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.

Grand Designs

EDITOR’S LETTER

Architecture update • Original projects to inspire your own self-build or renovation

HOMES

Taking a holistic approach • Designing the architecture, interiors and landscape as one entity was the guiding principle behind this transformation project

Ready for change • Getting stuck into every aspect of this extension and renovation project enables one homeowner to use her design and organisational skills

A GREEN OUTLOOK • Novice self-builders put sustainability high on the wishlist for their home in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

‘The simple life of being together’ • On Fjellerup beach by the Kattegat sea, this timber-frame home is pared-back perfection

PROJECTS

How to gain planning permission • Familiarise yourself with the process, what information is required and how long it takes

10 Energy-efficient build projects • Eco-friendly homes using renewable power

Subscribe to the print edition • Project inspiration and advice you can refer to time after time

Ways to gain a bedroom • Create a new sleeping space by reworking a layout, extending or building a garden room

FOCUS ON Outdoor flooring • How to choose between brick, porcelain, timber and more

BATHROOMS

KITCHEN UPGRADE

In the open air • Expert advice and product ideas for creating somewhere to cook and eat in the garden

BATHROOM EDIT

Beautiful on a budget • Ways to stretch your spend without sacrificing style or performance

MY GRAND IDEA • Architect Tamsin Hanke is part of the design team behind a sapele extension with a curving aluminium roof