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Ivana Finch

Viewers shocked at Grand Designs: The Streets as young Glasgow couple's home burns down

Grand Designs fans were shocked at Wednesday's episode as the couple revealed that their dream home was burnt down.

The spin-off episode of Grand Designs: The Streets focused on the journey of successful builds from people who constructed their own homes.

In the newest spin-off episode, we saw young couple Ben Whitney and Joanna Susskind-Witney build their dream home for only £170k.

In the episode, the couple revealed that they spent £50,000 on a plot of land near Maryhill, Glasgow.

This was part of Scotland's maiden urban self build scheme as Glasgow City Council sold them the empty plot.

The couple were the first to take part in the exciting scheme.

Their new home offers American ranch vibes (Channel 4)

Their American-ranch style home has a gorgeous wooden finish, with wooden beams inside creating a prairie cottage feel to the home.

The open space allows lots of natural light to enter the house, with the feel that it could be in the middle of a forest.

Viewers were shocked to learn that the couple's caravan home that they lived in whilst building their dream home, was burnt down when they were away for just one night.

In the fire, the couple sadly lost all of their possessions.

The couple lived in a caravan during the process which was sadly burnt down (Channel 4)

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Carpenter Ben said on the process: "It’s not easy, everything is big and heavy and there's just two of us walking around with a wee rusty timber trolley."

Animator Joanna spoke about her worries: "Right now our home is the only one so it feels isolated, but when everyone else starts building it will feel like a community."

Their new home offers airy natural light (Channel 4)

Kevin McCloud, the host of Grand Designs: The Streets was impressed by the property saying: "This is like a man made forest where the branches and twigs serve as coat hooks and the frame reaches up and out to embrace everything underneath, it is natural and simple.

He continued: "It’s so lovely to see this building, the first in a Glasgow city wide programme of self-builds, so it's a landmark building."

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