Room to Improve (v2)

Read what I said before you post ...He did her no favours with the split level kitchen design, the rest is beautiful .

"I don’t think anyone ever once considered the health and safety of our house and nobody has fallen to their death so far and generations raised here"

They obviously did consider health and safety when it was being built. Did a good job too, otherwise you might not be here.

I thought it was a good design dont mind the split level and nice patio, having a nice patio is one of the more important aspects of house now I think. Loved his covered area there are well, it would have been epic if he built in a one of those south african BBQs (Braai) inthe covered area as well.

Front of the house looks bland and could have done with those pillars and wall Dermot wanted but I understand from building a house myself some things have to go for cost savings.

Another mistake she made was with the kitchen where he was trying to convice her not to put those cuboards in black that were in the alcove opposite the kitchen….bad mistake on her and the kitchen designers part…it would have been A LOT better having them in white.

There were multiple things she expressed her unhappiness about.

No as a child I didnt have 270k spare

Decades from now people will still be talking about the terrible stepgate 😱

Or at least until next Sundays episode where it will be replaced by another item.

Looking at the photo it is as bad as it gets all right. If I bought the house first thing I'd do is fill in the hollow space below those 2 steps, or else try to lower the ground level in the kitchen by the height of 2 steps. In a relatively confined space there is no excuse to have steps between the kitchen and dining table like that. I know an older person who tripped in a house and spilled hot tea over a small child, the child is now grown up but still has the scars. Someone else I know who has a couple of steps broke an ankle and was in a cast for 6 weeks and had to do physio after that. All because of a couple of steps in a house. I'm surprised it is allowed, when so many people have to future-proof their houses.

Just caught an ad for what looks like an epic episode this week - yer man from Dancing with the Stars (judge, has CF, name escapes me right now - Justin? Julian?) - renovating what looks like a mahooooosive Victorian house, 2-storey over basement (I grew up in one of those, that is the stuff of absolute nightmares!!!) - trying to renovate it to provide accommodation for families of those getting treatment for CF. At least I think that's what's going on.

I didn't see the whole ad so not sure of location, but I'm assuming it's somewhere in Ballsbridge close to St. Vincent's Hospital.

Can't wait to see the budget wrangling/overruns on this one…… and where he'll fit in an aul courtyard (or have they gone out of fashion?)

DB was on the radio the other day and it sounded like there are 5 episodes.
this Sunday with the house for people with CF and then he said something about the following week being an amazing one with something never seen before or some such. Hope it’s not steps this place will be unreadable

The kitchen upstairs is fine if the dining area is upstairs too. OK, maybe not so great for very old people or visitors, but there were no very old people on last weeks programme.

Kids run between kitchen and dining the whole time, other people carry food and pots or cups of tea etc between kitchen and dining the whole time. Looking at that photo someone else posted, it is only a matter to time before some kid visitor or someone stumbles on that step and hits their head of the corner of the table in front of it. Kids do get excited and run around without looking where they are going a lot of the time you know. They come from a level house and expect every other house to be level.

At least that hollow could be filled in, I can see that happening some time, best solution.

Jesus you would think no children ever grew up in a 2 storey house!

There is a reason why extremely few cups of tea are ever brought up and down stairs in houses, and when they are people know to be extra careful. And they would not do it if they were old, on crutches, drunk or new to the house. It is much nicer when the dining area is on the same level as the kitchen, and that I bet is the way it is in 99.99 % of dwellings in the world. There are enough accidents in the world without adding to the list. The child who got scarred by someone tripping with hot tea is still scarred as an adult.

It's a requirement