George is in the north-east London suburb of Woodford Green, where he meets widow Shaz and her two growing children in their classic Victorian terrace home. After the death of husband and father David, the family are determined to stay in the house they all shared, so George is called upon to confront what needs to change while preserving the family's memories of David in the house and garden and futureproofing the home for Shaz and her children.

In Worsley in Greater Manchester, George helps Katherine and Andrew to renovate their new home's awkward extension and split-level living space, and reveal the home's stunning view, while landscaper Luke tackles the steeply sloped, hazardous rear garden.

In Windsor, marketing executive Michelle has been living in an undesirable bungalow, or as she describes it, 'her hovel' for almost a decade. It was intended as a doer-upper, but with no experience of renovation and no idea where to start, she's come unstuck. George steps in to design a new scheme tackling a horrific plastic lean-to and a cobbled together kitchen with an uncomfortably placed loo. George's solution is an inspirational multifunctional extension, a complete renovation into a superbly beautiful new home that inspires Michelle to turn her hovel into a home.