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

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

At home with nature • This project rises to the challenge of building a house surrounded by protected woodland

The right angle • A period home on the north-east coast of England gains a strikingly contemporary single-storey extension

Time for a new approach • After waiting for more than 20 years to update their family home and garden, this couple let no obstacles stand in their way

Building the good life • Moving across the country to set up an organic farm, one couple design a house with their architect where tradition and innovation work in harmony

PROJECTS

Are you aware of your obligations? • Major changes to Building Control procedures affect every project requiring Building Regulations approval

BUILD GARDENS INTERIORS BATHROOMS KITCHENS

Front doors • From materials to thermal performance and security, there’s much to consider before you invest

5 STEPS TO SUCCESS • David O’Mara at Hörmann UK provides some good advice (hormann.co.uk)

Decarbonise your home • Ways to minimise the greenhouse gas emissions associated with your property

10 Beautifully clad houses • Exceptional homes with unique exteriors

KITCHENS & BATHROOMS

KITCHEN UPGRADE

Create a prep room • Build a new space or upgrade an old pantry into a practical hub for food storage and preparation

3 OF THE BEST INTEGRATED DISHWASHERS • Built-in designs for a streamlined finish

BATHROOM EDIT

Baths with benefits • Ice, steam, hydrotherapy and storage – these innovative designs offer more than just somewhere to soak

GETTING PHYSICAL • Advice on whirlpools from Simon Lauer at Villeroy & Boch (villeroy-boch.co.uk)

MY GRAND IDEA • Architect Richard Brown came up with an ingenious design for a single-storey house on a small, triangular plot