Sally Ogle leads Ridgey on a journey of fighting for every square metre of success - a story inspirational to a younger generation facing big challenges in the housing market.
Queenstown architect Stacey Farrell shows Matthew what it means for a home to visually connect to its environment. The pair visits six ground-breaking designs from around New Zealand.
Architect Dave Strachan shows Matthew Ridge how well-designed and built housing can respond to changing climatic conditions. Together, they explore six incredible houses.
When Mark and Kay stumbled across an old shearer's quarters, they abandoned their plans to build new on their site in Mahia Peninsula and instead took on the perilous move to Mahanga.
An historic Marlborough Sounds cottage faces a perilous journey that begins aboard a barge before fording a river and travelling across farmland to eventually settle at a Kaikoura Coast Section.
Restoration experts Rob and Chessa are taking on one of the Wairarapa’s oldest buildings - a mid-19th century vicarage. The two storey historic Masterton villa will be split into five pieces for the move to its new home in Greytown.
Retired Hastings couple Sue and John couldn’t bear the thought of downsizing and leaving their family home, so they’ve brought their bungalow with them to their daughter's property.
Young farming couple Jayne and Rob have their hearts set on moving a 4-bedroom brick house on to the family farm in rural Canterbury, right before their impending wedding.
Karuwai Marae at the top of the East Cape needs a new Wharekai (dining hall). The trustees of the Marae discover an old school classroom in Hawkes Bay but it's a long and perilous journey.
Dr Anthony Hoete gives Ridgey a high-tech view of the future of housing whilst keeping an eye on the past. Anthony applies his hands-on approach to some of our biggest housing problems.
Rafe Maclean helps Ridgey understand the importance of "rigour" in architectural design, and why he believes Passive Houses are the sustainable future of our built environment.
Leonie and Brendon purchased a spectacular 110-year-old villa online and now have a big challenge on their hands. The house has to be moved off its site in a month - and they don't yet have a relocation company to move it or a piece of land to put it on.
Jeff and Robin went shopping for a secondhand shed to put next to their tiny house - and instead fell in love with a dilapidated 100-year-old homestead. Romantics at heart, they're intent on rescuing a bit of local history.
A Scottish couple has found the section of their dreams on a remote hilltop in the South Island - but the house of their dreams is on a relocation yard 600 kilometres away.
Architect Anna-Marie Chin takes Matthew on a winter wonderland tour of spectacular homes in Queenstown, Arrowtown and Dunedin. Anna-Marie also opens up about what inspires her designs.
A sprawling ranch house must be cut in half and trucked along a dirt track up to a summit on a Port Hills farm. The journey is so steep that a bulldozer will have to help pull the weight.
Trish and Colin bought an abandoned railway carriage on Trade Me with the idea of creating accommodation on their Hastings property. But craning it onto a truck and taking it through the tight bends around Lake Taupo prove to be a huge challenge!
Architect Roger Walker takes host Matthew Ridge to visit three of his favourite New Zealand houses. At 79-years-young, Roger challenges us to never be afraid to try something new.
Architect Michael O'Sullivan takes Matthew on a tour of some of his favourite designs in New Zealand, including the first house in the world to see the sun of a new day.
Tony and Kirsten are about to embark on their fifth house relocation - but the pandemic meant they lost out on a beautiful villa and instead they must move an old bungalow. Will they love their new home or be eyeing up move #6?
Marli and David live in Canada but want to retire to scenic Waiheke Island. Having fallen in love with a pre-built home, they must embark on a harbour crossing and negotiate winding narrow roads.
Matthew joins architect Pip Cheshire to explore what the future of inner-city living might look like. Ridgey also gets a tour around the Britomart Precinct, where Pip was a lead designer.
Jacob and Teresa are relocating two brand new pre-built houses from Auckland to their property among the vineyards, just out of Martinborough. But a snowstorm could complicate things...
Architect Julie Stout takes Matthew on a past and present journey around Auckland, and considers its future - specifically the waterfront area presently occupied by the Ports of Auckland.
Architect Nicholas Dalton's unique work is inspired by the combination of European and Maori elements in his childhood church in Mamaku. Nick takes Ridgey to his favourite New Zealand houses.
Monique and Graham bought a charming 1920s cottage to relocate to their rural section - but neither of them were prepared for the fact that their new home must be chainsawed in half to make it down narrow country roads in the dead of night.
Wendy and Ian have traded life on the road for life on the land in Matatā, ditching their house bus for a renovated bungalow that contains a heart-warming surprise.
A Hamilton couple are realising their retirement dreams by settling in their favourite holiday spot of Raglan. They just have to get their brand new house there.
Becky, Dean and their sons have gone all-in with a two storey bungalow for their holiday home. Will it survive being chopped into five pieces for the drive north from Auckland?
Mitch and Anita are on a rescue mission to save precious family history – a two storey villa that has been in the family for generations but is now languishing unloved in a removal yard.
Brett and Hollis want to save a 100-year-old church from demolition and move it to their property in Queenstown. Unfortunately, the church is huge and the route treacherous and narrow - will the building arrive in one piece?
Levi Makoare loves his Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei community, the taiao, the bush, bees, gardening, and the lessons gardening has given him raising his own whānau.
Predicted sea level rises are not stopping architect Guy Marriage and his extended family from building a DIY Bach, only metres from the high tide mark on Wellington's Kapiti Coast.
Ross plans to create a towering home for his family on the cliffs of Point Chevalier. But after living on site for 10 years, his family is wondering if he'll ever get their home finished.
Steve Wilson and Wendy Grell move from Auckland to the Northland beachside where they plan to build an architectural marvel of corten steel in an unassuming seaside community.