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The first episode visits a canal boat conversion in Dudley and a cattle trailer in Yorkshire being turned into a luxury holiday camper. There's also a dynamic, multi-coloured open plan space in Japan. And the idea of building a nostalgic toy treehouse is hatched.
This series proves that a small budget is no match for a big imagination. George meets an old friend in Norfolk who sees the potential in the most unpromising of spaces - an old sewage works. With no plans, no budget and just 'brute force and ignorance' - Reuben's audacious idea to create a unique chill out space for his family, including a self-supporting dome roof and a circular carp pond, could be the most incredible Amazing Space ever. George also travels over 5,000 miles exploring Japan. This week features a breathtaking chapel made of intertwining concrete ribbons, where bride and groom tie the knot in the heavens. In the Midlands, a father and daughter work together on salvaging a dilapidated childhood tree house with a budget of just £300. And George and Will continue building a giant toy tree house, and are inspired by a modern tree pavilion. They set about figuring out a way to bring George's impossible childhood fantasy to life using the most unlikely of vegetables.
George meets airline enthusiast Vince, who bought a cockpit from a passenger jet for a bargain £750. He's hired precision engineer Stu to transform it into a summerhouse. However, the two have never met, neither of them have even seen the cockpit and Vince isn't even sure if It'll fit in his garden. It could be facing a turbulent experience for everyone. Sometimes, the most incredible spaces are made with materials destined for the scrap yard. But for Scott, the humble scaffold board is an inspiration for an incredible indoor/outdoor space with moveable walls. George's journey through Japan continues and he visits a multi-coloured apartment in Tokyo. Every corner of the space, including the echo chamber and lunar landscape floor is designed to challenge the mind, the body and hopefully extend your life.
Many people dream of escaping the rat race and living a life of freedom on the road. And that's exactly what communications manager Ellie has done. Ellie bought herself a 1970s double-decker bus, with her heart set on turning it into a luxury mobile home. In Suffolk, Neil Stebbings is looking to create a multi-purpose super den complete with an incredible floor that turns into a roof terrace and a concealed pool table. In Japan, renowned for its stunning court yards, George visits a concrete shrimp shell with a glorious indoor haven featuring soaring bamboo. And George heads to Kew Gardens, looking for some inspiration for his tree-house project.
George meets Dai Saunders, who plans to lure his children away from their gadgets by getting them to help build a camouflaged crafting workshop at the end of the garden. In Derbyshire, 14-year-old architect Fran is using her savings to create a hangout den in an old horsebox, and in Tokyo George finds a tiny house that turns out to be pretty big. There is also a visit to the Sussex countryside and a tree-house that hovers among the trees.
Cornish adaptive surfer Pegleg plans to extend his VW campervan by creating a new cabin from scratch, while Martin and Carol-Anne want to build a glamping pod in their Pembrokeshire garden, using a dome that originally housed an electricity generator at the London Olympics. George also visits an earthquake-resistant glass house on the coast of western Japan, and looks at aluminium panels as a new kind of canopy for his treehouse.
Two artists convert an old district library van into a mobile home and art studio in Gloucestershire, while a couple who found a Second World War bunker beneath their garden decide to turn it into an office, with a motorised lift to bring light into the space. George visits a Japanese town that recycles 80 per cent of all waste, including a pub where everything is recycled, from the windows to the beer itself, and George and Will's supersized tree house is ready to be installed.
A London tailor hopes to fashion a work studio in his garden - creating a space where he'll be proud to welcome his clients, while in Bristol, an enterprising team are building a cabin in a crane 150 feet off the ground, to raise money for Friends of the Earth. In Japan, George visits a capsule hotel in central Tokyo and a sleep pod measuring only two metres deep and one metre wide. Last in the series.
