Architect Chris Moller meets Southland farmer Lachlan McDonald, who's building a modernist concrete...

Chris meets Gus and Sarah whose solution to spiraling house prices is to make their first home an Ea...

Chris meets Scottish migrant and urbanite, Scott Lawrie, who has a dream for a new life and a radica...

Chris meets builder Steve Sygrove, who's planning to build and ornate and colourful American Gothic...

Chris meets architect Nic Ballara, who's planning to build a house on a steep 45-degree slope overlo...

Chris meets Hamish and Diane Divett, who are rebuilding their house on the most unlikely spot - on t...

After years of living apart with their separate children, Mike and Catherine are finally building an...

The series finale sees Marty import two old American barns from New York valley, which are raised by...

Ross plans to create a towering home for his family on the cliffs of Point Chevalier. But after livi...

New Plymouth couple Greg and Gayle build one of the first hemp homes in NZ, and spend thousands shie...

Steve Wilson and Wendy Grell move from Auckland to the Northland beachside where they plan to build...

Predicted sea level rises are not stopping architect Guy Marriage and his extended family from build...

Philippe and Sarah Lods hope to create a modernist home based on Parisian apartments on a rare empty...

Christchurch earthquake refugees Andy Macbeth and Jo Denton build a modern-day fortress against the...

Building with shipping containers seems like a creative way to create a home, but construction falli...

A terminally ill Christchurch man and his family are determined to stay in South Brighton despite on...

Kelly wants to recreate an ornate historic homestead in Helensville - just like one she fell in love...

Ski enthusiast Ash dreams of building a traditional European Log Cabin at the base of Mount Ruapehu....

Sky wants to build a remote, off-grid island sanctuary, where he and his family can escape the deman...

Jamie and Melissa went to buy a staircase from a Christchurch villa and ended up buying the whole ho...

George and Yvonne are leaving Auckland to retire in Nelson. They've chosen a difficult site over a t...

A young Auckland couple borrow a fortune to build their first home - and along the way face delays,...

Wedding dress designer Robyn and husband David have a dream to build a home that looks across a nati...

Mahuia and Mindy are preparing to be first-time parents and want to build a family home that will do...

The daughter of world famous motorbike inventor, John Britten, takes on the multi-million dollar tas...

Antiques lover Patty scours the country for historic materials to build a contemporary home. Her jou...

Ric and Boio turn a tree house childhood dream into reality. But building in a pine forest where tre...

Cathy and Vince strive to create a massive Italian style villa with petanque court and heated pool....

Sustainability experts Karl and Amelie have a dream to build a home heated from the sun. But on a st...

Photographers Johannes and Jo face double trouble - a heritage restoration with the addition of an a...

Young builder Zac wants to save money by building his own home. The problem is he's promised his mum...

Kate and Ian want to live in the remote Kenepuru Sound, but it's a place tradies won't go to. Instea...

Shane and Tina Nicholls design a unique family home using Japanese burnt timber and Scandinavian bri...

A site with a river running through it would put most people off. But not Harlem and Nicola who atte...

Musicians Justine Cormack and Marc Taddei swap their Auckland home for the mountains of Central Otag...

David and Tracey share a passion for architecture, but with diverging taste. Their joint home in Wai...

Six years in the making, Craig Jarvis' tiny 65 square metre home overlooking Taylor's Mistake is Gra...

Creating a 50-metre long castle wall is just the first of many uphill battles a brave family faces a...

Chris Moller takes a tour of three exceptional Grand Designs homes from the last four seasons to see...

Mahuia and Mindy are preparing to be the first-time parents and want to build a family home that wil...

One of Grand Designs' most compelling builds, in which concretologist Ross risks life and limb to cr...

Auckland couple Bridget and Steve Varney take on the challenge of converting Farmers' grand tea room...

Joseph and Susannah battle storms and complex topography as they attempt to build a coastal paradise...

Normally, you'd think twice about building extreme beachfront in Paekākāriki... but it's a challenge...

Kim Powell and Boon Yap scour Northland for the perfect spot to build a Feng Shui home. It's a rolle...

Roland and Lucienne Vanderwal join forces with their son Michiel to build a home out of local schist...

An off the grid monolith in the Marlborough Sounds is a challenging build. But when you live 12,000...

Ex cops Sumita and Cameron Dale want to build a lighthouse with virtually no money. Will they pull i...

Heritage building enthusiasts Ted and Ita Daniels create an ultra-modern rooftop apartment on top of...

Aaron and Christine Green create an unconventional, curvaceous creation in Cass Bay. It's as much of...

After renting the local schoolhouse for 20 years, Chatham Islanders John and Bridget Preece are fina...

In Kerikeri, local weekend market and café owners Warrick and Judy Hyland are building the biggest h...

On the shores of Lake Tarawera, kiwi fruit farmers Stew and Gill Moss are building a final family ho...

Carefree childhood memories are the inspiration behind 32-year-old James Davis' complex build on the...

Tony Hodge discovers that building with the humble container is not as easy as he thought it would b...

In Featherston, Swedish architect Josefine Watterson tackles the challenge of creating a Passive Hou...

In North Canterbury Phil Metaxas takes on the ambitious task of completing another man's dream - tha...

Charles Webster, a man with a passion for technical engineering, and his wife Yvonne pour their ener...

Mark Ahearn and his Australian restaurateur wife Liz are taking time out from their hectic lives in...

Matthew and Rosemarie Dunning are put down roots in Mangawhai and have decided to throw convention o...

Eternal globetrotter Tessa Kingsbury's dream is to convert an old Dunedin Sunday school into her for...

Josh and Esther Perriam have always wanted to build their family home on New Brighton's beachfront b...

On a steep site in the wilds of Mahurangi, just north of Auckland, architect Felicity Brenchly is pr...

An hour - and 7 river crossings - inland from Geraldine is where arborist Li Tane and his landscaper...

When John and Sharon Russell bought their vertiginous site above Queenstown for their shared-ownersh...

In the Waitaki Valley, Michael and Olivia Pavelitch discover they have their work cut out for them w...

Plans for an elegant “empty nest” home on Waiheke Island are swamped by a sea of mud and a tsunami o...

A cherished family holiday home at Lake Ōhau is rebuilt after destruction and near-death experience.

A concrete, steel and glass citadel above a popular Auckland beach combines austere functionality wi...

The dream of a sustainable rammed earth house at Waikanae risks crumbling in the face of building de...

Two psychologists undergo their own stress tests building a Mountain Modern home overlooking Otago H...

An old tennis court in Paraparaumu is set to become a couple's new family home but the project lobs...

A couple with peaceful retirement in mind, plan a rustic retreat in North Canterbury inspired by a S...

A rambunctious retired bricklayer builds one final house, for himself and his ever-patient wife on t...