Grand Designs
Season 13 Episode 6 - Monmouthshire: Japanese House
Tamayo Hussey's missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK with her husband Nigel. To stave off the homesickness they've decided to transform a forester's lodge into a Japanese house complete with roof bath, tatami room and sliding paper walls. Keen to keep costs under control, Nigel and Tamayo decide to engage only the design skills of an architect and with no previous building experience they bravely go it alone, working without any detailed drawings and fire-fighting problems every step of the way. The wood they're using for the timber frame - Japanese larch - hasn't been used for building houses before in the UK, so no one can be sure it will be strong enough, the new interior walls don't meet properly and the replacement window design can't cope with the rain. But Nigel and Tamayo are determined to overcome any obstacle to get the Japanese house they're so desperate for.
Episodes in Season 13
The 1920s Cinema
45 min
North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
45 min
York: The Giant Farm Shed
45 min
Devon
45 min
South Lanarkshire
45 min
Monmouthshire: Japanese House
45 min
South London: Modernist Masterpiece
45 min
East Devon: Cob Castle
45 min
Newbury: Christmas Farm
45 min
Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
45 min
Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
45 min
