The House That 100K Built: Tricks of the Trade

In the first program 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 Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands. Two years later the whole ground floor's 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’s a day to day struggle in their west London flat. The awkward layout makes it tough to keep a watchful eye on their daughter, meanwhile, 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?