The UK's favourite architectural show - Grand Designs is officially back on TV screens as Kevin McCloud travels around the UK meeting new ambitious individuals building their dream homes.
The Channel 4 show recently marked its 25th anniversary and aired a special Grand Designs episode to look back at some of its most iconic and challenging builds.
So far, the new series has seen a mixed bag of builds including one that nearly never was and another hailed as the best episode of Grand Designs ever.
In the first week, couple Zahid and Ferzana transformed an obsolete coastguard station into their dream home despite facing issues including planning permission troubles and 10 months completion aim becoming five years.
TOMORROW: Tony and Ara hope to create a home centred around health and wellbeing - all the more pressing as Ara has an autoimmune condition.
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Couple Zara and Giuliano followed, creating a 400-square-metre malthouse-inspired home of their dreams in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
Last week's edition of Grand Designs saw Kara and Jonny build their dream home from stone and zinc that was completely accessible for wheelchair users to help Kara after a recent paralysis, caused by a rare autoimmune condition.
In the newest episode of the Channel 4 show, a couple hope to create a home focused on health and wellbeing.
Grand Designs couple take on wellbeing home in Oxfordshire
This week, physical therapist Ara and researcher Tony hope to build a home focused on health and wellbeing on a woodland clearing near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
Hoping to cut the costs of their project, Tony takes on the taste of being a project manager to save Ara any stress that could compromise her already fragile health.
However, as problems arise both Ara and Tony end up labouring onsite and what was meant to be a house of healing is in danger of becoming the opposite.
In the teaser for the new Grand Designs, Tony shares that they are building a "very environmentally friendly house."
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As Ara adds the home will be a "space that allows me to heal."
But, in true Grand Designs tradition, it seems like the project may not be as smooth sailing as they would like, as Tony adds that they're "basically making it up as we go along".
Grand Designs airs at 9pm on Channel 4 and All 4 every Wednesday.
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