Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home

Kevin McCloud's vision is to build himself a magnificent retreat, a magical shed of his imagination, without it costing the earth. Can a simple, more creative life make you happier?

Kevin McCloud continues his mission to build a log cabin. Now the cabin's wooden shingled shell has been finished, the next major task is to make it both habitable and magnificent.

Kevin McCloud's cabin is now habitable, but he has yet to add the vital furnishings to turn it into a comfortable home. More pressingly, he has nothing to cook with. It's time for some fiendishly clever off-grid solutions. With Kevin's cabin not connected to electric or gas, he examines a left field experiment in North Wales, where they're turning dog faeces into methane.

Luxury is the one thing Kevin hasn't yet got at his handmade cabin in the woods. It's an off-grid marvel, but what he really wants is a hot tub he can relax in, sip red wine and stare at the setting sun with his friends. He heads off to find a unique solution for his hot tub at an airfield graveyard. At last, Kevin's wondrous cabin looks finished.

Kevin McCloud is attempting to build his very own beach getaway on the English coast. Here, Kevin salvages the oak of a shipwreck to build a curvaceous, gravity-defying clifftop deck on which he can spend the summer al fresco.

In search of more junk he can recycle, Kevin takes a dirty dive into London's oldest dock and discovers a haul of old shopping trolleys which he repurposes into lobster pots.