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"Grand designs "pocket" guide!"
5 stars"
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Grand Designs a-fair-amount-larger-than-pocket-size guide

A small-ish book, smaller than I expected to be honest (reflected in the price), however packed with colour, photographs, and suggestions aplenty for building in particular, but also advice on how to work with your architects, project managers, builders and so on. The book includes valid points on what (and what not) to do whilst designing your new building, along with considerations for space, colour, materials. The book was easy to read and not something that you have to sit down with for long periods at a time. Contains photos of selected projects from the Grand Designs series. If you loved Grand Designs then this is definitely a book for you!

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"An Excellent Book."
5 stars"
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Can i just say wow!

This book is a must if you a thinking of building your own home. Kevin McCloud is a man who knows what he is talking about and this book will help you from the very start of your dream home build.

If you love Grand Designs this book is the next step up.

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TV's architecture and design guru Kevin McCloud shares his passion and expertise in this brilliant guide to designing and building your own home, illustrated with the most memorable houses from the award-winning Channel 4 series.

Over the 11 years that Grand Designs has been on our screens, Kevin has had plenty of opportunity to formulate his own strong views on what makes truly brilliant architecture. For the first time he can share those views fully, showing that 'houses too can be architecture' and giving any aspiring self-builder the maximum number of tools to ensure that their vision becomes reality, with the minimum amount of heartache along the way. Through three main sections -- 'Thinking', 'Dreaming' and 'Doing' -- he guides you through each stage of the self--build process, from working out what you really want, to finding a plot, obtaining planning permission, commissioning and briefing architects and builders, and implementing the build itself.

Structured around fundamental locations -- urban, suburban and rural -- Kevin presents his own compendium of houses from across the UK which he finds exciting and exemplary. Some of the most successful projects from the TV series are featured, including Monty Ravenscroft's innovative house in Peckham with its retractable roof, a reinvented violin factory in Waterloo, a converted barn in Ross--on--Wye, a spectacular loch-side house on the Clyde estuary and a glass pavilion on a beach near Exeter. As Kevin says, ' Green is no longer a weird colour to be' and running throughout the book is the theme of sustainable building and how to achieve it -- not as some minority issue only of interest to those who knit their own sofas but as something which is increasingly central to how we will design, build and live in our homes.

Passionate and opinionated, this book is always highly readable and engaging. For anyone who cares about design and for everyone who has ever thought about building their own home it is essential and truly inspiring reading.

Reviews

"brilliant guide to designing and building your own home...highly readable and engaging...essential and truly inspiring reading. -In Dublin
"...a barrage of new projects to inspire us...tips, hints and ideas about building, renovation and decorating. --Wells Journal
"A must-have for fans of the Channel 4 series...has masses of glossy pictures" The Mail on Sunday
"It's not a manual, it's more of a manifesto..." The London Paper

Author Biography

Kevin McCloud is best known as presenter of Channel 4's BAFTA-nominated 'Grand Designs', now in its 9th series. He writes books and articles about decoration, design, lighting and colour, and is editor-at-large of Grand Designs magazine. In addition, Kevin is a product and lighting designer and in Spring 2009 he launches his own range for John Lewis.
Release date Australia
March 5th, 2009
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Collins
Pages
288
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
189x246x18
ISBN-13
9780007307425
Product ID
2772887

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