Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2012
George meets a couple who've invested their life savings to convert a wreck of a bus into a holiday let, and visits an old underground toilet that's been transformed into a stunning apartment.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2012
George meets a teacher creating a bolt-hole in the Lake District by following an increasingly popular trend in the UK of buying his own plot of countryside and doing the building himself.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2012
George heads to Scotland to meet Julie and George Nicholson who commission local designer Sam Booth to build a truly innovative prototype module holiday home.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2012
George meets Ruth Tidd, who is attempting to turn an old caravan that was once used as a home for chickens into an ice cream parlour.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2012
George meets a man who drunkenly bought a 1920s showman's carriage on eBay, but quickly sobered up when he saw the poor condition it was in.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2012
George visits a canal boat that's been revamped as the ultimate bachelor pad as he prepares to unveil his deluxe family caravan.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2013
George meets a couple planning to transform a tiny 1960s ambulance into a campervan where the family of six can cook, eat and sleep.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2013
George visits an apartment inspired by a beehive, a cocktail bar made out of a dilapidated Land Rover and a real life UFO suspended in the trees at a tree hotel in a Swedish forest.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2013
George meets a carpenter hoping to turn a double decker bus into a holiday retreat, and a couple who have quit their jobs and thrown their life savings into designing a boat hotel.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2013
George meets a woman who wants to build a shop and mobile home out of an old horsebox, but she only has £500 to spend.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2013
George visits a futuristic living space at YO! Home, where the double bed rises up out of the floor and into the ceiling, and the kitchen and bathrooms are cleverly hidden from view.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2013
George is invited onboard a blinged-up double-decker bus that's been converted into a posh restaurant and bar. He meets a couple living in a railway station and sees their plans for the waiting room.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2013
George catches up with designer Max McMurdo, who is making a classroom out of two rusting shipping containers. And there's also a garden office and a beauty emporium run from a rare 1947 caravan.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2013
George prepares to unveil his own small-space project, an ambitious, accessible, multi-functional tree house within the Calvert Trust, an outward bound activities centre for families with disabilities.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jun 5, 2014
George meets Olly and Tamsin in Bolton, who want to create a fairytale wooden hideaway at the bottom of their garden. And in Kent, Barry and Deleck seek to recreate a classic Teardrop trailer.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jun 12, 2014
George meets a couple risking their life savings on making a family home out of an old Airstream caravan, while his ambitious plans for a multipurpose garden building get a reality check.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jun 19, 2014
This episode features a double decker coach turned into a Japanese-style pod hotel, a Texan building made of rubbish, and the man who built his daughter a home in his back garden for £12k.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2014
George meets a Manchester couple who decided to spend their nest egg on building an underground casino in a hidden basement in their home. And there's also a woman who built her own shop.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2014
George meets a couple who love VW campervans so much they have given up their jobs and sold their home in order to completely drop out of the rat race. Plus, a family building a home from mud.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2014
George meets two brothers who can't afford to get on the property ladder and plan to transform a fire-damaged narrowboat into a luxury bachelor pad.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2014
In the last episode of the series George's garden build is finally revealed and it's time to see if he's transformed his unloved narrow strip of back garden into a magical and creative family space.
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2014
George plans a woodland retreat for less than the price of a family holiday and visits a breathtaking property in Italy.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2014
George meets a man trying to build a UFO-styled house; a woman making a garden room using material including earth, straw and human hair; and visits a floating swimming pool in Italy.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2014
The Italian road trip takes in possibly the world's coolest fire station. DIY enthusiasts Ben and Michelle want to build a summer house using disused shipping pallets.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2014
George meets newlyweds investing their life savings in a dilapidated yacht. His Italian road trip takes in a stunning treehouse, and his wilderness lodge starts to take shape.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2014
George visits a derelict Victorian railway signal box being turned into a garden summer house in Cumbria, a lakeside glass house in Italy, and a VW campervan conversion in Derby.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2014
George visits a floating pool in a converted barn in Italy. He meets a couple making a home from portable office cabins and a schoolteacher who found a pond under her garden decking.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2014
George visits a spectacular treehouse in Scotland. A Doctor Who-inspired shed in Macclesfield. And a glass lodge in Italy's Dolomite mountains.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2014
A 70s fire engine is transformed into a mobile shop. Can a dilapidated pony trailer be made into a holiday retreat? And George and Will reveal their wilderness cabin in all its glory.
Season 5
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2015
George visits a cliff top retreat, a unique garden pavilion, and starts work on his getaway beach hut.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2015
George meets a man building a campervan out of CDs and old vinyl records. There's also a single dad making a home on the water for him and his sons out of an oil rig escape pod.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2015
George meets a young man looking on an internet dating site for a shipmate to help turn an old boat into a home. There's also a cricket-mad granddad building a mini pavilion in his garden.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2015
George finds a hearse that's been made into a family camper van, with a pop-out kitchen in a coffin. There's also a floating book shop, and a Victorian bathing machine in Margate.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2015
George visits a river barge conversion, an ingenious swimming pool restoration and a futuristic lakeside house in Germany.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2015
George meets a couple transforming their garden air-raid shelters. There's also 12-year-old Guinnie, who hopes to create the ultimate party shed, and some luxury beach houses.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2015
George meets a couple so desperate to get onto the housing ladder that they're making their own home out of scrap. And there's drama in the workshop with the beach hut project.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 5, 2015
George and Will's floating beach hut goes to sea. There's also a festival campervan made from an American school bus and a family home in Germany built in an old grain silo.
Season 6
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2016
The show that celebrates ingenious, inventive and eccentric small builds is back. In the opening episode, George meets a pair of newlyweds who traded in a luxury honeymoon to spend the money on an old army truck they plan to transform into a mobile holiday home. There is also a master craftsman in Devon making an eco-friendly luxury treehouse complete with sauna, spiral staircase and even a slide. In New Zealand, George visits a hilltop beach house overlooking the Pacific with the most decadent bath he has ever seen. And George and Will Hardie want to build a gravity-defying, rotating home inspired by vintage sci-fi comics.
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2016
George meets Sam, a conservation worker from Somerset who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and is 30 years old. George is determined to change Sam's life by designing a fully accessible mobile home, allowing him to move freely inside as well as taking it on the road to travel the country. In Derbyshire, George meets James, a former pub landlord, who's building his new girlfriend a surprise house warming gift - a pub in their back garden. In New Zealand, George's travels to the island of Waiheke to see a modernist tent. And George and Will look for engineering inspiration for their futuristic rotating home.
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2016
In Devon, George Clarke meets Tabitha, whose mobile juice bar, made out of a horsebox, was stolen; so now she's building a new one. George and Will's futuristic rotating home takes a giant leap forward. And George's journey around New Zealand's amazing spaces continues as travels to the island of Waiheke to see a modernist tent.
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2016
George meets farmers Ali and Rich, who hope to salvage one of the rarest and - for its time - one of the most expensive caravans in the world: a 1950s Warwick Knight, complete with spiral staircase and roof garden. In Devon, fireman Nick wants to build a garden studio apartment for his mother-in-law out of an old dog house. George's New Zealand visit continues with a trip to a fold-out beach hut. And Will and George discover that an electric wheelchair could provide the engineering breakthrough they need to rotate their futuristic home.
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2016
George meets a teacher building a classroom in a salvaged jet and a Devon couple turning a cricket scorebox into a garden hang out. There's also a steel treehouse in New Zealand.
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2016
In Lincolnshire, a couple are adding a dance floor to a rare campervan, while a small Stirlingshire business converts a Sea King helicopter into luxury overnight accommodation.
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2016
George meets a Dorset couple building a room with great views over Chesil Beach. There's also a doggie campervan, and a remote lodge made almost entirely of glass in New Zealand.
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2016
George meets a Cornish couple turning the country's most expensive public loo into a luxury cliff-top holiday home. He also unveils his futuristic rotating home at Pinewood.
Season 7
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2018
The first episode visits a canal boat conversion in Dudley and a cattle trailer in Yorkshire being turned into a luxury holiday camper. There's also a dynamic, multi-coloured open plan space in Japan. And the idea of building a nostalgic toy treehouse is hatched.
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2018
George meets an old friend in Norfolk who sees the potential in the most unpromising of spaces - an old sewage works. With no plans, no budget and just 'brute force and ignorance' - Reuben's audacious idea to create a unique chill out space for his family, including a self-supporting dome roof and a circular carp pond, could be the most incredible Amazing Space ever. George also travels over 5,000 miles exploring Japan. This week features a breathtaking chapel made of intertwining concrete ribbons, where bride and groom tie the knot in the heavens. In the Midlands, a father and daughter work together on salvaging a dilapidated childhood tree house with a budget of just £300. And George and Will continue building a giant toy tree house, and are inspired by a modern tree pavilion. They set about figuring out a way to bring George's impossible childhood fantasy to life using the most unlikely of vegetables.
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2018
George meets airline enthusiast Vince, who bought a cockpit from a passenger jet for a bargain £750. He's hired precision engineer Stu to transform it into a summerhouse. However, the two have never met, neither of them have even seen the cockpit and Vince isn't even sure if It'll fit in his garden. It could be facing a turbulent experience for everyone. Sometimes, the most incredible spaces are made with materials destined for the scrap yard. But for Scott, the humble scaffold board is an inspiration for an incredible indoor/outdoor space with moveable walls. George's journey through Japan continues and he visits a multi-coloured apartment in Tokyo. Every corner of the space, including the echo chamber and lunar landscape floor is designed to challenge the mind, the body and hopefully extend your life.
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2018
Many people dream of escaping the rat race and living a life of freedom on the road. And that's exactly what communications manager Ellie has done. Ellie bought herself a 1970s double-decker bus, with her heart set on turning it into a luxury mobile home. In Suffolk, Neil Stebbings is looking to create a multi-purpose super den complete with an incredible floor that turns into a roof terrace and a concealed pool table. In Japan, renowned for its stunning court yards, George visits a concrete shrimp shell with a glorious indoor haven featuring soaring bamboo. And George heads to Kew Gardens, looking for some inspiration for his tree-house project.
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2018
George meets Dai Saunders, who has a plan to lure his kids away from their gadgets and mobile devices by getting them to help build a spectacular, camouflaged crafting workshop at the end of the garden. In Derbyshire, aspiring 14-year-old architect Fran wants to create her own hangout den in an old horsebox - using birthday money and savings. In Tokyo, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, George visits a tiny house that's actually pretty big. And George and Will visit the Sussex countryside and a tree-house like no other that hovers among the trees.
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2018
On the sunny coast of Cornwall, world-class adaptive surfer Pegleg plans a unique extension to his VW campervan, transforming his home on wheels by building a new cabin from scratch. In Pembrokeshire, Martin and Carol-Anne have an out-of-this-world scheme to turn a dome used to house an electricity generator at the London Olympics into an extra-terrestrial glamping pod in the garden. On the coast of western Japan, George visits an earthquake-resistant house made from glass. And George looks at aluminium panels as a new kind of leafy canopy for his and Will Hardie's spectacular tree house.
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2018
In Gloucestershire, two young artists are converting an old district library van into a mobile home and art studio. Also, Steve and Marie have found a bunker from World War Two under their garden and are turning it into an office, with an ingenious motorised lift to bring light into the space. In Japan, George visits a town that recycles 80% of all waste, including a pub where everything is recycled, from the windows to the beer itself. And George and Will's incredible supersized tree house is ready to be installed on site.
Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2018
A London tailor hopes to fashion a work studio in his garden - creating a space where he'll be proud to welcome his clients. In Bristol, an enterprising team are building a cabin in a crane 150 feet off the ground, to raise money for Friends of the Earth. In Japan, George visits a capsule hotel in central Tokyo and a sleep pod measuring only two metres deep and one metre wide. He also visits a traditional bath house. And finally, as the latest series concludes, George's childhood dream comes true as the super-sized toy tree house is completed.
Season 8
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2019
In the first episode, George travels to Suffolk to meet Simon, who wants to thank his mum by converting a railway cattle carriage into a luxury mobile holiday home fit for a queen. George meets Claire in east London who, having bought her dream vintage Morris Minor Caravanette, discovers that it's rotten to the core. Can Claire rebuild this stunning one-of-a-kind slice of 60s retro chic? George begins a 3000-mile road trip across Spain, featuring breath-taking landscapes, bold engineering and inspiring design. In southern AndalucÃ-a, a picture-perfect tiny home, built single-handedly by British born Elizabeth Wynn, sits in the epic mountain range of the Sierra de Las Nieves. And back in the UK, George and master craftsman Will Hardie begin their own amazing project, as they transform the rusty shell of a 1970s builders van into an expanding luxury camper.
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2019
George travels to Cornwall to meet Rebecca and Damian. The young couple are trading in their house for a debt free life in a cool luxury American trailer known as a Silver Streak. But with just ?ú10k to finish the job, can they transform this trailer from trash to vintage treasure? In Newquay, George meets inspirational 67-year-old ex-cabbie Caroline, who is single-handedly building a writing den in her back garden on a budget of just ?ú800 - created out of other people's cast-offs upcycled from the local dump. George's quest for the hidden architectural wonders of Spain continues in the breathtaking desert lands of Andalusia, where he discovers a stunning retreat. And George and master-craftsman Will Hardie are inspired by a state-of-the-art luxury mobile home, as they get to grips with their own big build.
Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2019
A teenager in Lancashire turns a derelict narrow boat into a holiday home for the family. In Warwickshire, could a greasy burger van be the answer to a bride-to-be's prayers?
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2019
In West Sussex young couple Becky and Joe plan to build their first home together: a tiny house on an old trailer, enabling them to live debt-free.
Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2019
George travels to North Yorkshire to meet couple Paul and Rachel, who hope to combine a mutual love of railways and gin by transforming an old goods wagon into a summerhouse and gin bar. In a small town near Madrid, George meets the man who has spent the last 50 years building a cathedral of epic proportions by hand. There's also a narrowboat conversion in Buckinghamshire, and work continues on George and Will's expandable caravan pod.
Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2019
In this episode, George meets Mark - a vintage car nut from Coventry. With the help of his petrolhead daughters, Mark plans to build a super-cool camping trailer from an old Saab so they can travel to Le Mans in style. George is also back on home turf in the North East, where inspirational teacher Busola plans to create a cutting-edge mobile classroom out of a double-decker bus. George's Spanish design odyssey continues as he visits an incredible hundred-year-old farmhouse on the coast of Asturias, which has been given an extraordinary 21st-century facelift. And back at the big build, the team at Studio Hardie are hard at work designing a lightweight, flexible and multi-functional wall system for the campervan living pod, while Stu and George give the ancient Ford Transit chassis a slick, retro makeover.
Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2019
George travels to Yorkshire, to meet twenty-somethings Jasmine and Rupert, who plan to convert an old German fire truck into a cabin on wheels to take around Europe, satisfying what they call 'a quarter-life crisis'. George also takes a trip to Warrington to meet inspirational businessman Phil, who's spent thousands out of his own pocket transforming an old fly-tipping site into a stunning nature reserve, and now wants to build a community classroom so local schools can enjoy the site. The penultimate leg of George's tour of innovative Spanish architecture takes him to the sun-baked South East, where a cutting edge cantilever house has to be seen to be believed. And it's all hands on deck at the big build, when the team faces the nail-biting challenge of bringing the reconditioned Ford Transit chassis and new expandable living pod together for the very first time. But will it all go according to plan?
Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2019
In the final episode of the series, George heads to the south coast to meet a father and son duo who plan to convert an oil rig escape boat into a floating holiday home. But without fixed plans will they sink or swim? George also visits Cornwall, to see a one-of-a-kind rooftop chill-out den, the brainchild of madcap inventor Brad, who'd set his sights on creating the perfect sphere. In Spain, George rounds off his tour of revolutionary small space design with a trip to an ingenious studio apartment by the sea with rotating internal walls. And it's the big day for the team's expandable camper, as George and Will take her to the coast for a maiden voyage at the grand opening on Hastings Pier.
Season 9
Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: Jun 17, 2020
Architect George Clarke delves into the world of small builds, meeting people taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating places to live, work and play. In the first episode of a new series, George meets a couple who are creating a disappearing bathroom and a man squeezing a camper into a Reliant Robin. He also discovers Chile's stunning architecture, and plans his hardest-ever build, an observatory.
Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2020
Architect George Clarke delves into the world of small builds, meeting people taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating places to live, work and play. In the second episode, George meets a mother determined to turn a broken shed into a three-room haven for her family, and a young couple trying to create a luxury home on a houseboat. Elsewhere in Chile, George visits a stunning temple, before returning home to continue building work on his observatory.
Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2020
Architect George Clarke delves into the world of small builds, meeting people taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating places to live, work and play, demonstrating how big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. In the third episode, George meets a couple crafting a magical den for their toddler with a helping hand from a grandparent, while an aircraft technician turns a jet engine's housing into a unique camper. Elsewhere in Chile, George discovers some lip-smacking designs in a winery.
Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2020
Architect George Clarke delves into the world of small builds, meeting people taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating innovative and exciting places to live, work and play. In the fourth episode of this ninth season, George is amazed by a couple's plan to turn a coach into a mobile home, complete with a garage for their treasured Mini. He also meets a pilot who has created a garden den from a small plane. Elsewhere, George's observatory build takes him to one of the world's largest telescopes.
Episode: 9x05 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2021
Architect George Clarke delves into the world of ingenious small builds, meeting people creating places to live, work and play in the most unlikely of places. Here he meets a couple who turned an old fire engine into a bar to raise money for firefighters' charities and a 23-year-old who built a shepherd's hut from scratch, including the nuts and bolts. George also visits an extraordinary home in Chile and Will Hardie builds a telescope.
Episode: 9x06 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2021
The architect meets master craftsman Paul, who has muscular dystrophy and is saving a Victorian circus wagon. George also finds out about a grain store being re-imagined as a festival bar, discovers a small hotel disguised as a tree and a camping pod that looks like a giant conker.
Episode: 9x07 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2021
The architect meets Chris and Jodie, who are turning a broken-down camper into a cross between a mini HGV and a caravan. A couple reinvent a broken railway carriage as a rustic retreat, and for their observatory, George and Will Hardie learn how to take photos with a beer can.
Episode: 9x08 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2021
The architect meets Tim, who plans to make a barn out of discarded windows and old driftwood, and novice builder Mandy, who is creating a retirement home in a minivan for her and her cat. Also, George and Will Hardie finally finish their Victorian-inspired observatory.
Episode: 9x09 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2021
George looks back at arguably his most ambitious project, when he and Will Hardie built a 360-degree, gravity-defying, rotating home inspired by vintage sci-fi comics. In search of inspiration for this seemingly impossible challenge, George goes to Holland, Germany and the local fairground.
Episode: 9x10 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2021
George looks back at his first ever big build, in which he enlisted the help of friend and design guru Will Hardie to convert a dilapidated 1970s caravan bought for £300 into a stylish holiday home for him and his children. Along the way, George takes inspiration from other ingenious caravan and self-build conversions, including lovingly restored gypsy wagons - and to make the most of the space, he even comes up with a sofa that doubles up as a bath.
Season 10
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2022
George explores more inspirational and ingenious spaces. In the first episode, he travels to Devon to meet former events manager Val, who has put her life savings into building a stargazing cabin with a rather unusual twist. George also meets actor and singer Gemma, who has the bit between her teeth to transform a vintage Sinclair horse box into a mobile performance space as she tries to keep the show on the road.
Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2022
A circus show van is converted into an ingenious home, while on the Isle of Wight, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gets an extension that Caractacus Potts would be proud of. Plus, George visits a Moroccan oasis in the heart of the Cotswolds and together with master craftsman Will Hardie, heads into the great outdoors as he seeks inspiration for his latest build - a studio flat with its own secret garden.
Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2022
Architect George Clarke meets Kay from Stockport, Greater Manchester, who breathes life back into an ambulance as she turns it into a ski chalet on wheels. An oil rig lifeboat owner tries to get his build shipshape and plush enough to convince his partner to move on board. Plus, George and contributor Will Hardie indulge in a slice of Africa in the Midlands, and Will visits an awe-inspiring Thomas Heatherwick building in Leeds that puts nature at its very heart.
Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2022
Architect George Clarke follows the fortunes of a 21-year-old fitness fanatic converting a 1920s railway carriage into a fully equipped luxury gym and sauna and the man going potty over converting a Victorian ladies loo into a romantic getaway. The presenter also visits a magnificent French chateau in the heart of Buckinghamshire. Together with master craftsman Will Hardie, George formulates an ingenious space-saving plan to convert a studio flat prototype into a magical secret garden.
Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2022
A lifeboat is converted into a camping pod, a mum and three daughters create a charming straw bale house, and George enjoys an oriental delight on the Isle of Wight.
Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2022
A VW van gets a transformation with a twist, a brick bomb shelter is converted into a bijou bar, and George and Will forge ahead with their ultimate indoor-outdoor living project.
Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Feb 18, 2022
A Nottingham couple cement their relationship with an ambitious floating home, while in London George discovers an explosion of global architecture in a tiny one-bedroom flat. In Lincolnshire, family relations are put to the test as two teenage siblings take on the task of building their own mobile homes away from home. Plus, together with master craftsman Will Hardie, George conjures up a magical 30-mile vista in a wall just 20cm thick in their secret garden studio flat.
Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2022
The presenter and master craftsman Will Hardie come to the end of their architectural world tour of the UK with a delicious taste of Italy in north Wales' Portmeirion. The duo complete their most ambitious build yet, bringing the outside in as they unveil their studio flat that also converts into a magical secret garden.
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Dec 20, 2022
William Hardie joins the host to discover the architecture of Alaska, from hotel pods inspired by arctic explorers to a chapel modelled on birch leaves. The pair also visit an eco-cabin, an abandoned igloo hotel and a family ski chalet. They also try their hand at local activities such as ice fishing and dog sledging.
Season 11
Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2023
The architect visits a carpenter trying to save a boat from the breakers yard, and a woman rebuilding her business thanks to a vintage caravan that she wants to turn into a vegan cafe. Meanwhile, George heads to Israel to visit a modern apartment carved out of three centuries-old rooms in the ancient city of Jaffa.
Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2023
George drops in on one of the most expensive builds ever seen on the show - a stunning, glass-fronted eco-lodge seemingly floating in mid-air. He also meets a newly married couple who are trying to turn an old boat into their first ever home on a shoestring budget, visits a Japanese-inspired micro-home in London and takes an inspiration trip to Israel to see one of the most unusual, hand-built homes he has ever seen.
Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2023
George visits a family who are creating extra space on a vintage bus and travels to an amazing YMCA in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, a farmer builds an owl-inspired wooden cabin.
Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2023
George meets a young woman building a tiny home, even though she's never done DIY before. And he meets a teacher at a school who's trying to turn a train into a library.
Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2023
George meets a mum who's transforming an old horse-drawn caravan into an extending, accessible space for her daughter, and visits a walkers' lodge that's a replica of an Iron Age camp
Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2023
A Welsh farmer and his wife plan to upcycle an old horse lorry into a seaside retreat. George meets a man building a two-storey tepee and visits an experimental hemp build.
Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2023
George meets a woodwork-obsessed 16-year-old who plans to build his own shepherd's hut from scratch, while in Manchester, a young engineer is using cutting-edge technology to create a stylish modern garden office to create a new business to support his young family. In Israel, George visits Tel Aviv to discover how the city is home to the world's greatest collection of Bauhaus buildings and, back in the UK, he discovers a white van that holds a secret - a Tolkien-inspired home hidden inside.
Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2023
George meets a man who plans to turn the front half of a plane into the ultimate crash pad, complete with loads of 'toys'. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show, George tracks down a former contributor from the first-ever series, to find out how Amazing Spaces has changed his - and George's - life. While in Israel, George drives into the desert to track down a small but breathtaking natural build and, after finding a name for his caravan and moving it 250 miles from its build site in Bedford to its final home in the Lakes, George's own 10th anniversary build is finally finished, and he can reveal his unique Arts and Crafts caravan.
Season 12
Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Jun 20, 2024
George has the idea of turning a rusty scissor lift into a cabin in the sky and starts his Denmark trip with a visit to a modern take on the old Viking longhouse. After a bus from a previous series burned in a fire, its owner replaces it with an ambitious new build made of four shipping containers. Plus, a beautician and her daughter create a four-wheeled beauty parlour.
Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2024
An actress moves up the four-wheel property ladder, from a one-bed tiny transit to a two-bedroom luxury Luton Van conversion. A train carriage gets a makeover into a dog-friendly holiday let and George visits an amazing underground bar as well as a house in Denmark that is completely covered in seashells. The saga of the scissor-lift cabin continues, as George and Will Hardie get to grips with some serious weight issues.
Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2024
A man pays homage to one of the great modernist homes with his new garden room and George visits the teenager who created a shepherd's hut last year, to follow his latest build. George visits a bizarre garden folly inspired by a wedding cake, a striking beach house inspired by pill boxes and an old RNLI station. In Denmark, the architect checks out a stunning circular house inspired by the owner's car collection.
Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2024
A couple attempt to combine an army lorry and an old caravan to create the ultimate off-roader, and a man returns to his family's farm to build a luxury cabin. Meanwhile, George visits a building in Denmark that was designed to be a work of art and an office, checks out a skip that's been turned into a home, and takes inspiration for his scissor lift cabin from a stunning 18th-century bridge.
Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Jul 18, 2024
In Denmark, George meets a young couple tackling the enormous task of turning a derelict water pumping station into a luxury holiday home. Meanwhile, a dedicated outdoor swimmer builds himself a futurist micro camper. George and Will come up with a novel way to pick the colours for their elegant sky cabin, Will Hardie visits a glamping pod built in an upturned boat, and George visits one up a tree in a Danish forest.
Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Jul 25, 2024
George follows more of the most eccentric, ambitious and passionate self-builders he's ever met. He also attempts to create an elegant airborne cabin from an old industrial scissor lift and heads to Denmark, home of gorgeous and minimalist architecture. In this episode, a young couple challenge themselves to fit a camper on the back of a tiny Italian Tuk-Tuk, and a father of two boys creates a quirky getaway in an abandoned nuclear bunker. Meanwhile, George and Will Hardie create lightweight furniture for their sky cabin, with mixed results.
Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Aug 1, 2024
In one of the most ambitious and eccentric builds ever, a man attempts to build a miniature canal and lock to house a narrow boat - and then turns the boat itself into something never before seen on the series. George also visits a house full of colour in London and an all-black, one-bedroom hotel housed in an old industrial crane in Denmark, while Will Hardie checks out a wooden home in a horsebox. Together, the pair put the final touch to their 18th-century-inspired cabin in the sky.
Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Aug 8, 2024
The architect meets a couple who are converting a rusty ship's wheelhouse into head-turning accommodation for their Welsh glampsite. In Scotland, George revisits a designer who he met on the first series to see a pair of his gorgeous new eco-builds. He ends his Denmark trip at a modernist home and finally gets to reveal his own amazing space - a cabin in the sky, built on an old scissor lift.
Season 13
Episode: 13x01 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2025
George Clarke returns for a new series, as he follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, and, in an Amazing Spaces first, shines a light on three of the best builds he's always wanted to see; from tree houses and budget builds to unique and eco creations. George visits all manner of brilliant self-builders, meets Amazing Spaces' youngest ever contributors, and travels to Portugal, where he visits stunning modern houses and ancient boulder homes. In this episode, George meets a former circus chef and his pregnant partner, who are turning two large lorries into a travelling home and restaurant before their baby is born! Meanwhile, a young couple convert a tiny city car into the ultimate mini campervan, rugged enough to survive trips to the Arctic Circle. George also starts his Portuguese architectural trip, in the stunning hillside village of Monsanto, where homes are literally built into boulders. Plus, in a new twist to Amazing Spaces, George shines a light on three fantastic builds that he's never seen before, starting with a trio of wonderful and very different tree houses.
Episode: 13x02 | Airdate: Apr 1, 2025
George Clarke returns for a new series, as he follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, and, in an Amazing Spaces first, shines a light on three of the best builds he's always wanted to see; from tree houses and budget builds to unique and eco creations. George visits all manner of brilliant self-builders, meets Amazing Spaces' youngest ever contributors, and travels to Portugal, where he visits stunning modern houses and ancient boulder homes. In this episode, George meets two young brothers and Amazing Spaces' youngest-ever contributors, who are turning a battered bus into an ice cream van. George also sees how an oil rig lifeboat is turned into a floating home, cleverly financed by social media marketing and sponsorship, and visits a stunning Portuguese beach home inspired by local fishermen's reed huts. And George celebrates three utterly eccentric builds: a 20-foot-deep cave folly at the bottom of a suburban garden, a historic recreation of a World War I trench that you can holiday in, and a 1960s house where one exterior wall has been removed and replaced with a vintage train carriage!
Episode: 13x03 | Airdate: Apr 8, 2025
The new series continues, as George Clarke follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, and in an Amazing Spaces first, shines a light on three of the best builds he's always wanted to see; from tree houses and budget builds to unique and eco creations. George visits all manners of brilliant self-builders, meets Amazing Spaces' youngest-ever contributors, and travels to Portugal, where he visits stunning modern houses and ancient homes. In this episode, a family of Hollywood set designers use their skills to create a glamping site designed to look like a dystopian movie set. George also follows another build that's far from what it looks like - a luxury, high-tech camper hidden within the body of an old farm muck spreader. And a former tree surgeon creates a traditional, ancient-looking wattle and daub classroom to pass on his skills in natural building. In Portugal, George visits a grand and elegant old home with a surprise - a stunning modern glass-and-concrete extension. Plus: a muscular all-terrain truck that's been designed to look like an English country house inside!
Episode: 13x04 | Airdate: Apr 15, 2025
The new series continues, as George Clarke follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, shines a light on the builds he's always wanted to see, and visits stunning modern houses and ancient homes in Portugal. In this episode, the UK's oldest airstream camper, which was built in the 1940s, is rescued from ruin and converted into the ultimate shiny and stylish high-end camper van. A father and his teenage son build a woodwork studio to use for their shared passion for carpentry, built - hopefully for free - out of leftover materials squirreled away and saved by their late father-in-law/grandad. Inspired by their low-cost build, George also celebrates three other budget builds, including a young man's tiny home built for just £5000. And in Portugal, George visits a gorgeous bookshop that is rumoured to have inspired Hogwarts from the Harry Potter books.
Episode: 13x05 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2025
The new series continues, as George Clarke follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, shines a light on the builds he's always wanted to see, and visits stunning modern houses and ancient homes in Portugal. In this episode, George visits a life-changing family camper van built for a mum who has tetraplegia and her son who has cerebral palsy, to allow the whole family to get away on camping trips and to music festivals. George also returns to a previous Amazing Spacer to see his latest eccentric project - a deliciously clever and impressively engineered build, inspired by a cupcake! George visits Portugal's thinnest house, squeezed between two grand churches, supposedly built to keep apart the nuns from one church and the monks from the other. George also shines a light on three great eco builds, including a super-sustainable house created from more than 600 self-assembly wooden blocks, and a swanky riverside house built on stilts to protect itself from climate change.
Episode: 13x06 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2025
The new series continues, as George Clarke follows more fantastic, unlikely and amazing builds, shines a light on the builds he's always wanted to see, and visits stunning modern houses and ancient homes in Portugal. This time, in an Amazing Spaces first, George meets a woman with a vision to construct an eco-cabin from three disused supermarket delivery van fridges; and a young couple creating a home from an American school bus. And in Portugal, George unearths a pair of sinuous treehouses inspired by snakes, before celebrating three small builds with what must be the tiniest-ever Amazing Space hidden behind a secret panel, a cool, silver take on the traditional white caravan, and a one-bedroom house in a tin tabernacle.
Specials
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Dec 20, 2012
George returns for a Christmas special, visiting Christmas-themed builds including a gingerbread house, an underground grotto decorated with shells, and a beach hut advent calendar.
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 19, 2013
In this festive special, George visits a stalactite crystal grotto in Surrey and a small-spaces enthusiast who has rebuilt a Victorian flat-pack tin chapel in Shropshire.
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Dec 18, 2014
George visits a flat-pack tin church. There's also a luxury converted chapel, ice carving in a Liverpool wonderland and a catch-up with some of George's best builds of the year.
Episode: S05 Special | Airdate: Nov 12, 2015
In this special episode George Clarke joins forces with up-cycling expert Max McMurdo to learn all there is to know about building a floating home, from Docklands to Denmark.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Apr 22, 2016
George looks back over some favourite treehouses from Scotland to Sweden and Tuscany to Northumberland.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Apr 29, 2016
George looks back at some innovative and eccentric builds, from a tiny Italian tuk tuk campervan to an Airstream party pad and a trailer caravan clad in old CDs.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: May 6, 2016
This time he focuses on how nature and architecture can work harmoniously together in the glorious world of cabins in the wild. There's a mountain-top ski lodge in Italy only accessible by helicopter; a hobbit-inspired cob house in Oxfordshire built for only ú150; and a concrete dome-home built under a man-made hill in a Texan hurricane valley. And George reflects on his own wilderness cabin that he built in the Sussex woodlands.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: May 13, 2016
As George Clarke completes his review of five years of Amazing Spaces, he reflects on the incredible things it's possible to build in the humble back garden: from a cliff-top stargazing retreat to a glorious garden room made from a derelict swimming pool, and the country's most multi-functional shed. George also looks back on his own garden build, where he and Will Hardie transformed his knackered old garage and unloved lawn into the ultimate garden family studio.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: May 20, 2016
George Clarke looks back across five series of Amazing Spaces and some of the amazing houseboats people have built for the Great British waterways. There's a seaplane from World War Two transformed into a bachelor pad; a 1960s pleasure cruiser refurbished as a marital home; and a hand built custom designed writers retreat created in the shape of an egg. George also looks further afield to an amazing holiday apartment on a lake in Germany and a Danish waterside home kept afloat by polystyrene and water bottles.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: May 27, 2016
George looks back across five series of Amazing Spaces and the incredible works of engineering people have achieved with their vehicles - from the scrap Learjet turned into a luxury garden studio to the restoration of the only surviving British mobile cinema truck. There is also the 1950s railway carriage converted into a three bedroom home and an incredibly stylish custom-designed Jeep transformed into a cocktail bar.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Aug 28, 2016
George looks at some of his best builds by the sea, including a multifunctional beach hut in Bournemouth and a 21st-century update of a Victorian bathing machine in Margate.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Sep 2, 2016
George looks back at some of the most ingenious Amazing Spaces builds, from a toilet converted into a luxury home to a tube carriage transformed into a stylish office.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Dec 13, 2016
In this special episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, George and Will Hardie meet the daughter of a survivor of a World War II Japanese prisoner of war camp who has uncovered a remarkable secret. Jan Fursier has discovered in one of her father Reg's wartime diaries an immaculately illustrated guide to building a 1930s caravan, painstakingly created by her dad while held in captivity. Jan wants George and Will's help to bring the caravan to life. As they delve deeper and learn more about Reg, they uncover an incredible story of survival and resilience under terrible circumstances, and of a secret undercover POW university where officers gave illicit lectures, covering everything from the sciences to the best restaurants in London. Once the caravan is completed, George and Will invite Jan for an emotional reunion in the same Welsh national park where her father took the family on holidays after the war.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Dec 27, 2016
In this Amazing Spaces festive special, George Clarke and Will Hardie embark on a snow-covered design odyssey across the mountain ranges of western Canada. From a remote buffalo herder's lodge to the ultimate snowboarder ski chalet, and even a monster snowmobile big enough to live inside, this epic journey showcases the most ingenious Canadian structures built to survive and enjoy the stunning snowy surroundings. George and Will also build their own igloo.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Mar 31, 2017
George Clarke looks back at some amazing spaces, from a double decker bus with a retractable roof, to a futuristic house with a living room hidden under the bed. George also revisits a trip to Germany and a space where an entire room mechanically opened like a drawer.
Episode: S06 Special | Airdate: Apr 7, 2017
George Clarke looks back at some of the most creative builds he's encountered on his travels around the world. From a stunning glass house overlooking Italy's Lake Lugano, to an ingenious studio apartment in Barcelona featuring high tech multi-functional furniture. There's also a unique German water tower and a Texan house made of beer cans.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Dec 14, 2017
Architect George Clarke and master craftsman Will Hardie travel to Norway, to discover how a country with some of the harshest weather on the planet has become a leader in small space design. Norwegian craftsmanship and determination puts the country at the forefront of global architecture. George travels by husky sled to a tree house in a forest that can withstand nine tonnes of snowfall and gale force winds. There's also a visit to an ice hotel - the mother of all igloos, complete with 30 rooms, a bar, and even a snow chapel. The boys meet members of the local Sami community, to see the moveable home that has kept members of their community safe for hundreds of years. There's a disused oil silo turned into a circular home; a geodesic aluminium dome; and an epic family home in the mountains. And Will meets leading explorer Borge Ousland.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: May 22, 2018
In this 24 hour special, George Clarke takes on the 600-year-old legend of the Ty Unnos - a piece of Welsh folklore that claims that if you can build a house with four walls, a roof, and have a fire burning in your hearth in less than a day, then that house and the ground beneath it is yours. George recruits Will Hardie and a crack team of highly skilled former Amazing Spaces builders. Together they design a stunning lakeside cabin built using the natural raw materials to be found in the surrounding lakes, hills and valleys near Machynlleth in Wales. The team have just two days to complete all preparations for this epic challenge. And when the big day comes, so does the wild and stormy weather. Soon enough, George and the team find themselves soaking wet, in the pitch dark, with a monumental build to complete by sunrise.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jun 8, 2018
George looks back over some of the best off-grid projects from Amazing Spaces: from a wooden yurt in a Devonshire quarry, to a medieval summerhouse in a suburban Kent garden made out of cob. George also sees the stunning results of a VW campervan restoration in Shropshire and visits a Victorian shepherds hut in Worcester.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jun 15, 2018
George Clarke looks back over some of the best projects from Amazing Spaces. This time, he celebrates the Best of British and Britain's rich history and traditions, including a pair of bunkers from World War Two in a Surrey garden, and a Victorian railway carriage containing rare mahogany from the 1600s. There's a doghouse in Devon being converted into an extension. There's also the ex-cop launching a cream tea business in a camper van.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jun 22, 2018
George looks back at several ingenious builds done on a shoestring. Big things can be achieved with small sums - from a Tardis shed to a house built with absolutely zero budget.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jun 29, 2018
George catches up with small space projects by young designers, including a 12-year-old's luxury party shed, and the newlyweds who ditched their honeymoon to make a campervan instead.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jul 6, 2018
George revisits some amazing European builds, from an epic mountain-top retreat in the Italian Alps to a floating home in Denmark and, in Barcelona, the smallest city home he's ever seen.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Jul 15, 2018
In this tree house special, George rediscovers some of the best tiny builds to be found up in the treetops across the world. In Tuscany, George visits a romantic treehouse. There's a tree hotel in Sweden shaped like a UFO. The show also features a tree house designed like a mirrored cube. And there's a look back at the epic tree house George and master carpenter Will Hardie built together in Kielder Forest Park.
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Dec 13, 2018
In this special episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, George and master-craftsman Will Hardie explore the ingenious small-space wonders hidden away among the snowy peaks of the Swiss, French and Italian Alps. Starting an epic road trip from an observation point 4000m above sea level, they set out on an adventure spanning mountain ranges, which takes in a secret ski lodge disguised as a boulder; a tree house resembling a giant acorn; a traditional Swiss cabin made almost entirely from concrete; and a tiny hamlet made up of eight 200-year-old chalets brought together from all over the Alps. And before heading home, George and Will visit a breathtaking mountaintop restaurant resembling a spaceship, before competing in a toboggan race.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Aug 11, 2019
George reviews his global search for the world's most ingenious small-space builds, from Canada to Japan, Norway to New Zealand, and from minimalist glass cabins to an epic beach house.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Aug 18, 2019
George rediscovers some the most ingenious vehicle projects he's seen, including a helicopter, a camper van and the cockpit of a passenger jet.
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Dec 10, 2019
In this snowy, wintry special, George Clarke and Will Hardie explore the many architectural gems of Finland as they head for the Arctic Circle.
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Dec 18, 2020
George is joined by designer, craftsman and maker Will Hardie on trips to Norway, Finland, the Alps and Canada to check out some amazing winter designs - from ice hotels to stunning modern homes. Along the way, the duo build an igloo, race toboggans, feed reindeer and dodge a bear.
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Dec 21, 2021
George is joined by his friend, master craftsman Will Hardie, to explore the best of Iceland's architecture, from a cool, contemporary lake house and a traditional home made of turf to a treetop hotel room inspired by a Christmas bauble and a stunning, modernist build in the snowy wilderness. Along the way, the design duo also get to grips with mysterious elves, majestic horses, geothermal baths and wild camping.
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Mar 4, 2022
George and Will Hardie set off on a nautical adventure to build a beach hut that can sleep four people and float. However, they only have six square metres to play with. The pair seek inspiration from a high-end hut in Dorset, an ingenious space-saving houseboat in Germany and a "half house" in London, but their design efforts prove to be anything but plain sailing.
Episode: S10 Special | Airdate: Mar 8, 2022
George and Will Hardie take inspiration from an 1830s camera obscura and a futuristic planetarium to create an observatory in honour of George's star-loving late father.