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Jan
I love Grand Designs, it's been an inspiration to me and is at least partially to blame for this project. But the latest series has so far defined grand in terms of pounds and pence rather than any more noble or aesthetic value. So far we've seen rich people building rich peoples houses - grand in terms of Victorian upper class values of opulence and decadence, but out of step with 21st century sensibilities and environmental anxieties. There have been occasional glimpses of green technology and design - I think a ground source heat pump has popped up at least…