Grand Designs

Grand Designs magazine is essential reading for anyone who is building, renovating, or improving their own home. In each issue you can expect to find 40+ pages of inspirational real homes complete with in-depth project details and exclusive tours of new TV houses. Up-to-date information allows you to stay abreast of the latest architecture, design and construction ideas and innovations. Practical project features include advice from industry experts on a wide range of challenges such as building on an awkward plot, overcoming a lack of light or space, or working with a tight budget. And, as designing a kitchen or bathroom is one of the most complex – and expensive – room transformations to tackle, every month you’ll find a project feature on each, along with beautiful real-life case studies.

GRANDDESIGNS

Welcome

A barn reborn

An American influence

Rising from the ashes

Construction with a conscience

Retro revival

Stacked in favour

GARDEN EXPLORER • On a leafy plot, this house enables one outdoorsy family to embrace the natural setting all around them

Stacking up

THE HAPPY HOUSE

A model project

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Find and secure the ideal site • Use all the tools at your disposal to get the best plot for your project

10 Single-storey homes

Going open plan • Reworking a home’s layout may be sufficient to free up floorspace, brighten the interiors and improve functionality

FOCUS ON Insulation • Choose the right products to improve your home’s thermal performance

All on show

Joined-up thinking

Worn to perfection

Sea salvage

As you like it

Practical surface

One on one

Ceramic classic

GD PROJECTS KITCHENS • Bigger, brighter, bet ter Sometimes the only way to get the kitchen of your dreams is to extend

Fully inclusive • Improvements to a side extension give one family room for everything they need

In fine form

Hold all

In the loop

Delivery service

Repeating design

Wide-ranging selection

Pattern play

Straight and narrow

On the surface • Ideas for wall and floor treatments that make a big difference in a bijou space, and without making it look even smaller

MY GRAND IDEA • Architect Kris Grant describes his garden pavilion design for a loch-side house in Scotland