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s12e10 · 2025-12-07
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Grand Designs Australia
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No design is too ambitious when it comes to creating your dream home. But discovering the hard realities that complicate your plans can often be too much to bear.
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10 this season · 128 totals12e01 Cygnet Earthship 2025-10-15 20:00
Cygnet Earthship
Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.
s12e02 Horse Shoe Hill 2025-10-15 20:00
Horse Shoe Hill
Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.
s12e03 Rye Cave 2025-10-15 20:00
Rye Cave
At Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, Ryan plans to build a unique home, with boulders in the living room, and his bedroom in a cave.
s12e04 Dover Heights 2025-10-15 20:00
Dover Heights
Acclaimed Australian architect Ed Lippmann discovers transforming his childhood home into a signature steel and glass showpiece may be the most daunting assignment of his storied career.
s12e05 Blue Mountains Tardis 2025-10-15 20:00
Blue Mountains Tardis
Builder Nick is hoping to build his wife Rachel the ultimate house in the idyllic Blue Mountains; a place that for the first time in her life, she can finally call home.
s12e06 Sherwood River 2025-10-15 20:00
Sherwood River
Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.
s12e07 Yass Earth Berm 2025-10-15 20:00
Yass Earth Berm
Psychologist Paul North has employed his son Josh to take on the unique task of building a bullet proof earth berm house, deep in Victoria's Yass Valley, to protect them from bushfires and the extremes of climate change.
s12e08 Interlaken Lodge 2025-10-15 20:00
Interlaken Lodge
Richard and Erin Sims start out building a farm-style lodge, however it balloons into a building of epic proportions, complete with three 'wings', seven-metre-high chimneys, and thousands of hand-picked dolerite stones.
s12e09 Hunter Valley 2025-11-19 20:00
Hunter Valley
Rita and James have just 230 thousand dollars to self-build a sustainable, off-grid family home for themselves and their two kids. They plan to use recycled plastic bags, milk cartons, home-made bricks, and an earthen floor.
s12e10 Yarraville Pigeon 2025-12-07 20:00
Yarraville Pigeon
In Yarraville, Victoria, a passive house builder starts a crusade to build the healthiest home in Australia on the site of an old pigeon club house!