Dermot Bannon and Karen Mulligan deliver a stunning renovation while staying within budget.
Room To Improve returned to our screens last night as Dermot Bannon and quantity surveyor Claire Irwin set out to transform a vacant property. Karen Mulligan was hoping to give a brand new life to her childhood home in Charlestown, Co Mayo, which was also her dad's butcher shop. The derelict building needed a lot of work but Karen had her heart set on turning it into her dream home.
Karen wanted to build a three-bed townhouse with two bathrooms with an open plan kitchen/living/dining room area. It was certainly an ambitious project, as well as an emotional one as Karen and her family combed through their childhood home before work began. Dermot and Karen clashed over a number of interior design choices, but in the end it all came together and the final reveal showed a stunning, bright home with beautiful views out to the surrounding Mayo countryside. Viewers were moved by the episode and Karen's connection to the property, with one person taking to social media to write: 'Seeing the emotional connection Karen & her family have to what was the family business & home, it just HAS to be more possible for the vacant commercial buildings in towns & villages around the country to be redeveloped as new family homes - for SO many reasons!' However, one major detail caught viewers' eye as it was a change to how the programme usually goes - they managed to stay on budget! Karen's original hope was to get the project done for €290,000, but it quickly became clear that this wasn't going to happen and it was revised. The final cost came in at €345,000, near bang on the revised budget estimate they agreed on. One viewer took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to joke: 'Ok, @DermotBannon has just delivered a #roomtoimprove house in Mayo bang on budget
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