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

Melissa and Darren have moved from their standard semi-detached to a run-down barn in the heart of the Norfolk Broads.  The couple wants to embrace village life and has bought two barns.

Rebecca and Ian had what most people would consider a dream lifestyle. For the past seven years Rebecca traveled the world with her glamorous career but constantly being away from family and friends finally took its toll.

Yorkshire

Dave and Caroline were both brought up in cities and feeling their lives were too ‘safe’ they’ve decided to move to the Welsh countryside in the spirit of adventure with their three young daughters.

Brecon

Elpi and Ian want to create a unique home for themselves and their one-year-old son.  They’ve bought an eighteenth-century windmill in the heart of the Lancashire countryside.

Lancashire

Childhood sweethearts, Claire and Stuart from Kent, want to give their two young sons the same idyllic country upbringing they had.  After sending out 250 letters to all the property owners in their favourite village.

Kent

Partners Harvey and John have swapped Leeds’ busy streets for an isolated croft house on the Isle of Harris in Scotland. Having been a couple for 13 years they are now risking it all to create their perfect home.

Harris

Scott and Rachel have bought an amazing property where they plan to lead an idyllic country life with their two young daughters.

Rutland

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."

Norfolk

Full Episodes

Season 4, 7 episodes