Restoration Australia

Sep 1, 2015

Built in 1885 by a stone mason from Aberdeen, Keith Hall is no more than a pile of granite. Clay is planning to rebuild the original building, manhandling the stone blocks entirely on his own.

Sep 8, 2015

Attempting to leave the ghosts of the Kinglake fires behind them, Jo and Marcus bought Woodcot Park. They find that they have taken on not only a restoration but also the ghost of the original Scottish owner.

Sep 15, 2015

The little shop in Harrington Street is one of the oldest timber buildings left in Hobart. Vacant and derelict, it has been the victim of two arson attacks. To avoid demolition, owners Haydn and Penny need to act.

Sep 22, 2015

Marnie and Dale dream of converting 'Gervasoni Homestead' into a family home. But with the buildings near collapse and a modest budget, has the romance of these buildings gone to their heads?

Sep 29, 2015

Emmaville could be the lost birth place of bush poet and composer Banjo Paterson. With the cottage precariously situated and under threat from developers, the local community of Orange in NSW must act quickly to save it.

Oct 6, 2015

Built in 1843 of convict bricks, Keera Vale has suffered severe damage and needs love and care. Jen and Harold have fallen for 'the house on the hill', but is love enough to save this grand old dame?

Oct 13, 2015

Holowiliena was settled in 1853 by the Warwick family and their descendants still live on the property. With no money or heritage skills, can they save the original settler's buildings?

Mar 17, 2019

Host Stuart Harrison meets a Perth couple who want to resurrect their adored family home that was lost to fire in 2015. But will they be able to rebuild the 1960s iconic modernist house as its original architect envisioned?

Mar 24, 2019

Dale and Michael embark on a project to restore two 19th Century timber cottages on their Tasmanian rural property. Will they accomplish their dream?

Mar 31, 2019

The 1960's introduced us to shag rugs, lava lamps, minimalism and bright, open spaces. Melbourne couple Laura and Reece are leaving inner Melbourne for suburbia, with plans to restore a modernist home to its former glory.

Apr 7, 2019

Snapping up a piece of local history and preserving it appealed to Jan and her daughter Annie. Joined by Annie's carpenter partner, Chris, they tackle the daunting task of making the 1840s homestead a new family home.

Apr 14, 2019

Johnny and Ann want to transform a 19th Century stables and pickers cottages, in the wine region of McLaren Vale, into their new home. With a Christmas deadline, the pressure is on to restore the derelict buildings.

Apr 21, 2019

AFL fanatics John and Rosie have bought an iconic 19th century gasworks building overlooking the North Melbourne Football Club and oval, and they want to turn into their dream home.

Oct 11, 2020

Milton Terrace at Millers Point in Sydney was sold off for $4.25M in 2015 as part of the NSW Government's disposal of 300 public housing buildings. For property developer Michael Stokes, it's a Mayfair terrace in the making.

Oct 18, 2020

Hardware store owners Jo and Digby McNeil took on more than just the restoration of a heritage home in Inverell, NSW, when they bought an historic 'job lot' that included a convent and an old boys' boarding school.

Oct 25, 2020

Carl and Jennie Palmer set about trying to recreate their Federation homestead's grandeur but finding the line between a functioning modern home and a heritage restoration is harder than they anticipate.

Nov 1, 2020

When carpenter Kate and her mother Ann buy two old prospecting huts for $100,000 in Clydesdale in regional Victoria, they take on 180 years worth of dilapidation.

Nov 8, 2020

When a former Baptist Church cum nightclub hits the market in Ballarat, local anaesthetist Michael Whitehead buys it and plans to turn it into a home, but he soon finds the task could drag on for eternity!

Nov 15, 2020

When a Sydney couple buy a colonial cottage in one of Australia's most protected heritage areas, they get more than they bargained for. How will they transform a home from the 19th century into a family home for the 21st?

Nov 22, 2020

When Mel and Jack buy a derelict old Queenslander for $21,000 and move it to their land in Noosa it seems they've scored the bargain of the century, or at least a century old bargain!

Nov 29, 2020

Heritage devotees Val and John Jessop decide to buy and reassemble two old buildings - an old ghost town cottage and an old sawmill. What could be more difficult than that?

Sep 26, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets Deb and Mike who are saving a rickety colonial cottage and digging for the true story of its origins.

Oct 3, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are transforming their Mid-Century Modern 1950s house into a family home suitable for 21st Century living, in a beachside paradise just outside Melbourne.

Oct 10, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who've bought a huge rundown Victorian mansion in Milton, NSW and plan to restore its regal beauty and throw open its doors to the local community.

Oct 17, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets retired couple David and Mandy who take on the transformation of a hugely significant historic cottage in Hobart, Tasmania.

Oct 24, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are saving an important example of Federation Queen Anne architecture in coastal NSW, while dealing with a profound health crisis.

Oct 31, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who have purchased one of the most significant buildings in the historic town of Kyneton, Victoria.

Nov 7, 2021

Host Anthony Burke meets Martin Nix who is restoring an 1850s workers cottage in Balmain on Sydney Harbour, all while dealing with a recent family tragedy.

Jul 16, 2023

Anthony Burke meets self-confessed 'Architecture Nerds' Annette and Michael Pitman who own the smallest of all the Walter Burley Griffin-designed houses in Castlecrag and want to restore and extend the house.

Jul 23, 2023

Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple turning a big crumbling church in remote South Australia - bought with a credit card - into a family home, using the internet as their guide.

Jul 30, 2023

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a neglected inner-city Queenslander into a period showcase and eco-friendly, healthy haven as one partner recovers from cancer.

Aug 6, 2023

Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple transforming a tiny miner's cottage into a family home in a celebration of sustainability and old-fashioned craftsmanship.

Aug 13, 2023

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a dilapidated orphanage into a family home. Can their restoration bring laughter and warmth back to an institutional building with a confronting history?

Aug 20, 2023

When a charming old Queenslander travels 800 kilometres south of the tropics to an eco-village, it needs a complete retrofit to become uber energy efficient - but will this come at the expense of its heritage?

Aug 27, 2023

Host Anthony Burke meets a family aiming to turn a tiny war memorial church into a holiday home in the face of local hopes it would be kept as a venerated public landmark.

May 23, 2024

Host Anthony Burke meets a Brisbane couple determined to return a vandalised, graffiti-daubed wreck to its rightful place as one of the city's finest mansions, no matter the cost.

May 30, 2024

Host Anthony Burke meets a King Islander returning home to one of Australia's most remote and weatherbeaten outposts to reclaim and restore a derelict farmhouse.

Jun 6, 2024

Host Professor Anthony Burke joins a dedicated couple doing all they can to preserve a valuable slice of Australian history that would otherwise dissolve into the dirt and be lost forever.

Jun 13, 2024

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple supersizing a beachside bungalow into a Sydney trophy home while still somehow trying to preserve its quaint 1920's identity.

Jun 20, 2024

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning an 1880s two-storey weatherboard wreck in South Melbourne into a dream home for their growing young family.

Jun 27, 2024

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple aiming to restore a crumbling stone police station and hope to solve the baffling case of the missing jailhouse.

Apr 3, 2025

Host Anthony Burke meets a big city couple aiming to bring a slouching country town mansion back to the burnished glory of its gold rush years.

Apr 10, 2025

Host Anthony Burke joins a young couple, Steph and Paul, as they set out bravely and optimistically to write a happy, luxe new chapter for a storied 150-year-old Melbourne institution.

Apr 17, 2025

In Orange NSW, first responders Chris and Mel have found all the cosmopolitan comforts of city living along with fresh air, big skies, open spaces and a sweet Edwardian fixer-upper called Bega.

Apr 24, 2025

Anthony Burke meets a former international model and his rock'n'roll supergroup-connected partner as they try to turn a neglected country manor into a stylish home and function centre.

May 1, 2025

Anthony Burke meets a Sydney couple who impulse-buy an old, dilapidated school in South Australia, sight unseen, and turn their hands to restoring it.

May 8, 2025

Anthony Burke meets a pub rocker and a yoga teacher falling in love with Tasmania and a dunnyless, kitchenless, weatherboard relic falling apart in a small northern town.

May 21, 2026

Professor Anthony Burke meets a Melbourne family resurrecting a fortress-like bluestone farmhouse with an intriguing history, that's been severely neglected in Western Victoria.

May 28, 2026

Host Anthony Burke meets a Tasmanian couple aiming, somehow, to turn an uninhabitable colonial Post Office into a holiday idyll and riverside playground for their young family.

Jun 4, 2026

Host Anthony Burke meets an urban fashion professional who went looking for an idyllic country farmlet and ends up with a cavernous rural convent and a huge restoration task.

Jun 11, 2026

Host Anthony Burke meets a First Nations family aiming to reinterpret a simple and remote timber church into a getaway home honouring dispossessed ancestors and proud culture.

Jun 18, 2026

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple of aspiring tree changers who've decided a gruff old depression era pumping station is the perfect basis for their ideal country home.

Jun 25, 2026

Host Anthony Burke meets a horse-loving former cop, rebuilding her life after a catastrophic fall and determined to rescue an historically important farmhouse on the NSW South Coast.