Matt Ellis and Kate Tucker had always dreamed of running away to the country — even when they were trying to climb onto the property ladder in inner-city Melbourne.

But everywhere they tried to buy in the city, they were outbid.

"We couldn't afford to live where our community was, where all our friends were," Kate says in the new series of Grand Designs Australia, which airs tonight.

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Architecture Professor Anthony Burke is back with a brand new series of Grand Designs Australia following some truly brave home builders taking on the challenge of a lifetime.

That's how the self-described folk-singing bohemians ended up with a 1.5-hectare plot of land in early 2019, just outside the eclectic community of Cygnet, 40 minutes away from Hobart.

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