Hit present Grand Designs is a favorite on our screens with quite a lot of main success tales unfolding through the years.
However generally issues do not fairly go to plan, with homeowners going through a property nightmare as a substitute of their dream residence.
From going nicely over price range to unending time scales, some tasks simply don't appear to work out.
The Channel 4 present has featured some excessive instances the place properties are merely plagued with varied points from the get-go.
There have been quite a lot of Scottish properties featured on the favored present, together with a unusual metallic home and an ex-military station located on a 100ft cliff.
One Scottish property noticed its roof blown off, with one other costing £170,000 greater than deliberate.
These experiences may make you suppose twice earlier than taking by yourself renovation or constructing mission...
Roof blew off throughout gales
Tony and Jo Moffat spent £380,000 on their loch-side residence within the village of Kilcreggan, close to Glasgow, overrunning their price range by £150,000.
Regardless of spending a fortune to assemble, The Longhouse went up on the market in 2014 for £375,000 - £5,000 lower than it price to construct 10 years earlier.
The couple's mission to construct the home from scratch in 2003 got here with many difficulties, together with work that took longer than anticipated, spiralling prices and freezing winters.
"You get payments via the publish on a regular basis and simply sit there and go, "I am unable to pay this," Mr Moffat advised the programme on the time.
"At one level we did truly market it simply because issues received so robust.
"It was a stability as to what would make us happier, not having the debt or having the home. However we hung in and tightened the belt and received via that patch."
His spouse added: 'It is that rollercoaster feeling the place you simply need to get off.'
The couple have been revisited in 2007 and suffered a reasonably main setback when its roof blew off throughout extreme gales which battered Scotland in December 2012.
But it surely did find yourself getting excessive reward from presenter Kevin McCloud, who listed it in his 20 favorite Grand Designs properties of all time.
Cliff home battles with the weather
One Grand Designs episode noticed Yorkshire couple Andy Stakes and Jeanette Hardy taking over an outdated navy listening station in Galloway on the sting of a 100ft cliff.
They stumbled throughout the outdated construction whereas on vacation and instantly fell in love with it, buying it for £120,000.
Over the course of the episode, the pair confronted trials and tribulations to make the property liveable whereas battling the weather together with rain and gale drive winds.
Through the construct, there have been some difficult moments getting the glass put wherein would shield individuals from the sturdy winds.
The roof additionally took fairly some time to place in because of the winds through the summer season.
They deliberate to solely spend £250,000 to construct the construction however this was later upped by a £100,000.
Ultimately, they really spent nearer to half one million with the construct costing £420,000.
Air hangar home took six years to construct
Colin MacKinnon and his associate Marta Briongos, from Strathaven in Scotland, first appeared on the present in 2011.
The flying teacher have been seeking to construct a unusual a metallic home subsequent to the runway they personal, the place he operates his flying faculty.
However Colin and trapeze fanatic Marta have been pressured flog a £35,000 portray simply to complete their mission on Grand Designs after they ran out of cash.
The house, which was began in 2005, took six years to construct and was in comparison with a 'plastic portacabin created from recycled yoghurt pots' on the time by viewers.
With the mission barely off the bottom, they needed to cope with rain, snow, and the worst storms for 100 years - and ended up shelling out £500,000 to complete it.
Home windows set homeowners again £40,000
Richard and Pru Irvine dreamed up the gorgeous custom-built Hope Home in Pathhead, Midlothian, nevertheless it did not come with out its setbacks.
The couple purchased the positioning, which housed two lime kilns and a number of other derelict buildings, in December 2003 and the home mission took 4 years to finish.
It took 20 months to get planning permission regardless of there being no objections, and 16 letters of assist.
Then constructing work was delayed by 5 months to November 2006 as soil assessments have been carried out to make sure the previous industrial website wasn't contaminated.
The invoice for the roof got here in at £25,000 alone, whereas a wall of home windows set them again £40,000.
Regardless of main hiccups, presenter Kevin McCloud later described it as his dream residence.
After viewing the finished constructing, the presenter mentioned: "It is an incredible constructing and to be trustworthy, that is what I would need. I do not say I need many issues in life, however this I need."
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