Celebrity architect Dermot Bannon has lifted the lid on next year’s Room To Improve.
The hit RTE show celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2024. And Dermot dished the details on what viewers can expect from the series.
He said: “It never finishes because you’re working on next year’s episode. We’re always trying to react to whatever is going on so for us the big opportunities are in derelict houses because there’s grants available.
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“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 the houses. It depends on how many episodes we can get made [but it will air in] January 2024.
“Until RTE tell me no more, I’ll keep moving away from them.” Dermot opened up about his pride for the show but said he loves and hates it in equal measure, adding: “Room To Improve has been going for 14 years. We’re into year 15 now.
“If it all ended tomorrow, I wouldn’t feel like we failed. I would just feel like ‘didn’t we do well?’
“There’s a project this year that I actually started designing before it was approved by RTE. That’s how excited I was. I had no authority to do that. That was way above my pay grade but luckily it got approved.”
The Dubliner added: “I always had a day job. Room To Improve is great because I love it and I hate it in equal measure because it is so stressful but it is what it is.
“I don’t know if I would like to see Room To Improve season 22 because God knows what age I’d be.
“But I feel very lucky it has gone on this long. I have felt like that since day one. I have a day job. I have a practice, we’re busy. Most of my life is actually in the practice.”
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