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Season 8
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On a steep site in the wilds of Mahurangi, just north of Auckland, architect Felicity Brenchly is prepared to do whatever it takes to get her family home built.
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Josh and Esther Perriam have always wanted to build their family home on New Brighton's beachfront but, with a limited budget and on just a slip of land, will the design live up to their long-held dream?
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Eternal globetrotter Tessa Kingsbury's dream is to convert an old Dunedin Sunday school into her forever home, but it comes with a twist - she's incorporating a glasshouse into the heart of it.
46:00
When Matthew and Rosemarie Dunning decide to put down some permanent roots in Mangawhai, they throw convention out the window and embrace their son's intriguing concept of a brick house in a sand dune.
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New Zealander Mark Ahearn and his Australian wife Liz are taking time out from their hectic lives in Perth to build a family holiday home in Abel Tasman. However their plans soon begin to systematically unravel.
Season 6
47:00
Aaron and Christine Green create an unconventional, curvaceous creation in Cass Bay, which turns out as a work of art. (Final)
45:00
Heritage building enthusiasts Ted and Ita Daniels create a modern rooftop apartment on top of one of Dunedin's most beautifully renovated buildings.
46:00
Ex-police officers Sumita and Cameron Dale want to build a lighthouse on a very strict budget, which presents a range of issues.
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The O'Briens take on a challenging build: an off-the-grid monolith in the Marlborough Sounds, made all the more difficult by their living 19,300km away.
47:00
Roland and Lucienne Vanderwal team up with their son Michiel to build a home out of local schist in the middle of their central Otago vineyard.
46:00
Kim Powell and Boon Yap explore the Northland for the perfect spot to build a picturesque Feng Shui home.
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Celebrated industrial designer Mark Pennington takes on the challenge to design and build a house on the extreme beachfront in Paekakariki.
53:00
Suze and Joe Hardie battle storms and complex weather as they build a coastal paradise on a steep site with picturesque views of Piha on New Zealand's North Island.
Season 5
52:00
Chris Moller takes a tour of three exceptional Grand Designs houses from the last four seasons to see how they've developed and asks whether the huge over budget blowouts, hard work and heartaches were really worth it.
52:00
Auckland couple Bridget and Steve Varney take on the daunting challenge of converting Farmer's grand tearooms built in 1930 into a New York style loft apartment. Will it be a sympathetic success or a giant folly?
48:00
A boyhood dream sets Neil Lawrence on a quest to build a Medieval castle for his family. Creating a 50-metre long castle wall is just the first of many uphill battles the Lawrences face as they tackle this gargantuan task.
49:00
Six years in the making, Craig Jarvis's tiny 65 square metre home overlooking Taylor's Mistake is Grand Designs longest running house build. Hand built from the ground up, Craig proves he's a man who will not be defeated.
55:00
David and Tracey Lewis share a passion for art and architecture, but they don't always share the same opinion. When they create a home in Waipu Cove, there's a clash of creative wills and epic battle over the budget.
56:00
Musicians Justine Cormack and Marc Taddei swap their Auckland home for the mountains of Central Otago. Buying a plan online from an American architect, they adapt the wedge shaped design for the Southern Hemisphere.
48:00
A site with a river running through it would put most people off. But not Harlem and Nicola who attempt to build a glass-house on a bridge over the water. Will Harlem make a modernist masterpiece?
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