Grand Designs Magazine

My hubby and I are slightly mad about home design and can't wait to build our own house. Unfortunately, we have the minor issue of paying off our debts first, so we spend a good deal of time living vicariously through others' experiences whether it's 'Location, Location, Location' or 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'. Bearing in mind we want to eventually build our own castle, it's probably unsurprising to find that one of our favourite programmes is 'Grand Designs', the TV show where self-builders dream big and build the house of their dreams - including a couple of castles! So it was with great delight that I received a year's subscription to Grand Designs ...  Read the complete review

Grand Designs Magazine accompanies the Channel 4 TV series anchored by Kevin McCloud. However, the relationship between the two is loose and fluid. Inside, you'll find features on the houses shown on TV, but there's plenty of other content in here also: spotlights on new products, editorial and opinion pages, features on interesting architectural projects, and free handbooks giving advice and information on how to do up a kitchen or a bathroom. Every quarter, they send out a 'Self-build update' which is crammed with products that might interest enterprizing architects and enthusiastic DIYers. Though the whole thing is glossily illustrated throughout, this is more ...  Read the complete review