← Grand Designs New Zealand

Season 8

8 episodes · 2023

  1. 1Abel Tasman

    24 Oct 2023 · 44 min

    Mark Ahearn and his Australian restaurateur wife Liz are taking time out from their hectic lives in Perth to build a legacy family holiday home in Abel Tasman.

  2. 2Mangawhai Danish

    31 Oct 2023 · 44 min

    Matthew and Rosemarie Dunning are put down roots in Mangawhai and have decided to throw convention out the window by embracing their son's intriguing concept of a brick house in a sand dune.

  3. 3Dunedin Glasshouse

    07 Nov 2023 · 44 min

    Eternal globetrotter Tessa Kingsbury's dream is to convert an old Dunedin Sunday school into her forever home, but it comes with a twist - she's incorporating a glasshouse into the heart of it.

  4. 4New Brighton

    14 Nov 2023 · 45 min

    Josh and Esther Perriam have always wanted to build their family home on New Brighton's beachfront but, with a limited budget and on just a slip of land , will the design live up to their dream?

  5. 5Mahurangi Pohuehue

    21 Nov 2023 · 45 min

    On a steep site in the wilds of Mahurangi, just north of Auckland, architect Felicity Brenchly is prepared to do whatever it takes to get their family home built.

  6. 6Geraldine

    28 Nov 2023 · 45 min

    An hour - and 7 river crossings - inland from Geraldine is where arborist Li Tane and his landscaper wife Michelle are building their rammed earth, off-grid, sustainable mountain home for their family

  7. 7Queenstown

    05 Dec 2023 · 45 min

    When John and Sharon Russell bought their vertiginous site above Queenstown for their shared-ownership holiday house, they thought their biggest challenge would be signing up other owners...

  8. 8Waitaki Valleyfinale

    12 Dec 2023 · 45 min

    In the Waitaki Valley, Michael and Olivia Pavelitch discover they have their work cut out for them when they embark on breathing life into an historic rabbiters' cottage.