Wed, Sep 19, 2012
Two retired women act as patrons to a business that is using their home as a prototype for new building techniques. A machine on site cuts the buildings walls to specs, saving on transportation costs, and the men running the company do not charge for their expertise as a trade off for the experience and control of building a home in this new way.
Wed, Oct 24, 2012
A couple buys a ground floor studio and an extensive underground warren of rooms with plans to make it a sumptuous home. While the husband works to pay for it, his interior decorator wife manages the project to turn crumbling squash courts, underground pools and falling-down corridors into a below-ground home.
Wed, Nov 28, 2012
Braintree (revisited) . Freddie Robins and Ben Coode-Adams leave their cramped London flat to take on the conversion of a 500 year old timber framed barn in Essex where they plan to live and each have an artist's work studio in this 7000 sq ft space. They have a daughter called Willa.
Wed, Dec 5, 2012
The Hedgehog Self Build Co-op consists of Ten couples /17 adults who build ten homes as a co-operative, they each commit to build for 30 hours each per week for two years, None of them have any experience in building, and they are living in mobile homes temporarily. The Co-op is situated just outside of Brighton in East Sussex on the south coast of England. The houses are all bungalow style and detached. In 1999 the build cost of each was £60,000 each, plus the land cost. They were built through 1998.