Guildford | Season 5 Episode 18 | Grand Designs UK With Kevin McCloud | Full Episode

Grand Designs Series 5 Episode 18 With Kevin McCloud.
BAFTA winning Grand Designs is widely recognised as the pre-eminent series on modern architecture and design in Britain. It was originally conceived as a documentary series presented by designer and writer Kevin McCloud that takes us into the heart of life’s great unfolding human stories, where ordinary families risk all to experiment with architecture, technology, and their own lifestyle.
Now in its 24h year, Grand Designs is one of Channel 4’s biggest returnable factual series and has grown into a global phenomenon, selling in over 100 territories. Apart from the TV series, the Grand Designs brand has also expanded to include books, a monthly magazine, architectural awards and a biannual exhibition, Grand Designs Live.

[@thegoblinsteed3558]

OBSESSED with this show!! 🖤

[@Ephilates2024]

It is wonderful.

[@rootkit0]

Good to see, finally, someone hiring an architect and a project manager. I don't like the house so much but I absolutely understand their fascination with the style. Hope they're still happy with the result!

[@martindelondre755]

This video is very old. I used to watching while living in the UK before I left in November 2011😊

[@dorothybailey1789]

Love this show and this episode is one of my favorites. Such amazing craftsmanship. Absolutely gorgeous!

[@maxkingsley1576]

Very interesting and inspirational design. Beautiful home and I love that they went out and did the research and got almost exactly what they wanted and didn’t constantly complain about price.

[@curtmuhlenberg9363]

I have never really liked art deco, I have however appreciated it. Moreover, this is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! Well done guys.

[@Andyclish-Salamandingo]

Great episode, beautiful house 👍👍👍

[@drita0712]

At the time when the house was built, there were these designs. Over the years, the design, construction of houses, kitchen models have changed. Everything is different now. It looked beautiful in those years.

[@arhamid08]

Love the craftsmanship, cool design

[@Forced2DoThis1]

This was a DREAM of an episode and project!

[@appnzllr]

My favorite home of all the episodes.

[@kentlatimer3706]

I love the house overall. Certainly a huge fan of Deco. I loved how they employed, and appreciated, their craftsmen. I would have pushed that shower a little further, but I loved the green glass tile; so much so that it made me rethink the backsplash of my eventual kitchen remodel. The thing that I really don't get, though, is why they didn't just clad the beams?

[@peterrezac881]

About the beams, I was thinking about the same thing. Glad Im not the only one to think that way.

[@np7360]

I just don't understand how the architect hadnt pointed this out. Its something that anyone with basic building knowledge understands

[@samirmatar8794]

Interesting program.

[@niklar55]

I think 'Deco' was the peak of design, killed by WW2! Nothing approaching it has ever emerged since.' .

[@amidala3927]

Why not paint the exposed beams black to tie into the geometric and color schemes?

[@franklaumen77]

Agree, there would have been better options!

[@Ruka-f7k]

Or put some brass clading around

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

I think it would have looked like the corridor in a faux-Tudor pub.

[@pieterlagemaat611]

It is a shame that the curved blocks are not pre-shaped to avoid big mortel filling pockets

[@Sophia-zk3tw]

Beautiful home

[@ClarkBK67]

Funny to watch this in 2024. New York City is experiencing a revival of Art Deco style high rises. I think Kevin put too much pressure and emphasis on that choice. It’s a style like a Mediterranean villa or a Georgian Revival or Gothic. It’s ok if it not historically perfect. Styles evolve and if the architect is talented they evolve into beautiful new ideas.

[@mark3863]

The tie beams should be painted white, then they would be more in keeping with the design and far less intrusive. I would love to know what they used for the path and front door step Those light weight bricks are fantastic, what's the cost like compared to conventional bricks; taking into consideration ease of labour and time?

[@pranpriyak.7011]

I agree. White or black would link with their theme.

[@gladitsnotme]

Ceilings are tooooo low but otherwise a unique build.

[@nickyshaw7677]

At the end my first thoughts are: eco friendly bricks etc don't matter when you have 83 lights in one room, LED or not. Then the entrance, for a brief moment you see the section above the door, does the rainwater just pool there and become stagnant? This has got to be one of the most unpleasing houses ive seen. All dark and just seems like a very depressed looking house

[@laurelsternberg5861]

Bravo!

[@atoms-to-atoms]

rendering curves is simple really...use a pvc conduit at the base as a guide.

[@jimcarlisle2309]

I love it!

[@GheGho]

The whole "trying to be ecological" aspect in this episode is ridiculous. These are the same types of people who buy Teslas to "save the world" but continue to consume like hell.

[@reb4898]

Beautiful house…

[@jamescunningham1973]

Fantastic house,stunning

[@Thepourdeuxchanson]

Art Deco is a style that has come back just as other styles came back over time - Suburban Gothic, Stockbroker Tudor, Redbrick Georgian, Fifties Motorway Cafe, etc. Well, I like this one. However, those bolted timber beams look terrible and should be disguised. Just paint them white to disappear them. Or fill in the spaces between them with more burlwood sheets, or backlit Mondrian inspired stained glass.

[@heatherdobson2289]

the lightweight blocks used are now condemned as dangerous

[@markwalker112]

Down with “Dull Suburban Mediocrity” 🤣

[@EdwinRG81]

please enable automatic subtitles

[@rolandpeterkin1528]

I like it a lot

[@t.j.m3987]

Love it

[@Goofydoog]

No CC’s. I enjoyed watching it but I couldn’t understand what its sais.

[@michaelwebb3979]

Ties, NOT struts!

[@newmankidman5763]

I must admit that with the exception of 3 or 4 episodes that I fully watched, maybe 7 years ago when I first saw this show, I only watch the beginning of this show and the end product. I very happily skip the process because as a person who does not like DIY I do not enjoy watching people doing it either

[@atoms-to-atoms]

furniture guy reminds me of a Roald Dahl character

[@gianfrancoazzaroccini929]

Beautiful exterior but the interior looks a bit off, the kitchen in particular

[@marcelcicort9671]

Dining room is NOT next to the kitchen, yet a shower and an office or bedroom (not mentioned, is there). Soo many hallways and needless complications = killing functionality.. OH it gets worse.. not thinking or knowing how the rood will end up structurally.. OH MY WORD.. Never fails to amaze me.. And they sink in hundreds of thousands of pounds.. 😅 😮 🤔.. oh my.. it gets better.. they visit art deco in Miami AFTER THE HOUSE IS ALREADY UP!! Coloquial putting the cart before the horse.. amazing....😂😂

[@lorrainestinnett4145]

WOW

[@guidohabets]

CO2 is good for Nature. Food for the plants resulting in good healthy oxygen levels. CO2 levels are critically low at the moment.

[@bophenry]

I wish we had gotten to hear more from the architect like in other episodes. This was painful to watch thos couple spend so much on recapturing a design language that they just are not fluent in. And for Pete's sake, why didnt they just plaster the beams??

[@e.m8784]

"dull suburban mediocrity"

[@nickyshaw7677]

Couldn't agree more

[@BH0t8498]

Personally, I think art deco is “tacky”. Always thought it held an impression of trying to look expensive using cheap looking materials. That said, this is the ugliest home on the inside you have ever shown on this program. What a bad investment. The outside was done beautifully. I’ve seen real art-deco in Miami Beach. The outside of this building could sit anywhere in Miami. To each his own. It’s a period of design that should just die out peacefully.

[@nickyshaw7677]

My word your comment was the last I've seen and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same as me. It looks so dull, depressing and inspirational. This was in 2006, can only imagine how tacky and sad it looks now

[@miriamjenkins7337]

Another issue with art deco is that for Europeans of my generation, those who visited eastern Europe just after the fall of the wall, art deco is a style of fear, decay and dictatorship. There are very few positive associations.

[@bobobahia]

It’s a shame the interior was more of an afterthought as the exterior is beautiful; inside feels depressing and bizarrely laid out. Those runway lights are awful. Why not have beautiful glass dome ceiling lights and art deco floor lamps, instead? I always think of art deco as warm and rich. I can’t believe they didn’t do thorough research before the building had gone up! They did, however, get really unlucky with that incompetent architect. Imagine compromising the whole idea for a lack of knowledge of basic building principles! I sort of got the impression nobody was wholly invested in this project and it shows. Feels cold.

[@a.ashley5292]

Art deco has never looked beautiful to me. It's like a math nerd pretending to create art came up with it. Horrible and lifeless.

[@Ruka-f7k]

It is not surprising that this couple, a couple of pilots and therefore engineers, likes Art Deco. I personally love it and would be happy to see a revival.

[@hansolsen9337]

so beautiful this house