Queye TV Restoration Australia
Documentary
Reality
Action & Adventure
Restoration Australia
2015
0:55
8 Seasons 53 Episodes
★ 8.2
🇦🇺
Over two years, International Designer Sibella Court, follows the trials and tribulations of 7 groups of Australians committed to the daunting task of restoring heritage ruins into living homes. From Georgian mansions to colonial pug and pine huts, these Aussie battlers attempt to restore the buildings to their former glory.

Episodes

Keith Hall
Episode 1

Keith Hall

Built in 1885 by a stone mason from Aberdeen, Keith Hall is no more than a pile of granite. Clay is planning to rebuild the original building, manhandling the stone blocks entirely on his own.

55m
Woodcot Park
Episode 2

Woodcot Park

Attempting to leave the ghosts of the Kinglake fires behind them, Jo and Marcus bought Woodcot Park. They find that they have taken on not only a restoration but also the ghost of the original Scottish owner.

55m
Harrington Street
Episode 3

Harrington Street

The little shop in Harrington Street is one of the oldest timber buildings left in Hobart. Vacant and derelict, it has been the victim of two arson attacks. To avoid demolition, owners Haydn and Penny need to act.

55m
Gervasoni Homestead
Episode 4

Gervasoni Homestead

Marnie and Dale dream of converting 'Gervasoni Homestead' into a family home. But with the buildings near collapse and a modest budget, has the romance of these buildings gone to their heads?

55m
Emmaville
Episode 5

Emmaville

Emmaville could be the lost birth place of bush poet and composer Banjo Paterson. With the cottage precariously situated and under threat from developers, the local community of Orange in NSW must act quickly to save it.

55m
Keera Vale
Episode 6

Keera Vale

Built in 1843 of convict bricks, Keera Vale has suffered severe damage and needs love and care. Jen and Harold have fallen for 'the house on the hill', but is love enough to save this grand old dame?

55m
Holowiliena
Episode 7

Holowiliena

Holowiliena was settled in 1853 by the Warwick family and their descendants still live on the property. With no money or heritage skills, can they save the original settler's buildings?

55m
Paganin, WA
Episode 1

Paganin, WA

Host Stuart Harrison meets a Perth couple who want to resurrect their adored family home that was lost to fire in 2015. But will they be able to rebuild the 1960s iconic modernist house as its original architect envisioned?

57m
Hunting Ground, Tas
Episode 2

Hunting Ground, Tas

Dale and Michael embark on a project to restore two 19th Century timber cottages on their Tasmanian rural property. Will they accomplish their dream?

57m
Jack Clarke, Vic
Episode 3

Jack Clarke, Vic

The 1960's introduced us to shag rugs, lava lamps, minimalism and bright, open spaces. Melbourne couple Laura and Reece are leaving inner Melbourne for suburbia, with plans to restore a modernist home to its former glory.

57m
Rosenthal, Qld
Episode 4

Rosenthal, Qld

Snapping up a piece of local history and preserving it appealed to Jan and her daughter Annie. Joined by Annie's carpenter partner, Chris, they tackle the daunting task of making the 1840s homestead a new family home.

57m
Tatachilla Stables, SA
Episode 5

Tatachilla Stables, SA

Johnny and Ann want to transform a 19th Century stables and pickers cottages, in the wine region of McLaren Vale, into their new home. With a Christmas deadline, the pressure is on to restore the derelict buildings.

57m
Gasworks, Vic
Episode 6

Gasworks, Vic

AFL fanatics John and Rosie have bought an iconic 19th century gasworks building overlooking the North Melbourne Football Club and oval, and they want to turn into their dream home.

57m
Milton Terrace, NSW
Episode 1

Milton Terrace, NSW

Milton Terrace at Millers Point in Sydney was sold off for $4.25M in 2015 as part of the NSW Government's disposal of 300 public housing buildings. For property developer Michael Stokes, it's a Mayfair terrace in the making.

57m
Egan House, NSW
Episode 2

Egan House, NSW

Hardware store owners Jo and Digby McNeil took on more than just the restoration of a heritage home in Inverell, NSW, when they bought an historic 'job lot' that included a convent and an old boys' boarding school.

57m
Nanima, NSW
Episode 3

Nanima, NSW

Carl and Jennie Palmer set about trying to recreate their Federation homestead's grandeur but finding the line between a functioning modern home and a heritage restoration is harder than they anticipate.

58m
Clydesdale, Vic
Episode 4

Clydesdale, Vic

When carpenter Kate and her mother Ann buy two old prospecting huts for $100,000 in Clydesdale in regional Victoria, they take on 180 years worth of dilapidation.

57m
Ballarat, Vic
Episode 5

Ballarat, Vic

When a former Baptist Church cum nightclub hits the market in Ballarat, local anaesthetist Michael Whitehead buys it and plans to turn it into a home, but he soon finds the task could drag on for eternity!

58m
Grimes Cottage, NSW
Episode 6

Grimes Cottage, NSW

When a Sydney couple buy a colonial cottage in one of Australia's most protected heritage areas, they get more than they bargained for. How will they transform a home from the 19th century into a family home for the 21st?

57m
Cooroy, Qld
Episode 7

Cooroy, Qld

When Mel and Jack buy a derelict old Queenslander for $21,000 and move it to their land in Noosa it seems they've scored the bargain of the century, or at least a century old bargain!

57m
Mittagong, NSW
Episode 8

Mittagong, NSW

Heritage devotees Val and John Jessop decide to buy and reassemble two old buildings - an old ghost town cottage and an old sawmill. What could be more difficult than that?

57m
Baddeley
Episode 1

Baddeley

Host Anthony Burke meets Deb and Mike who are saving a rickety colonial cottage and digging for the true story of its origins.

57m
Lyons
Episode 2

Lyons

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are transforming their Mid-Century Modern 1950s house into a family home suitable for 21st Century living, in a beachside paradise just outside Melbourne.

57m
Airlie
Episode 3

Airlie

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who've bought a huge rundown Victorian mansion in Milton, NSW and plan to restore its regal beauty and throw open its doors to the local community.

57m
Signalmans
Episode 4

Signalmans

Host Anthony Burke meets retired couple David and Mandy who take on the transformation of a hugely significant historic cottage in Hobart, Tasmania.

57m
Seacroft
Episode 5

Seacroft

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are saving an important example of Federation Queen Anne architecture in coastal NSW, while dealing with a profound health crisis.

58m
The Lawns
Episode 6

The Lawns

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who have purchased one of the most significant buildings in the historic town of Kyneton, Victoria.

57m
Willow Cottage
Episode 7

Willow Cottage

Host Anthony Burke meets Martin Nix who is restoring an 1850s workers cottage in Balmain on Sydney Harbour, all while dealing with a recent family tragedy.

57m
Castlecrag
Episode 1

Castlecrag

Anthony Burke meets self-confessed 'Architecture Nerds' Annette and Michael Pitman who own the smallest of all the Walter Burley Griffin-designed houses in Castlecrag and want to restore and extend the house.

57m
Pinnaroo
Episode 2

Pinnaroo

Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple turning a big crumbling church in remote South Australia - bought with a credit card - into a family home, using the internet as their guide.

58m
West End
Episode 3

West End

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a neglected inner-city Queenslander into a period showcase and eco-friendly, healthy haven as one partner recovers from cancer.

57m
Miner's Cottage
Episode 4

Miner's Cottage

Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple transforming a tiny miner's cottage into a family home in a celebration of sustainability and old-fashioned craftsmanship.

57m
New Town
Episode 5

New Town

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a dilapidated orphanage into a family home. Can their restoration bring laughter and warmth back to an institutional building with a confronting history?

Dorothy
Episode 6

Dorothy

When a charming old Queenslander travels 800 kilometres south of the tropics to an eco-village, it needs a complete retrofit to become uber energy efficient - but will this come at the expense of its heritage?

57m
St Martins
Episode 7

St Martins

Host Anthony Burke meets a family aiming to turn a tiny war memorial church into a holiday home in the face of local hopes it would be kept as a venerated public landmark.

57m
Lamb House, QLD
Episode 1

Lamb House, QLD

Host Anthony Burke meets a Brisbane couple determined to return a vandalised, graffiti-daubed wreck to its rightful place as one of the city's finest mansions, no matter the cost.

57m
King Island, TAS
Episode 2

King Island, TAS

Host Anthony Burke meets a King Islander returning home to one of Australia's most remote and weatherbeaten outposts to reclaim and restore a derelict farmhouse.

57m
Pise Cottage, SA
Episode 3

Pise Cottage, SA

Host Professor Anthony Burke joins a dedicated couple doing all they can to preserve a valuable slice of Australian history that would otherwise dissolve into the dirt and be lost forever.

58m
Manly Bower, NSW
Episode 4

Manly Bower, NSW

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple supersizing a beachside bungalow into a Sydney trophy home while still somehow trying to preserve its quaint 1920's identity.

57m
South Melbourne, VIC
Episode 5

South Melbourne, VIC

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning an 1880s two-storey weatherboard wreck in South Melbourne into a dream home for their growing young family.

58m
Limestone Barracks, NSW
Episode 6

Limestone Barracks, NSW

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple aiming to restore a crumbling stone police station and hope to solve the baffling case of the missing jailhouse.

57m
Tivey Manor
Episode 1

Tivey Manor

Host Anthony Burke meets a big city couple aiming to bring a slouching country town mansion back to the burnished glory of its gold rush years.

57m
Prahran Boarding
Episode 2

Prahran Boarding

Host Anthony Burke joins a young couple, Steph and Paul, as they set out bravely and optimistically to write a happy, luxe new chapter for a storied 150-year-old Melbourne institution.

57m
Orange Edwardian
Episode 3

Orange Edwardian

In Orange NSW, first responders Chris and Mel have found all the cosmopolitan comforts of city living along with fresh air, big skies, open spaces and a sweet Edwardian fixer-upper called Bega.

57m
Bango Boom Time
Episode 4

Bango Boom Time

Anthony Burke meets a former international model and his rock'n'roll supergroup-connected partner as they try to turn a neglected country manor into a stylish home and function centre.

57m
Old School House
Episode 5

Old School House

Anthony Burke meets a Sydney couple who impulse-buy an old, dilapidated school in South Australia, sight unseen, and turn their hands to restoring it.

58m
Lenna House
Episode 6

Lenna House

Anthony Burke meets a pub rocker and a yoga teacher falling in love with Tasmania and a dunnyless, kitchenless, weatherboard relic falling apart in a small northern town.

57m
Berrambool Estate
Episode 1

Berrambool Estate

Professor Anthony Burke meets a Melbourne family resurrecting a fortress-like bluestone farmhouse with an intriguing history, that's been severely neglected in Western Victoria.

57m
Carlton River Post Office
Episode 2

Carlton River Post Office

Host Anthony Burke meets a Tasmanian couple aiming, somehow, to turn an uninhabitable colonial Post Office into a holiday idyll and riverside playground for their young family.

57m
Boorowa Convent
Episode 3

Boorowa Convent

Host Anthony Burke meets an urban fashion professional who went looking for an idyllic country farmlet and ends up with a cavernous rural convent and a huge restoration task.

57m
Breakaway Creek
Episode 4

Breakaway Creek

Host Anthony Burke meets a First Nations family aiming to reinterpret a simple and remote timber church into a getaway home honouring dispossessed ancestors and proud culture.

57m
Wirragulla Pumping Station
Episode 5

Wirragulla Pumping Station

Host Anthony Burke meets a couple of aspiring tree changers who've decided a gruff old depression era pumping station is the perfect basis for their ideal country home.

57m
Moruya Homestead
Episode 6

Moruya Homestead

Host Anthony Burke meets a horse-loving former cop, rebuilding her life after a catastrophic fall and determined to rescue an historically important farmhouse on the NSW South Coast.

57m

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