1. St Minver, Cornwall 2026

Kevin McCloud follows more ambitious self-building projects, beginning with Bryony and Matt, who have spent five years planning the perfect Cornish family beach house, complete with its own surfboard room. But with the project up and running, they have only given themselves a year to finish, despite aiming for passive house standards and with construction of the irregular frame to be done almost entirely on site and by hand - not to mention their busy home and work lives.