Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview S11E9 – In an antidote to the cookie-cutter project homes that are springing up across Australia, Gold Coast couple Nick and Trent aim to build a home with style, character and fun, for the same price as a mass-produced home, and at the same pace too; in only four months. Yes, four months.
It’s a massive task, even bigger when you consider that Nick is designing this house himself. Bigger still, it’s his very first design, and he’s recovering from PTSD. Challenges don’t get much bigger than this.
For 12 years, Nick worked in the Royal Australian Air Force, serving as an Air Intelligence Officer. Coping with some critical and classified assignments, Nick returned home carrying on as normal. But friends and family knew Nick was anything but normal. Quiet and withdrawn, owing to huge amounts of stress, Nick suffered a stroke and required a heart implant.
Eventually Nick was medically discharged from the Air Force and faced an uncertain future.
But the silver lining was that he retained a lifelong passion for drawing and designing buildings. So as part of his rehab, he retrained in architecture.
Now he has a new mission; to prove that good architecture is available and affordable for everyone. Helping him along the way is builder Michael, also constructing his first new build. Together they form a great team, but will they win the battle against time, budget and unexpected Gold Coast rain? This could well be mission impossible.
Production credits:
Grand Designs Australia is produced by Fremantle Australia for ABC. Head of Unscripted: Josie Mason Campbell. Supervising Executive Producer: Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer: Michael Collett. ABC Commissioning Editor, Factual: Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Factual: Susie Jones. ABC Head of Screen Content: Jennifer Collins. International Distribution: Fremantle Distribution.
Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Thursday 5 December at 8.00pm
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Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview S11E9
