SERIES 3, Episode 5
In Carlow, Ann ‘Sis’ Shannon, her son Matthew and her daughter Kayleigh live together in a house filled with clutter –from multiple appliances, kitchenware and utensils to the raw materials of Sis’s ongoing craft projects. Sis surrounds herself with crafting and donated items which she repurposes as friendship wreaths, storing the excess in case anyone needs it. They rarely do and, as a result, she and the kids share space with boxes filled with clutter, piled to the ceiling. Their kitchen is unusable, Sis’s bedroom is a storage facility and family life has become completely hemmed in.
Architect Róisín arrives with a plan to make sense of the chaos and reclaim the space the family has lost, creating storage space outside, redesigning worktops and replacing a kitchen window with patio doors. Róisín also has big plans to turn Sis’s bedroom from a chaotic storeroom into an elegant, minimalist boudoir. As Builder Peter and the crew get started on construction, an already extensive rescue is made more complex with mislaid design drawings, last minute changes tothe paint scheme and the added challenge of repurposing a wardrobe as a pantry. Meanwhile, Sis puts her heart into an epic clearout–no easy thing for a woman whose generosity of spirit means that she has never been willing or able to throw anything away.
Series Overview:
Home Rescue – The Big Fix returns to your screens for a brand new series! What was a half-hour programme, has now been supersized and moved to a one-hour slot on RTÉ2.
Our homes – they’re more than just houses. They are the heart of family life, filled with precious memories…and a few other bits and pieces.
Enter: Architect Roisin Murphy, Builder Peter Finn, and their clutter-busting crew.This year, they’ll rescue six ordinary (disorderly) homes. Extended to one hour episodes, be prepared for bigger designs and more ambitious builds. The stakes are higher than ever. Five days to declutter, redesign and rescue the heart of family life.
Goodbye Clutter. Hello Makeover. Narrated by Neil Delamere. This is Home Rescue – The Big Fix!
Watch HOME RESCUE– THE BIG FIX – Thursday 25th November on RTÉ2 at. 9.30 pm.