- 4 hours ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:01Downsizing.
00:02When your kids leave home and you need less space,
00:05it just makes sense.
00:07The key bit of downsizing is the word sizing.
00:09Downsizing with space.
00:11No, hold on a sec. Downsizing with nothing.
00:13But when your dreams are bigger than the house you're moving into...
00:16Damn it, I'm in love. Oh, I'm feeling beautiful.
00:20If you ask me, do I want to buy it, I'll buy it today.
00:23The best way forward is to take a step back.
00:26What are they downsizing from?
00:27I probably should have come here first,
00:29but then I would have been advising them not to move.
00:31So, no, we've got to make this work.
00:33We've got to make this work.
00:50Deirdre and Ciaran Kelly have lived in the West Dublin suburb of Clonsilla
00:54for over 30 years.
00:56But much as they love the house they live in now,
00:59they've never forgotten their first home, just up the road.
01:02Back in the early 90s, they watched it go up brick by brick.
01:07When we were saving for the house, we literally hadn't got a penny.
01:11So our entertainment used to be driving up to here with my dad,
01:16because my dad is a builder.
01:18And we'd come in and we'd watch every step of the house being built.
01:21Yeah.
01:22The foundations had just been dug out and my dad put the miraculous medal into the foundations
01:27and they blessed it with the holy water and everything else.
01:31So that was lovely, wasn't it?
01:32Yeah.
01:33That was nice, you know.
01:33So it would bring good luck and good blessings to the house and stuff like that.
01:3920 years ago, after the arrival of twins Liam and Shauna, Deirdre and Ciaran would move to a larger detached
01:45house.
01:46But even though they'd outgrown their beloved three-bed semi, they weren't ready to say goodbye.
01:53Never ever wanted to sell it and it was a huge struggle for us at the time when we did
01:57move on not to sell it.
01:58Like no matter how hard things got, I was never going to sell here, ever.
02:03You know, it would have broke, I would have broke my heart.
02:05Like I just loved the house.
02:07We always had a vision that we would eventually come back.
02:11You know, I can't explain it, it's just something that I felt inside.
02:16And so here we are, yeah.
02:20The Old Place will be getting an extensive renovation, which the Kellys will fund with the imminent sale of their
02:26current home.
02:27We've never done a renovation before.
02:29Am I okay to say we're virgins?
02:32Because that's what we are.
02:34In terms of renovation, we've done nothing.
02:37The help that Dermot's going to give us will be just priceless, really.
02:43George Risen.
02:44Oh, hi Dermot, how are you?
02:45Nice to meet you, how are you?
02:46It's the building for sure, it's the area and also the friends, friends around the area.
02:51Like even though we're gone 20 years, we're still best friends.
02:54So that was a big pull to it as well.
02:57Right, where do we start?
02:59Okay, so right, you're not obviously living here anymore then.
03:02No, no, the house, we've had the house rented out since 2005.
03:06And you've hung on to it all that time?
03:07We did, yeah, through difficult times, but we did, we managed to hang on to it, yeah.
03:12And now?
03:13It's just fitting right to come home.
03:15It feels right.
03:16Okay.
03:16It just feels right.
03:17It feels as if it's the right thing that we're doing.
03:19Liam and Sean are twins, they're our life.
03:21They're now of an age where they're looking to spread their wings and we're in a house now.
03:28It's a four bedroom detached house and the two of us will be just rattling around in it on our
03:33own.
03:34So this was the original kitchen?
03:36Yes.
03:36Nothing has changed?
03:37Nothing has changed.
03:38Nothing has changed, yeah.
03:39We need it to be updated.
03:40It's there since 1991.
03:42Okay.
03:42So we'd like kind of a face, you know.
03:44It's done its time.
03:44It's done, it's served its time.
03:46And it served a good purpose as well.
03:47Absolutely.
03:48So it's time for change.
03:49We're coming back to Porter's Gate, so we're downsizing.
03:53But it's the sense of space that we want to try and keep.
03:56We understand that the overall size of the house is different, but to get that sense of space.
04:01What we want is this room just to be spacious that we can have more than one or two people
04:06in it, you know.
04:07Okay.
04:07We just want to keep that space.
04:08What's confusing me here is they need a lot of space and in the middle of it all they're downsizing.
04:13The problem is though, what they have in their head doesn't really match up with what they have in their
04:18hearts.
04:18Downsizing.
04:19Downsizing.
04:20Do you know what that means?
04:21I do, absolutely.
04:22I know what it means.
04:23But you see...
04:24We do, but our minds don't.
04:25Yeah.
04:26Okay.
04:26Our minds are caught in our existing house.
04:30Like what we don't want to do is spend a huge amount of money on this house.
04:34Yes.
04:35To make it into something that you already have.
04:37Yes.
04:37Up the road.
04:38Okay.
04:38I agree.
04:39That you could quite easily just stay in it.
04:41Yeah.
04:42The key bit of downsizing is the word sizing.
04:45Yeah.
04:45Downsizing with space storage.
04:47No, hold on a second.
04:48Downsizing with nothing.
04:49Just downsizing.
04:50Yeah.
04:51Now.
04:53Oh, wow.
04:54This is lovely, isn't it?
04:55It's lovely, isn't it?
04:55Yeah.
04:56So, this is a lovely little sun trap.
04:59Yes.
05:00What do you want to do with it out here?
05:02I think the perfect fit would be a man cave.
05:04What is a man cave?
05:05A man cave for me would be a place to go with my pals.
05:10Right.
05:11My neighbours, my friends.
05:12In there, watch a match maybe.
05:14Why?
05:15The man cave is Ciaran's idea.
05:17I mean, this...
05:17Yeah.
05:18It's something I always wanted to do.
05:21Somewhere we can go, watch a couple of matches, you know, have a beer and just chill.
05:26It's not just for men.
05:28Because, like, just for men, they're great.
05:30Jesus, Ciaran, you're really digging yourself in.
05:32No, but if you...
05:33Am I allowed in?
05:34If we say that we like entertaining, we do like going out the back.
05:37We do like our friends out of an evening, a summer evening.
05:40Yeah.
05:40And it would be nice to be able to open the doors and this is where we'd entertain as well.
05:45In your head, what is this space?
05:46Is it this?
05:47Or is it a bit fancier than this?
05:49Oh, absolutely a bit fancier.
05:51Okay.
05:52Got your magic wand and...
05:53It's broken.
05:54And is it optional?
05:55No.
05:55What do you mean optional?
05:56I wouldn't say optional.
05:57I would put one of the high ones on my wish list.
06:00Okay.
06:01I suppose the burning question then is how much do you want to spend on it?
06:04Well, we have a budget of 200,000.
06:07Yeah.
06:07Plus, let's say, the grants for the upgrading of the...
06:11The retrofitting.
06:11Retrofitting.
06:12Oh, we want to retrofit it as well.
06:13Yes.
06:14Yeah, ideally, yeah.
06:15We've...
06:16What I would think was a good budget for a downsizer, but...
06:19Yeah.
06:19The project, to me, isn't a downsizer.
06:23Okay.
06:24What is it?
06:26It's an upsizer.
06:28It's a massive wish list.
06:30I just hope that we kind of don't start into this project, finish it out, and it turns
06:36out that the perfect house for them was the one that they're already living in.
06:41With that in mind, Dermot returns to Cloncilla a few weeks later with a hybrid plan.
06:47Part downsize, part upsize.
06:50Right, so this is your site, and you know you've got an amazing south-facing back garden,
06:56and that's what we want to capitalize on.
06:58Yes.
06:58One of the key things he said is we want to downsize, but we want to keep it spacious.
07:01So we're going to have to make this house feel a lot more spacious using the existing
07:06rooms.
07:07Okay?
07:07So one of the things the tricks you do is to introduce a nice route through the house
07:11that everything will open off.
07:12So it kind of keeps a clear path so you're not crossing over rooms, and that will immediately
07:16start to make the place feel bigger.
07:18That kind of route then leads you the whole way through here, and then the end of the
07:22route then is the man shed at the end of the garden.
07:26To make the house feel bigger than it actually is, it needs a simple layout with a connection
07:31all the way through to the garden.
07:33To achieve this, I've set up a route through the house from the front door right through
07:37to the new man cave at the end of the journey.
07:40Because it'll be visible from the entire living space, this new man cave needs to be
07:45an architectural building divided into a space for Ciaran on one side and a shed for
07:49the bikes and utilities on the other.
07:51On the far side of a new paved and landscaped courtyard, an extension will be added, allowing
07:57the house to be divided into three distinct zones.
08:00At the rear, a new extension will be a family gathering space, glazed and stepped in at the
08:05side to accommodate a planter.
08:08This will bring light deep into the ground floor, allowing views of the garden and greenery
08:13on two sides.
08:14A second zone in the middle of the house will contain a workspace, the kitchen and a utility
08:19storage wall with a window seat adjacent to the new planter.
08:22The third zone at the front of the house will be an intimate, cosy living space, with sliding
08:27pocket doors allowing either privacy or connection to the rest of the ground floor.
08:32The entire house will be energy retrofitted with new insulation and windows, but upstairs
08:37the layout will remain pretty much the same, with the bigger ensuite in the principal bedroom,
08:41and bedrooms for Seana and Liam.
08:44Mm-hm.
08:45Wow, it's beautiful.
08:46Yeah, I'm really, really, really impressed.
08:48Just in terms of this piece here, the glass.
08:50Yeah.
08:52I love it.
08:53My only thing that I'm trying to understand is the planter on the side, because I'm thinking
09:00that I could use that as kitchen space.
09:03Is that not just wasting space?
09:05If you pull this right over to the wall and pull it down the full way, you're in a tunnel.
09:09What I've done in the kitchen, in the kitchen extensions, I've pulled the wall in slightly
09:14and turned it into a glass wall.
09:17And the reason I've pulled it in slightly is that I can put some plants outside the window.
09:20And what that does is it allows you a side view.
09:23So many people extend out the back of their house and it just becomes a tunnel.
09:27So by creating this side view, it means that you see plants and then you get to see the trees
09:31and you get to see the sky.
09:32And what it'll do is it'll make that room feel much bigger.
09:35I'm just...
09:36You think it's a waste of space, don't you?
09:37I do think it's a waste of space, Darren. I'm sorry. I think it's a waste of space.
09:41Deirdre became a little bit obsessed with the little planter at the side of the house.
09:45She called it a waste of space.
09:48But actually, she'll get four more cupboards in there, but lose the view of the sky,
09:52lose the view of the trees and lose the view of the plants.
09:55I don't think that's worth it.
09:56It's what's going to make this room really special.
09:59Yeah.
10:00It won't be much bigger, but it'll feel much bigger.
10:03Right.
10:03OK, so this is...
10:06We're up at £129,000 for the existing house.
10:09That's the entire house to do with the energy upgrades.
10:14OK.
10:14The rear extension is coming in at £45,000.
10:17And then we've got to put in a bit of money for landscaping.
10:19Yes.
10:19We've got £5,600 in there.
10:21And the man shed is coming in at £27,000.
10:24Wow.
10:25OK.
10:25That gives us a budget of £207,921.
10:30So, how does that look?
10:31Well, maybe it is a case that I might have to sacrifice a little bit on the man cave, let's
10:37say.
10:38I wasn't expecting that type of money to invest.
10:41Not really, no.
10:43There's no point in putting something miserable and small down the end of the garden,
10:47because they'll never use it, it'll be too small.
10:49So, if you're going to do it, do it properly.
10:54I might need to get my head around a little bit of an adjustment on the man cave.
10:58Just a little.
10:59Yeah.
11:00That's going to be the...
11:01Something for discussion.
11:02Yeah.
11:07Until this project goes to tender, which it does in late March, the build budget, which includes a €20,000
11:13grant, is just an estimate.
11:15Two months later, when the actual costings arrive, the size of Ciaran's man cave isn't the issue.
11:21The issue is everything else.
11:25A budget of €200,000 these days doesn't stretch a lot.
11:29There's so much construction work happening.
11:31Everybody's busy, and it's just having a huge knock-on effect on the cost of construction.
11:36The proof is in the pudding here in these tender returns.
11:39To think that a 16 square metre extension, a man shed, a renovation to the existing house,
11:45is prices coming in at €250,000 to €350,000.
11:48It's just nuts.
11:50I've called this meeting today in the hope that we can revisit what we had originally specified for the energy
11:58upgrade works.
11:59At the minute, we're aiming for an A3, A2 rating.
12:03So perhaps we can scale back the works, but still have a similar energy rating at the end, and get
12:09it closer to where we need to be, closer to the 207 mark.
12:13I have the tenders back, and the energy upgrade works is just costing a huge proportion of the tender.
12:19Sure.
12:19So I'm hoping that perhaps we could scale back on some of the wall insulation that we've taken for in
12:26the tender, if there is adequate insulation in the wall.
12:29Owen is our BEOR assessor, and I always say to homeowners, a BEOR assessment is really invaluable, and it's the
12:35best money you spend before you start a project.
12:37Get the BEOR assessor out to check what the insulation levels are, what the energy rating will be.
12:43The information that Owen can give to us is invaluable.
12:47So that's the level of insulation there, which is maybe 35mm.
12:52Wow.
12:53That's less than half of what you do now.
12:56Correct, yeah.
12:57It is a much poorer performing than what would be used nowadays as well.
13:00We can make it up with ventilation, attic insulation, new windows, with all the things on the periphery, but it's
13:07like going out for a walk in the rain and putting on Wellington boots, hats, gloves, the whole lot, and
13:12leaving your coat at home.
13:13And then it's not necessarily enough to get the best performance out of the heat pump.
13:18Yeah.
13:19It's just disappointing, to be honest, that the insulation is as poor as what it is.
13:24The insulation that's already in the tender is required.
13:28We have to be sensible about it.
13:30If we're going to put in a heat pump, we're going to change the windows, we're going to create this
13:34lovely warm space.
13:35We need to have warm walls that can retain the heat, so we have to upgrade them.
13:39Something's going to give.
13:40If we're over budget here, is the man cave essential?
13:43Is the corner glass in the extension essential?
13:47Everything's up for grabs now, so the design could be affected.
14:00After much negotiation and a two-month tendering process, the build at Clancilla finally goes to site in June.
14:06Complete with a man cave, a full energy retrofit, and an agreed construction budget of £230,000.
14:14Job one, demolition.
14:17We're getting through it.
14:19It's hot work today, but we're just stripping the old insulation off the walls.
14:23All the external walls are getting stripped, and they're going to be re-insulated with a new 100mm insulated board.
14:30Deirdre and Ciaran have engaged a one-stop shop to handle construction, project management, and energy grant applications.
14:38The build, set for completion in 16 weeks' time, will be headed up by site managers Aoife McKenna and Marcus
14:44Bourke.
14:45It's been a split between a retrofit team and a construction team.
14:49Yeah.
14:49And we have a good lot of houses that have small extensions in that, under 40m2.
14:52Exactly. It's the right time to do it, you know.
14:54If you're insulating your whole house, and you're thinking about an extension,
14:57it's a good time to do it all together and, you know, make it all one envelope.
15:05Oh, my God, Clare.
15:08Yes, what in God's name? Oh, my God.
15:11Tell us, what can you see?
15:13Holes galore.
15:14How far is it coming out, Linda?
15:16Well, no, yeah, as far as ours, so I'd say it's going to be a fair sight.
15:20I am Clare. I live three doors down.
15:23Met Deirdre and Ciaran when they moved in here in 1991.
15:27And we've been best friends ever since.
15:30I'm Linda, and I live next door, attached to them.
15:33Very lucky to be their closest neighbours.
15:37So, thrilled they're coming back.
15:40Oh, my God.
15:42Oh, my God. Skip.
15:43Oh, wow.
15:46Oh, my God, that's incredible.
15:48This is unbelievable.
15:49Yeah, wow.
15:50We started.
15:51This house means so much to us, and our friends next door,
15:54and Clare down the road, and everyone on the road.
15:56Everyone's so nice.
15:57You know what? It brings us back to the first couple of days we came in.
16:01Yeah.
16:01When it was being built.
16:03Yeah, yeah.
16:03This is the way it was.
16:04This is the way it was to be.
16:05Yeah.
16:0635 years, 34 years.
16:08Oh, my God, it brings back memories.
16:09Oh, my God, it does indeed.
16:11Bit emotional, to be honest.
16:12Yeah.
16:12Yeah.
16:13Oh, my God.
16:14Yeah.
16:15It's very emotional, actually.
16:17Looking back on it.
16:18Oh, God.
16:22Hello there.
16:23Hi, Deirdre.
16:24Hi.
16:25Oh, my God, you've been busy this morning.
16:27We did it all ourselves.
16:29Oh, right.
16:29Wow.
16:29Today's good.
16:30It's good to finally put all the tender, and all the negotiations, and all the cutting,
16:35and adding, and all behind me.
16:37Now I can just breathe a little bit, and just look forward to it going ahead.
16:41We'll walk through what they've sprayed out here.
16:43So this is the extension now.
16:44Do you want to step into it?
16:45Oh, it's nothing.
16:46Come into your kitchen.
16:47Come into my humble abode.
16:48Come into your humble abode.
16:49So this is our, this is the extent of the extension.
16:53Yeah.
16:53That's our planter.
16:55Okay.
16:56Which I'm still not 100% sure on, but anyhow.
16:59I'm actually, it's...
17:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:00No.
17:02I didn't even say my sentence.
17:05So you can see, Deirdre, all of this corner is glass, and it will make the whole place feel
17:11much bigger.
17:11Okay.
17:12Okay.
17:13So that's sorted.
17:14Great.
17:15I just need to kind of get it in my head about the size, you know, and is that just
17:20a wasted
17:20space type of thing?
17:22The glass corner on the house, which I think is the most important thing, so the house does
17:26not feel like a tunnel, because it'll be a really, really long room with no glass on
17:31either side.
17:31If we go the full width across, we're into kind of a, we have to put a block wall there.
17:37Okay.
17:37Might be a bit of a tunnel from the back.
17:39Alright, okay.
17:40I don't completely hate it, but...
17:43Deirdre said, I don't completely hate it.
17:45I'd love to know what percentage.
17:47Does she not come...
17:49You're not jumping for joy saying, oh God, I love it, Dermot, are you?
17:52No, I, no, I don't want to come across that I don't like it.
17:54I do like it, but my big concern is that...
17:56I don't want to come across that I don't like it, but I don't like it.
18:00What would you like to come across as?
18:02I'm still not 100% convinced on Dermot's courtyard on the side.
18:07It's just my concern that it could possibly be a waste of space.
18:10Will we talk about the man shed?
18:12Yes.
18:14Okay, so the 360 degree U-turn, since we spoke last, we've had a rethink.
18:23So, we've come up with an idea to extend the roof, as you guys were going to do, but just
18:29break everything out.
18:30Leave it an open plan area where we'd have a deck...
18:34It's like an outdoor barbecue area.
18:35We sat and we spoke about it, and we are people that love living outside, out the back area.
18:42The man shed is going to be sitting in.
18:46Yes.
18:47We like sitting out.
18:49Everything was revolving around fitting in this man shed and making it big enough to get a couch into it
18:54and a television.
18:55And no, gone.
18:59Finito. Gone.
19:00Ciaran is not the type of guy that would come out and be watching.
19:02I'd say to him, how many times would you go out to the shed and watch the match?
19:06He wouldn't. He'd be watching it inside.
19:08But it is not what you dreamed about.
19:11No.
19:12No.
19:12So, it's kind of gone from a man shed to a man porch to a man umbrella, really.
19:22It's just a bit of a roof over a patio.
19:25Like, that's all it is.
19:25We're not doing the man shed.
19:28No, no.
19:28This is the white knuckle ride you're on now.
19:31We're not doing it.
19:32We're not doing it.
19:33No.
19:34Let's go this other way.
19:36Yeah.
19:37We told him there was going to be a roller coaster.
19:39Yeah.
19:39So, yeah.
19:40Strap yourself in.
19:42It'll take more than a seat belt to keep this project on the rails.
19:46What Deirdre and Ciaran need is actual proof of concept.
19:51Right, we're just in here.
19:53Follow me.
19:56Thank you very much.
19:57The surprise is all in through here.
19:59Oh, wow.
20:00Okay.
20:01And it's this space I want to show you.
20:03Okay.
20:04Oh, wow.
20:04It's beautiful.
20:05Wow.
20:06Oh, my gosh.
20:07This terraced Victorian house in Donnybrook, remodelled and extended by Growworks, features
20:13an open plan rear extension topped by a striking structural timber roof, allowing an L-shaped
20:19wall of glazing to connect the space to the garden on two sides.
20:24Now, I brought you here because this is kind of an extreme version of what we're doing.
20:29Like, look at the gap between the stone wall and the glass.
20:32It's as small as it possibly can be.
20:35But can you see the effect that it has on making this room feel much wider?
20:40I brought Deirdre and Ciaran here today to show them that pulling the building slightly
20:46away from a wall and leaving a bit of space does really work.
20:50It's really effective and it gives you that punch of the outside right into the building.
20:54I just love the glass and I didn't think I would like the side, but it's just gorgeous.
21:00Isn't it?
21:01It really is nice.
21:02Yeah.
21:02And it just gives that sense of space.
21:04It does, yeah.
21:05As opposed to if it was a wall.
21:08I'm more relaxed, I think, because I was very concerned about losing the space because
21:12our house, it's narrow.
21:14It's hard to visualise when it's on a piece of paper, but to actually see it physically,
21:19it's gorgeous.
21:20It's lovely.
21:20Yeah, really nice.
21:21You are going to love this, right?
21:24Oh my God.
21:26That's brilliant.
21:27That's fantastic, yeah.
21:28This is a really, really clever trick with small spaces is that you try and create one
21:34square, okay?
21:35Yeah.
21:35That does everything and then everything else gets hidden in behind it, okay?
21:39So in here.
21:40More space.
21:41More space.
21:42And you open another door and then you see the coffee machine.
21:46A bar, effectively a bar, which is great for me.
21:49That's right.
21:49The man cave inside.
21:51The man cave inside.
21:51And then this.
21:53Look at this.
21:55Oh my God.
21:56Oh, wow.
21:58Oh.
21:59It brings you back out of the hall.
22:00Back out of the hall.
22:02So you remember what it was like to walk into the house originally?
22:04Yeah.
22:05Now, staff.
22:07Yes.
22:07Yes.
22:08Oh, that's beautiful.
22:09Straight out to the back.
22:10Beautiful.
22:11Oh, that's really clever.
22:12Isn't it?
22:12Yeah.
22:14And we're going to have the same.
22:15Yeah.
22:15It's bringing the outside in.
22:16We can't just throw in an old shed.
22:19We get it now, Dermot.
22:20We get it.
22:20So when the man shed was designed, it was designed.
22:25It was thought about as being the most important view from the kitchen.
22:29Okay.
22:29So when we get rid of it, we have to replace it with something as equally as important.
22:36Okay.
22:36What I needed for them to see today is that that garden is now really important.
22:41So you can't just throw in an old patio, throw a shed at the end of the garden and hope
22:45that it works.
22:45When you walk into that space, that garden is now your crucial view.
22:50So every single thing that you put into it is hugely important.
22:56A week later, the grass and the roof of the old shed are history.
23:00The footprint of the new extension is now in place and with it, the shape of things to come.
23:06Oh, hi guys.
23:07Wow.
23:08Right.
23:09Okay.
23:09So this is the extension.
23:11Okay.
23:11This is our planter.
23:12So our planter will be about that wide so we can get something significant into it.
23:17Item one.
23:18Tick.
23:20Another 479 to go.
23:23Yes.
23:23Fireplace.
23:24So we're planning to put an entertainment wall in that space.
23:28Yeah.
23:29And Ciarán, is the entertainment wall just a flush TV?
23:32It's a fucking television.
23:34There'll be some shelving, yeah.
23:36Like all that really needs to go there is a TV.
23:38It's about four and a half thousand.
23:40That's significant.
23:42It is, yeah.
23:43It is, yeah.
23:44Mm.
23:44All you'll be gaining is about six inches of room by the time your media wall is back built.
23:49I think it mightn't be wise to spend the four and a half taking this out.
23:53I think that chimney could stay.
23:55I really don't think it needs to come out.
23:56Are we not able to get everything that is going to entertain you into that alcove?
24:00Yeah.
24:01The chimney wall we're still to make a final decision on.
24:05Yeah.
24:05But certainly we need to view it in the overall figure before we're making a final decision
24:09on it.
24:11Right now, Deirdre and Ciarán's current home is sale agreed.
24:14But before they move out, Dermot wants a better idea of the house's clients are downsizing
24:20from.
24:21And crucially, what it is about this place, they can't do without.
24:25It's big, isn't it?
24:27Yeah.
24:27Well, it's bigger than Portisgate.
24:29Ciarán's just here.
24:30Well, Ciarán.
24:31Dermot, how are you?
24:32Welcome.
24:33Thank God.
24:33It was lovely to have Dermot here today to welcome into our home.
24:36And just to give them a flavour of what life is like in the Kelly household.
24:41Oh, look at this.
24:42The gang is here.
24:43We're all here.
24:43How are we all doing?
24:44How are you?
24:45How are you?
24:46Hi, Liam.
24:46Liam, how are you?
24:48You must be Teddy, are you?
24:49I'm Teddy.
24:50Teddy, how are you?
24:51And look at this.
24:54This house at the moment is very conducive to having lots of people here, isn't it?
24:59Yeah, absolutely.
25:00Family is very important to myself and Ciarán and all the family.
25:03We love having everybody over.
25:05The main focus when we do have people over, it is always outside.
25:08Like, that's where we all would sit.
25:09So, like, right now we have the big garden and there's room for about 16 or 17 of us.
25:13Yeah, again, this isn't helping neither, have you said?
25:16Okay.
25:17So, here we go.
25:18Right.
25:19Although Seana and Liam are moving away, nothing else changes.
25:23Dining area.
25:24Do you use that?
25:25Yes.
25:26Oh, yes, absolutely we do, yeah.
25:27For example, this evening we have friends coming up.
25:29So, that crowd are going and a new crowd...
25:31No, they'll probably still be here.
25:32They'll be still here for dinner.
25:33No, not for dinner.
25:34No, we'll just do a take-out.
25:35No, we'll just do a take-out.
25:36And you're going to eat out?
25:37Dermot, it's all very easy going.
25:39We don't kind of get all caught up over entertaining people.
25:43Just come and find us as we are and take us as we are.
25:45This is now the biggest challenge of the entire project.
25:49How can this become what they need it to be?
25:51Not what they want it to be.
25:52Not what they'd like it to be.
25:53What they actually need it to be.
25:55Everybody else is not going anywhere.
25:57Oh, no.
25:58In actual fact, it's growing.
25:59We'll have an extra one at Christmas.
26:02It'll still be the headquarters as far as we're concerned, our new house.
26:05Yeah.
26:05Because we like having everybody around.
26:08We're downsizing the house, but not our life.
26:11You know, our lifestyle is not downsizing.
26:13But you know what a house holds?
26:14A house holds your life.
26:16Yeah.
26:16The biggest challenge I have now is to make sure that the new headquarters, the new family
26:22HQ, works for all of them and that it can adapt and change.
26:27How do we do that in half the space?
26:29So what I'm worried about is that your house might change.
26:33Yeah.
26:34But you're not going to.
26:35No, we're not going to change.
26:36Well, hopefully we won't change.
26:38No.
26:38And if you don't change, that bloody gang is going with you.
26:41Yes.
26:42Yeah.
26:42So there's a squeeze in.
26:43And the other posse.
26:44Yeah.
26:44And the neighbours.
26:45Yes.
26:46I don't know how we're going to squeeze it all in.
26:47And it's making me feel a little bit ill right now.
26:51I probably should have come here first.
26:54But then, no, I would have been advising them not to move.
26:56So, no.
26:56We've got to make this work.
26:58We've got to make this work.
27:01By late July, the house that will hopefully one day accommodate the entire Kelly clan is already
27:0716 square metres more welcoming than it was.
27:10And it's not all down to the extension.
27:13Behind the scenes, Ciaran's been busy.
27:16I don't think Dermot even knows that this chimney's coming out or that the feature wall or the media
27:22wall is going in.
27:22So, that'll be new to him when he comes back.
27:27The feature wall is going to go here.
27:29TV is going to be in the centre.
27:31Nice big TV.
27:32We'll have the electric fire underneath it.
27:35We'll have the nice sofa here, hopefully.
27:37Beer in hand.
27:39Actually, you know what?
27:40I'm getting my man cave eventually.
27:42It's just an indoor man cave.
27:45As Deirdre said from day one, the roller coaster continues.
27:52We have predicted we've 13 weeks left on site.
27:56If the windows aren't ordered this week, it'll just push out the finish date.
28:02So, worst case, the windows aren't ordered this week and the project gets pushed out.
28:07Meaning we need the window order in today.
28:13Thankfully, Dermot is back.
28:14Fully recharged, keen to talk windows and suggest a vibrant new look for the new extension.
28:22When you're sitting in the new covered space, you're going to be looking back at the house
28:26and I just thought it'd be nice to have one little block of colour in the back garden.
28:31Oh, yellow.
28:32Oh no, not yellow.
28:33Dermot, stop.
28:34He's having a joke.
28:35You're having a laugh.
28:36Have a look through that.
28:37Are you joking me?
28:37It's like Sesame Street.
28:38You could see that.
28:39Do you like that?
28:40You could direct planes in with that.
28:41Do you like it?
28:43They didn't appreciate the colours maybe as much as I did.
28:48Okay, just with...
28:50Stop!
28:51It took me ages to find that.
28:54And all I was trying to do was show them that, you know, render and colours and bright colours
28:59can work in small doses, not in big doses.
29:01So, when you're sitting in your garden room...
29:05Yes.
29:07This is your view, what we're looking back on, right?
29:10Yeah.
29:10Okay, yes.
29:10And so what we have to do is try and fill this space with a bit of colour, planting, shrubs,
29:17all of that.
29:17So, now, where's my yellow?
29:19It's...
29:20Sorry, I kind of...
29:21Did you scrunch it up?
29:22Sorry.
29:22He crumpled it up.
29:23Did you actually scrunch it up?
29:25And put it into his back pocket as if...
29:27Look, we're done with that now.
29:28That's...
29:29Very bold.
29:30Very bold.
29:30Very bold.
29:31Oh, sorry.
29:32I'm going to just keep talking.
29:36So, what I thought would work really well is if...
29:40See what the area that I've picked out in the drawings is grey?
29:42Yes.
29:43If that was a little bit of a colour.
29:45In order to kind of to make that work, that the windows would be the same colour.
29:49So, these are the colours that are kind of standard colours.
29:53Oh dear.
29:56Erm...
29:59What's your opinion, David?
30:02Oh, what's your opinion now?
30:04All of a sudden, he's a professional.
30:06Ciarán, that's my opinion.
30:08That is the first time somebody in front of me has taken a drawing and scrunched it up
30:13and kind of, they were just about to toss it behind them.
30:16I like this one.
30:17I like that one too.
30:18Yeah.
30:18Are we in agreement?
30:19Yeah, absolutely.
30:20See, that was...
30:21Thank you for your advice.
30:22I didn't put Dermot.
30:23Just all you had to do was listen to me the whole way through.
30:25Yeah.
30:26Well, at least they listened to Dermot's advice on the chimney breast.
30:29Oh, hang on.
30:30Oh my God.
30:32I got such a shock when I came in and I seen the exposed flu.
30:35Yeah, so the chimney's gone now, but the neighbour's flu, you can see, is projecting out into the room.
30:40The way we had left it previously, we had received a price for removing the chimney,
30:45a price for the structural steel options, but nothing was confirmed.
30:48No one gave anybody the go...
30:50Well, me or Dermot never gave anybody the go-ahead.
30:53And is that life?
30:54Are they using their affair?
30:55Yes.
30:55They are using it, yeah.
30:57We didn't know that they had given the builder an instruction to proceed.
31:00Okay, so basically we've got two pipes that are in your room, okay?
31:04The only thing that's between your smoke and your room...
31:08Is that.
31:09Is that.
31:11That's just a quantity surveyor's nightmare there.
31:15There's going to be extra money, because this has to be built out, this has to be fireproofed.
31:19This, like, we can't just plaster over it.
31:21Potentially, the cost to fireproof, stud the wall, we could be up at 8,000 euro.
31:26Think about what we have to spend from here on out.
31:29Just a massive amount of money just to blow.
31:30I said it to you on day one.
31:32I know, I know, I know.
31:32We could have made the original fireplace work with and created a media wall.
31:35There was one cost for the chimney removal, and then another cost for the structural steel.
31:40They thought that one of the costs covered everything.
31:44But that's what happens when things aren't run by the quantity surveyor, the architect.
31:48I would have made it work originally. I told you not to take out the fireplace.
31:51Okay, but just please don't keep rubbing it in, because I'm struggling here.
31:56Dermot, 100% was against the removal of the chimney.
31:59So we went a little bit rogue on it, and he's loving it.
32:02And he's absolutely loving it, little shit.
32:06It's all fun and well, me telling you I told you so.
32:08You have to pay for it.
32:10Don't keep saying it.
32:12Told you so.
32:13I told you so.
32:16There's no point in me saying you shouldn't have done that.
32:19I told you so.
32:19I was trying not to say that today really hard, but I told you so.
32:24It's just a bit of a shock.
32:26Yeah.
32:27I don't know what they think my role in all of this is, but I'm actually here to help you
32:31guys.
32:31You know, that's why we've ended up in the mess we have, and that's why we have an eight grand
32:36overrun on a fireplace that didn't need to come out.
32:42Much to Deirdre and Ciaran's relief, focus soon turns from the fireplace to the rest of the ground floor, and
32:48the as-yet unspecified structure at the end of the garden.
32:52Cue Dermot.
32:52The outside still has to be resolved.
32:55Yes.
32:55And I have a little idea of something a little bit different to what you were expecting, I think.
33:01Okay.
33:02So down with one umbrella.
33:04Yes.
33:06Into the another.
33:08This, in case you've never seen one before, is a pergola showroom.
33:12Yes, that's a real thing that exists.
33:16So this is what I wanted to show you.
33:21Damn it, I'm in love.
33:23Oh, wow.
33:24It was always the elephant in the room.
33:26They just cancelled the man's shed, but what was going in its place, nobody really knew.
33:31You don't even know what it is yet.
33:32No, but it looks amazing.
33:36It was the roof that I wanted to show you, okay?
33:38So the roof is a louvered roof.
33:41Yeah, yeah.
33:42That's a covered roof.
33:43Perfect.
33:44Okay?
33:44Yeah, yeah.
33:45And then the sun comes out.
33:47Look at that.
33:48So my big struggle with this project is that as soon as we lost the man cave, the whole back
33:55of the garden was starting to become a bit complicated.
33:57We were going to have fences, we were going to have covered areas, sheds, up, down.
34:01Can you imagine all these buildings at different levels?
34:03And whatever goes at the end of our garden is the view.
34:06So I said, well, how do I simplify it?
34:08And the only thing that's going to be continuous around the entire garden is going to be the fence.
34:12And then I found this.
34:14This is absolutely perfect.
34:16It's really lightweight.
34:17It looks simple when you drop it in.
34:19It's just got four legs and it's got the louvered roof.
34:22It does everything.
34:23Okay.
34:23So that's what you'll see when you look out at it.
34:25It looks beautiful.
34:26It's absolutely gorgeous.
34:28Yeah.
34:28Oh, I'm feeling beautiful.
34:30If you ask me do I want to buy it, I'll buy it today.
34:33Lighting okay, you can have LED in the louvers.
34:36Okay.
34:37Which pops on like that.
34:39You can drop the blinds on the side.
34:42Ah, okay.
34:43And then you can put a projector on.
34:45You have Bluetooth speakers which will work off your phone.
34:48Then we have the infrared heater.
34:50God, there's some heaters.
34:51That will heat this little area.
34:53What's your like song?
34:54Oh, here we go.
34:54This is my genre.
34:56This is your genre.
34:57Well, we're right back.
34:58There you go.
35:00You are a material girl.
35:04You know that?
35:05He's the biggest material girl I have ever met.
35:08Budget wise then for the four legs and the louvered roof.
35:11No bells and whistles.
35:12No bells and whistles.
35:13You would be starting around 18,000.
35:15Okay.
35:18Okay.
35:19Glass panels, depending on size, between 4 and 6,000.
35:22And the heaters?
35:23Heater is 1,800.
35:26The lighting system?
35:27It's getting very hot in here.
35:28Yeah.
35:29You can sit out there even in a nice autumn evening.
35:33With the louver closed.
35:35With possibly a heater in.
35:39Screen.
35:39Speaker.
35:41TV.
35:45I have brought him here to show him the roof.
35:47There is a part of it we can afford.
35:49It's just that that's...
35:50Ciaran wants all the parts.
36:03It's now early October, four months into the build.
36:07A concerted effort by the crew will leave the entire house weather tight by the end of the day.
36:13Unlike the garden, which remains an exposed blank canvas.
36:18Enter landscaper Pete O'Brien.
36:20How are you?
36:21How are you?
36:22How are you doing?
36:23A few samples here.
36:24Oh, thank you.
36:26So you have a plan here?
36:27We have a plan.
36:28Yes.
36:28Now you want...
36:29Dermis plan.
36:30We have my plan.
36:31I want when we're inside...
36:33This is it.
36:34Like this is the entire area of our garden.
36:36So it's not big.
36:37Right?
36:37And I want this to feel quite planted up.
36:40Yeah.
36:40Okay.
36:40I want this to be a series of rooms.
36:42You don't want to see in here.
36:43No, I want this to be a series of rooms.
36:45Okay.
36:45Because we have inside.
36:47Inside is hard.
36:48It's...
36:48It's got floors.
36:50It's got walls.
36:51The garden should feel...
36:52Can I comment, please?
36:53Not in a minute.
36:55So I wanted this to kind of to...
36:57When you look out through here that we see more planting than hard surfaces.
37:01Yes.
37:02Now go on.
37:04In terms of the pergola.
37:06Yeah.
37:07We've spent a lot of money on a pergola that we don't want to see.
37:10Yes.
37:10I'd like to see that when we look out the back we can see the pergola and we can see...
37:15Why?
37:16The garden furniture that's in it.
37:18Why?
37:18It's made a bloody farce of me.
37:20So you want to look out into your garden and see garden furniture?
37:24Kind of well.
37:26Yeah, but I take Ciaran's point.
37:28No, you don't.
37:29You want to be able to see...
37:31That's not what you're here for.
37:32I know, I know, I know.
37:33But you want to be able to see.
37:34You want to be able to see a bit of it.
37:36Yes.
37:36But you don't want to see the whole lot of it.
37:37But you know that there's furniture there.
37:39You know the...
37:40You see it.
37:41Mr. Pergola.
37:41A little bit of camouflage, a little bit of mystery as well.
37:44So there is going to be tall planting there, but it is going to be wispy.
37:47You're going to be able to see through it.
37:48So we'll have tall grasses and a few perennials and stuff like that.
37:51So we will be able to see the people in the seating area.
37:56You'll know that there's people there, but there'll be a little bit of planting in front of it.
38:00How are you, Zan?
38:01What a day you picked.
38:03What a day.
38:04What a day.
38:04Tell you what now.
38:05You grab that and stand on that and have a look.
38:09A big part of the plan in moving back here was the neighbours.
38:12I.e.
38:14knocking a door through the boundary wall to their house so that they can all come and go as they
38:18please.
38:18Are you happy?
38:19It sounded great over a glass of red.
38:23Or was it too?
38:24It's not an option.
38:25We're putting in a door.
38:26I suppose they're close neighbours, aren't they?
38:28You know you have two front doors just at the other side.
38:31No, but the whole plan of attack here was that they were moving back and for the very reasons that
38:36they committed to at the very start.
38:39Therefore, it only makes sense that the door be there.
38:42So whatever way it works and whatever way it should be and whatever way you make it look great, then
38:46away we go.
38:47It's part of the moving back sequence.
38:49Yes, it is part and it would be a shame it wasn't there.
38:51There you go.
38:53Well said Eddie.
38:54I keep thinking that they're downsizing from the big house to this house, but they're not.
38:59For them, they're returning home and they're returning back to this street for a very strong reason.
39:05And that strong reason is the neighbours.
39:07This is kind of reverting back to where it all started, which is actually lovely.
39:11To help his clients recapture the cosy feel of their old home, Dermal has come up with a new design
39:17and a suitably cosy venue for pitching the idea to Deirdre and daughter Shana.
39:25I suspect Dermal either wants to show me something new to try and get me to change my mind on
39:30something or, I don't know, bring me outside the comfort zone.
39:36Okay, right.
39:37So, kitchen.
39:39Kitchen.
39:40The kitchen is going to be really simple and we're going to just keep it white and then the hero
39:45is the island.
39:47Big moment.
39:47No, it's not a big moment at all.
39:48So, I was just thinking a bar.
39:51An actual timber bar.
39:54Okay.
39:55See, like that.
39:56And then we'll bring colour.
39:57So, instead of the colour being a green or something, we could do a nice dark timber.
40:01Yeah.
40:01It's cosy, it's warm, but put your hands onto it.
40:04Wow.
40:05But, you know, cos timber soaks up the heat that's in the room.
40:08Their house is about welcome, it's about gathering, it's about fun.
40:13It's not about cold, hard aesthetics.
40:17So, I wanted Deirdre today to feel the space.
40:20It is different.
40:21Like, I wasn't, I was going to go for the traditional quartz or granite or whatever.
40:25Which is really, it's a fantastic material and I love it.
40:29But, it's, I just think for the purpose of what...
40:34I do like it.
40:35Yeah.
40:36Dermot has just completely thrown in a kerf ball, introducing the wooden counter, which is lovely.
40:43I love it.
40:44I do, I do like it.
40:46I think it's nice.
40:46It's different.
40:47And you connect your name into it.
40:48Yeah.
40:49Deirdre was here.
40:50Yeah.
40:51It wasn't about trying to create a bar in their house.
40:54It was looking at the materials, how soft they were, the rounded edges.
40:58Space and oodles of it is not what makes a great house.
41:01Yeah, it can feel generous and it can feel lovely, but it's not really the essence of what
41:06a good house, a good design is about creating spaces for people to gather.
41:12After weeks of deliberation, the pergola, aka Ciaran's man shed, aka the man umbrella, arrives
41:19in November.
41:20With the build now approaching the five month mark, the end is finally in sight.
41:25We're going to have drainage coming out here and over here.
41:27You're covered 24-7, all seasons.
41:32No rain, no hail, no snow can stop you from enjoying outdoors.
41:36It's a pergola.
41:38But in Ireland, it's a pergola.
41:40It depends which county you're in.
41:42Or to the west, it's a pergola with trios.
41:45You know, like, so if you go down to the south, it's a pergola with all the syllables all
41:49over the place.
41:51You always adjust yourself to whom you're speaking to, you know, like, so it's, it's,
41:55it's, it's fun.
41:57It is an Italian word actually, pergola comes originally from Italy.
42:02So.
42:23After 20 years away from their beloved first home, Deirdre and Ciaran's return journey
42:28is complete.
42:30From the very outset, Ciaran and Deirdre just said they wanted space.
42:33It's like, I just need this to feel spacious.
42:35So how do we make a small house feel much bigger than it is?
42:39How are you?
42:40Welcome back.
42:41When your only currency is four metres by four metres, 16 square metres, you have to make
42:45every single inch of this space work.
42:50Will we allow the building to draw us through?
42:52Yes.
42:52So by creating a really clear route from the front door right to the very back of the house,
42:58it makes the house feel more spacious because you're, you're going on a journey.
43:01And that journey is one grand linear sweep from the front door all the way to the new extension
43:07and beyond.
43:09Flanked on one side by an elegant minimal kitchen leading back through pocket doors to the cosy
43:15front room.
43:16But it's at the rear where the character and purpose of this house really takes shape.
43:22Flooded with light and colour with the framed planter on one side, seamlessly connected to
43:28the garden and its all weather pergola.
43:30This is the inside outside and vice versa.
43:34A place to welcome family and friends, a homecoming, two decades in the making.
43:39I always remember the day we went up to your house and everybody was gathered around the
43:44little peninsula.
43:45In my head I said, I have got to create something that is warm and tactile.
43:50Because they're all going to gather here.
43:52That's right.
43:53Their home was never about bricks and mortar.
43:56It was always about family and friends.
43:58People can sit there or they can sit here and you can sit looking out at your garden.
44:05I'm enjoying the looking out at the waste of space.
44:11By cutting away that amount of space and putting the planter outside, you get greenery,
44:15you get ventilation, you get light.
44:17That little cutaway has completely widened out the house.
44:21If you'd left a wall there, your only view is to the back.
44:24So it was about being able to see as much sky as you possibly could from the extension.
44:30I'm so happy with the planter.
44:33I'm delighted that we went with it.
44:35It's gorgeous.
44:36I can't imagine the house without it now.
44:38The colour is lovely.
44:40I'm glad I went for the green.
44:41Are you?
44:41I'm glad I chose the colour green.
44:43I'm really glad.
44:44I'm really glad you chose the colour green.
44:47And not the yellow.
44:48And not the yellow.
44:48But it's just a pop of colour.
44:50It's just a little pop of colour, isn't it?
44:51It's lovely.
44:52Absolutely.
44:52Never in a million years will I've chosen it, but it's gorgeous.
44:55What I've learned is to trust in the process.
44:57Yeah.
44:58And to trust the people around you.
45:00Yeah.
45:00That they know what they're doing.
45:01I'm in awe of everything.
45:02Like, you know, it's just wonderful.
45:06This, during the summer, is going to be fantastic.
45:11You have all the plants coming in here.
45:13I loved working with Dermot.
45:14He genuinely cared about us.
45:17And even small little things that you didn't think he was picking up on,
45:22he actually picked up on.
45:23And that, to me, meant a lot.
45:25So this was your little treat.
45:27Yes.
45:28This is lovely, though, isn't it?
45:29It's a nice area.
45:30Just have a covered area out here that, in the wintertime,
45:34you can sit out here.
45:35In the summertime, you can sit out here.
45:36You can.
45:37This is what we've worked for for the last 20 years.
45:40We put what we wanted into the house.
45:42We didn't scrimp, you know.
45:44And we were very privileged and lucky that we were able to do that
45:47because we sold our house.
45:48I'm so proud to have been able to do this.
45:51Did you get lights in it?
45:52There is lights in it.
45:53Did you get the cinema screen?
45:54Not yet.
45:55I knew it!
45:56Not yet.
45:56Not yet.
45:57Is that all next to your shopping list?
45:59Well, let's see.
46:00And the garden, it's just absolutely wonderful.
46:03We are so happy.
46:05Peter and his team have been just amazing.
46:07It's exactly what I wanted.
46:09Where's the door gone?
46:09The door between the neighbours and us never materialised.
46:13There was a consensus that...
46:16This isn't bad.
46:18Go on.
46:18That people would think we were swingers.
46:22So I didn't go for it.
46:24So, yeah.
46:25So that was knocked on the head.
46:29Look at this.
46:30Cosy, cosy, cosy.
46:32But I love it.
46:33It's really comfy, the colouring on it.
46:35There's big TV.
46:36I'll be able to watch the sports in there.
46:38So, yeah, that's probably my favourite spot.
46:40This now replaces the man cave.
46:42It does.
46:43It's the cosy reading corner.
46:45It's the getting away from it all room.
46:47Ciaran was coming at it with good intentions.
46:49He kept calling it a media wall, his entertainment centre, what it was.
46:53And really what he was trying to do was create a warm, cosy room
46:56that all your friends can hang out in.
46:58We can do that in lots of different ways.
47:00And we introduced the panelling onto the wall.
47:02Drop it down a bit lower so it kind of makes the room feel more intimate.
47:05It makes you want to sit down in that room.
47:07You were definitely right to take out the chimney.
47:09Yeah.
47:11What he has ended up doing in getting rid of what would be associated with a man shed
47:16is he's created a room that feels very different to the rest of the house
47:20but can be used by everybody.
47:22Man, woman, cave.
47:23Cave, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:25For everybody.
47:26Exactly.
47:27A cave for all.
47:28A cave for all.
47:30The reason was to move back to be close to their friends.
47:32I can see why people want to hang out with them all the time.
47:37Because I did.
47:39We made a lot of memories in this house
47:41and we're looking forward now to the next chapter.
47:44Yeah.
47:44To making many, many more happy memories.
47:46We're so grateful, so pleased and so looking forward to the next chapter in our lives together.
47:55Looks great and Ciaran and Deirdre are delighted so that's the main thing.
47:59Really easy to work with and they were open to new ideas and Dermot's designs.
48:06And they really pushed it along to make it easier from our end.
48:09Yeah.
48:09Yeah.
48:10So they were great to work with.
48:12We went to site with a contract value of €230,000.
48:15During the course of the works, Ciaran and Deirdre decided to do a few extra things.
48:20That included knocking down the chimney, doing underfloor heating to the entire ground floor,
48:24which was not in the original contract value.
48:27We did the landscaping, the lighting.
48:29There also was additional fitted joinery to the wardrobes, window seats and the TV units.
48:35All of those extras amounted to an additional €45,000 on top of the contract value of €230,000.
48:42So the final account value was €275,000.
48:47We were on budget but those extras just sent it a little bit sideways.
48:54But they're left with a house completely finished to a T and it's A rated.
48:59And it's just magnificent what they've done here.
49:04Really nice.
49:05I just can't believe such an old house before and how much of an upgrade it is now.
49:09I'm just alive for my parents.
49:11I've actually never seen them as happy.
49:12I think they'll be seeing a lot more of us than they planned.
49:15What I always felt was that this is always a moving back to this street.
49:19That was the most important thing to you.
49:20Absolutely.
49:21Except for man sheds, TV walls.
49:25So like at the end of a roller coaster, would you go on it again?
49:28Yes, I would.
49:29Yes, I would. Cheers, everybody. Thank you very much.
49:32Kieran and Deirdre, I think that they realised throughout this journey,
49:36the only thing they needed to build was space to hold what was really dear to them.
49:41And that is this street, their family and friends.
49:44Now everybody's coming to my house.
49:48And I'm never gonna be alone.
49:52And everybody's coming to my house.
49:55And they're never gonna go back home.
50:00Everybody's coming to my house.
50:04Everybody's coming to my house.
50:07And they're never gonna be alone.
50:11And they're never gonna go back home.
50:14I'm never gonna go back home.
50:15And I'm definitely going to go back home.
50:16And I'm girl and I'm hello.
50:17And take it off my house.
50:18And gently, let's see.
50:19Go back to my house.
50:20And you're very effective.
50:22And you wanna go back home.
50:22And you are super- senator.
50:22And we're very healthy.
50:23So it's about広
50:24And I'm gonna be alive.
50:26You
Comments