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. Since then they've spent all their time trying to get planning permission, but finally, after four years, they are about to start work. And it's an epic project: they have bought a derelict 1,000-year-old castle in the Tuscan hills. Now, the couple face their biggest battle of all: rebuilding this massive ruin into a comfortable and luxurious five-bedroom home.

Grand Designs Season 7 Episodes...

• s07e01 - Yorkshire: The 14th Century Castle
• s07e02 - Thatched Cottage, Hampshire
• s07e03 - Eco-barge, Medway
• s07e04 - The Bournemouth Penthouse
• s07e05 - Revisit: Carmarthen, 2007
• s07e06 - Birmingham: The Birmingham Church
• s07e07 - Guildford: The Art Deco House
• s07e08 - Revisited: The Sliding Glass Roof House, Peckham
• s07e09 - Revisited: The Oak-Framed House, Argyll
• s07e10 - Cambridge: The Cambridgeshire Eco Home
• s07e11 - Revisited: The Tuscany Castle, Tuscany, Italy
• s07e12 - London: The Glass and Timber House

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.