Is tonight the last episode of the season then next January for the next season? For better or worse it is an entertaining show
Agree. I think even 1 minute extra to briefly say to the viewers, for example, that 'the heating system was a heat pump, 12 solar panels were fitted, underground heating system on the ground floor' ... and another 30 seconds at the end to give us a quick look at the finished bathrooms and utility room. Viewers dont need the full details, but I believe viewers want to know what systems were installed and what the rest of the rooms look like. They could steal a minute or two from the personal story bits. All other home renovation program we watch on the British channels show bathrooms & utility rooms. Why doesnt the Room to Improve production company ?
it's a nothing show really isn't it? like some feature you'd see in a newspaper supplement. doesn't really go into enough detail or information for a lot of people who'd be watching, if you were interested in the architectural, building upgrades, interior design aspects your not getting the whole picture.
maybe that's why it works though. it's watchable but you wouldn't care if you missed it
I was without internet for a few days and just catching up now.
This thread has given me the best laugh all week, its hilarious! The projected scenarios that people come up with……. spilling tea, scalding kids, children being impaled, elderly people falling up and down the 2 steps, visiting kids ending up with fractured skulls, disabled people potentially visiting, poor Orla on medication for stress…….all over a few steps! We have all been young, we will all get old, we have faced and will face many of these issues in our lives. At the end of the day this is a TV programme and the contestants have a say on what they want for their house!
Orla came across during that programme as being extremely assertive and decisive over what she wanted and didn't want. She changed Dermot's mind on many things! So I am quite sure she had a say in whether the kitchen would be split level or not. Its her house, her choice, her life, her future.
You missed people moaning about the topics that get discussed on the thread. 🤔
Wonder what tonight's main problem will be that people will go on about all week here?
Did I miss anything?
Well done to Orla doing that project on her own. From a builders/designer point, I felt there was a lost oppurtunity not to increase roof height and prepare an upstaris (just insulation, wiring, plumbing, fooring) for an attic converstion later down the road. Bunglows from the 70's and 80's which dont have a high enough pitch to add rooms in the attic are such a waste of valuable space. Poor planning laws in Ireland .. again. I know it would cost money, but I,d spend it there rather than the mezziline for example.
I'd be somewhere in the middle on the steps - I get why they were put in, it makes for a lovely and interesting room - but I'd think that putting a dining table with sharp corners right beside it with toddlers in the house might be just a bit foolhardy. That table might need padding for a few years. Not sure about the huge "step/mini wall" beside the steps either - I'd be putting some sort of rail on that myself.
*Someone who grew up in a 3-storey house with granite steps up to the front and back doors, and two flights of internal stairs - and who fell down every single one of them as a child, including splitting my head open on the back steps at the age of about 4!
The outrage over these steps is hilarious. I needed a good laugh.
*Someone who grew up in a 2 story house that also had 3 steps down to the backyard and never once fell down any stairs or steps.
You have a serious grudge about RTI. Last year you spent weeks in a thread like this and other threads asking about a bannister for stairs and if it passed regulations.
Your obsession with Dermot and running down his work is incredibly odd
Tell me you've never been around someone in a power wheelchair without telling me that you've never been around someone in a power wheelchair.
I don’t mean this in a flippant way but would your sister not consider serving dinner in the kitchen? Even in the case that that would allow for fewer guests it would be a lot less stress than building a whole new house.
My sister and brother-in-law built a beautiful house a good few years ago. Same as this, steps from the kitchen to the dining room, and also steps into the sitting room. My wife and I rarely visit them now as my wife uses a powerchair and can't access their dining room except from outside through the patio doors, and has no access to the sittingroom.
So if she needs to go to the loo, when over for dinner, she has to go out the patio doors, around the outside of the house and then in the front door. Far too much hassle especially when the outside doors have a lip that the powerchair has a problem getting over.
My sister has said that they regret building the house that way and that they hadn't thought of the future. It really dawned on her when she broke her leg and had so much trouble getting around her own home. They are now thinking of selling the house and redoing an old family home, this time fully on the level.
There's generations of us that survived rolling round in the back seats of Ford Cortinas without any restraint or security. That doesn't mean that seat belts aren't good idea.
Why not put them into a nursing home as soon as they’re born? Would save us having to build all these family homes … they’re just death traps anyways.
They’ll be back to begrudging some other family their own money to spend on their own house.
It's amazing that there's always a convenient "scarred child" acquaintance to go along with these anecdotes; there's generations of us that survived steps/stairs/split level homes. We silently carry our survivor stories of our live & death upbringing.
I'm amazed some can go about their day without pointing out every potential hazard with such fervour. She saw the design, she liked it; the children aren't babies for very long and she's a long time before she has to think about her old age and wheelchairs etc.
'impale them'
That escalated quickly! 😀😀
I never said that I never drunk a cup of tea or coffee upstairs in a house before.
There is a reason people do not build a kitchen on one level and their dining area on another level. And if there are steps for the unfortunate child or whoever, you do not put the corner of the table to impale them at the bottom of the unforseen steps.
Nice house otherwise, I wish them the best of luck.
Yes you told us the child was still scarred, I got that.
I think its mad that you have never drunk a cup of tea or coffee upstairs in a house before. Crazy stuff
It's a requirement
Most houses generally see renovation over the years. Or you think that's her done now for 60 years?
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.
I don't think it's practical to build every private house for wheelchair access .even in sligo theres sunny days without rain
Jesus you would think no children ever grew up in a 2 storey house!
But because of the tea incident you know about, you wouldnt want anyone every bringing a cup of tea up or down stairs then. So no one is allowed to have a cup of tea in bed in a 2 story house
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.
That older person you know that spilled tea on a child, I mean that could easily happen in a house where people have the kitchen upstairs. Do you think they should all be banned too?
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
I'm surprised it is allowed
You're surprised that people are allowed design the inside of their own home the way they want?
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