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

Grand Designs

EDITOR’S LETTER

Within these walls • Original projects to inspire your own self-build or renovation

Newly crafted

All the right angles

Hooked on classics

A clear improvement

Kevin McCloud • If the government is serious about hitting its 2050 net-zero targets, why can’t it get its strategy straight?

MODERNISING MID-CENTURY • Influenced by iconic 1960s design, the owners of this new-build home included the latest efficiency measures and renewables

Seeing double • One couple came up with a plan to build a pair of houses and make one of them their home

Reaching a high point • Building a low-energy home on a slope became something of an uphill struggle

The light inside • A black corrugated-steel exterior belies the bright, open-plan layout of this refurbished townhouse

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

10 Amazing award-winning homes • Great design deserves to be celebrated, and there is no shortage of accolades recognising the finest homes that the architecture industry can deliver. Whether they highlight technical innovation, excellence in construction, sustainable design or making a small budget go a long way, some projects rise to the top and shine out above the others.

The eco garden revolution

FOCUS ON Sofas

Modern cooking methods

Heritage brand

A decorative delight

Block work

Take a hold

Shards of colour

Super-sleek heat

Height of comfort

The centre of attention

Beautiful imitation

Water world

Collector’s pieces

Entry-level system

Equal proportions

Stand and deliver

All organised

On the edge

All in one • How to find space for both a bath and shower in a small room

Twice as good • Changing the layout made space for a bath and a shower in this family bathroom

THE BAMBOO FLOORING COMPANY

MY GRAND IDEA • Architect Kfir Gluzberg and Kilogram Studio added a scarlet extension to a red-brick Victorian townhouse