My Unique B&B

In Monmouthshire in south Wales, Simon and his team are seeing double when they take on a 1980s bus conversion.

Stacey, or ‘Stig' to her friends, is a volunteer at the local tip recycling centre and gained her nickname due to her love of upcycling things other people had thrown away. When she came across a bus for sale, she knew it was the perfect vehicle to create a mobile B&B that she could take to festivals and campsites to rent out. But for Stig, it's not just about creating a source of income; she wants to show others that her autism is no barrier to her creativity and ability to achieve her goals.

A visit to a converted former mountain rescue truck called Big Red, now located in Chew Valley just outside Bristol, provides inspiration for the project.

Top carpenter Ian Tsang creates an enormous bed upstairs, whilst Simon builds a bathroom with a view and a kitchen counter using leftover parquet. Designers Verity Coleman and Sophie Dunn stick to Stig's mantra of recycle and reuse to create an interior that proves that one person's trash can really be another's treasure.

In Wiltshire, planning restrictions mean that primary school teacher Tara can only build temporary structures on a piece of land she inherited. This, and her desire to only use upcycled or recycled materials provides a challenge for Simon and his team.

Using a reassembled corrugated metal shed that Tara acquired second hand, Simon devises a plan to create a tiny off-grid eco shed that will be a truly unique place to stay. But when he comes up with a plan to double the tiny living space, Tara remains unconvinced until a visit to The Quirky Tin Cottage, a similar B&B nearby, also made of corrugated metal.

As the site has no water or drainage, and everything needs to be removable from the site, top carpenter Ian Tsang is given the tricky challenge of creating a compost loo from recycled pallets, and designer Zoe Hewitt skilfully uses Tara's love of vintage furniture and recycled materials to create a stunning mid-century themed interior.

In Dorset, musicians Ralph and Dizzy live on a farm with extended family and run woodland workshops in their bender, a simple shelter made from hazel sticks. They want to make the existing structure more attractive to paying customers and have asked Simon and his team to help build it.

Simon orders the demolition of the original bender and sets about designing a place built almost entirely with hazel harvested from the surrounding woodland and upcycled or reused materials. Ralph, Dizzy and their friends are brought in to help build the structure.

Top carpenter Ian Tsang gets to grips with the doorway and a central skylight to bring light into the structure, Simon works out how to integrate the huge chapel windows Dizzy has found, and designers Zoe Hewitt and Sophie Dunn create a colourful interior using dozens of blankets, carpets and throws.

Inspiration comes from a trip to Garden House Yurt in West Sussex, another dome-shaped B&B where owner Lindsay has mixed traditional Mongolian design with bohemian chic.