Grand Designs Season 8

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, Grand Designs Season 8 is available on and right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Rigorous in a way documentary storytelling does not always commit to. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Grand Designs Season 8 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Grand Designs Season 8 approaches its subject with the rigour that makes documentary storytelling worth taking seriously. Season 8 of Grand Designs includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 2008 to April 2008. This season stars Kevin McCloud. Kevin McCloud leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2008. What elevates Grand Designs Season 8 above most documentary work is a refusal to settle for the easy version of the story. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Anyone after documentary work that genuinely informs rather than confirms will value Grand Designs Season 8. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

🎬 Grand Designs Season 8 — Episode Guide

Cheltenham: The Underground House

2008-01-16

A couple who live in a Regency house in Cheltenham that is expensive to run decide to sell up and build a modern low maintenance house in their back garden. However, height restrictions mean they have to build 60 per cent of their new home underground and neighbours make 90 complaints about their pl...

Oxford: The Decagon House

2008-01-23

Henry Chopping finds his plans to build a new home in Oxford hampered by a listed wall and planning restrictions. With a budget of over three quarters of a million Henry is determined to make his dream home a reality.

Bristol: The Modernist Sugar Cube

2008-01-30

An architect plans to build a new house for his family using only white materials. He ends up using stuff more commonly used in commercial buildings.

The Gothic House

2008-02-06

Jo and Shaun Bennett want to build an Addams Family style Gothic house with a £400,000 budget. With the challenge growing bigger than they ever imagined they face financial problems and struggle to stay within their budget.

Midlothian: The Lime Kiln House

2008-02-13

Pru and Richard make plans to build a bespoke family home on an industrial site in the middle of the Midlothian countryside. However, the plot of land, an old industrial site complete with lime kilns, comes with a condition. They can build on it only if they become custodians of the kilns, and more...

The Bath Kit House

2008-02-20

Kevin attempts to help Tiffany and Jonny with their dream of creating an ultra-modern, eco-friendly home in Bath in the west country. Rather than go down the traditional building route, Tiffany and Jonny opted for a German pre-fabricated kit house with great green credentials.

Revisited - Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat

2008-02-27

Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton three years after they bought an olive farm in the Puglia region of Italy and planned to convert it into a home on a budget of £25,000.

Revisited - Peterborough- The Wooden Box

2008-03-05

Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made entirely of glass and great views across open countryside near Peterborough.

Revisited - German Kit House

2008-03-12

Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.

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Revisited - Surrey- The Victorian Threshing Barn

2008-03-19

Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old threshing barn after Philip was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

E11

Cumbria Underground House Revisited

2008-03-26

Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their ecologically sound earth-sheltered home.

E12

Maidstone: The Hi Tech Bungalow

2008-04-02

In Maidstone, Jean and Bill Letley, a septuagenarian couple plan a highly contemporary bungalow complete with underfloor heating and prototype steel foundations. The project would test even the most accomplished workmen, but is left to their daughter and son-in-law, who have little building experien...

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