Dominic Chinea Moves to Cornwall, Establishing a Workshop-Focused Community Turn on Screen
dominic chinea has traded Kent’s commuter life for a run-down stone farmhouse in West Cornwall and debuts a new five-part television series documenting the transition. Dominic Chinea and his wife Maria, with their dog Wendy, will show engineering, construction and community work that the move has already set in motion as the first episode arrives on March 9.
Relocation detail: Kent exit and West Cornwall farmhouse purchase
Dom and Maria left a former Post Office in Kent to take on what was once a dairy farm in West Cornwall, a property described as a dilapidated stone farmhouse with an open-sided cow barn and roughly two acres of grounds. For now, immediate tasks have included weatherproofing a smelly cowshed and planting in the two-acre garden to begin long-term projects.
Production drivers: Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop, Sam Lovegrove and local tradespeople
The five-part series, billed as Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop, follows hands-on work across automotive, engineering and build tasks while helping neighbours. Dominic Chinea recruits Sam Lovegrove for engineering support and a cast of local tradespeople to help realise ambitious projects, and on-screen episodes show community-facing repairs such as fixing ropes on church bells in Pendeen and maintaining a rockpool in Mousehole.
Dominic Chinea on-screen challenges and the March 9 premiere at 8: 00 pm ET
On-screen friction includes narrow Cornish lanes that force Dom to drive into bushes and scrape his van, and a lane that regularly fills with potholes he has had to fill using crushed rubble and a rock crusher. The opening episode on March 9 features Dom purchasing and restoring a battered Land Rover and beginning work to convert the cow barn into his Cornish Workshop. The series premiere is scheduled for March 9 at 8: 00 pm ET.
Based on context data:
- Move from a Post Office in Kent to a former dairy farm in West Cornwall
- Property includes an open-sided cow barn and about two acres of grounds
- Series format: five-part run following engineering, automotive and build work
- On-screen collaborators include Sam Lovegrove and local tradespeople
- Opening episode (March 9) shows a Land Rover restoration and workshop groundwork
- Practical challenges noted: narrow lanes, potholes, weatherproofing a cowshed
If the current production trajectory continues, the visible direction is a sustained focus on place-based craft television that combines personal renovation with community service. Should that path hold, future episodes could lean further into local-maintenance projects and multi-skill engineering builds that use on-site materials, following the pattern of restoring vehicles, fixing community fixtures and converting the barn into a workshop.
Should a key factor shift—if road access or property condition prevents planned builds—the series’ emphasis could pivot from large construction projects to smaller, portable engineering tasks. In that scenario, more episodes would centre on roadside repairs, vehicle restorations and working with neighbours on lower-footprint interventions already hinted at by the narrow lanes and pothole work.
The next confirmed milestone in the context is the first broadcast on March 9 at 8: 00 pm ET, when audiences will see the Land Rover restoration and early workshop work. What the context does not resolve is how viewers and local communities will respond in measurable terms after the premiere, and ratings or audience reaction following the March 9 episode will be the specific event that clarifies the series’ longer-term direction.
