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Home of the Year RTE 1 - 8.30pm Tuesdays

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    The first house although well loved and lived in was dark l thought , second one was just another “show pony” house, clinical and soulless. Third house the best imo



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭Ben Bailey


    Really dislike the 'show pony' houses which SO impresses the judges. It's Home of the Year not House of the Year ffs

    Thought the third home was brilliant. Not everything to my taste, but lovingly done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    exactly. There was love in the third house that shone through



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭Feets


    Where was the winning home in Kildare? Is it calverstown?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Thought the final was a bit meh. I barely even remember the house that won, it wasn't exactly memorable, just another revamp with jewel colour sofas and "pops" of colour.

    I really thought the tiny site house was going to win, and to be fair I though the owner seemed the most humble out of all of them. The couple who owned the victorian revamp that looked like a boutique hotel seemed a bit up themselves, or at least she did. She had these leather sleeve/glove things on which looked ridiculous.



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,051 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Yeah, I preferred the small house that was in the top three, and the house in Kildare that they knocked out early on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,808 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    The main thing I remember from the final was, the single lady seemed very desperate to make friends with all the other finalists.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,142 ✭✭✭Deeec


    😂Yeah I thought that funny too. She mentioned twice that she wanted to make new friends and set up a what's app group . I'm not sure the others felt the same.

    I wasn't wowed at all by the house that won. This series hasn't been great imo - I didn't have much house envy during this season at all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    As someone else mentioned I think this series needs to decide if it wants to be Home of the Year or House of the Year as there is a big difference. For me a lot of the pristine show house type enties aren't remotely homely and I couldn't ever imagine living in one (not that I ever could afford to!).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Absolutely ridiculous the house that won.

    As myself and husband were saying when they were debating the homes it shouldn't have even been in the final never mind win! It looked like any bog standard 1970s house in an estate with a bit of an extension and bit of colour, nothing unique at all.

    How did Amanda let that win?

    I would have been happy with either of the other top three houses winning.

    The small house was very clever and I just adored the Victorican house in Dublin.

    Even if the mad shop house won I wouldn't have minded, not too my taste but at least unique.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mr.CoolGuy


    They don't seem to like each other very much, but i get that it's a lot more interesting for them to be disagreeing rather than just nodding along with each other.

    I do get annoyed when the judges have a clear style they prefer, and they'll give high marks to a bog standard house in their preferred style and lower marks to a fantastic house in a different style.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,542 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    Will miss him. RIP.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 287 ✭✭Mo Ghile Mear


    I’m very sorry to hear about Hugh. He had a great way about him for TV, as well as being a very talented and accomplished architect .
    I can’t see the Home of the Year or the Great House Revival being the same without him, that’s if they even continue.
    RIP Hugh. May you have mad colours and eccentricity wherever you are.



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