Episode
Grand Designs: Chess Valley
Overview
Zimbabwean born Davi and Matt from Australia set out to build a house in the Chess Valley with a radical multicultural design. Can they deliver, or will it end up just a mishmash of ideas?
Details
- Series
- Grand Designs
- Season
- Season 23
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2022-09-21
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Chess Valley is Episode 4 in Season 23 of Grand Designs. It aired on 2022-09-21. The runtime is 47 min.
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