George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
George Clarke's Amazing Spaces

George Clarke's Amazing Spaces

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For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.

Overview

For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.

Episodes

Season 1 of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces
Bus, Horsebox and Loo

1. Bus, Horsebox and Loo

George meets a couple who have invested their savings to convert a wreck of a bus into a holiday let, sees how an old underground toilet has been turned into an apartment and finds how a horsebox has been given a new lease of life as a holiday home. George's own project of making over a dilapidated caravan gets off to a shaky start as his builder fails to see the potential in a hulk of rusting metal from the 1970s.

45m
Bolt-hole, Shipping Containers and a Caravan

2. Bolt-hole, Shipping Containers and a Caravan

George continues his exploration of the world of small builds, meeting a man planning a bolt-hole in the Lake District, and visiting a community in Hackney, London, that lives and works in customised shipping containers. He also travels to a home in nearby Shoreditch where the kitchen has been moved onto the roof, and finds out how an Oxford resident has turned his back garden into a party palace using a caravan.

45m
Modules, Beach Hut and Gypsy Caravans

3. Modules, Beach Hut and Gypsy Caravans

George heads to Scotland to meet Julie and George Nicholson, who take an enormous financial risk and commission local designer Sam Booth to build a truly unforgettable, innovative prototype module holiday home. The stakes are high, as the couple have invested their entire savings of £30,000 on a design that's never been tested before. George also takes a trip to Bournemouth and meets Andrew and Emma Collett, who decided not to spend money on a honeymoon but bought a six foot by six foot beach hut to transform into a multi-function small space that can accommodate up to six guests for lunch. Hungry to find inspiration for his own small space caravan design, George visits Gemma Doyle who has lovingly restored some gypsy caravans back to their former glory. And on his own build, George tries to come up with an ingenious solution that will sleep his family of five in a space barely big enough for one double bed.

45m

Cast & Crew

George Clarke

George Clarke

Self - Host

StatusReturning Series
Network
Netflix
Original Languageen
TypeScripted

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