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The most unusual property sales of 2024 — from a mysterious London cottage to a nuclear bunker

There were no shortage of wacky properties to hit the market this year, including nuclear bunkers, a studio with a cell and a replica of the HMS Endeavour

Evening Standard

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

How to watch Grand Designs Australia online: stream season 11 for free

Here's how you can watch Grand Designs Australia season 11 online, ready for its debut on Thursday, October 10, 2024.

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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

‘Our houses are too big’: Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke on the best and worst of Australian architecture

The architecture professor on homes with more bathrooms than occupants – and how the Sydney metro might renew confidence in the benefits of good design

The Guardian - AU

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’

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‘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: 'I put my life on hold to convert a derelict water tank into a £1.4 million dream home'

Rob Hunt endured living in a mobile home and a broken leg while working on this unique project featured on the next series of Grand Designs

Evening Standard

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

The show first aired in 1999

The Independent 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!

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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

Grand Designs to reveal fate of ‘saddest ever property’ that ruined marriage and lost millions

Chesil Cliff House destroyed Edward Short’s marriage and left him millions of pounds in debt

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

The Independent UK

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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

Sprawling Cornish clifftop home with ‘Grand Designs potential’ up for auction

It has a breathtaking coastal view

The Independent UK

Iconic Grand Designs B&B that blends into its Lake District surroundings to finally close doors

The house was at one point incomplete after its builder ran out of cash

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

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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”.

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

Evening Standard

"Quirky" water tower on sale for £45,000 with planning permission for three-bedroom home

This piece of former infrastructure in a commuter hotspot is looking for a makeover

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

Evening Standard

Abandoned Grand Designs build in disused underground reservoir at auction for £600k

The property is up for auction with planning permission for a four-bedroom house with swimming pool and cinema room

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

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