Room to Improve (v2)

That's a seriously underwhelming design and very little extension on the existing house.

190k for a small extension and to knock out a few walls downstairs. Crazy.

All they needed to do was stop collecting junk and tidy the old house.

You could give these ones a castle and they would have it clarried in shite in no time.

Did they not say at the start they liked minimalist houses but when shown minimal she wanted to cover it in shite from every corner of the planet.

Not sure if I'd be wanting to import a fancy dryer that may have no official support here. What is wrong with a normal dryer like the rest of us?

Pretty dull programme so far.

Dermot isn't talking about a dryer, he is talking about a drying room. They are all over Norway and Sweden. Best thing ever if you have the space. They use the heat from the boiler or heat pump, full of slatted shelves and hanging space.

Here Dermot is again with his s##te kitchen taste.

Both of those ' show houses' were actually horrible as far as I'm concerned.

The first one was like a dentist surgery, cold and horrible cheap looking kitchen and second one was wood overload. Bookshelves were horrible as the main feature in your living room looked so cheap.

Yeah I'm shocked at price when it started tonight I was saying too my husband ah at last a reasonable budget for an extension thinking it would be at most about 80k.

Dinge in the door of the fancy dryer.

ooops I was wrong! Its not a drying room, but some kind of walk in unit? I wonder how much they cost to run??

this is the first house I don't like much at all.............but I guess I'm not living there, if they like it that's all that matters.

I don't like it kitchen too white and TV looks tiny on that horrible green wood style thing in ' cinema' room.

The QS is very good though.

Bonkers money.. wholly unsustainable

Exactly, why didn't he spend money on a proper big TV and proper sound if that's what he wanted, a fecking project in today's world.

Yep and the 3 sets of double French doors to go with them.

People need to start questioning the need for a deep retrofit.

we live in a 3 bed semi built in 84. The heating bill is 600 euro a year for 5 of us.

just about to go in the market as 200k will get us a bigger house extra bedroom and bigger garden than spending around 8k a sqm on a extension!!!

Neither of those houses look lived. I'd love to see them with young kids, toys everywhere, food out on the counter, etc. I think Dermot either spends all his time at work or has a strange sense of what a family home is like outside of having loads of people over for a party.

That sounds like my house freshpopcorn, with 2 young boys you never know what toy your going to trip over🤣

This argument comes up alot.

I do agree with you. I do think they would have been better served selling and buying bigger with the extra 200k budget.

However house prices are ridiculous at the moment especially in Dublin.

It's also very easy to say that when you've no emotional attachment to somewhere. If they did sell up, they might need to change schools, kids wouldn't like that. Then there's friends and knowing the area and all that kind of stuff.

Did they get value for money....no I don't think so ....but then with the exception of Joe and Mary in Tipperary I don't think anyone has got value for money on this show.

I do think they got a nice renovation though. However, as Maggie above said, a garden lodge would have done the trick very nicely!

The only show I think that gives value for money is the new one "build me a home" or something along that lines, with the Aussie builder. Home rescue is also very good but tends to be one room focused.

I really did chuckle at that comment. Dermot does not understand the needs of a family - if he did he would have gave them a utility room. I have a large utility room and without a doubt it is what makes my house work. Its where we have all the washing equipment, storage for bags and sports equipment, coats are hung, shoes are put etc. Without this room my house would be a mess! That family last night needed a bloody utility room Dermot! The utility wall was ridiculous - there seemed to be no storage at all. They dont even appear to have an extra sink to wash football boots etc.

He could have very easily built a utility room out the side instead of one set of french doors. The family last night didnt get much extra space and although it looked nice it will be cluttered up with their stuff again in no time.

Also did they do anything to the upstairs of the house?

yes aired on 16 November!

Where exactly would you have put a utility room?

it would have ate into other rooms. Lots of people don’t have utility rooms. You need to leave the country snd hi to the city where houses are smaller

a sink to wash football boots, notions !!!!