A trio of three three-bedroom properties make for two forever homes and an investment flat. Dion follows progress on a mum-of-two's dreams of transforming a Victorian house in Newcastle-under-Lyme into a wonderful family home. Lucy meets a film extra modernising an investment flat in Thamesmead, and Martin catches up on a four-year project to upgrade a family home in East Taphouse in Cornwall.

Martin Roberts looks round a former register office in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Lucy Alexander is in a basement flat in London's Shepherd's Bush, and Dion Dublin talks to a couple whose project is a two-bedroom flat in Telford, Shropshire.