- Season 8
- Season 7
- Season 6
- Season 5
- Season 4
- Season 3
- Season 2
- Season 1
George Clarke helps more people make their period homes fit for modern life. On a cobbled street in Cheshire sits a Georgian town house that could be straight out of a Dickens novel. It may look very 18th-century on the outside, but inside George discovers that it's a 1980s horror show, having been stripped of its original features. It does have one unique feature, though - a first-floor conservatory on stilts. Can he find a way of getting its grandeur back? George also has his work cut out tackling a 380-year-old Jacobean cottage.
The architect explores an arts and crafts-inspired house in Surrey. Built in the 1920s, it has tall chimneys, leaded windows, gabled ends and a steeply pitched roof. Sadly, it has Artex everywhere and incorporates some dubious design alterations. He sets out to help its owners turn it back into an elegant home for themselves and their three children. George also tackles a suburban home that has so many layers of wallpaper that peeling them back is like going back through a time warp.
The architect meets art deco fan Ododu, who's downsized to a Victorian terrace in Brighton but is at a loss about how to connect the kitchen to the garden. For inspiration, he visits Eltham Palace, a showstopping example of deco glamour. George also heads to Stockport, Greater Manchester, to help Sarah, who has just inherited the home she grew up in following her mother's death. With a new baby on the way, she's trying to make the 1890s red brick home work for modern family life, while still preserving some of the features that remind her of her mum.
The architect meets Duncan and Josie, who are taking on an 18th-century barn perched on the edge of a pretty green, containing some very dodgy décor including a purple stripped '80s kitchen and a miniature kitchen extension built to house a washing machine. Duncan and Josie need to make it liveable very quickly as they welcome their new baby Ruby, so George sets out to make the dark, cramped layout work for modern family living. He also heads to Southport, Merseyside, to see a Victorian gothic property in need of attention. Owners Jenny and Fadi are keen to resore the pile to its original splendor.
George takes on a 17th-century, Grade II listed thatched cottage in Warwickshire. Anthony, a builder, and Emily, a physiotherapist, are determined to turn this rather ramshackle build into their family home. But they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
In Clapham, Masum and Maria's Victorian terraced home no longer works for their family. In Hove, Louis and Sarah tackle the upstairs of their 16th-century gatehouse.
In Stratford-upon-Avon, George Clarke helps Laura and Jonnie to transform their mock-Tudor Edwardian house. And in Essex, Nicki's 1920s cottage needs major changes.
George takes inspiration from Japan, to help Rachel and Sarah with their Victorian terrace. And have a young couple taken on too much with a listed 17th-century cottage?
The architect tries to unlock the potential of old properties. He starts out in Stroud, where Phil and Leighla are transforming their ramshackle, listed Georgian farmhouse with an industrial-style extension. George also pays a visit to Wootton Bassett, where he helps a couple flip the layout of their Victorian end-of-terrace home.
George gets to celebrate one of his favourite periods of British architecture when he helps out at an arts and crafts Edwardian terrace house in Addiscombe, south London. Cookie and Sophia bought their home six months ago, but, despite it being full to the brim with amazing original features, from fireplaces to balustrades and stained-glass windows. This renovation is a labour of love as the couple set about painstakingly restoring the features by themselves, it needed some serious TLC. George visits the wallpaper library of his all-time design hero William Morris, and tries his hand at block printing.
Return of the home makeover show, beginning with Tim and Emily. They fell in love with their 16th-century, Grade II listed Cotswold cottage on first viewing, despite an abundance of dark beams, low ceilings and woodchip. For George, the project is his oldest house yet. And In Kent he tackles an oast house. Can he design a super cool bedroom for eight-year-old Bella in this unusual tower?
In West Yorkshire, Pip is moving back into the home that she grew up in and is finding it emotional. And there's a mystery house in west London.
George squeezes into an Edwardian Workers Cottage which is only half the size of a squash court, and visits a house with overwhelmingly Italian decor.
In Portsmouth, George helps a young couple make sense of their Victorian terrace house. In the Cotswolds, he visits a woman converting two listed cottages into a family home.
George heads for the West Midlands, for a tricky conversion of a beautiful Arts and Crafts building, and to a former 18th-century country pub saddled with some dodgy DIY
George works on a stripped Victorian terrace in Plumstead, looking to create a new layout that won't break the bank. He also visits a magnificent villa near Liverpool.
George takes on an Edwardian home suffering from an extreme case of 1970s wall-to-wall panelling. He also tackles a mock Tudor cottage in Hastings.
George visits a 300-year-old house with too many loos. And in south London, a mini 1930s bungalow with a tiny lounge needs clever design solutions.
A third of renovation work in period homes involves the kitchen. Old houses are simply not designed for modern needs. But what if the owner doesn't actually like kitchens, and wants a kitchen that doesn't look like a kitchen? Part medieval, part Victorian, and part Georgian, Oona and Peter's Welsh dream home needs a huge amount of work to turn it into a modern family home. But George's biggest challenge is designing a kitchen that Oona won't hate. And what happens when the planning department turn down your project for a kitchen extension? George meets Alex and Andrea, who've just moved into a Victorian house in Hove with an awkwardly-shaped kitchen extension. Can George come up with a plan to make it work?
George makes a tiny Victorian terrace in Stratford-upon-Avon fit for a 21st-century single dad. And in Hastings, he transforms a period reception room by simply moving a door.
George helps more homeowners make their period homes fit for modern life, taking on an outmoded 1930s semi in Liverpool and a stunning medieval farmhouse in Kent
George tries to return a neglected art deco gem in Cornwall to its former glory, while also making it suitable for modern family living.
George helps a Leicester couple reclaim their home's classic Georgian dimensions. In Brixton, he tackles a Victorian living room overwhelmed by 70s kitsch.
George helps make a cool, elegant kitchen-diner in St Leonards-on-Sea. In Manchester, he tackles a 1930s semi-detached with compact dimensions and a tiny budget.
George visits a Grade II listed cottage in Hampshire and a farmhouse in East Sussex. The first one is too higgledy-piggledy while the second needs a major bathroom rethink.
George visits a Victorian semi where the kitchen has been plonked in completely the wrong place. Can he come up with a design that reflects the period, and works for all the family?
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.