Grand Designs Indoors

Thursday, 10 July
6.05pm

Up to the minute interiors are, for most of us the stuff of dreams. They belong in fashionable hotels and expensive clothes shops. Few of us have the courage or the money to translate that into our homes.
Hayley and Pedro Castle have lived in Brighton for five years in a bijoux regency style cottage tucked behind the sea front. Hayley is an air hostess and Pedro is a chef by day and a DJ by night. Their busy lifestyle demands that they are organised so they want to rid their home of clutter, open up the building and create some clever storage solutions.

They have fallen for the style of the St Martin’s Lane Hotel in London and long for contemporary design in chrome and blonde wood, mixed with clean lines, light and space. The only problem is, they have a comparatively low budget of £23,000 to buy the latest furnishings and finishes, not to mention completely alter the structure of the existing building.

Thursday, 03 July
6.05pm

Damien Hirst and Maia Norman are pursuing the ultimate dream for most homeowners, a chance to create two private retreats away from the big bad world. For most of us, doing up property is an uphill struggle, a battle of time and money, but for Damien and Maia, neither are an issue.

Damien Hirst has made his name and fortune as the 'enfant terrible' of British art and Maia is setting up a business as a fashion designer. They live in a remote part of Devon, but even though it's 200 miles from London they sometimes have up to 15 guests at the weekend.

Thursday, 26 June
6.05pm

Charlie and his father Mike Rayward have lived in a cosy half-timbered cottage in Cheltenham, UK, for 30 years. Charlie recently married interior designer Kathryn and the couple have converted a barn in the garden for Mike to live in. Charlie and Kathryn now plan on a complete transformation of their newly claimed space. The couple draw inspiration from Sainte Chapelle in Paris, Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon and Gwidyr Castle in northern Wales.

Thursday, 19 June
6.05pm

Tony and Sharon Relph have fallen in love with a completely dilapidated Georgian house in London and they hope to restore it to its former glory. Working with a very small budget, Tony plans to do all the work himself while Sharon will earn money as a freelance make-up artist to pay for the renovation. It's an unbelievably ambitious project, but both seem determined to keep as much of the original building intact as possible, no matter what it takes. If they manage to restore the grade 2 listed house in Georgian style, the local council will allow them to live there rent free for a period of their lease.

Thursday, 12 June
6.05pm

The last place most people would look for inspiration to do up their house is a night club, but financial analyst Yuen Chew is risking all of his savings to bring exactly that look and feel to his one bedroom flat in central London.

Yuen loves the retro style of a club designer Paul Daly and has commissioned him to open up the space, give it a club feel with lots of glossy light boxes and install some clever storage systems with the hand made bespoke furniture inspired by the groovy plastic designs from the 70s. The club retro look they decide will be balanced with some Zen elements.
Yuen and Kevin travel to The Hemple hotel, the ultimate 90s example of East meets West, and the Verner Panton, a 60s and 70s designer exhibition for inspiration as well as the real life interior of a 70s collector.

Thursday, 05 June
6.05pm

Presented and written by Kevin McCloud, this new six-part series follows the indoor transformations of six very different homes.
Few people would have the passion and energy to convert a disused electricity substation in Sunderland, UK, into a home. But Anne and Richard Curtis have found a space which will translate into a large four bedroom family home for just £30,000. They will have a remaining budget of £50,000 for building work, which has to include building a whole new upper floor onto the existing structure. That leaves a mere £5,000 for decoration and finishes. Not much to convert the finished shell into the home of their dreams.

They have never been to Morocco, but have been inspired by the book Moroccan Interiors and hope to include elements of Moroccan style in the finished look.