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Architect George Clarke visits some of Britain's most beautiful historic houses in the country each with their own individual architectural style. The problem is that the way houses were built years ago doesn't work anymore so George helps the owners make their period homes fit for modern life.
2019
In West Yorkshire, Pip is moving back into the home that she grew up in and is finding it emotional. And there's a mystery house in west London.
George takes on a project that is part period house, part dog's dinner. And the thought of a corner cocktail bar proves a real tonic for a tricky refurb project.
George tackles a heavy chandelier in a Georgian townhouse in Yorkshire. And a Georgian farmhouse in the Peak District is a decorative nightmare.
2016
George visits a Victorian semi where the kitchen has been plonked in completely the wrong place. Can he come up with a design that reflects the period, and works for all the family?
George visits a Grade II listed cottage in Hampshire and a farmhouse in East Sussex. The first one is too higgledy-piggledy while the second needs a major bathroom rethink.
George helps make a cool, elegant kitchen-diner in St Leonards-on-Sea. In Manchester, he tackles a 1930s semi-detached with compact dimensions and a tiny budget
George helps a Leicester couple reclaim their home's classic Georgian dimensions. In Brixton, he tackles a Victorian living room overwhelmed by 70s kitsch.
George tries to return a neglected art deco gem in Cornwall to its former glory, while also making it suitable for modern family living.
2018
George helps more homeowners make their period homes fit for modern life, taking on an outmoded 1930s semi in Liverpool and a stunning medieval farmhouse in Kent.
George makes a tiny Victorian terrace in Stratford-upon-Avon fit for a 21st-century single dad. And in Hastings, he transforms a period reception room by simply moving a door.
George designs a new kitchen in a Welsh home that's part medieval for an owner who doesn't really like kitchens. He also tackles an awkward extension in Hove.
George visits a 300-year-old house with too many loos. And in south London, a mini 1930s bungalow with a tiny lounge needs clever design solutions.
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2018
George takes on an Edwardian home suffering from an extreme case of 1970s wall-to-wall panelling. He also tackles a mock Tudor cottage in Hastings.
George works on a stripped Victorian terrace in Plumstead, looking to create a new layout that won't break the bank. He also visits a magnificent villa near Liverpool.
George heads for the West Midlands, for a tricky conversion of a beautiful Arts and Crafts building, and to a former 18th-century country pub saddled with some dodgy DIY.
In Portsmouth, George helps a young couple make sense of their Victorian terrace house. In the Cotswolds, he visits a woman converting two listed cottages into a family home.
2019
George squeezes into an Edwardian Workers Cottage which is only half the size of a squash court, and visits a house with overwhelmingly Italian decor.
George visits a handsome turn-of-the-century terraced home whose new owners are set on a monochrome colour scheme, and a workshop that makes antique effect mirrors.
George is out and about with his sledgehammer, knocking holes in a fake Tudor ceiling in Leamington Spa, and moving doors in a farmhouse on the edge of the Peak District.
Up a long garden path in Leeds is a Victorian villa that's Jawad and Charlie's labour of love. And in Brixton, George hopes for a clean sweep with a redundant chimney.
George has some radical ideas to redesign an Edwardian home. In Surrey, he tackles a Victorian mishmash, some MDF, a quirky fireplace and a random room.
George offers a sympathetic hand with a monster Victorian semi and a beautiful Regency conversion.
2022
George helps more people make their period homes fit for modern life. Can Duncan and Josie turn their 18th-century barn into a liveable home before baby Ruby arrives?
In Brighton, George helps Ododu whose downsizing has left her with a kitchen quandary, and in Stockport, can Sarah make her childhood home work for modern family life?
George helps a couple turn their dubiously designed, Artex-abound Surrey house into an elegant family home, and tackles a house that's stuck in a wallpaper time warp.
George attempts to bring the grandeur back to a Georgian town house in Cheshire that's been stripped of its original features, and tackles a 380-year-old Jacobean cottage.
George helps a couple whose Weymouth home was destroyed overnight by a flash flood, and revisits a couple in Chiswick to find out what's next on their demolition list.
2021
The architect tries to unlock the potential of old properties. He starts out in Stroud, where Phil and Leighla are transforming their ramshackle, listed Georgian farmhouse with an industrial-style extension. George also pays a visit to Wootton Bassett, where he helps a couple flip the layout of their Victorian end-of-terrace home
The architect helps more people make their period homes fit for modern life. George looks to Japan for inspiration as he helps Rachel and Sarah with the ground floor of their Victorian terraced home in Worthing. In Worcestershire, he meets a young couple who have bitten off more than they can chew in the shape of a listed 17th-century cottage
The architect is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he helps Laura and Jonnie to transform their Edwardian mock Tudor house into a modern family home. George also meets Nicki, whose 1920s cottage in Essex needs major changes to make it more accessible
The architect advises more people make their period homes fit for modern life. In Clapham, Masum and Maria's Victorian terraced home is no longer working for the three generations of family living there. George also travels to Hove to meet Louis and Sarah, who are tackling the upstairs of their 16th-century gatehouse
George takes on a 17th-century, Grade II listed thatched cottage in Warwickshire. Anthony, a builder, and Emily, a physiotherapist, are determined to turn this rather ramshackle build into their family home. But they may have bitten off more than they can chew
2020
Tim and Emily fell in love with their 16th-century, Grade II-listed Cotswold cottage on first viewing, despite an abundance of dark beams, low ceilings and woodchip. For George, the project is his oldest house yet. And In Kent he tackles an oast house. Can he design a super cool bedroom for eight-year-old Bella in this unusual tower?
George gets to celebrate one of his favourite periods of British architecture when he helps out at an arts and crafts Edwardian terrace house in Addiscombe, south London. Cookie and Sophia bought their home six months ago, but, despite it being full to the brim with amazing original features, from fireplaces to balustrades and stained-glass windows, it needed some serious TLC. This renovation is a labour of love as the couple set about painstakingly restoring the features by themselves. George visits the wallpaper library of his all-time design hero William Morris, and tries his hand at block printing
In Manchester, George meets a family of five with a Victorian coach house that's more 1960s than 1860s. He also helps a young couple in Hove get to grips with a 16th-century gate house with a kitchen-diner that resembles a Tudor banqueting hall
George returns to a grand Victorian villa in Ormskirk to tackle the giant kitchen and utility area, and visits a Victorian flat in London that has seen better days
George takes on a classic 1930s terraced home with a tiny kitchen and two mismatched fireplaces, and revisits a Victorian home that he previously helped renovate
2023
George travels to Manchester to bring an Edwardian home with Arts and Crafts influences into the present day. In London, he meets Flo, a first-time buyer who wants to turn her 1930s flat into the welcoming gathering place she’s always dreamed of but does George share her passion for the colour pink?
In Kent, Pete and Amelie tackle a mammoth Victorian house with a colossal 16 rooms. And George returns to Warwickshire to help Michele finish remodelling her adjoining Grade ll listed cottages.
George tackles a cottage conundrum to solve traipsing through its only bedroom to get to its only bathroom. And will a couple's plans to turn their loft into a cinema turn out to be a horror show?
George meets novice DIY renovators who are completely transforming a dilapidated Georgian-style crescent house, that was divided into four flats, with a £40,000 budget and no building experience
