Declan and Judy Cadwell from Clontarf share a small terraced home with their three sons, Christopher 19, Ross 17 and Jake 13. But only just.
The family's main living area is used for the boy's study work, family dining, laundry and computers. It's a lot of functions for a room that acts as a corridor into their kitchen. The five Cadwells also share one bathroom and that's a recipe for disaster. As Dermot's about to find out, Declan and Judy's design brief can be summed up in two simple words: more rooms. Their budget is 80,000 Euro.
Up Next in Season 1
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South Circular Road
Marie Duffy moved into her Victorian townhouse off the South Circular Road four years ago. Her friends all thought she was mad to buy it because there was so much work to be done. Over the years Marie spent most weekends and evenings attempting to bring the house back to its former glory. She rec...
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Co Offaly
Dermot encounters a stumbling block or two when he turns his hand to a badly laid out bungalow in Co Offaly. There's only one thing wrong with the Declan and Anne Conlon's bungalow in Edenderry, Co Offally and that's the entire ground-floor layout.
Since they had their bungalow built, nearly th...
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Rathfarnham
Dermot revamps a Rathfarnham four-bed to suit the changing needs of its occupants
Peter, Lisa and their twins Grace and Louise (9) live in a four-bed house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 14. They moved into their detached home just three years ago, shortly afterwards Lisa was diagnosed with MS. Now her...
