Name: Room to Improve
Uploaded: 2022-07-20T23:00:21.000Z
Description: Creating design solutions to make an existing home better suit the needs of the family living there.

Creating design solutions to make an existing home better suit the needs of the family living there.

Indigenius

Eimear Farrell, a single mum and her 8-year-old daughter Hannah with a budget of 20,000 euros (our smallest budget in the series) need the entire downstairs of the 2 bedroomed home in Ballybrack completely re-modelled.

Ballybrack

This week Dermot is in Glasnevin with Terry and Peadar Clarke and their two children Marie Bernadette and Luke.

Glasnevin

Architect Dermot Bannon faces a tough challenge in meeting the design brief and budgetary restraints for the Zambra family who are building an extension in Castleknock.

Castleknock

This week, Dermot Bannon helps a couple in Enniscorthy renovate an old cottage and prepare their home for a new baby.

Enniscorthy

In this week's programme, the penultimate of the series, Dermot finds himself the dream job.

Dublin's Southside

This week, Podge and Jo Ussher want to turn their Wexford cottage from a holiday home into their permanent home without sacrificing any of its 1930s charm.

Wexford Cottage

They bought their home at the end of the property boom and now it's worth less than they paid for it.

Donnycarney

Dermot is in Timahoe, Portlaoise with Dolores and Donal O'Connell. Their five children are all grown-up but still live in the area.

Timahoe, Portlaoise

Cathy and Michael Keane bought their house when it was being used as a cowshed. They converted it, had four children and over the years Dad, Michael, has added on bits to it.

Cathy and Michael Keane

Declan and Judy Cadwell from Clontarf share a small terraced home with their three sons, Christopher 19, Ross 17 and Jake 13. But only just.

Clontarf

Marie Duffy moved into her Victorian townhouse off the South Circular Road four years ago. Her friends all thought she was mad to buy it because there was so much work to be done.

Victorian Townhouse

Dermot encounters a stumbling block or two when he turns his hand to a badly laid out bungalow in Co Offaly.

Bungalow in Co Offaly

Dermot revamps a Rathfarnham four-bed to suit the changing needs of its occupants Peter, Lisa and their twins Grace and Louise (9) live in a four-bed house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.

Rathfarnham

A young couple with three children seek Dermot's help in revamping their small three bedroomed bungalow in Ballinteer Ailish and Patrick Bates are a young couple running out of space - fast!

Ballinteer Ailish

Dermot knows exactly how to solve the problem but it means destroying a lot of the work the couple have already done.

Artane

Childhood sweethearts are up against the clock to revamp their 70s bungalow in Enniskerry before their first baby arrives.

Enniskerry

Dermot needs to create "a bungalow downstairs" incorporating a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living and dining room.

Killiney Dublin

Dermot is normally confident about presenting a plan. But with a couple as design-literate as Greg and Siobhan, the stakes are that bit higher.

Whitehall

Dermot is in Rathcoole with Mary Moore, the design solution Dermot offers Mary is one of the most unusual and interesting he has ever conceived.

Rathcoole

Architect Dermot Bannon sets out to transform people's living spaces. Before moving in to their 1940s ex-council house in Co Kilkenny, the Kirwans added a basic extension.

Kilkenny

Dermot wants to turn the house completely on its head, putting the bedrooms to the front and extending the back to include a kitchen, living and dining that leads into the garden.

Stoneybatter

Dermot is in Templetuohy, Co. Tipperary with Joanne and Sean Cleere who believe they need a substantial extension but Dermot doesn't actually concur.

Tipperary

Room to Improve starts with Margaret and Jodie Burke who plan to renovate the family home in Foxrock.

Foxrock

Pádraig Whooley and Lorraine Dufficey spent 265 thousand euros on their remote cottage at Rossmore in West Cork, they knew that - while the hilltop location was ideal - the house was far from it.

Clonakilty

Dermot is in Laytown, co.Meath, with a budget of 60,000 euros, Dermot's worry "is even if you took away the shoddy workmanship you'd spend the 60k, this is a really difficult one..."

Laytown

Dermot is in Dalkey, with a budget of 180,000 euros, he must come up with an innovative design to match their exacting requirements within the confines of an incredibly tight site.

Dalkey

Dermot is in Clontarf, with Denise and Ben who desperately want a second bathroom for their family home, but their budget is limited.

Dermot is in Tullow, with Tom and Lisa who want to renovate their 19th century farmhouse.

Tullow, Co. Carlow

Yvonne and John live in a housing estate in Dundalk with their two children. Four years ago, they decided to buy their next-door neighbours house.

Dundalk

Jim and Siobhan Doyle live in a beautiful old house over looking Dublin Bay in Sutton. See Dermot Bannon transform the rambling old house into a beautiful new space.

Sutton

The series begins in Cork City with our youngest and most ambitious couple yet, Meadhbh and Niall, both 27-years-old.

Cork City

After 10 successful years living in Boston, Elaine Mitchell made the decision to come back to the old sod with her earnings.

Legan, Co. Longford

No close neighbours, beautiful views of the Wicklow Mountains, a large vegetable patch, 10 hens, four ducks, two geese, four beehives, two dogs and three cats.

Wicklow Gap

Marcus and Margaret are about to extend a two-bed cottage in Dundrum and share it with Marcus's beloved Aunt May.

Dundrum

The number one criteria when buying a house is location and our fifth programme of the series is set in one of the most sought after costal parts of the country, Dalkey.

John Rochford from Dublin and Lee Benn, originally from Limerick, have bought a house in their dream location - South Dublin's seaside suburbia, Blackrock.

Blackrock

Dermot Bannon helps a family to transform their 70s bungalow outside Tipperary into a modern family home.

This week Dermot goes to Cork to work with a family spanning three generations - who all have different ideas on how to improve their home.

Cork

Dermot Bannon tries to turn a dilapidated, woodworm infested 1930s cottage into a starter home for a Finglas family.

Finglas

This week Dermot tackles a large Victorian terraced house in the highly sought-after Dublin suburb of Donnybrook.

Donnybrook

Catherine Bennett and her youngest daughter Sarah Jane are keen to downsize from their huge 13-bedroom house in Mullingar. They're planning to move down the road, where they also own a 3-bed bungalow that's been uninhabited for the last nine years.

Mullingar

Dermot faces a unique challenge in Clane, Co. Kildare.

Kildare

Architect Dermot Bannon helps Senator Katherine Zappone and Dr Ann Louise Gilligan renovate a dilapidated hunting lodge in Brittas, Dublin.

Brittas

Desperate for more space, a couple with two young daughters, who have long since outgrown their tiny cottage in Killawalla outside Westport, engage Dermot to help.

Westport

New Yorker Ursula and accountant Jimmy from Ennis enlist Dermot's help with their colossal house in Firhouse, Dublin

Firhouse

Lorna and Rory want to turn their current house into the contemporary home they've always dreamed of, but when they try to create some additional bedroom space, the tight 17-week turnaround gets even tighter.

Stillorgan

In the ten years since they first met Avril and Andrew Wilson-Rankin have been dreaming of owning their own home. Now they've bought a property in Dun Laoghaire but it's as far from being a home, or even a house, as you could imagine.

Dun Laoghaire

Jean Robinson and Daithi Elliffe have bought themselves what they hope will be an ideal family home in a unique location - a listed 19th century former schoolhouse at Kilternan with spectacular views of the Dublin mountains.

Kilternan

Struggling with a tight schedule, a limited budget and the traditionalist taste of his clients, can Dermot balance their love of classic farmhouse design with his own vision of clean urban functionality?

Baltinglass

This week, Dermot wants to create a wheelchair friendly house in Malahide that's also a welcoming family home.

Malahide

Sally-Ann, her husband Trevor, and their four children live in Sally-Ann's childhood home - a huge, distinctive 1970s architect-designed home outside Mullingar in Westmeath that they've dreamed of rennovating for years.

Since they married two years ago, Paul and Sabina Horgan have become the proud parents of baby Mia and the owners of a property on the North Dublin coast: Lismara - a dilapidated 1940s cottage in Portmarnock in an extremely poor condition.

Portmarnock

GP, writer and budding musician Dr Pat Harrold, his wife Marita, a physiotherapist, and their four kids returned to Pat's home town of Nenagh 10 years ago and they have been looking for a place to call home ever since.

Nenagh

Leonard and Caroline live in house once owned by Leonard's grandparents in the south Dublin suburb of Dundrum - a 1960s three-bed semi that hasn't changed at all since the couple bought it two years ago.

At the village of Puckaun in north Tipperary, teachers Darragh Egan, his partner Sarah Lovett and their three month old son Donagh are moving home. What could be simpler or more straightforward? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Home is the 1960s bungalow where Darragh grew up - built on the site of the old village school by his late father Jim and currently occupied by his 70 year old mother.

Puckaun

In Drogheda, Dermot attempts an architectural flight of fancy at the 1930s home of long-haul airline Pilot Ian and his girlfriend Claire.

Victorian House - County Louth

Dermot travels to Baldoyle, North Dublin, where he flips the upstairs and downstairs of Mel and Aoife's bayside home to make the most of a spectacular view.

Baldoyle - North Dublin

In Maynooth, Dermot redesigns George and Sinead's 1850s coach house only to discover the entire building has been compromised by a parasitic fungus.

Maynooth

Dermot revisits three of his favorite builds from earlier series: the Longford publicans he convinced the embrace the void, a couple moving home from California to Bishopstown and 14 year old Michaels wheelchair accessible semi-d in Malahide.

Dermot's Top 3

In North Dublin, Dermot doubles the size of a 1940's Malahide cottage to create the dream home Robbie and Julie have spent 20 years saving for.

At the seaside village of Rush, Dermot Bannon does his best to keep up with sprout farmer Enda and his extraordinary self-build project.

Rush

In the village of Moate county Westmeath, Dermot clears an exposed site, creating a spectacular 21st century home from scratch for GAA All-Star Dessie Dolan and his wife Kelly.

Moate

At Sutton in North Dublin, Dermot extends a 1960s suburban house, changing a beloved childhood home into a sumptuous new one for Hannah, James and their twin sons.

At Kildalkey in rural east Meath, Dermot renovates a farmhouse and barn that's been in the family for three generations for newlyweds Celine and David.

Kildalkey

In Templeogue, Dermot revamps a 1970s suburban house for Rosie and firefighter Keith with a radical geometric extension.

Templeogue

Musician Daniel O'Donnell shares a house in West Donegal with his wife who hopes to upgrade it.

Donegal

Susie and Dave need to renovate their three-storey mansion, which is 170 years old.

Fermoy

Dermot Bannon takes on one of his trickiest builds to date - a client with a wish list 25-pages long, but a budget that definitely doesn't match her aspirations.

At the seaside village of Portrane in North Dublin, Dermot creates a workable home for three generations of the one family under the watchful, budget-conscious eyes of two sisters.

Portrane

Recently returned to Ireland after 12 years in London, new parents website designer Cliona and IT manager Micheal have already spent 30 grand renovating a 1950s semi-D at Killester in North Dublin in their own distinctive, industrial style.

Killester

Dermot comes up with plans to renovate a 100-year-old farmhouse in Tipperary for dairy farmer Padraig and school teacher Katie, but delivering on this dream home may be harder than Dermot realized.

At a 1960s 'Semi D' in Stillorgan, Dermot's vision of a million euro 'Malibu style' house for Rory and Lorna from the west of Ireland descends into an ongoing battle over the style and position of the front door.

David and Nessa Conlon have just bought this 1990s split level detached bungalow and plan to move in with their three children (twin boys aged 11 and a 7 year old girl) once the renovations have been completed.

Athgarvan, Co. Kildare

Dermot Bannon heads to Borrisoleigh in County Tipperary, where's Joe's former bachelor life is reflected by his home and Mary is insisting on a redesign.

Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary

Dermot Bannon heads to Rathfarnham, Dublin, where Yvonne and Adrian's house is a detached 1950s two-bedroom property in need of massive transformation.

In Ashford Co. Wicklow stands the house of Nigel and Frances Coffey. Frances's parents live next door. Several years ago her father built a private road and gave seven plots of land to his seven children.

Ashford Co. Wicklow

Claudia and Tom bought this 1920s bungalow with panoramic views of Tramore Bay in 2012 for 305K. Just back from living abroad (Spain, Dubai and Germany) they have been living in the house for the past year.

Tramore Bay

With a very tight budget, a couple sets out to renovate their house located in Grace Park Gardens.

Drumcondra

Dermot had a journey to go on with this build with Lisa and Marc.

Kilmacud

Laura's expectations from Dermot were high but to get the build to the construction stage was tricky due to the tight budget.

Howth

Paul and Hilary really want to modernise the house that was built originally in the 1970s but they have to be clever with their budget.

Blessington

Dermot has a challenge, as he has to work within a tight budget of 210k and has a lot to do for what Jim and Mary want.

Thurles

Conor and Amy are a young couple who have made the decision to put down roots together by renovating an old farmhouse.

Tullamore

Dermot revealed a plan that would facilitate the old abode to be renovated plus he added a rear extension.

Lucan

Carmel and Hugh wanted a home which was going to be manageable for them both going into their later years in life.

Blessington Overview

The Gray family have been living in the house for seventeen years, but they wanted to future proof it.

Gráinne Murphy and Ivan Williams have been dreaming about renovating Ivan's forefather's old farmhouse for many years.

Brian Carrigg and Kate Molony attempt to renovate a bungalow with a view of the Rock of Cashel that Kate has dreamed of owning all her life.

Cashel

Sandra and Daniel Davey bought their dream home in Knocklyon, Dublin over four years ago.

Knocklyon

Ann Brannigan and her husband David are attempting to give Ann's former family home in Santry, Dublin a complete renovation.

Room to Improve

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