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Grand Designs New Zealand follows ambitious homeowners through the drama of building their dream home from start to finish.
Grand Designs New Zealand follows ambitious homeowners through the drama of building their dream home from start to finish.
Grand Designs New Zealand follows ambitious homeowners through the drama of building their dream home from start to finish.
A deer farmer plans a four-bedroom concrete home in one of the most remote and stormy parts of New Zealand, the Catlins on the South Island, and is project managing the build himself.
A young couple from the Coromandel peninsula on the North Island build a non-traditional home from recycled materials such as bottles, tires and mussel shells, enlisting help from community volunteers
A writer builds a sculptural steel house on a hill behind Pakiri beach on the North Island. The bold design features sloping walls and an angular, vaulted ceiling and contains hardly any right angles.
A builder and his wife create a hand-crafted American Gothic-style house, complete with ornate detailing such as a Juliet balcony, spandrels, a horseshoe window and lacework valances, near Auckland.
A family plan a gravity-defying, four-storey home on a site that's so steep it looks virtually impossible to build on in the earthquake-prone city of Wellington. Will the process be an uphill battle?
In Auckland, a pastor and his counsellor wife take structural planning to its limits by building a three-storey home on a crumbling cliff with a sheer drop to the sea below to get the view they desire
A couple whose children have now left home build a straw bale house, featuring curved walls and a spiral staircase, on an exposed rocky outcrop near Wanaka in the Otago region of the South Island.
A timber merchant and his doctor wife have imported two historic New York barn frames from the USA and plan to re-assemble them on a rural site outside Auckland as part of a modernist mansion.