Grand Designs New Zealand

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Grand Designs New Zealand

Charles Webster, a man with a passion for technical engineering challenges, along with his wife Yvonne pour all their energy into creating a home in the shape of a sand dune on the Coromandel Peninsula. (Final)

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Season 7
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In North Canterbury Phil Metaxas takes on the ambitious task of completing another man's dream - that of a post-modernist castle.
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In Featherston, Swedish architect Josefine Watterson tackles the challenge of creating a Passive House for her young family in pursuit of both a more sustainable lifestyle and a prestigious qualification.
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Tony Hodge discovers that building with the humble container is not as easy as he thought it would be on his unforgiving, vertiginous, bush clad site on Waiheke Island.
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Carefree childhood memories are the inspiration behind 32-year-old James Davis' complex build on the Kapiti Coast. The question is - will he come to regret taking on a project requiring such sophisticated engineering?
Season 8
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In the Waitaki Valley, Michael and Olivia Pavelitch have their work cut out for them when they embark on breathing life into an historic rabbiters' cottage whilst carefully preserving its 160-year history. (Final)
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When Brisbane-based John and Sharon Russell bought their vertiginous site above Queenstown for their shared-ownership holiday house, they thought their biggest challenge would be signing up other owners.
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An hour - and seven river crossings - inland from Geraldine is where arborist Li Tane and his landscaper wife Michelle are building their rammed earth, off-grid, sustainable mountain home for their young family.
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On a steep site in the wilds of Mahurangi, just north of Auckland, architect Felicity Brenchly is prepared to do whatever it takes to get her family home built.
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Josh and Esther Perriam have always wanted to build their family home on New Brighton's beachfront but, with a limited budget and on just a slip of land, will the design live up to their long-held dream?
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Eternal globetrotter Tessa Kingsbury's dream is to convert an old Dunedin Sunday school into her forever home, but it comes with a twist - she's incorporating a glasshouse into the heart of it.
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When Matthew and Rosemarie Dunning decide to put down some permanent roots in Mangawhai, they throw convention out the window and embrace their son's intriguing concept of a brick house in a sand dune.
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New Zealander Mark Ahearn and his Australian wife Liz are taking time out from their hectic lives in Perth to build a family holiday home in Abel Tasman. However their plans soon begin to systematically unravel.
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