Grand Designs - Season 13 Episode 9 Newbury: Christmas Farm
Confirmed city dwellers Michael and Phil have moved to the country to run a farm, start a micro brewery and create in a vast, dramatic 21st-century farmhouse to live in.
Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer were confirmed Londoners, loft-livers in the heart of Soho. Until they fell in love with Christmas Farm, near Newbury, and took the life changing decision to quit their urban media jobs and move to the country.
They faced two big problems however: first there was an agricultural tie on the land, so Phil and Michael would have to become farmers; the second problem was the uninspiring faux-alpine timber chalet serving as a farmhouse - it had to go.
But Phil and Michael have decided they don't want to build a regular brick farmhouse as a replacement. Determined to bring a bit of urban glamour to their new home, they want a 21st-century farmhouse unlike anything the area has seen before.
Phil and Michael's version cleverly combines a vast, white, dramatic open-plan party pad upstairs, with muddy functional farming spaces below.
As the builders go to work on the extraordinary hand-crafted flint exterior, complete with the largest sliding trapezoid window in Britain, Phil and Michael must juggle construction with farming the land.
And in order to make it all work financially they decide to set up a new micro-brewery in the barn.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Channel 4
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Cast: Kevin McCloud
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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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