The Great House Revival

The 3rd floor.

Jeasus

Actually don't 😐

Surprised they got it finished.

Fair play to them.

I love it 😍

Missed the start so how much did they buy the building for?

Land and building was gifted.

It goes against everything I've ever heard about refurbishing old buildings, 375k was an absolute bargain

Fantastic present! 😀

Not all to my taste but absolutely brilliant to achieve the finish that they did within the couples budget.

They didn't give an exact finished figure but mentioned that the mortgage was below the average rent for houses in this country. Compared to the semi-detached shoeboxes that are for sale for over half a million these days, this place is on a different level and can't be any serious critism levelled at it.

They did a great job on it and it looked fantastic so well done to them for that.

But I have to say this recent trend of utterly low balling what the owners actually spent is starting to annoy me. If you take it at face value they paid less than the price of a 3 bed semi in Dublin to have a multi million euro home. That's utter bollox. And worse still it leaves people around the country feeling like idiots for spending the money they did on their homes (either buying or building). I can understand that it is no longer cool to say you spent a million on the house. The Celtic tiger is thankfully dead. But just don't talk about the financial aspect if they are going to pick some number out of their arse that is probably half what the actual cost was.

Not to my taste but wow it’s a great achievement to bring it back to life and show what can be accomplished.

definitely Looking at over half a million when finished. Would love to have seen some stone work left on the inside it was shame to plaster it all over.

Second Week now where advice wasn’t taken on board .. the windows definitely don’t suit it and I can imagine it’s going to be an nightmare to keep warm with that full hight void.

More than likely had a cash inheritance going into this as well , hard to see any bank handing over a huge mortgage in the jobs they had .. but she had a house to sell so that went into it as well.

When you see what is being sold in Dublin for half a million this build looks like a bargain.

I don't buy for a minute someone was watching the house. If they were you don't move in with a young baby until everything is secure the dad and a mate would camp out together. I suspect tensions got too much in one or both of the parents houses.

They said the builder agreed 375 at the start that was pre covid ....I suspect going by all the talk of how prices were increased in "room to improve" and "my bungalow bliss" that that figure was close to doubling by the end. The builder may have taken abit of a hit considering he got abit of advertising on the programme.

I would have put clear plane windows with probably a grey or brown frame in to make them blend as much as possible.

The rest of the house I thought was lovely, interior magazine photoshoot house. Wouldn't last 2 minutes with me but I did like it.

They seemed a nice couple. Though he seems like everything was handed to him and he never had to make a decision in his life.

I do wish they'd show more technical details on how different things were achieved, but this is probably a personal bias as I'm in the trade myself.

Stuff like how they weathertight the windows given the absence of traditional DPC, and any other steps taken to prevent water ingress, more details on how its being heated, etc.

IMO, they do a disservice to the people funding the project by selectively editing footage to make fake drama. Hugh is no Kevin McCloud, whose endearing interest in how features are achieved, rather than the pearl clutching, wide eyed astonishment over window choices etc is much more appealing.

Hugh also comes off as a bit smug, like he almost likes to see things go sideways or run into hassle.

Yeah the size was truly massive, did they state at any point exactly how big it was? I'd imagine over three floors it was around 450sqm but it could be even more than that. Even at 450sqm its the equivalent of owning three 3 bed semi-detatched houses. I was shuddering at the thought of cleaning all those floors and the 43 windows, like cleaning the windows alone would be a long full days work. I think houses of that size are completely impracticable unless the owners are wealthy enough that for the rest of their time they can always pay cleaners to maintain it and there is an ongoing cost behind that which builds up over the years. There is easily 8 hours work there every week just to keep on top of things and doing it all yourself would be like having a part time job on top of your full time one.

I've a couple of friends who built a 240sqm house and their intention at the start was to maintain it themselves. But after about 3 months they threw in the towel and got a cleaner in at a cost of about 5,000 a year becasue half of their Saturdays were getting taken up with the amount of work that needed to be done to keep the place looking well. The house last night was twice that size, its a fair sized task to maintain a house that big when you have full time jobs and kids to raise on top.