Every year, 20,000 people make the bold decision to build their own home and BBC TV's To Build Or Not To Build presenter Simon O'Brien follows some of them as they go from foundations to finishing touches.

All are aiming to build their dream home, but each build is a rollercoaster ride packed full of trials and tribulations.

The programme, which started recently on BBC1, features projects ranging from eco-cottages in Pembroke Dock (pictured) made entirely out of straw to a contemporary German kit house in Nottingham, and follows the self-builders' progress from digging the foundations to installing the last fixtures and fittings.

But can they come in on time and, more crucially, on budget?

From an owner planning to spend as little as £120,000 to create his new home to a couple spending over a million pounds on their designer Des Res, To Build Or Not To Build covers the whole self-building spectrum.