A heroic battle to save a crumbling, romantic 14th-century castle in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales

After a couple watched their thatched home burn they discovered that their insurance had lapsed. Despite their loss they decide to restore their historic home together with a new modern annexe.

Social workers Sze and Chris can't afford a home for themselves and their children. They decide to buy a barge and plan to convert it to a self-sustainable houseboat using recycled materials and no design plan.

Katrin and James are renovating a grand old Bournemouth hotel-turned-apartment building penthouse. When James leaves Katrin to manage the project she deals with irate neighbours and begins to make her own mark on the project.

Kevin revisits Andrew and Lowri Davies who embarked on a project to build an environmentally friendly farmhouse in rural Wales.

Builder Dean and wife Hilary convert a Georgian listed church into a bizarre family home around a hydrotherapy pool. Dean is determined to follow his own plans without an architect despite Kevin McCloud's representations.

Engineering whiz Monty Ravenscroft built an extraordinary experimental home in Peckham.

Kevin McCloud meets a couple who bought a ruin and moved to Italy in 1999, hoping to start work building their dream home in Tuscany.

Kevin meets master carpenter Bill Bradley and his wife Sarah, whose plan is to build two identical timber houses in south London, selling one to finance the building of the other.