Home Rescue

In Ballybrack in south Dublin, Luke and Amy share the house where Luke grew up, with their young kids Summer and Beau James, but what should be their forever home still feels like someone else's. With a poor layout and limited storage, the house is barely fit for purpose but the real reason things haven't moved on are bittersweet memories of Luke's late mother and brother.

Errigal Cottage in the little village of Killeigh near Tullamore County Offaly is home to Ginny, her son Jody and her dad Pearse. Still devastated by the loss of her mother Brighidin, whose presence can still be felt in her favourite room, Ginny still feels like a teenager at Errigal Cottage despite the love and support of her dad. The house is cold and cluttered, the layout is chaotic.

The team are in Clondalkin in Dublin, where Lisa and John share a modest three bed terraced home with seven of their nine children. John works five days a week and Lisa has a full-time job as a stay-at-home mum - somehow managing to feed, clothe and organise an army of kids in the most cluttered, least functional home imaginable.

Childhood sweethearts Alan and Orla Condron share a three bed house in the Kildare town of Kilcullen with their kids Bele and Rhys, Peaches the dog, Bobo the cat, a feisty rabbit called Moo Moo and two birds, Spike and Gerry. The house is filled with the warmth of family life but, due to her heart condition, Orla spends much of the day resting upstairs with the curtains closed.

In the village of Dunboyne in County Meath, Dublin bus scheduler Gavin has shared a house with his mother Sharon since they moved from Enfield when he was a teenager. Sharon is full of life and optimism but - following a bus accident and subsequent health issues, her limited mobility means that Gavin is her right hand man.

The team travel to Co. Carlow, where for the last six years, Katherine, David and their three kids have been living in a 1960s three bed semi that's never really been a proper family home for them. Filled with the décor and legacy furniture of the previous owners, the house is stuck in the past with a chaotic living room doubling as a playroom but functioning as neither.