A family of five searched for nine years for their own home, and want to build it on a complicated plot in Buckinghamshire.

Scott and Lisa build their dream log home in the Scottish Highlands, and to keep the project within their limited budget, they assemble it from a kit of parts from a firm based in Shropshire.

Steve Langstone and his wife Sharon for months had been searching for a weekend getaway, off the beaten track, until they decided they wanted to build a new home.

Bill and Sukie Barber are nature lovers and live on a 6-acre smallholding in the picturesque Scottish Borders.