Grand Designs - Season 13 Episode 6
Monmouthshire: Japanese House

Tamayo Husseys missed Japan ever since she moved to the UK with her husband Nigel. To stave off the homesickness theyve decided to transform a foresters lodge into a Japanese house complete with roof bath, tatami room and sliding paper walls. Keen to keep costs under control, Nigel and Tamayo decide to engage only the design skills of an architect and with no previous building experience they bravely go it alone, working without any detailed drawings and fire-fighting problems every step of the way. The wood theyre using for the timber frame - Japanese larch - hasnt been used for building houses before in the UK, so no one can be sure it will be strong enough, the new interior walls dont meet properly and the replacement window design cant cope with the rain. But Nigel and Tamayo are determined to overcome any obstacle to get the Japanese house theyre so desperate for.