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.

Editorial

Home and dry

Country living

All in good time

Tiny triumph

Architecture update

Across the eras

How to renovate for less • Work out what you can afford, where to spend and where to save money on your project

Affordability check • From energy-efficiency measures to a whole-house renovation or innovative extension, discover what you can get at four different price points

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Far and wide

A work in three acts

Bold perspectives • Living in their home for several years before renovating gave one couple the confidence to make some unconventional changes

Room to grow • Extending this house and reworking the ground floor provided space for the whole family to enjoy

On the level

10 Grand Designs renovations • Some intrepid renovators relish the challenge of turning a rundown building into a beautiful home, bringing a shabby structure not fit for purpose back from the brink of dereliction in the process. Often this is more problematic than building a new house as planning constraints and issues with the existing structure add layers of complexity to the design-and-build process. But, as this round-up of some outstanding projects from the TV series demonstrates, the results can make all the head scratching and hard graft truly worthwhile.

FOCUS ON Front doors

KITCHEN UPGRADE

All together now • Architect, kitchen designer and homeowners collaborate to create a light and spacious hub in a 1920s home

BATHROOM EDIT

A new beginning • This room’s transformation involved stripping the walls, moving doorways, waterproofing a section of floor and new rooflights

JULY ISSUE

MY GRAND IDEA • Remodelling the core of a London townhouse enabled architect Ross Perkin to create a library spanning two floors