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New series of Grand Designs: House of the Year announced

The final episode will see the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) House of the Year unveiled.

Evening Standard

Kevin McCloud's guide to Akureyri and intrepid Iceland

The Grand Designs presenter heads to the far north, where ferocious waterfalls and elemental beauty await

Evening Standard

Woman ‘thrilled’ after being crowned first Flatpack world champion

The Flatpack World Championships is a speed-building flatpack furniture contest.

Evening Standard

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Kevin McCloud: ‘I never get enraged, though inside I might be seething’

INTERVIEW: As he gears up for the annual Grand Designs Live event, the Channel 4 stalwart speaks to Adam White about Margaret Thatcher, Rachel Reeves and Britain’s ‘shameful and appalling’ housing standards, his eagerness to keep his private life private, and how he wishes people didn’t fancy him

The Independent UK

‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town

It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesmerising?

The Guardian - UK

Grand Designs episode branded ‘best ever’ as viewers ‘left in tears’ over disabled young mother’s dream home

‘We’ve created something beautiful in the eye of the storm,’ said Kara, who now has her dream home

The Independent UK

Kevin McCloud: 'The whole house-building market, and model, is broken.'

The living legend takes on the housing system as Grand Designs Live celebrates 25 years...

Evening Standard

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Couple’s ‘miracle’ Grand Design renovation leaves Kevin McCloud speechless

The presenter said he couldn’t have pulled it off himself

The Independent UK

Kevin McCloud reveals how AI will affect the Grand Designs of the future

Exclusive: ‘It going to be so much easier’

The Independent UK

‘Painful’ Grand Designs home with four years of plans leaves viewers in disbelief

The owner admits the build, which featured seemingly levitating floors, was ‘more complex’ than anticipated

The Independent UK

Grand Designs’ best, worst and downright disastrous builds as the show celebrates 25th anniversary

The show first aired in 1999

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Kevin McCloud looks back on 25 years of dream homebuilding

Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting — release date, trailer, interview and everything we know

Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting will revisit some of the most memorable builds - the fabulous, the outlandish and the disasters!

WhatToWatch

Grand Designs: 25 Years & Counting – people enduring hell for a slightly nicer house? It’s TV made in heaven

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do

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En suite mania: homebuyers in Britain going ‘bonkers for bathrooms’

Where once a privy out the back sufficed, now the children need their own loos too

The Guardian - UK

It’s all cisterns go for the modern home

Brief letters: Kevin McCloud | Book lice | Heart symbols | Ofsted gradings | Medicinal properties of Guinness

The Independent UK

How many bathrooms do you really need? The rise of single-bathroom shame

‘Grand Designs’ host Kevin McCloud is fed up with homes with a disproportionate number of bathrooms. When did having multiple loos become such a status symbol, asks Katie Rosseinsky

Evening Standard

'I didn’t want to have a normal house': Grand Designs home hits the market for just £550,000

Maite Alegre fulfilled her lifelong dream of building her own home at Graven Hill. Now it’s looking for a new owner

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The Guardian - UK

How many bathrooms? Kevin McCloud reveals Grand Designs bugbears

Overprovision of guest WCs and overcomplex builds are among presenter’s gripes after 25 years of the show

The Independent UK

Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud reveals the house feature he hates the most

TV presenter is unlikely to recommend this feature to UK homeowners

Evening Standard

'It was the project of a lifetime': Grand Designs star Downley House hits the market at £5 million

Featuring a vast central barrel vault, this one-of-a-kind home has been used to host Kevin McCloud’s House of the Year

The Independent UK

Owner of Grand Designs’ ‘saddest ever house’ reveals negative bank balance 10 years after disastrous build

Edward Short’s grand design has left him a ‘minus millionaire’

The Guardian - UK

Outrageous Homes: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has more fun than anyone else alive

The legendary presenter has an absurd, vampy time noseying around wildly decorated houses in quite possibly the best property show ever. All hail the Llewelyn-Bowennaissance!

The Independent UK

‘Largest ever’ Grand Designs home that nearly ruined owner on sale for £4 million

It is seven times bigger than the average house

Evening Standard

'Absolutely exquisite' giant house built on Grand Designs hits the market with a £4 million price tag

Millionaire Clinton Dall’s homebuilding project was one of the largest ever featured on the TV show

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