Room to Improve, Episode 8 of 8, RTÉ One, Sunday, April 8th at 9.30pm
In a special edition of Room To Improve, architect Dermot Bannon reflects on some of his favourite projects of the last eleven years: the clients whose dreams he attempted to fulfill, the challenges posed by each construction project and the spectacular reveals that followed.
Along the way, Dermot gives his take on the builders and crews that made it all happen and the QS’s whose keen eye and common sense helped his designs turn into a reality.
From the Maynooth coachhouse infested with rot that had to be stripped back to a roofless shell, to the seemingly impossible transformation of a former lock up in Dun Laoghaire. And the listed schoolhouse in the Dublin mountains to the ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ extension of a rural bungalow.
And who could forget the saga of the infamous ‘hobbit window’ Dermot added to a Kildalkey farmhouse? Or the moment where QS Lisa lost her steely composure as a builder described the workings of a septic tank runoff in hilariously vivid detail?