Grand Designs Season 3

Right now you can watch Grand Designs Season 3 on and — and it earns the access it was given. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 55 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Rigorous in a way documentary storytelling does not always commit to. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Grand Designs Season 3 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The access Grand Designs Season 3 gets is remarkable — and the storytelling does full justice to it. Season 3 of Grand Designs includes 16 episodes. It aired from September 2002 to October 2003. This season stars Kevin McCloud. Kevin McCloud leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2003. Grand Designs Season 3 lets its subjects speak for themselves rather than shaping them into a predetermined narrative. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For viewers who want their entertainment to leave them with something, Grand Designs Season 3 delivers on both counts. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

🎬 Grand Designs Season 3 — Episode Guide

The Wooden Box, Peterborough

2003-02-12

'Is it a bold contemporary design or a garden shed?' John and Terri found themselves asking, halfway into their build. They had knocked down a derelict house in a beautiful rural setting and commissioned commercial architects to build them a new one. But was it too small for them, their young son an...

The Water-Works, Whaley, Derbyshire

2003-02-19

The 1930s derelict water-works Chris and Leanne fell in love with was huge and its design had clearly been inspired by Gilbert Scott's Bankside power station, now better known as the Tate Modern. But nothing would deter the couple. 'We looked at it,' said Chris, 'and saw our home.'

The Woodsman's Cottage, Sussex

2003-02-26

For 10 years, Ben lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees. But after a battle with planning he finally got permission to build himself a house with more creature comforts. He invited volunteers to help him build one by hand, f...

The Victorian Threshing Barn, Surrey

2003-03-05

For Philip and Angela, the build was part of a life change that had begun two years earlier. Just after their second daughter was born, Philip fell seriously ill, prompting the family to leave London and move back to his parents' village. Acquiring the site was easy, as Philip's parents owned it. Ge...

Inverted Roof-House, Buckinghamshire

2003-03-12

Tom and Judy wanted more than just a home for themselves and their two children. On a site of outstanding natural beauty in Buckinghamshire, they set out to build an ambitious house - a symphony of angles, glass walls and exposed steel, with a dramatic inverted roof. Tom made himself site manager an...

The Terrace Conversion, Hackney, London

2003-09-17

After 10 years of living in a small house in east London, John and Eleni hankered after modern, open-plan living. They didn't want to move, so they decided to give their Victorian terrace home a radical redesign. The house was in a conservation area, so the outside had to remain unchanged. Inside, h...

The Underground House, Cumbria

2003-09-24

The old quarry stood on a slope of the Eden valley and commanded beautiful views. Local architect John Bodger designed a two-storey house that burrowed backwards into the rock and made maximum use of natural resources for light, warmth and power.

The Traditional Cottage, Herefordshire

2003-10-01

Merry's family have been Herefordshire builders for generations, so she knew that the county was rich in traditional building crafts. She and Ben decided to combine these with technology for a new house with a genuinely rural feel. Her father drew up a design that followed the traditional cottage la...

Revisited: The Isolated Cottage, Brecon Beacons, Wales

2002-09-10

Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 1 Kevin McCloud revisits Adrian and Corrina, who decided their first home was to be a 300-year-old ruin. The former cottage is set in the inhospitable climate of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

E10

Revisited: The Dilapidated Georgian House, London

2002-09-17

Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 2 Kevin revisits Tony and Sharon, who fell in love with a completely dilapidated Georgian home in London and undertook the challenging task of restoring it to its former glory

E11

Revisited: The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham

2002-09-24

Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 3 Kevin is in Amersham to update on a project taken on by Deborah and architect Andrew. Their venture involved designing an 'invisible' house that blended in with the surrounding reservoirs.

E12

Revisited: The Derelict Barns, Devon

2002-10-01

Revisited Season 2 (2002) episode 4 Kevin travels to the beautiful setting of south Devon to revisit Sue and Martin, whose dream was to create a family home using old English building techniques

E13

Revisited: The Cruciform House, Lambourn Valley, Berkshire

2003-10-08

Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 1 Kevin McCloud returns to the Lambourn Valley to meet a couple who took three years to finish building their home on the Berkshire Downs.

E14

Revisited: The House of Straw: 2nd Revisiting, Islington, North London

2003-10-15

Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 2 Kevin McCloud revisits the improbable Islington home of two architects who built their avant-garde north-east London house out of straw bales, springs, nappy cladding and silver tin

E15

Revisited: The Former Electricity Sub-Station, Sunderland

2003-10-22

Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 3 Kevin McCloud catches up with a couple he met some years when they set about the task of converting a disused electricity substation in Sunderland into a four-bed family home

E16

Revisited: The English Barn, Berkshire

2003-10-29

Revisited Season 3 (2003) episode 4 Kevin McCloud revisits retired couple Denys and Marjorie Randolph from Berkshire, who had decided to embark on their final building project, a brand new, green oak, barn-style house

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