Build Your Dream Home in the Country

Season 1

Straight-talking tradesman Mark Millar travels around the UK meeting people who are building their dream home in the British countryside. Mark offers them help, advice and lends them a hand with their building project.

Where to Watch Build Your Dream Home in the Country • Season 1

20 Episodes

Timber House Rebuild
E1
Timber House RebuildMark Millar begins the series by assisting a family on a tight budget who are turning a timber house in rural Suffolk into their ideal abode, and creating a magical garden for their children to enjoy.
Cornwall Upside Down House
E2
Cornwall Upside Down HouseMark helps a family build their dream home on a hillside in the beautiful Cornwall countryside. To make the most of the views, they are building an 'upside down' house, with the living spaces upstairs and the bedrooms on the ground floor.
Barn Conversion
E3
Barn ConversionMark helps a family transform a dilapidated metal barn in a field into a dream luxury abode with two kitchens and a main bedroom that opens onto a rooftop terrace with an outdoors hot tub looking over beautiful Nottinghamshire countryside.
Bus Conversion
E4
Bus ConversionMark Millar helps Suffolk couple Debs and Scott, who are transforming a school bus into a mobile home with a beautiful interior lovingly crafted by hand from recycled wood. It's an affordable dream, with a conversion budget of £10,000 and a bus they bought for £3000.
Farmhouse Refurbishment
E5
Farmhouse RefurbishmentMark Millar helps a family making an epic refurbishment of an old farmhouse to create a modern family home as they swap town life in Guildford for the glorious Devon.
Island Home
E6
Island HomeMark Millar follows the incredible journey of a designer house from a factory in Wales to the Outer Hebrides, where it is assembled 600 miles from where it started.
Oak Frame Home
E7
Oak Frame HomeMark Millar helps a family build a home inspired by traditional barns, made of sustainable oak in Somerset countryside with a design combining traditional and contemporary.
Double-Height Conversion
E8
Double-Height ConversionIn a picturesque Hampshire village, Mark Millar helps a family turn a small and ugly house into a stunning home twice the size, with timber cladding on the exterior.
Country Cottage
E9
Country CottageMark Millar helps a city couple rebuild a dilapidated country cottage and transform it into their dream home for a new life in the Gloucestershire countryside.
Warwickshire Self-Build
E10
Warwickshire Self-BuildMark Millar helps a couple building a home in Warwickshire, battling unfinished jobs that have already been paid for in full, disappearing builders and dwindling funds.
Lancashire Build
E11
Lancashire BuildMark Millar helps a couple build their own home in the Lancashire countryside. Allan decides his first retirement project will be managing the build despite no experience.
Eco-Friendly Kit House
E12
Eco-Friendly Kit HouseMark Millar helps a family build an eco-friendly Scandinavian wooden kit house in the heart of the Kent countryside. But with a budget shortfall, it's a tough job.
Yorkshire Epic DIY Renovation
E13
Yorkshire Epic DIY RenovationMark meets a couple in Yorkshire with a jaw-dropping plan for their starter home: a huge old wreck in the countryside that needs complete rebuilding with barely any funds.
Scotland Luxury New Build
E14
Scotland Luxury New BuildMark Millar helps a family build a luxury home in stunning Lanarkshire countryside, with a showpiece floating glass staircase, bar, cinema room and five bedrooms.
Shropshire Eco Self Build
E15
Shropshire Eco Self BuildMark Millar helps couple Helen and Simon, who are ploughing their life savings into a dream eco home in the Shropshire countryside that they've designed themselves.
Cornwall Manor House Restoration
E16
Cornwall Manor House RestorationMark Millar meets a couple moving to a three-acre plot deep in Cornwall's wild countryside to restore a listed 200-year-old wreck to its former glory.
Scotland Timber Self Build
E17
Scotland Timber Self BuildMark helps a couple building their own timber home in the countryside south of Edinburgh.
Tiny House DIY Build, Cotswolds
E18
Tiny House DIY Build, CotswoldsMark Millar helps a new home owner build an amazing tiny house for £10k - a tight budget, especially for someone with no DIY experience, and while running her business.
Surrey Million Pound House Rebuild
E19
Surrey Million Pound House RebuildMark Millar helps a family in Surrey who want to make their big home bigger - before discovering they have to pull down a million-pound house.
Somerset DIY Barn Conversion
E20
Somerset DIY Barn ConversionMark Millar helps a family in Somerset who are risking everything to transform a derelict barn and crumbling farm buildings into a modern family home with character.