{"id":146861,"date":"2024-09-03T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-many-bathrooms-kevin-mccloud-reveals-grand-designs-bugbears\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:28:43","slug":"how-many-bathrooms-kevin-mccloud-reveals-grand-designs-bugbears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-many-bathrooms-kevin-mccloud-reveals-grand-designs-bugbears\/","title":{"rendered":"How many bathrooms? Kevin McCloud reveals Grand Designs bugbears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOverprovision of guest WCs and overcomplex builds are among presenter\u2019s gripes after 25 years of the showHow many toilets are too many for one home? The answer, according to Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4\u2019s Grand Designs, is when the bathrooms outnumber the actual occupants.After 25 years presenting the programme, McCloud has revealed that one of his greatest bugbears is the overprovision of WCs in Grand Design builds. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/how-many-bathrooms-kevin-mccloud-reveals-grand-design-bugbears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How many bathrooms? Kevin McCloud reveals Grand Designs bugbears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Overprovision of guest WCs and overcomplex builds are among presenter\u2019s gripes after 25 years of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-CcJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8326,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/grand-designs-the-home-truths-of-kevin-mccloud\/","url_meta":{"origin":146861,"position":0},"title":"Grand Designs: The home truths of Kevin McCloud","date":"April 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Kevin McCloud won't talk price. 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