Series from 2011
Every year around 20,000 people in Britain ditch mainstream housing developers and chose to go it alone, by self-building the home of their dreams.
All our self builders are aiming to build a dream home that's perfectly suited to their way of life and their wallets but each build is a rollercoaster ride packed full of trials and tribulations.
On today's programme, fishing lake owners Lance and Michelle Bramley realise a life-long ambition to build a gorgeous lakeside lodge near Hull.
Peter and Anne Chalke are mad about everything Danish and they've sold their current home so they can build a Scandinavian-inspired house on the site of Anne's childhood home
will Michael Howlett succeed when it comes to building two eco-houses out of straw in Pembroke Dock or will this ambitious project be the final straw?
retired couple Dick and Irene Atkin are selling their spacious family home in Edwalton
we follow Becky and Steve Warboys as they battle against the planners, the weather and the views of the villagers to build their dream family home in York
