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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

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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

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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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

Ideal Home

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 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'

Ideal Home

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

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 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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Newcastle Herald

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

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

The Independent UK

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’.

Daily Mirror

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

Wallpaper

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

Evening Standard

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

WhatToWatch

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.

The Independent UK

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.

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