Grand Designs Australia 10 A

Art and Troy are swapping out their life running a grand old Bendigo bed and breakfast for a bold new and dramatically modern enterprise.

A couple who are building a fire proof, sustainable, non toxic house at Kinglake, an hour out of Melbourne.

Ralph Alphonso has grand plans for his 5mx4m inner city design. It will be a massive challenge on a small scale, and Ralph is adamant this eco-friendly build will not sacrifice style or luxury at the cost of the world around him.

Mark and Karen Bartkevicius restore an old hydro-electricity substation, perched above the city of Launceston in Tasmania, and convert it into a two-bed home.

Cate and Nick Foskett build a leaf-shaped home with curved windows, walls and ceilings in the Adelaide Hills, featuring a cellar for their home-produced wine.

Avid pop culture fans Warwick Noble and Melanie Hughes from New South Wales build a home that is an unashamed homage to late 1950s `post-atomic' architecture.

Draftsman Nigel Eberhardt and his wife Nina build a home on a native bush plot in Turners Beach on Tasmania's north coast incorporating a 30m eucalyptus tree.

Barb and Bill Coyle build a modern 1970s-style home: a T-shaped, north-facing house with featured curves, raked ceilings and a sloping roofline in Canberra.

Brendan and Penelope attempt to build a multi-tiered home on a tiny block located on the edge of a cliff.

Sydney couple Phil and Ariana want an adventurous house, something cutting edge that hasn't been done before. This special house will cantilever out from their block and overlook the water at Maianbar.

Adventurous couple Nick and Nicole attempt to build a yacht-inspired home with a retractable roof inland from Noosa.

Two Anglican reverends build a barn-inspired medieval manor with a two-storey Gothic window as its centerpiece in the Adelaide suburb of Hillbank.

Architect Tim Hill is up-sizing from his award-winning but modest home, known as `The Lighthouse', to an adventurous, curvaceous house shaped like a foot in the Melbourne suburb of Kensington.

Environmentally-conscious Barry Mitchell and Robyn Henwood build a stylish, solar-powered beach shack that floats on two untouched sand dunes at Aldinga, on the coast of South Australia near Adelaide.

A new home in the Adelaide Hills blends Tuscan and modern styles, featuring locally quarried stone and a bridge linking the upstairs rooms to a dynamic glass box.

A restaurant owner with a passion for all things Japanese builds a two-storey lightweight home on stilts that features high, origami-style ceilings in Brisbane.

A discarded 100-year-old Queenslander home is split into pieces and moved 140km on separate trucks to be reconstructed on a plot in the Gold Coast hinterland.

An IT engineer from Canberra uses green building materials and commercial elements to create a zero-carbon family home with sophisticated high-tech features.

A retired chef links a quirky cluster of disconnected, historic structures in Stanley, Tasmania, into a contemporary, cohesive home with a cantilevered lounge.

A designer builds a home on French Island, Victoria, featuring exposed timber trusses and dry stacked stone walls, transporting materials to the site by barge.

Retired architect Rob and wife Sally purchase a remarkable old dairy farm and they feel a huge responsibility to build a home that will do justice to this beautiful and ancient patch of paradise.

Music promoter David and doctor Jenny buy a derelict 19th Century semi in Hawthorn; they have plans to demolish the cottage and create a three-story modern take on the Victorian terrace.

Matt and Eloise leave Melbourne for Tasmania, but the budget for their Tamar build means that it is Matt who must do most of the work. Meanwhile, injury and pregnancy add to the chaos.

Perth couple Angelo and Kasi love the bulky concrete buildings from the 1950s. However, when they finally lay eyes on the plans for their new family home, there are a few surprises.

It was love at first when construction manager Simon and fashion buyer Lauren stumbled upon a 150-year-old church complete with its own graveyard for sale on the banks of the Hawkesbury River.

Dion and Turi have big plans for a harbourside home in New South Wales. It's a daring build with a lap pool running through it, which raises doubts as to whether they will ever finish it.

Architectural team Joe and Hayley get the chance to build their own dream home in the Brisbane heritage suburb of Ascot the pressure is on to create something masterful.

Architects Marc and Felicity Bernstein dream of building a non-toxic, passive home upon a toxic remnant of land, but after years of work, a fire sweeps through their beloved Melbourne build.