The House That 100K Built: Tricks of the Trade

Last year in ‘The House that £100K Built’, Kieran Long and Piers Taylor followed self-builders as they took on the biggest gamble of their lives, trying to build a home from scratch for less than £100k. Kieran and Piers helped them create the dream homes they longed for by being clever with their cash and creative with the design. This year, Kieran and Piers are coming to the aid of homeowners with ambitious plans to create an extraordinary home out of the one they already have. They have all sorts of problems to solve, are on the tightest of budgets and with little or no experience are desperate for help. Kieran and Piers will come up with ingenious solutions and inspire them with big ideas to turn their tired houses into exceptional homes. But with design dilemmas at every turn and their life savings at stake will homeowners manage to create the house they've always wanted, but believed they could never have? Sue moved into a dark, unloved 1920s semi in Kent with big ideas to reconfigure the entire house. Keen to make a fresh start after a traumatic divorce, her initial plans are scuppered when she finds out her £25k budget isn’t enough to do all the work. Kieran and Piers’ set about revising her plans, coming up with ingenious ideas and money saving solutions. But as Sue ploughs on and the money runs out, she is left to make some tough decisions if she is to have the house she so desperately wants. Kath and Greg’s family home in Shrewsbury is a 1970s timewarp with a kitchen that is so impractical and potentially dangerous their daughters are often kept away. As the true cost of updating the kitchen sinks in, the family has to abandon plans for a glossy kitchen and roll up their sleeves to tackle the bigger problems. While Kieran investigates alternative ways to get the kitchen of their dreams, Piers is tested to come up with low-cost solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems.