Grand Designs - Season 13 Episode 6 Monmouthshire: Japanese House
Tamayo Hussey's missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK with her husband Nigel. To stave off the homesickness they've decided to transform a forester's lodge into a Japanese house complete with roof bath, tatami room and sliding paper walls.
Keen to keep costs under control, Nigel and Tamayo decide to engage only the design skills of an architect and with no previous building experience they bravely go it alone, working without any detailed drawings and fire-fighting problems every step of the way.
The wood they're using for the timber frame - Japanese larch - hasn't been used for building houses before in the UK, so no one can be sure it will be strong enough, the new interior walls don't meet properly and the replacement window design can't cope with the rain.
But Nigel and Tamayo are determined to overcome any obstacle to get the Japanese house they're so desperate for.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Channel 4
Director:
Cast: Kevin McCloud
Crew:
First Air Date: Apr 29, 1999
Last Air date: Oct 30, 2024
Season: 25 Season
Episode: 236 Episode
Runtime: 45 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 47.00 users
Popularity: 56.855
Language: English
Keyword : house, architecture
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The 1920s Cinema
North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
York: The Giant Farm Shed
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South Lanarkshire
Monmouthshire: Japanese House
South London: Modernist Masterpiece
East Devon: Cob Castle
Newbury: Christmas Farm
Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
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