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

George Clarke meets Jason and Phillipa, who've left behind their well-paid careers in Aberdeen's oil industry to renovate a chateau in France's Loire Valley. They hope to transform it into a bed and breakfast, as well as making it a home for themselves.

France

Architect George Clarke offers advice to a married couple relocating to Ireland, where they plan to live a mortgage-free, self-sufficient existence with their daughter

Ireland

Architect George Clarke lends his expertise to couple Adrian and Denise Nuttall, who have invested their money in a run-down garden centre and a 400-year-old barn and farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside.

Suffolk

Architect George Clarke meets a couple who want to move from Surrey to the wilds of Lincolnshire, where they hope to start a business and convert a ruined 18th-century granary into an idyllic rural home.

Lincolshire

George Clarke meets Jez and Laura, who want to leave London behind for the coast. After waiting three years to fulfill the requirements of the local planning authority they can finally begin work on their dream home - a beach house in Worthing

Worthing

George Clarke meets a couple who have given up their jobs and the hectic pace of life in Sheffield. They plan to convert a 100-year-old tin church on the Isle of Seil into a small B&B within eight months and with a limited budget of just £70,000

Isle of Seil

George Clarke meets Andrew and Anona, who have spent two years planning a move to the Pembrokeshire coast. The couple intends to open a pair of luxury holiday cottages to provide enough money to save the 160-acre family farm.

Pembrokeshire

George Clarke meets Frank and Alice from Cambridge who decide to move to rural Croatia, planning to convert a dilapidated stone house and its idyllic surroundings into a nature retreat with six log cabins for guests.

Croatia

Architect George Clarke revisits a London couple who sold their organic cafe in Brixton and spent a £1million bank loan converting a rundown Cornish hotel in St Ives into three houses, one of which was to be used as a designer B&B.

St.Ives Revisited

This episode deals with a family who is converting an old cold-storage barn into a family home in Upwell, England.

Upwell Revisited

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."

France

Full Episodes

Season 2, 10 episodes