Business analyst Emily Lavelle her husband Ashley Hayes, who works in IT, and their three kids live in what would appear to be an ideal home: a large Victorian terraced house in the highly sought-after Dublin suburb of Donnybrook.
The house, originally owned by Emily's father, has been in the family for 40 years. Emily herself lived here when she was a student at nearby UCD.
Structurally, the house is much as it was when Emily and Ashley took up permanent residence 14-years-ago. Apart from knocking through a few dividing walls and refurbishing the living room, they haven't done much to the place, and it shows.
Up Next in Season 1
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Tipperary
Cathal and Siobhan, with two children and another on the way, want to turn a 1970s bungalow two miles outside Tipperary town into a modern family home, trading their small townhouse for what they hope will be 'bungalow bliss.' Their architect Dermot Bannon has quite a challenge ahead of him. The ...
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Cork
Marion Roche Martin - a former software engineer with Apple - recently returned from Silicon Valley California to the house where she grew up in Bishopstown, County Cork.
Determined to swap the high-pressure life of Silicon Valley for a calmer, more family focused existence, Marion and her Americ... -
Finglas
Joe and Geraldine Mooney are Finglas folk through and through. Though they've since moved out of the area, their daughter Lisa and her fiánce Gavin still live in the cottage where Joe grew up at a time when Finglas was more rural village that city suburb.
With mum and dad footing the bill for th...
