HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - The Untold Story

Grand Designs: 25 Years & Counting – people enduring hell for a slightly nicer house? It’s TV made in heaven

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

Grand Designs to reveal fate of ‘saddest ever property’ that ruined marriage and lost millions

Chesil Cliff House destroyed Edward Short’s marriage and left him millions of pounds in debt

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2024

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 · Aug 31, 2024

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 · May 6, 2024

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 · Apr 12, 2024

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 · Apr 10, 2024

"Quirky" water tower on sale for £45,000 with planning permission for three-bedroom home

This piece of former infrastructure in a commuter hotspot is looking for a makeover

Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2024

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 · Jan 31, 2024

Abandoned Grand Designs build in disused underground reservoir at auction for £600k

The property is up for auction with planning permission for a four-bedroom house with swimming pool and cinema room

Evening Standard · Dec 22, 2023

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 · Dec 2, 2023