Grand Designs Season 7 Episode 2 Synopsis

Eight years ago Alex and Cheryl Reay left London for a new life in the New Forest. They bought a run down medieval thatched cottage and lovingly brought it back to life. Then just before Christmas, with Cheryl pregnant, disaster struck. A fault in the chimney caused a massive fire which destroyed the entire building. Overnight Alex and Cheryl had lost almost £400,000.

Whilst most people would have walked away from this, Alex and Cheryl couldn't let go of their dream. Nine months after the fire, they decided to start all over again and rebuild the cottage, bigger and better than before.

Grand Designs Season 7 Episodes...

• s07e01 - Yorkshire: The 14th Century Castle
• s07e02 - Thatched Cottage, Hampshire
• s07e03 - Eco-barge, Medway
• s07e04 - The Bournemouth Penthouse
• s07e05 - Revisit: Carmarthen, 2007
• s07e06 - Birmingham: The Birmingham Church
• s07e07 - Guildford: The Art Deco House
• s07e08 - Revisited: The Sliding Glass Roof House, Peckham
• s07e09 - Revisited: The Oak-Framed House, Argyll
• s07e10 - Cambridge: The Cambridgeshire Eco Home
• s07e11 - Revisited: The Tuscany Castle, Tuscany, Italy
• s07e12 - London: The Glass and Timber House

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.