The Great House Revival

to me , a home should be a warm, safe cosy refuge, a place you be comfortable and look forward to getting back to, that cold unfinished house ticked none of those boxes

that kitchen was not a functioning room for cooking or preparing food. Bare, exposed shelves and sink unit was grim looking.
kids rooms were minute and no guest room. The master bedroom was nice.

I like the series, the way it’s normal enough people.

Anyone know the road in Dublin 6 where he brought them?

is this series over already? Nothing scheduled for tonight on my tv.

Nothing listed for next week either.

Very disappointing all round, really.

Reminds me of the old show business adage.

"Always leave them wanting more" 🙂

Oh well, you can't win them all.

I thought it was a reasonable effort.

I could have wished for a few changes but overall worth a watch.

With the exception of the first house not one house was finished.

One house was basically an advertisement (a bad one at that) for their business.

The other was a pure stress inducing watch.

The final house spent more time talking about red tape than anything else.

At least two of the houses would have been better to wait until next year when the work was finished or at least 90% there.

I personally want to see the finished product, it's not about a 500k budget, home Rescue certainly doesn't have that.

It's about the start, the middle and the end of a project. We didnt get the end result for three properties. The architects were close but didn't get to see the downstairs loo or utility, the B&B will be lucky to be finished by 2030 😂 and I'm not convinced the school house had a working kitchen. So not exactly revived properties.

This is a lovely couple - very good humoured considering the stress of it all!

I love what they done to the house upstairs. The decor downstairs though is a bit meh for me, but that's easily changed. They have a roomy house and done it very well for the amount they spent.

I loved this episode. Lovely couple with a beautiful home after all their hard work

Wow, he should be so proud of himself!

Fair play to all his friends....reminds me of the first house last year where they got a massive dig out too. Save a fortune not having to pay the trades or rent the equipment/diggers ,tractors etc.

I think the corner was wasted on a bathroom, but I do understand not wanting to be playing around with the sewer system on top of everything else.

Did they say they were going to rent the shop..it was a very little snippet, but I did catch "it'll generate an income"

Lovely couple hope they are very happy in the house.

Again fair play to him, trojan work!

Really enjoyed this one: a realistic budget, hard graft and the kind of property we have sitting derelict all over the country. As always it highlighted the advantage anyone with a trade has when doing projects like this. I wouldn't doubt Timmy for a second when he said he'll be paying back favours on the weekends for years. It's a well worn path for tradesmen in my experience though, have a few friends who've done similar "favours for favours" builds and it's incredible how far your money can stretch.

Contrary to some of the other opinions in this thread I loved the corner bathroom, that would be a beautiful place to have a soak after a long day… I did wonder had they put the taps at the wrong end of the bath for it but a minor enough quibble. I'd have liked to have seen a bolder colour choice on the kictchen units too but that's very much a personal preference.

Unlike many you see on these shows it'd take a very sour person to bedgrudge them their lovely new home and I'd say they won't be long in seeing a renatl income from the old shop unit (if indeed Siobhán doesn't choose to open it as a shop herself as the kids get a bit older). With so many of the houses in the village being renovated and re-occupied there's likely a market for it and if she wanted to get an income out of the shop herself, there'd be no rent to be paid).

I think it's always been the case that a major renovation like this (or indeed most one-off builds) require a lot of DIY unless you have a huge budget to pay for labour.

If we look back to Irelands past, the Bungalow Bliss approach was much the same: most were self-built by the homeonwers and their extended families and friends. Obviously modern building regulations are (rightly) much harder and more expensive to meet but I do suspect there's also an element of more of our fathers and grandfathers generations being less afraid of hard work and no doubt the larger families of the time would have meant people had more help available to them. Much easier build something if you've three or four brothers to call on than if you were an only child…