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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

The Guardian - UK

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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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

'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

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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

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

'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

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

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

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

It is seven times bigger than the average house

The Independent UK

'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

Evening Standard

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Ideal Home

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

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

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

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

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The Guardian - AU

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

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

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud is bringing his one-man show to Canberra.

The Guardian - UK

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

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

Newcastle Herald

Home Truths: Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud on climate, drinking games and ... death metal?

'In a way Australia is the canary in the coal mine.'

Newcastle Herald

Your Weekender reads: city style-setters; John Waters; Kevin McCloud; Georgia Maher; Lizotte's Wayne Rogers and James Hingston

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