
Grand Designs Australia
2010 · ABC iview · 59 min · 12 seasons
S12E10 · Yarraville Pigeon
Mon, 8 Dec, 7:00 am
In Yarraville, Victoria, a passive house builder starts a crusade to build the healthiest home in Australia on the site of an old pigeon club house!
About
No design is too ambitious when it comes to creating your dream home. But discovering the hard realities that complicate your plans can often be too much to bear.
Episodes
- E01
Cygnet Earthship
Thu, 16 Oct· 57 minLocked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.
- E02
Horse Shoe Hill
Thu, 16 Oct· 56 minFollowing a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.
- E03
Rye Cave
Thu, 16 Oct· 57 minAt Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, Ryan plans to build a unique home, with boulders in the living room, and his bedroom in a cave.
- E04
Dover Heights
Thu, 16 Oct· 56 minAcclaimed Australian architect Ed Lippmann discovers transforming his childhood home into a signature steel and glass showpiece may be the most daunting assignment of his storied career.
- E05
Blue Mountains Tardis
Thu, 16 Oct· 55 minBuilder Nick is hoping to build his wife Rachel the ultimate house in the idyllic Blue Mountains; a place that for the first time in her life, she can finally call home.
- E06
Sherwood River
Thu, 16 Oct· 57 minRichard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.
- E07
Yass Earth Berm
Thu, 16 Oct· 56 minPsychologist Paul North has employed his son Josh to take on the unique task of building a bullet proof earth berm house, deep in Victoria's Yass Valley, to protect them from bushfires and the extremes of climate change.
- E08
Interlaken Lodge
Thu, 16 Oct· 56 minRichard and Erin Sims start out building a farm-style lodge, however it balloons into a building of epic proportions, complete with three 'wings', seven-metre-high chimneys, and thousands of hand-picked dolerite stones.
- E09
Hunter Valley
Thu, 20 Nov· 56 minRita and James have just 230 thousand dollars to self-build a sustainable, off-grid family home for themselves and their two kids. They plan to use recycled plastic bags, milk cartons, home-made bricks, and an earthen floor.
- E10
Yarraville Pigeon
Mon, 8 Dec· 56 minIn Yarraville, Victoria, a passive house builder starts a crusade to build the healthiest home in Australia on the site of an old pigeon club house!
Cast

Peter Maddison
Host

Anthony Burke
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