Architect George Clarke helps a building surveyor and his wife, who have grown tired of city life and the expense of their mortgage and wish to downsize to the Lincolnshire countryside. With a budget of £90,000, the couple plan to renovate a small chapel.

Build a New Life in the Country

Lincolnshire

Middle-aged couple Terry and Marilyn attempt to relocate from Whitby to a 500-year-old farmhouse in the Pennines, which they set out to transform into a home for their large family. Architect George Clarke offers advice about restoring the collapsed roof.

Hexham

Architect George Clarke helps a Buckinghamshire couple escape their demanding jobs and relocate to Scotland, where they intend to modernise a 120-year-old farmhouse with their own designs.

Scotland

George Clarke helps two IT managers move to the village of Gweek in Cornwall, advising them as they renovate a dilapidated houseboat and attempt to begin a business ferrying divers to wrecks around the coast. The 4 month deadline seems hopelessly tight.

Gweek

George Clarke advises a finance director moving from London to his dream home, a 16th-century property in the Cotswolds near Oxford. The £250,000 redesign is developing as work progresses, but the owner is not always around to make decisions.

Oxford

George Clarke helps Birmingham couple Dave and Rebecca as they renovate a derelict Welsh barn while living in a caravan on the site. The pair apply for planning permission - but a cash shortage threatens to end their dream before it has begun.

Wales

George Clarke advises two accountants as they quit their jobs and set off to renovate a 200-year-old barn in Devon. Husband Martin was supposed to be project manager, but having to work out his notice meant wife Clare taking over the job.

Devon

George Clarke supervises Martin and Rebecca as they attempt to turn a dilapidated old church in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, into their dream home. The inexperienced couple employ friends to help keep the project on a tight budget.

Ollerton

Architect George Clarke meets a London couple hoping to sell their organic cafe in Brixton and spend a £1 million bank loan converting a run-down Cornish hotel in St Ives into three houses, one of which will be used as a designer B&B.

St Ives

George Clarke advises inventor David as he converts a Norfolk water tower into a dream home for his family. The structure is set in a forest, and has a central well that the owner wants to floodlight and cover with glass. Bad weather delays the work.

Norfolk

George Clarke offers advice to a couple converting a Cambridgeshire apple store into their dream home and stables, but is not sure dad Paul can get everything completed in the three months he has allotted for the work.

Upwell

George Clarke advises Glyn and Jan, who intend to refurbish a Derbyshire farmhouse that comes with a barn and 12 acres of land. Having taken out a loan to pay for the building, they want it to be waterproof before they go on holiday at Christmas.

Derby

Pluto

The Kennedy family has decided to leave behind their city lives to renovate and restore a “once in a lifetime” property in Canterbury, Kent.  They have bought a 500-year-old grade 2 listed building on the banks of a river.

Canterbury

Michael and Lisa and their two children, Thomas (4) and Lucy (3) have bought Bankwood Barn in Nottinghamshire.  Built-in the 1600s, they want to convert this derelict building into a contemporary home with eco features.

Nottinghamshire

David and Barbara are determined not to have a boring retirement!  They have bought the Belle Tout Lighthouse near Eastbourne which they plan to convert into a luxury B and B.

Eastbourne

The Body family has always had a passion for boats so when David and Hilary Body got fed up with working long hours and spending little time with their two teenage daughters.

Essex

Since meeting six years ago, have always had the ambition of moving their young family to France.   The couple has bought an 1800’s chateau-style house in the picturesque thermal spa village.

France

Dawn and Marcus Hardie want to give their three daughters an amazing childhood in the Caribbean.  They are fed up with their busy stressful lives in London and want a more relaxed pace of life.

Barbados

Hugh and Jude are looking forward to the next chapter in their lives.  They have given up Surrey life to create a more sustainable way of living in North Wales.

Mark Norman used to spend 70 hours a week working as a car salesman and missed out on his children's toddler years.  He’s now retrained as a teacher and during the school holidays plans to build his own home with his wife Patsy.

Shropshire

Rebecca and James lived in south London until 2003 when they moved to Buckinghamshire to stay with Rebecca’s mother following the death of her father.

Buckinghamshire

This is the series about a new breed of British adventurers - people who decide to go for their dream home and lifestyle in their dream location in the British countryside. Their war-cry: "You only live once."

Canterbury

Full Episodes

Season 5, 9 episodes