Room to Improve

Dermot Bannon helps a family to transform their 70s bungalow outside Tipperary into a modern family home.

This week Dermot goes to Cork to work with a family spanning three generations - who all have different ideas on how to improve their home.

Architect Dermot Bannon goes to work transforming a dilapidated, woodworm-infested 1930s cottage into a starter home for a Finglas family. Joe and Geraldine Mooney hope to bequeath their former family home to their daughter Lisa and her fiance, Gavin, to help them begin married life. Plans are complicated when builder Ian suggests some snazzy designs.

This week Dermot tackles a large Victorian terraced house in the highly sought-after Dublin suburb of Donnybrook.

Catherine Bennett and her youngest daughter Sarah Jane are keen to downsize from their huge 13-bedroomed house in Mullingar. Dermot helps design their dream home on the site of a 3-bed bungalow that’s been uninhabited for the last nine years.

When Dublin born Eilin O' Carroll her South African husband David Pansegrouw and returned from the UK to live in Ireland, they couldn't have picked a better time. However, Dermot faces a unique challenge with this property in Clane.

Dermot is commissioned by National Children's Hospital, Tallaght to rescue a forlorn and run-down balcony space on the first floor and create an outdoor garden and recreation area for children and their families.