Room to Improve (v2)

tommythecat

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

I know if I paid that kind of money i'd expect not to be stuck in Drumcondra.

In fairness he isn't "stuck" in Drumcondra. It's where he wants to live.

InterestedK

The bioethanol fire that they put in is stunning and really considering one having seen how real the flame is.

Did he say all they need to light the flame is rapeseed oil and a drop of alcohol?!

Addle

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Did we find out if he got the renovation grant?

No mention of it, but work was done last year, so he wouldn’t have qualified for it anyways?

NIMAN

It is a real flame

meeeeh

I think he considers this his forever home. I gave no issues in pouring money (if you have it) into the house beyond the value it would achieve on the market. I love the house we built but there is no way we would recoup the money put in the place if selling. I'm positive we would clear the mortgage but when you are building a house you want to spend your life in then I think you should be guided by what you want and not by what it would make on the market. It's a home.

MrMusician18

micks_address wrote: »

Yeah im pretty sure he could go to suppliers and say things like..hmm ill use you as my preferred supplier for all jobs going forward and they'd say hmm... have this stuff for cost..

actually thought there was going to be a 3rd episode.. it went from chaos to all done in 2 minutes.. the kids dropping the stone in the kitchen was funny... drop it anywhere you want as long as you put it where i tell you...

diarmuid gavins place looks super.. you could probably have that for the same price as the bannons house..

i assume he paid 500k for the house and put in another 550k so its at least a 1 million spend?

I know Drumcondra is nice but id be tempted to get out of the town a bit and get more for the money. The garden is huge though.. id say the neigbours must feel severally underwhelming next to is house.. His extension and roof line must cut off a lot of their light?

They cut the shots around DGs house really tight, presumably to make it difficult to identify what part of Wicklow he lives in.

solerina

He had two stoves...the one with no flue was in the open plan kitchen area, the other real stove was in the front of the house...which I presume was connected to the old chimney on the roof....they showed both, just didn’t mention the normal wood burning stove.

seanino

Exactly - it's considered a sought after location especially being so close to city centre and off Griffith Avenue. Theres a house for 1.75m for sale on the same road

tommythecat wrote: »

In fairness he isn't "stuck" in Drumcondra. It's where he wants to live.

NSAman

It doesn’t really matter what “we” think of the house, this is the house that he wanted to build. Some of it is nice for me but the whole program was just confusing and not an architectural program (which is where my interests in this are)

The whole “pulling in favours” I can understand (no matter how rich you are).

What really irritated the hell out of me about all of this was the constant and blatant pushing of Gavin. It is supposed to be a build program and Gavin was pushing himself for more of this episode. If I wanted to watch “who lives in a house like this?”, it would have been fine.

The program never showed any of the construction. It went from a building site to finished in about 30 seconds. The design was overlooked completely (although briefly described in part one).

I agree with many that this didn’t help Bannon as an architect. It made him look incompetent and not on top of his game. Patricia on the other hand looked sheepish in the program compared to normal. The fact Bannon gave the final figure stood out. I still don’t believe the figure (even with Architect discount)

Some things that stood out... Budget he had for garden was much more than the 5K for the shed. The tree ferns put in alone at the back cost a few hundred a piece (especially that size). A garden of 130K is excessive and was very much money over substance, it certainly was not anywhere near that cost, but equally it wasn’t cheap.

I don’t envy him his house, may he enjoy it to the fullest with his family. He seems like a jovial enough chap and enjoys life, but that was not what I wanted to experience, I wanted to experience the build and not a family reunion program.

This could have been so much more, it was more an entertainment program and certainly not something most architects would want to be part of in a professional sense,,,,imho.

Would LOVE to see a program on the house the sisters collaborated on in Kildare, that looked amazing and was well designed.

meeeeh

I very much agree with your assessment. It wasn't great programme. As for the ferns I think OH was looking at something similar somewhere and they were priced in thousands (I can't find anything online that size so I can'treferencethat). There is possibility that some plants and furniture were brought in for the final staging and are not actually his.

joeysoap

Looked a really interesting and well designed house. Wouldn’t mind finding how much that cost to design and build.

The one in Kildare.

Clearly calling in favours included all professional fees. If you had builders on site you think you’d get away with €750 a week?

(3 months delay cost €9,000)

meeeeh

joeysoap wrote: »

Looked a really interesting and well designed house. Wouldn’t mind finding how much that cost to design and build.

The one in Kildare.

Clearly calling in favours included all professional fees. If you had builders on site you think you’d get away with €750 a week?

(3 months delay cost €9,000)

I think that's just the cost of delay not actual labour. He mentioned redoing the garden steps cost 7000 Euro. My guess is builders probably took on some smaller jobs and did not sit on the site for extra 3 months.

Millionaire only not

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

He paid 900K initially for the house and then probably 600K + for the extension and renovation.

I know if I paid that kind of money i'd expect not to be stuck in Drumcondra.

Did we find out if he got the renovation grant?

All these episodes about 90% in go from complete mess to walllah!! Completed. Then all the finer details get lost and it's all happy faces drinking wine in the kitchen and trying to convince each other that it was all worth it.

In fact Ud have to wonder why should people be entitled to a grant if they can afford 900k plus 600k - hardly makes sense !

iano.p

vicwatson wrote: »

I assume plus the cost of the house?

No house was extra, I think someone else said the house was got for around 600k

Addle

MrMusician18 wrote: »

They cut the shots around DGs house really tight, presumably to make it difficult to identify what part of Wicklow he lives in.

It reminded me of the house in ‘the country practice’ (I think).

tommythecat

iano.p wrote: »

No house was extra, I think someone else said the house was got for around 600k

The house was 900k

SteelyDanJalapeno

I'd say the roof of the outdoor man cave is getting tested today

MrMusician18

Addle wrote: »

It reminded me of the house in ‘the country practice’ (I think).

Simply because of the way they cut it, I was motivated to use all my sleuthing skills to find the house. He has never said in an interview where it is located, beyond saying its in Wicklow, that I could see.

Easy enough to find when you know the right (publicly available) database to look up however.

Addle

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Simply because of the way they cut it, I was motivated to use all my sleuthing skills to find the house. He has never said in an interview where it is located, beyond saying its in Wicklow, that I could see.

Easy enough to find when you know the right (publicly available) database to look up however.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/3685560/kilmacanogue/

ActingDanClark

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Simply because of the way they cut it, I was motivated to use all my sleuthing skills to find the house. He has never said in an interview where it is located, beyond saying its in Wicklow, that I could see.

Easy enough to find when you know the right (publicly available) database to look up however.

His is the one with the ten foot tall metal daisies in the front garden

MrMusician18

ActingDanClark wrote: »

His is the one with the ten foot tall metal daisies in the front garden

It's hardly inconspicuous so! Lol.

Galwayguy35

I thought they were the 2 most boring episodes in the history of the show, no aggro or drama and everyone agreeing with each other.

Newuseruntaken

Why are architects so well paid? I’m not begrudging him, I’m genuinely curious. It would take most degree educated people about 6 lifetimes to afford a house like that. How come there is such a big gap between architects and normal people? Do you have to be a maths genius to be an architect? Or are there certain limits on how many people can do the degree course each year? I wouldn’t of thought that it would be an extremely difficult job but open to correction.

micks_address

He has a architecture business though? It's not a one man show

Newuseruntaken wrote: »

Why are architects so well paid? I’m not begrudging him, I’m genuinely curious. It would take most degree educated people about 6 lifetimes to afford a house like that. How come there is such a big gap between architects and normal people? Do you have to be a maths genius to be an architect? Or are there certain limits on how many people can do the degree course each year? I wouldn’t of thought that it would be an extremely difficult job but open to correction.

Alicano

Icsics wrote: »

And just like that...finished!

Thank you!!!! I cannot stand this. My god.. All this drama and nonsense dragged out over 2 episodes. No talk about driveway or any interior bits.
And then suddenly the camera is panning to the left with job all done and everyone having the lols..
Utter sh1te :mad:

Newuseruntaken

micks_address wrote: »

He has a architecture business though? It's not a one man show

Business or no business, he’s only in his 40s and spending close to 1.5 million on a house. Before tax he would of needed to earn 3 million. And I’m sure he hasn’t put every penny he has into the house.

iamwhoiam

Newuseruntaken wrote: »

Business or no business, he’s only in his 40s and spending close to 1.5 million on a house. Before tax he would of needed to earn 3 million. And I’m sure he hasn’t put every penny he has into the house.

I am sure most of it belongs to the bank . And maybe his wife also earns good money ? Or he could have inherited some of it .

FFVII

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I am sure most of it belongs to the bank . And maybe his wife also earns good money ? Or he could have inherited some of it .

10 years rte aswell

iamwhoiam

FFVII wrote: »

10 years rte aswell

And Vodaphone ads !!

freshpopcorn

He probably get's the Volvo to!