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A woman who was building her forever home with her partner died just months before the completion of the work, a heartbreaking episode of Grand Designs has detailed.

Pep and Malene had dreamed of building their three-bedroom Viking-inspired wooden longhouse, but after Pep was diagnosed with stage four cancer in 2021, the project became a race to complete the work in time for her to spend her final days there.

The Channel 4 episode showed how the project began in 2024, when accountant Pep was managing both an exhausting round of chemotherapy treatment while also overseeing the work onsite with the builders.

The couple hoped to have the house finished in nine months, so

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