Room to Improve

At the village of Puckaun in north Tipperary, teachers Darragh Egan, his partner Sarah Lovett and their three month old son Donagh are moving home. What could be simpler or more straightforward? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Home is the 1960s bungalow where Darragh grew up - built on the site of the old village school by his late father Jim and currently occupied by his 70 year old mother.

Airline pilot Ian Callaghan has bought a 1930s Victorian house in his hometown of Drogheda, County Louth, which he and his girlfriend Claire Moore are keen to call home. Though full of charm and period features, the house is in dire need of renovation. Enter: architect Dermot Bannon with an innovative plan to retain the building's century-old ambience while adding a radical modern extension.

Last year, Aoife from Sutton and her wife Mel from New Zealand bought themselves a three bed semi in Baldoyle north Dublin - a tiny house in a spectacular bayside location. With incredible, unobstructed views of the sea and Portmarnock golf course, they've been hoping to renovate the house to suit its superb location ever since.

This week Dermot is in Maynooth. Seven years ago, George and Sinead Mullis fell in love in with the Coach house - an 1850s building on half an acre of the historic former Carton Estate in Maynooth. In 2014, they bought the place for just half of its former asking price and moved in with their two year old son Daniel. But what seemed like their dream home soon turned out to be anything but.

A special edition of the show where Dermot revisits three of his favourite builds from earlier series: the Longford publicans he convinced the embrace the void, a couple moving home from California to Bishopstown and 14 year old Michael's wheelchair accessible semi-d in Malahide.