Kevin McCloud meets Peter and Christine Benjamin who live in an Edwardian manor house but have decided to downsize and build a smaller home in the grounds

Kevin meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a private loch in Scotland