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Kevin McCloud's Scrapbook
Welcome to my Scrapbook. Here you can keep up to date with what I’m up to, my latest design advice, plus get all the details from the series. Enjoy...
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Enter the Grand Designs Awards
We’re looking for homeowners who’ve completed a project, whether it’s new-build or renovation. You don’t have to be an architect or a designer (although they’re welcome too); it's open to all and free to enter. Photo credit: Jefferson Smith
Www.granddesignsawards.com
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Keeping buzzy
The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) gets a plug from me this month, not for any great invention, but because it constantly champions beekeeping (a third of the food we eat depends on pollination) and compiles a range of information that acts as a sort of pollination early-warning system for agriculture
www.bbka.org.uk/
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I'm reading...
Three green cheers for the Old House Eco Handbook by Roger Hunt and Marianne Suhr, in association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. It mixes an erudite analysis of building science with practical advice and demonstrations of best practice.
www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/roger+hunt/marianne+suhr/kevin+mccloud/old+house+eco+handbook/9387182/
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My house of the month
This small, lozenge-shaped build on the coast of Skye by Rural Design is possibly my favourite Grand Designs project we’ve ever filmed. Alan Dickson and his team designed an exquisite timber-clad home, unlike anything else on Skye, which resembles a moss-covered boulder.
www.ruraldesign.co.uk/
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The green deal
Collectively, the buildings we live in are responsible for around 26 per cent of Britain's carbon emissions, and so the government launched the Green Deal to help homeowners efficiently insulate and draftproof their homes
www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/tackling/green_deal/green_deal.aspx
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My green hero of the month
This month it's Hendzel + Hunt, a London-based furniture maker. Their stuff is beautifully made as opposed to hurriedly remade creating new identities for old pieces of timber like this Kirkwood chair.
www.hendzelandhunt.com/project/kirkwood-chair/
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The Best of Grand Designs
This is our celebration of fourteen glorious years of film-making, 100 editions of Grand Designs Magazine, 100 separate programmes and ten years of hosting the Stirling Prize.
www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/kevin+mccloud/the+best+of+grand+designs/9208455/
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Watch my Man Made Home on 4oD
I've always dreamed of building a cabin in the woods. Now I'm going to try to make it happen.
www.channel4.com/programmes/kevin-mcclouds-man-made-home/4od#3414014
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Independent advice on carbon reduction
Get information from the Carbon Trust about how to reduce your carbon footprint
www.carbontrust.com/home
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Specialist designer and scavenger
Paul Firbank helped us design and create the amazing chair on the front porch. He also has a shop if you'd like your own piece of the industrial era.
theragandboneman.co.uk/maintenance/
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Glass making courses
Want to learn something new? Search for courses all over the country such as glass blowing which we featured in Man Made Home.
www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/Decorative-Glass-Making-courses/hc2_browse.pg_loc_tree/16180339/0/p_type_id/1/p_bcat_id/5875/page.htm
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House of the month
This goes to the crystalline series of stepped boxes in Brixton, built by the intrepid architect Carl Turner. It goes to show that eco does not have to be hairy, nor even vaguely crinkly. It can actually be smooth, polished and even a bit bling.
www.ct-architects.co.uk/projects/slip-house/
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