AN embroidery designer's quest to build a DIY home is to be featured in a new BBC TV series.

Annabel Claridge, 48, from Warminster, is now looking for a plot of land on which to erect the weatherboard home she has had built in the USA.

Miss Claridge has been investigating possible sites in Wiltshire and Somerset to put up the four-bedroom Georgian-style house. But so far her search has been in vain.

The BBC programme, provisionally titled The Home Team, is due to be broadcast next year as part of a series on people making life changes.

Miss Claridge said: "I have always wanted one of those houses ever since I was a little girl.

"Every American film you watch features some version of these houses.

"They were the standard in America at the time of the War of Independence. I thought if I didn't get something done now I never would.

"I looked for ages for someone who could build it for me. In the end I surfed the net and finally found Mike Connor in Vermont.

"I'm not really getting any information from estate agents. I'm at the bottom of the list as far as they are concerned."

Miss Claridge has now started approaching villages in her quest and has already posted a message on the Atworth website appealing for help.

She said: "I am convinced there is a plot of land available but they do not often come onto the market.

"I just think there must be people who have got fairly hefty back gardens who can't manage them any more."

The house, made from weather-boarding, will take a team of three carpenters 19 days to erect. Each section is numbered and ready to be built on arrival.

Miss Claridge said: "I am willing to pay the full market value of any site I am offered."

Anyone with information or willing to sell land for the home can call Miss Claridge on (01985) 844047.