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Episode Guide
Newbury, 2013: The Christmas Farm
Series: Grand Designs
Series Progress: Episode 4 of 1921% Completed
Synopsis
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 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.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 14 hours 20 minutes (19 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 19 days
3 episodes/day: 7 days
5 episodes/day: 4 days
Episodes (19)
- S13E11 - Jakso 11
- S13E07 - South London, 2013: The Modernist Masterpiece
- S13E08 - East Devon, 2013: The Cob Castle
- S13E09 - Newbury, 2013: The Christmas Farm Viewing
- S14E01 - North Wales, 2014: The Clifftop House
- S14E02 - North Cornwall, 2014: The Cross-Laminated Timber House
- S14E03 - Milton Keynes, 2014: The Round House
- S14E04 - County Londonderry, 2014: The Shipping Containers House
- S14E05 - South East London, 2014: The Urban Shed
- S14E06 - Norwich, 2014: The Periscopes House
- S17E04 - Essex: Black House
- S17E04 - Jakso 4
- S17E05 - Jakso 5
- S18E06 - Jakso 6
- S18E07 - Peak District: Post-Industrial House
- S18E07 - Jakso 7
- S18E08 - Jakso 8
- S18E08 - London: Minscule House
- S03E05 - Buckinghamshire, 2003: The Inverted Roof House