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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 - AU

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 Guardian - UK

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 Canberra Times

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

What's in the Hunter's best weekend liftout.

Newcastle Herald

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Expect some Home Truths from Kevin McCloud at the Civic in February

'I enjoy taking complex ideas and making them accessible.'

Newcastle Herald

Kevin McCloud accuses Government of making ‘deliberately muddled policy’

The 64-year-old Grand Designs host said the approach was ‘hugely confusing’ and ‘very corrosive’.

The Independent UK

Grand Designs fans baffled over 'silly' and 'impractical' element of new build home

The latest episode of Grand Designs: The Streets saw father-and-son team Michael and Tim build a daring home full of curves at Graven Hill

Daily Mirror

Barkitecture: architect-designed dog kennels on show at Goodwoof

Barkitecture at Goodwoof (20 – 21 May 2023) celebrates imaginative architecture for dogs by Foster + Partners, Sebastian Conran, Jony Ive and more

Wallpaper

Design goes to the dogs: from dog showers to cat climbing frames pets are taking over London home interiors

Animal-loving Londoners are letting their pets dictate their decor

Evening Standard

Grand Designs: The Streets season 3 — release date, episodes, locations and interview with Kevin McCloud

Grand Designs: The Streets season 3 — Kevin McCloud on filming an inspiring new series in Oxfordshire, Glasgow and York.

WhatToWatch

Kevin McCloud’s clever tips for adding value to your home

The Grand Designs guru on why creative problem-solving can benefit homeowners in a tough economic climate. By Imy Brighty-Potts.

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Too good to be true? What it is really like to win a £3m dream home

Companies that offer lottery-like wins – houses, cars and cash prizes – have taken off recently. Is their success connected to the cost-of-living crisis?

Daily Mirror

Lotto heiress finally builds dream mansion after row with neighbours to tear house down

Lisa and Craig Charters wanted the transformation of their £200,000 bungalow into a £5million mansion to be featured on Kevin McCloud's tv show Grand Designs

Edinburgh Live

Grand Designs home branded 'worst ever' as worried couple go £160k over budget

A couple, appearing on the popular Channel 4 programme, managed to go £160,000 over budget and saw their property branded an 'ostentatious big lump'.

Daily Mirror

Grand Designs home branded 'worst ever' and 'big lump' as couple go £160k over budget

Grand Designs viewers did not take to a property aired in an episode last night, with the modern style home described as ugly and ostentatious, as the couple went way over budget

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The Guardian - UK

Flatmates are disgusting. What would it take to fall in love with one?

You’d have to ignore the hair-clogged plughole for a start. But I guess that’s where pheromones come in, writes Emma Beddington

Evening Standard

RIBA House of the Year: ‘inappropriate’, eccentric twist on traditional farmhouse named overall winner on Grand Designs

An ‘inappropriate’ and eccentric twist on a traditional farmhouse in Dorset has won the top prize.

Evening Standard

House of the Year: luxury glass and timber home and four metre-wide house contend for Grand Designs award

This week’s projects were judged on their materials and craftmanship.

Liverpool Echo

Channel 4 Grand Designs shows home with 'naked man' peering through window

Fans couldn't believe what they were seeing as Kevin McCloud was oblivious

Daily Mirror

Grand Designs viewers unimpressed by 'hideous' home with unusual roof installation

Grand Designs: House of the Year viewers weren't impressed by a property that featured on the Channel 4 show this week, which featured a metal mountainscape on the roof of its extension

Evening Standard

Grand Designs: London home with ceiling inspired by a Peckham car park shortlisted for House of the Year

Two more projects have been added to the House of the Year 2022 shortlist.

Daily Mirror

Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud, 63, discreetly remarries five years after split from wife

Grand Designs host Kevin McCould has married a businesswoman after they met and fell in love last year

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