‘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 · Sep 26, 2024
Grand Designs’ best, worst and downright disastrous builds as the show celebrates 25th anniversary The show first aired in 1999 The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2024
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 · Sep 11, 2024
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 · Sep 10, 2024
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 The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024
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 · Sep 6, 2024
It’s all cisterns go for the modern home Brief letters: Kevin McCloud | Book lice | Heart symbols | Ofsted gradings | Medicinal properties of Guinness The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024
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 The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2024
'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 Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2024
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 Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2024
Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud reveals the house feature he hates the most TV presenter is unlikely to recommend this feature to UK homeowners The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2024
'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 Evening Standard · Jul 22, 2024
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 Independent UK · Jul 17, 2024
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 Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2024
The Independent UK · May 22, 2024 ‘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 · May 20, 2024 '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
Ideal Home · May 6, 2024 Kevin McCloud reveals how he’s made his IKEA kitchen look expensive – and how you can too This is how the Grand Designs presenter elevated his flat pack kitchen
Evening Standard · Apr 12, 2024 Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud says struggling first-time buyers should 'move to Germany' Television star Kevin McCloud says that first-time buyers struggling to get on the housing ladder should “move to Germany”.
Ideal Home · Apr 11, 2024 Kevin McCloud reveals the one thing that all the best-looking homes he's seen have in common All you need is something 'old, new, borrowed, and blue'
Evening Standard · Apr 10, 2024 Kevin McCloud: 'Grand Designs is such an emotional journey — even I want to cry filming it' From welling up on camera to getting angry over the state of Britain’s housebuilding, Kevin McCloud knows there’s nothing more emotive than our homes
The Guardian - AU · Jan 31, 2024 Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses The Grand Designs presenter on how the yimby mantra and infill development can solve the housing shortage
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2023 Kevin McCloud: ‘We thought Grand Designs was going to be watched by one surveyor and his dog’ The TV presenter, 64, on his Footlights days, hatred of selfies, first embarrassing bike and the joys of just lying in his hammock
The Canberra Times · Dec 1, 2023 Popular host keen to visit the Grand Design of Canberra - 'a park with buildings in it' Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud is bringing his one-man show to Canberra.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023 The Great Climate Fight review – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes ‘not strictly legal’ Kevin McCloud is undercover, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does some flyposting and Mary Portas sends a Jilly Cooper book to the PM. This government-baiting show is impressively angry TV
The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023 TV tonight: why Mary Portas gave Rishi Sunak a Jilly Cooper book Portas joins Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Kevin McCloud in getting creative to fight the climate crisis. Plus: Joan Collins meets Louis Theroux. Here’s what to watch this evening