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Jaimelee and Lee/Suzanne and Antonio

Piers Taylor and Gurmeet Sian help homeowners transform their homes. Piers helps Lee with his half-built, half-baked extension plans.

In the first programme, Piers Taylor and Gurmeet Sian deploy micro-budget ideas from the partner series, The House that £100k Built, for two new homeowners in need of life-changing transformations to their existing homes.

As a builder, Lee thought nothing of adding an extension to his suburban-semi in Birmingham. Two years later, the whole ground floor is half built and his plans half baked. His partner Jaimelee and their three kids are stuck living in a building site, cooking on a camping stove. Piers must first teach them the trick to turn it into a successful open-plan space, but also how clever choices anyone can do with furniture, wall coverings and even colours can radically improve it. However, as their £10k runs short, long-held disagreements emerge - Jaimelee wants a family seating area at the heart of her home but Lee wants to add expensive copper sheets to the outside. Can Piers possibly deliver both?

For Suzanne, Antonio and toddler Sophia, life is a day-to-day struggle in their west London flat. The awkward layout makes it tough to keep a watchful eye on their daughter, and the bathroom is more of a disaster zone than a sanctuary. It's up to Gurmeet to rethink the entire flat, but how do you make a home feel bigger when you can't extend out? Whilst Piers stuns them with an ingenious apartment full of design tricks, Gurmeet takes them shopping to a well-kept secret of the design world, encouraging them to invest their limited budget only on things you touch. Overwhelmed and overspent, can this young family turn their gloomy flat into one that's spacious and flooded with light?

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Mar 2020 14:00

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:03

    Jack Savoretti

    Home

  • 00:04

    Laura Welsh

    Break The Fall

  • 00:08

    Raleigh Ritchie

    Stronger Than Ever

  • 00:10

    Future Islands

    Seasons (Waiting On You)

  • 00:12

    ZIBRA

    Great White Shark

  • 00:13

    Laura Mvula

    She

  • 00:14

    DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

    You Know You Like It

  • 00:15

    Muse

    Dead Inside

  • 00:16

    DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge

    You Know You Like It

  • 00:19

    Charli XCX

    Famous

  • 00:21

    Imagine Dragons

    SHOTS

  • 00:23

    James Bay

    Let It Go

  • 00:25

    Emeli Sandé

    Next To Me

  • 00:26

    Glasvegas

    Euphoria, Take My Hand (Single Version)

  • 00:28

    HAERTS

    Wings

  • 00:30

    alt-J

    Breezeblocks

  • 00:32

    Sia

    Big Girls Cry

  • 00:32

    Georgia Mason

    Running Blind

  • 00:35

    Aqualung & Luke Sital‐Singh

    Be Beautiful

  • 00:36

    Sia

    Alive

  • 00:42

    Sigma

    Changing (feat. Paloma Faith)

  • 00:44

    Laura Welsh

    Break The Fall

  • 00:50

    Rae Morris

    Love Again

  • 00:51

    Rae Morris

    Love Again

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Piers Taylor
Participant Gurmeet Sian
Executive Producer Joff Wilson
Series Editor Harriet Scott
Series Producer Debb Swindells
Production Company Remarkable TV

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