Season 6
9 episodes
50 min. per episode
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A city dweller risks everything to transform a crumbling farmhouse, battling doubt and nature while chasing a dream of belonging.
Episodes
George Clarke returns to Spain to see how Nick Vallance and his family got on after deciding to leave their home in Surrey to make a fresh start in Spain. The family moved to the South of Spain with their two boys to turn a 400 year old Andalucian Palace into a boutique hotel and family home.
George Clarke revisits Adrian and Denise Nuttal, who, in 2006, had decided to convert a run-down garden centre and a 400-year-old barn and farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside into a chili farm and a Mexican restaurant. Sixteen months on he finds out whether their dream came true.
George Clarke returns to Norfolk to see how David Forster, a madcap engineer and inventor, has progressed with the conversion into a family home of a Victorian water tower, which is located in an isolated forest. George has been following David's progress for three years and is keen to see whether he has managed to fulfil his dream.
In 2006 Jason and Phillipa left behind their well-paid careers in Aberdeen's oil industry in a bid to renovate a chateau in France's Loire Valley. Did they succeed in building their dream home? George returns to see whether they succeeded in their quest.
George returns to Norfolk to catch up with Steve and Lorraine Kinsey from Stoke who moved 250 miles to the Norfolk Coast for a fresh start to enjoy the countryside and beaches with their two sons. He wants to see whether they managed to convert a three hundred year old barn into a family home.
Presented by architectural designer Charlie Luxton, Build A New Life follows people leaving the rat-race of the city in pursuit of new lifestyles and new homes in the countryside. The dream houses they are creating are inspiring, architecturally challenging and are all undertaken with a modest budget.