Renovation Rescue

Stacey brings her DIY skills and design know-how to the Forest of Dean to help couple Katie and Chris, who are too scared to get started on renovating their first home. Having lost their confidence following an early bad experience with tradespeople, their vision of transforming the kitchen and dining room of their dated semi into a quirky, colourful space is on hold. Stacey encourages them to face their demons and get stuck in, showing them how to tackle some ambitious jobs. But Katie and Chris have just £15,000 to spend, so Stacey is going to need some clever design solutions to bring their build in on budget. At Pickle Cottage, Stacey takes on another equally ambitious project: upgrading an indoor-outdoor space beside the swimming pool.

Newly-weds Shariqa and Imani have struggled to keep their renovation project on schedule or on budget in Cambridgeshire. They dream of transforming their characterless 1970s semi-detached home into a timeless, classy home with a period feel. But with just £10,000 to add a kitchen and transform the ground floor, Stacey has her work cut out. To help Shariqa and Imani get over the line, she encourages them to take on ambitious DIY tasks, including tiling with tricky marble tiles, creating their own panelling and building flat-pack kitchen units. Stacey also brings them money-saving design ideas from colour suggestions to clever hacks using off-the-shelf items to create bespoke built-in furniture. At Pickle Cottage, Stacey takes the plunge to learn new plumbing skills as part of her project to upgrade an indoor-outdoor space she's doing up in her own home.

Stacey heads to Bradford to help a busy multigenerational household, who dream of creating a spacious kitchen diner where they can host extended family feasts. Instead, after encountering problems, they are cooking in a building site. Meanwhile, at Pickle Cottage in Essex, Stacey pushes herself to tackle a new DIY skill, applying her own micro-cement.