Room to Improve (v2)

We actually saw Dermot with one Sligo stone which he brought to Co. Laois , which was sliced and polished. Only a small area of wall was done: Dermot may have had another few stones in the boot of his car or he may have either gone back to Sligo and got a few more, or else got them shipped by alternative means to Co. Laois. It makes no difference. I do not think Dermot would "have been a fool" as you claim to bring 2 or 3 or 4 stones first: it would have been as easy to bring 3 at once as bring one.

The sensible thing to do would have been for Dermot to phone the stone-cutter first and ask was it possible, possibly even get a price ( no doubt the stone-cutter cut stone before ) and then bring the 3 stones or whatever. And get one sliced first for the camera, as we saw.

Thats what I said, he / his team contacted the stone-cutter first. No way would a busy man like Bannon ( even if he was going to or from another site like Cashel, which is likely to have been the case ) and a film crew just rock up at the stone-cutter in Co. Laois. It would have been arranged first. That is how these things work. Read my post.

I just binge watched the past 3 programmes over the past 2 nights.

I don't get the hate for the nutritionist last night. He has an irregular income from his job and seems to be trying to make a go of it by expanding his social media coverage. Nothing wrong with that, the idea is to drive people to his website and his one-on-one sessions. She seemed to have plenty pf input, put her foot down on the planter and the colours in the kitchen. We didn't see the other places where she did/didn't have input, we have to rely on the editor and they can spin it around whatever way they want. And for all we know, she asked for the playroom and office combo as its easier to keep and eye on the kids.

Overall I liked the revamp, tiles are a nice touch and they got the garden they wanted. I lived around the corner from them for a couple of years and it's a nice spot. They also got the garden they wanted and they have no interest in gardening, so they got a low maintenance version. I don't like it, but they do and that's what counts.

All of the suppliers are already on the Room to Improve website.

Correct, I agree. Does not even need to be as detailed as that, even half the info you say there would be interesting for a lot of people.

He seemed genuinely surprised at the different ceiling heights. He is only human I suppose. I was surprised he missed the different ceiling heights before that but i am sure he would have had someone else survey the existing house / do the drawings anyway.

It didn’t bother me until you put up that picture the other day but once I saw it…I couldn’t look at that either 🙂

Yes, I realise that. It is like when Bannon some years ago was doing the windows on the elevation of a renovation or extension once : the builder put the upstairs and downstairs edges slightly out of line and it looked worse than if they were a lot more out of line. Bannon rightly insisted it be changed then / the window position changed. Remember that? Having a window or something slightly out of line looks worse than if a window or switch looks as if it was deliberately sited somewhere.

You cannot un-see something just slightly off.