The Best Episodes of Grand Designs Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.4/10(35 votes)

   #1 - The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton

   S1:E35/13/1999

   This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week. Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes. A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.

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   7.1/10(35 votes)

   #2 - The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham

   S1:E45/20/1999

   Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.

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   7.1/10(25 votes)

   #3 - The Eco-House, Suffolk

   S1:E56/3/1999

   A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.

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   6.7/10(30 votes)

   #4 - The English Barn, Oxfordshire

   S1:E25/6/1999

   Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!

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   6.6/10(24 votes)

   #5 - The Chapel, Cornwall

   S1:E66/10/1999

   Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.

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   6.5/10(40 votes)

   #6 - The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex

   S1:E14/29/1999

   A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.

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   6.5/10(24 votes)

   #7 - The Glass-House, Town Fields, Doncaster

   S1:E86/24/1999

   Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.

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   6.0/10(23 votes)

   #8 - The House of Straw, Islington, North London

   S1:E76/17/1999

   Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.

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