Room to Improve is a new design series about changing how we live through design and adaptation, in simple ways without spending vast amounts of money and without moving house! Each the programme will look at the reconfiguration of an existing home to better suit the needs of the family living there.
Cathy and Michael Keane bought their house when it was being used as a cowshed. They converted it, had four children and over the years Dad, Michael, has added on bits to it.
Marie Duffy moved into her Victorian townhouse off the South Circular Road four years ago. Her friends all thought she was mad to buy it because there was so much work to be done.
Dermot revamps a Rathfarnham four-bed to suit the changing needs of its occupants Peter, Lisa and their twins Grace and Louise (9) live in a four-bed house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.
A young couple with three children seek Dermot's help in revamping their small three bedroomed bungalow in Ballinteer Ailish and Patrick Bates are a young couple running out of space - fast!