Room To Improve host Dermot Bannon has hinted about a new project away from architecture – and doesn’t care if it’s profitable.
He kept his new “pet project” under wraps but told the Irish Mirror it has been a “burning desire” to do and it won’t be aired on TV. Dermot said: “I’m working on something. It’s a personal pet project.
"All will be revealed. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for years and I’ve finally got it underway in the last quarter of last year so this year it is going to be launched.
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“Not away from design... but it’s away from architecture. It’ll be during the summer. I don’t know if I’ll ever make any money out of it and I don’t care.”
Dermot, who is filming for next year’s Room To Improve, has already revealed what fans can expect when the series airs in January. He said: “We’ve a really cool project in Mayo. It’s an old butcher’s shop that’s going to be converted into a family home.
"That’s brilliant. It’s more of the same. We’ve got a farmhouse down in Kilkenny, we’ve got an ordinary house in Santry. I think everybody wants to see these houses.”
Dermot also told of his pride in the show but admitted he loves and hates it in equal measures. He added: “We’re into year 15 now. If it all ended tomorrow, I wouldn’t feel like we failed. I would just feel, ‘Didn’t we do well?’
“In some ways, TV wise, I don’t feel like there is anything left to prove, but for me there is because when I do Room To Improve, I go into it every year as if it is my first year.”
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