Room to Improve

[JaneJeffer]

New series tonight. Everyone ready for a million windows?

Orla is some woman ⭐️
Oh my goodness, so sad to lose her husband with their family life only beginning.
I hope she and her 2 beautiful children will have a happy life there.
What a lovely community around them.

Does anyone know how I can watch the latest series' in the uk? They were all on channel 5 but not the last series from 2024 and would love to see it

I use a VPN set to Ireland, then watch iit on RTE iplayer..

Furnishing the new house must cost a lot though. If I had our house completely redone with a fabulous extension, and over budget, I wouldn't be able to buy sofas and dining tables and things.

(Not just Orla last night...all the houses).

Oh how sad is that, her husband passed away so quickly, tough road for her to navigate with two little ones.

The house is gorgeous, what a location for the kids to grown up in and such an amazing supportive community.

I wonder are the houses staged at the end of the programme for filming purposes @eggandonion ?
Does anyone know of someone who has been on the show who could answer that ?

One thing that jarred with me on last night's show ( alongside iDB pushing for his own way all the time ) was the covered "terrace" in the garden.
It looked a pretty miserable, dark spot for a table and chairs but perhaps they were only stored there and could be pulled out when the weather permitted.
I couldn't imagine having a girly late afternoon/evening in the cold dark open shed.
Glad she got rid of the wall in front of the window.

There has to be a couple of things for the householder to hate and argue about.

They do look staged, no coffee stains on the coffee table, no homework engraved into the kitchen table, no fireside set with missing poker...and no bags of Christmas decorations waiting to be put away, beside the bag of charity shop donations.
I'd like to live in a tidy house.

The terrace is going to end up full of trikes, bikes, scooters, skateboards, footballs, etc.
as well as a clothesline.

Orla will install a small shed. That's what I would have done if I'd ever got round to it!
I love clothes lines full of flapping kids clothes. Mine is dreary fleeces and towels.
Orla was very brave to do the house up, and let us all watch. Her husband would be really proud.

The houses are staged at the end. Someone my husband vaguely knows in work was on it a few years ago so he asked him loads of questions after their episode aired 🤣

Lovely house this week but I think Dermot was right about the wall section in front of her new bedroom and about the colour of the run if units in the kitchen. I think they'd have been better in white. The rest of the kitchen was fab though!

I'd have liked to see the new bathroom and ensuite too. I wonder if the builder is in Instagram, last week's builder showed the upstairs of the Palmerstown house.

@snuffykins "Lovely house this week but I think Dermot was right about the wall section in front of her new bedroom and about the colour of the run if units in the kitchen. I think they'd have been better in white. The rest of the kitchen was fab though! "

Absolutely agree on both counts. Especially the white units for the opposite side of the kitchen. I'm hoping she might paint them white at some point

Yes the houses are staged and sometimes not even completely finished. My architect used to work on the programme years ago. He has a whole team of architects and interior designers etc. Definitely ain't all him

Jeepers @Dulra
That's not good - a whole team of architects for one feckin house 😮
😂😂😂

I wonder do Dermot and the QS get paid and does the builder give a discount because he gets loads of usually good publicity.m ?

Architects usually have architectural technologists drawing plans for them, and pointing out that things like drainage is an issue.
I have been told there is a big build special coming up for a charity thing.
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Anyone watch last night's episode?

Not yet! Later today if I hit a target, as it’s so miserably wet…

I only watched last week’s at the weekend. She should have kept the window ‘frame’, and no one is ever going to be able to make a patio on the sea side of an exposed coastal bungalow non-windy!

Poor woman, she must still be reeling, even surrounded by vast amounts of family. I admit to loving episodes where someone says ‘Fine’ to Dermot and then tells the builder to do something entirely different, giving D the beginnings of slight nervous collapse.

Thats the 2nd week in a row Room to Improve has had me in tears.

Whilst I know the initial budget was feisty, 1.6-2m was a crazy estimate 😮

I watched it. It was very uplifting and moving.Julian Benson is a wonderful human being and his team were amazing.
What a job though. An awful lot in it but well worth while.

Yes, eye watering, and a stark reminder to anyone attempting to renovate a beautiful old dilapidated building. . I was surprised they didn't install an elevator. I was expecting that was part of the 1.6million cost, hence pushing up the cost..

it is absolutely amazing what Julian Benson managed to achieve with his little foundation and the guy from Cork who took the last train home on Christmas Eve and was back working on St. Stephens day. Inspirational.

The CEO of the building organisation is certainly a force to be reckoned with, she was totally on top of it. I did think the Interior Designers' ideas were so very dated and twee, despite Dermot saying at the end he thought they worked, he wasn't that convincing.

The ex quantity surveyor was on the job, wonder if that was filmed a long time ago or is she coming back.

Julian Benson and all those that made Tranquility House become a reality
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

With all the bad news in the world at the moment, the programme showed there is good in the world too, all those pulling together.

Ní neart go cur le chéile

It seemed a bit rushed, maybe two episodes would have explained it all a bit better?
But it's certainly a great facility for families to have.

Someone I knew in work was on it years ago - apparently they stage the house with new furniture from arnotts for the end of show party and shots, then the furniture is all taken away again (they’re given the option to buy). So I’d say most people make do with their old furniture until their finances recover

Thanks for clarifying @WomBat55.

Just saw it last night. Lovely episode, I admit I knew little about CF so if nothing else it educated me about the realities of living with it.