Room to Improve.

amdublin

Not mad on that pattern of that couch.

But I like the shape....as Dermot said, it's classic.

CountyHurler

That's a good idea, heating the outside of the house as well as the inside...

passremarkable

Larry just has no interest

BabysCoffee

She's fussy!! Or does she dislike Dermot and is putting a stop to everything he suggests???

Atlantic Dawn

It's kind of like a tornado simulator where the roof was ripped off a house.

amdublin

I feel so sorry for the builder!

CountyHurler

BabysCoffee wrote: »

She's fussy!! Or does she dislike Dermot and is putting a stop to everything he suggests???

Yeah I was thinking that too... It seems like everything is wrong cos Dermot suggests it...

amdublin

I like render.

amdublin

Um I don't like the half render/half brick

Quazzie

Why did they not render the top of the gable.

Ewwww.

Lisha

Feic it's lovely

amdublin

It's nice.

CountyHurler

The walk in wardrobe, perfect for Larry's 50 pairs of wellies..

whupdedo

passremarkable wrote: »

Larry just has no interest

He reminds me of a nodding dog, with his big smiley head on him

amdublin

That oven JARS for me.

Lisha

Quazzie wrote: »

Why did they not render the top of the gable.

Ewwww.

Yup that really lets house down there's loads of old red brick not rendered

BabysCoffee

Is the kitchen area very small with the table and also the couch?

CountyHurler

The fireplace sticks out and blocks off half the telly... What if you were watching a tennis match?

Quazzie

Where was the nice grey colour they were looking at for the kitchen.

Plain and boring white.

Lisha

Don't cut those trees down pleeeaaaasssee

passremarkable

larry kind of has a tommy tiernan look about him

Samsgirl

Too sterile looking

JONJO THE MISER

I like it.

Atlantic Dawn

For €160k it's a superb job, up there with some previously done costing multiples of it.

BabysCoffee

Turned out well.

amdublin

A boot room. I like it.

BabysCoffee

Does he have to have a shower before he enters the house?!

Lisha

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Does he have to have a shower before he enters the house?!

Only if he fancies his chances Id say!!

Quazzie

I can't rewind, is the long thin window in the bricks just ever so slightly off centre?

Lisha

Best of luck to them.


I just spotted Patricia has her on mini project underway, best of luck to Her too

BabysCoffee

Quazzie wrote: »

I can't rewind, is the long thin window in the bricks just ever so slightly off centre?

Could be....

WhatNowForUs?

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Why does that Garden room thingie have the seating with the back to the view?!

What happens to it if it rains?

jjf1974

next weeks builder is usually good old craic

mailforkev

Lisha wrote: »

I just spotted Patricia has her on mini project underway, best of luck to Her too

She was in Holles St. having it at the same time as a friend of mine last year, around Sept I think, so must have been filmed last summer.

Thoie

Quazzie wrote: »

I can't rewind, is the long thin window in the bricks just ever so slightly off centre?

I can't figure out if it's off centre, or if the vent above it is just giving that impression. I think the little vent is off centre - -if I cover the vent with my thumb it looks more centred. The shot they showed of it is also taken from the right, not dead on, so that's misleading as well.

On mature reflection, I think it's centred.

highly1111

Really liked the finished product. The 2nd house they went to see with the outdoor wall was just stunning. Except for the basketball hoop on the chimney. Ffs.

Bobsammy

Wouldn't be all that fussed on the finished product although I love the terrace. Didn't think much of the kitchen, really didn't like the range!

Galwayguy35

This outside fireplace was a strange one, in summer when the weather is warm it's not needed and sure who is going to be sitting outside in the winter or when its raining

Thoie

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

This outside fireplace was a strange one, in summer when the weather is warm it's not needed and sure who is going to be sitting outside in the winter or when its raining

You'd be surprised how nice a fire can be late at night in the spring/summer/autumn. Often the nicest days (no clouds) are the ones that get decidedly chilly once the sun goes down (because of the lack of clouds). What might have started out as a pleasant sunny afternoon can suddenly be a chillier 11pm where no-one wants to finish up, and only the comparative cold is making the party finish.

Eyepatch

I'd have a pizza oven in place of that fireplace! I think they were a bit hard on Larry. He's just a guy that does not have the ability to visualize something in advance. He even mentioned that if the window was put in, then he would have an opinion. Lovely guy!
I enjoyed the show.

sydthebeat

Thoie wrote: »

I can't figure out if it's off centre, or if the vent above it is just giving that impression. I think the little vent is off centre - -if I cover the vent with my thumb it looks more centred. The shot they showed of it is also taken from the right, not dead on, so that's misleading as well.

On mature reflection, I think it's centred.

Just thinking back in it now, if the wall separating the double height from the attic space is running right along the ridge line, which I think it is. ... the the window has to be slightly off centre when viewed from outside. But completely perfect when viewed from inside as the rhs of the window meets the wall

malibu4u

Lisha wrote: »

The double height ceilings are gorgeous but simply impossible to heat

Wonder if this is so? It would be great to get the owners - or someone who has a similar house with similar double height ceiling - to give an honest opinion on if they would go for double height again or not? It look great on a nice warm daylight day when Dermot comes, but what about trying to heat it on a windy January evening?

Nice view, but I wonder are all those fancy doors opening directly to the outside ( without a porch or anything ) fully airtight / windproof, as the wind blows up from those fields?

I may have missed it on the programme, but did they put much new insulation in to the house? The walls are still the same, no external insulation or anything? Wonder what the new energy rating is.

Also wonder about the sq ft of the house. If it cost 160k, and arch fees / qty surveyor fees say normally another 18k (I guess in this instance the professional fees would probably be paid by the programme makers as its for tv )...would they in the country not have been able to build a fine new single storey dwelling from scratch, complete with radon gas barrier etc, for 180k or not much more? I think (as someone else said ) having the bottom part of exterior walls plastered and the top part brick does not look right, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Incidentally the inside of the house looks very well, I'd love to live in it myself. Lots of light which is lovely. The walls on a lot of Dermots tend to be white- it seems well. If the kitchen / dining walls were coloured it would not work nearly as well? I missed a few minutes of the programme, winder if the sitting room was white as well? and would it seem a bit sterile if sitting in, like a dentists waiting room? Wonder with all the glass would it be a bit glarey or warm like a glasshouse on a really sunny day.

Overall great design and programme.

somesoldiers

Eyepatch wrote: »

I'd have a pizza oven in place of that fireplace! I think they were a bit hard on Larry. He's just a guy that does not have the ability to visualize something in advance. He even mentioned that if the window was put in, then he would have an opinion. Lovely guy!
I enjoyed the show.

We will be building a house later this year and I can guarantee I will be the same as Larry when it comes to door knobs, windows etc, leave it to the mrs.

Eyepatch

sydthebeat wrote: »

Just thinking back in it now, if the wall separating the double height from the attic space is running right along the ridge line, which I think it is. ... the the window has to be slightly off centre when viewed from outside. But completely perfect when viewed from inside as the rhs of the window meets the wall

I think you are wrong there, sydthebeat. I looked at it again this morning. The window is centred under the roof ridge. The wall on the inside is over to one side - not directly under the ridge.

I think Dermot has excelled himself with the changes (improvements) he has made to this house. It's true what he says - "This country has thousands of similar bungalows, built iin the sixties, that ignore the surrounding landscape." [Words to that effect!]

Every good wish to Larry and his family for their happiness in the future.

Lisha

malibu4u wrote: »

Wonder if this is so? It would be great to get the owners - or someone who has a similar house with similar double height ceiling - to give an honest opinion on if they would go for double height again or not? It look great on a nice warm daylight day when Dermot comes, but what about trying to heat it on a windy January evening?

Nice view, but I wonder are all those fancy doors opening directly to the outside ( without a porch or anything ) fully airtight / windproof, as the wind blows up from those fields?

I may have missed it on the programme, but did they put much new insulation in to the house? The walls are still the same, no external insulation or anything? Wonder what the new energy rating is.

Also wonder about the sq ft of the

Friends of mine have a gorgeous house and the hallway is double height void with stairs and upstairs . She said recently that by night they've to keep doors closed down stairs and keep all upstairs doors closed too as void sucks out all heat. Now she has traditional oil fired rads hearing house. I wonder woukd a void type building be better in a heating system like underfloor or air to heat type system where all house in always at same temp?

Sunny Dayz

Thought the house came out really well in the end. It made a change this week not to have mad extensions to the building but to mainly work within the original 4 walls and the roof. Strange one but I loved the window at the end of the hall, it just brought so much light into the area. I didn't like the sofa, like someone else said - white sofa in a farm house! Would not have lasted a week in our home place when Dad comes in from the fields for tea. Loved the boot room.

pooch90

I want their builders!

highly1111

Just to clarify I think they definitely went for that sofa but it was a grey colour that they got the fabric in. Like most of you I was screaming no to the white sofa so made a point to check at the end. It was definitely grey.

Galwayguy35

I can understand leaving the wellies in the room before going into rest of the the house but putting a shower in beside it is a new one on me.

I'm from a farming backround and unless he was rolling around in the muck he couldn't be that bad.

Radio5

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I can understand leaving the wellies in the room before going into rest of the the house but putting a shower in beside it is a new one on me.

I'm from a farming backround and unless he was rolling around in the muck he couldn't be that bad.

Not that unusual at all. Lots of houses I've been to have shower rooms downstairs, sometimes as part of the utility room or as a add on to a downstairs bedroom, so it is just a variation of that.

Farming especially dairy farming, calving/harvest time is still hard physical work so you don't need to be covered in muck to feel like having a shower.

I liked the finished version of the house. It was so dark and dreary, can't imagine how you would face things north in a house when you had a choice like there was in that house.