Episode list

A couple plan to build a large home for themselves and their 3 children. They are keen to build in the 1960s modernist style with finishes of polished concrete and movable glass walls in the Brighton suburb of Melbourne. They will incorporate a central planted area, tennis court, pool and jacuzzi.

Peter Maddison meets retired engineer Bernie Ryan, who plans to use an eccentric, industrial design, a minimal budget and a cowboy attitude to build a new home in Paynesville, Victoria.

Anne and Michael plan to build a modern home with curved steel and glass walls in Sydney's Five Dock area.

Rod and Di have chosen a two acre plot of land on a rocky outcrop overlooking Kyneton for their new home.

Daniel and Andrew plan to build a resort-inspired home on a hillside overlooking the Coral Sea in Queensland.

A couple, Michael and Sandy, try to merge two house styles with a home that has thick walls encased with dry stone. For 9 years they have been making a weekend pilgrimage to their lush 20 acre property just an hour east of Melbourne. It is set in green verdant land in wine country rife with local produce. Their dream is to move there permanently, but the old house was 50-60 years old and small.

In Adelaide, Mike Dare appoints himself architect, engineer and project manager as he sets about creating a home supported by water tanks with the roof acting like a giant funnel.

Art teacher Laurie and his wife artist Renee want to build their dream home in Yellingbo, in the state of Victoria. They want to use steel, stone and grass in the single storey modern build.

Greg and Tish enlarge an old cottage by the sea, in Tasmania, and they start without a building permit. Even as they start they are over budget.

Peter Maddison meets Edd and Amanda Williams from Steels Creek in Victoria, who plan to build a robust concrete bunker that would be embedded in the landscape and safe from bushfires.