About this season
Great British Home Restoration is an eight part series charting couples and families as they take on the unique challenge of transforming some of the world’s most unusual and historic buildings – never originally built to be lived in - into the ultimate dream homes. In each episode, architectural designer Charlie Luxton explores the mix of master crafts and innovative 21st century engineering it takes to convert a historic structure into a unique show-stopping house - from the challenge of re-configuring an abandoned church into a practical family home to the task of transforming a historic windmill into a futuristic house. The series explores the unique design challenges of reconfiguring each unusually shaped structure into practical living spaces - from curved kitchen units that can hug the walls of a circular Oast House to restoring the fragile timber features of a historic barn.
Episodes (8)
1. Futuristic Smart Home
Aired 25 July 2021 • 47 min
Newlyweds Sean and Debs battle through a catalogue of setbacks, desperate to re-make a 200-year-old Yorkshire church into a family home.
2. Family Farmhouse
Aired 1 August 2021 • 47 min
Hazel quits her Kent farmhouse as the 79-year-old moves for the first time in over 50 years, hoping to turn a disused oast house into her dream forever home
3. First Time Home
Aired 8 August 2021 • 47 min
Alice and Shammy bid to get on the property ladder through converting an old chapel in rural Devon on a shoestring, pushing their skills and creativity to the limit
4. Historic Cattle Barn
Aired 15 August 2021 • 47 min
George and Sarah plan to transform a dilapidated Staffordshire cattle barn into a luxury home - on a tight budget, with no previous experience and in a hurry!
5. Colossal Cathedral
Aired 22 August 2021 • 47 min
After two years searching, Jerry and Kimberley are turning a derelict West Yorkshire church into a state-of-the-art 'intelligent' home. It's an audacious plan.
6. Victorian Mill House
Aired 29 August 2021 • 47 min
Retired couple Gerald and Susan bravely bid to make a modern home out of a 200-year-old derelict watermill perched on the banks of the raging River Severn
7. 200 Year Old Barn
Aired 6 September 2021 • 47 min
A retired doctor takes on the massive task of renovating a listed 200-year-old timber barn and soon finds out that doing things by yourself isn't always the smart option
8. Century Old Hall
Aired 13 September 2021 • 47 min
In Brisbane, Australia, an ambitious three-year project uproots an old Salvation Army hall to a new site, where it's transformed into a spectacular 21st-century home