Room to Improve.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Could never understand the appeal of the programme.

At least with Grand Designs on channel 4 there is real ambition to what is done and most of the projects have a degree of insanity to them which makes the programme interesting.

It's amazing people want to look at a show where they are just adding simple extensions on to bog standard houses.

Atlantic Dawn

Bald? er, dash! wrote: »

Dermot's XC90 changed from off-white to black since the beginning of the episode... he's grand with colour changes!!!

Looks like he has ditched the Audi A5 from last few series.

Red Kev

No sign of Lisa, the new Quantity Surveyor. :mad:

homerjay2005

the house looks fantastic.

Thargor

That kitchen looks like the little staff kitchen in every office Ive ever been in, totally soulless.

Atlantic Dawn

Just goes to show you what €180k can do.

Thargor

Turned out nice in the end though, one of the better ones.

Annabella1

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Looks like he has ditched the Audi A5 from last few series.

Product placement!

Lisha

Thargor wrote: »

Turned out nice in the end though, one of the better ones.

They have finished/decorated it lovely..

homerjay2005

Thargor wrote: »

Turned out nice in the end though, one of the better ones.

ya its an amazing house. fair play to them both.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Nice but just shows how expensive Dublin is that they spent 420k on the site and initial house.

600k I guess all in.

CH3OH

Bathroom looked very nice

Atlantic Dawn

Really nice finish.

stop animal cruelty

Lovely house, lovely couple.

yabadabado

QS is back:cool:

BorneTobyWilde

She walks in and runs herself a bath

Autosport

Wouldn't paint the number on the house that big or even on it

dpofloinn

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Could never understand the appeal of the programme.

At least with Grand Designs on channel 4 there is real ambition to what is done and most of the projects have a degree of insanity to them which makes the programme interesting.

It's amazing people want to look at a show where they are just adding simple extensions on to bog standard houses.

Grand Designs is generally populated with people who have an almost endless supply of cash to do mad things. Where as room to improve is generally populated by ordinary folks with generous but limited budgets. There in lies the interest of most

um7y1h83ge06nx

Ten Pin wrote: »

Robbie and son are like twins

Yeah, definitely could be brothers, I need to moisturise more I think! 😀

Poochie05

Lovely couple! The decor in bathroom or grey kitchen wouldn't be to my taste but delighted for them, their dream comes true and all their hard work and saving has paid off

vkid

Ten Pin wrote:

Someone like, say, Brendan Courtney would be a better host of this, no reason to have an architect as the main character.

God no. He would be painful. I think an architect is the right choice and dermot is likeable enough. Nice house in the end of it, but a lot the designs in this show are very samey samey. Something completely different would be nice now and again.

mariaalice

Its people realising their dream aspect that I like, 20 years saving for your dream is some achievement.

lisasimpson

Yes. Look like a down to earth couple who have worked their arses off to and gave up things to dave for their dream home
ps id say he will have no problems gettig windows to clean after the show

lawred2

Ten Pin wrote: »

Someone like, say, Brendan Courtney would be a better host of this, no reason to have an architect as the main character.

Jesus no

Red Kev

If you look at it on Google Earth, you can see it half built!

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.4511032,-6.1695388,30m/data=!3m1!1e3

House is on a big site for Malahide. Probably worth close to €750,000 as it is.

Fair play to them, a very likeable, down to earth couple.

zurbfoundation

just watched this - can i bounce a conspiracy theory of ye?

These two have nothing to do with the house. We already know he is an actor, so what if its just a house that someone built and they brought these two in to make a TV show on the building site.

All the drama at the start of the budget, then suddenly hes a very capable fella on a building site and a steel fabricator who can pitch in and save €€€€'s.

Then when the engineer sought certification on the steels he fabricated - after Bannon saying there was a back on forth on email yer man says, "news to me bud".

Their tours of the house they seemed very unconnected and make what i thought were odd observations for people that were involved in a house building process.

Sure - I am probably wrong.

imme

The show runs to a formula, nothing surprising there I suppose

Dermot puts the plan together
The client doesn't seem convinced
The quantity surveyor can't make the budget come together
The builder throws a strop
The client doesn't like the windows/door/etc etc

All works out well in the end, usually

The builder guy and the son in this one made it worth watching

Dirty Dingus McGee

dpofloinn wrote: »

Grand Designs is generally populated with people who have an almost endless supply of cash to do mad things. Where as room to improve is generally populated by ordinary folks with generous but limited budgets. There in lies the interest of most

That's exactly why it isn't interesting to me as a TV programme, there's no ambition to it.

Phil.x

dpofloinn wrote: »

Grand Designs is generally populated with people who have an almost endless supply of cash to do mad things. Where as room to improve is generally populated by ordinary folks with generous but limited budgets. There in lies the interest of most

Very generous!

dpofloinn

Each to their own, but to say it shows no ambition is very unfair. Not everyone wants to live in an architects wet dream